*Phone rings*
Oh still got information about the Golden Globes?
No it's my daughter by the way
Far more important, say hello! Tell her I say hello as well!
Alejandro it is an absolute pleasure to meet you sir, I've not been this excised to meet
somebody since I met the cast of Downton Abby a few months ago. That was a big day for me.
And between I've met Robert De Niro but this is huge.
As a film fan I love you dearly, thank you very much for work you've done over the past
decade, incredible. Absolutely blown away by the film.
Thank you very much.
Leo has come out and said that The Revenant was one of the most difficult shoots of his
career. Was this the most grueling film, you've ever had to make? How was the experience for
you? How difficult was it compared to what you've done before?
What I think the most challenging experience physically, you know I think every film is
challenging in different ways. But this production was set in a very remote landscapes with very
tough weather conditions. Logistically was really, there was trouble with everything
because the standards were very high in every little scene contained a lot of people a very,
meticulous choreograph for getting spectacular action scenes and epic landscapes and very
intimate emotional things on take and capture it in the best light possible. So everything,
not only the conditions but the standards we were setting ourselves were extremely high
and that made it very very challenging, but very rewarding at the end.
We can't ignore the time of year that it is. Of course the screen actors guild awards were
nominated, announced yesterday. We've got the globes today, you know you hear the words
Oscar buzz all the time. In last years bird man, which was one of my favorite films of
all time. The critic Tabitha Dickenson says to Mike Shiner if you're ever afraid, I'll
give you a bad review and he turns to her and he says not until I give you a bad performance.
Do critics matter to you now? Now you've kind of won everything how do you approach new
projects? Is it just fearlessness do you care about what they'll say afterwards?
I think the most important thing is more than the intellectual reading. Its hard in a
way to, this is a project I've been cooking and preparing for five years so if you kind
of think to get something in one view in two hours it's almost impossible then to in a
way to reduce everything in a couple of paragraphs to understand all of that and in a rational
kind of exercise. And I felt sometimes how hard that job has to be to analyse rationally
some work that is, it's almost impossible and you have to do it without time, in a twitter
account, just after you finish a film. I feel a kind of compassion for that work, because
it's almost impossible to really taste something to have the simulation.
What's really important and what really my wish is, the films in stand time and the audiences
after years as I have experienced gladly in other films, that suddenly the film still
is getting into the audiences around the world for time and time and that's the test. That's
when you really feel satisfied. More than in one kind of sentence, that's what's really
important for me and for the work I think.
And we can't ignore, finally the incredible cast that you had for this film. Led by an
incredible actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. There's been a lot said about him over the years especially
when it comes to nominations of academy awards, after academy award, does that take?
*Phone rings*
Oh still got information about the Golden Globes?
No it's my daughter by the way
Far more important, say hello! Tell her I say hello as well!
*talks to daughter*
How would it feel for you as a director to be the man who put an award like the Academy
Award, you've got one yourself of course, into the hands of an actor like Leonardo DiCaprio?
After so many near misses?
I would be very happy for him, obviously. But I think Leonardo and I are both very happy
with what we achieved. We really feel very proud about it, we have an incredible, incredible
relation and collaboration within the film and we are so proud and so happy from what
we achieved that I think again and it's not to dismiss nothing but, to put things in perspective,
I think that the most important thing is to finish and to have survived this experience
together and to achieve what we wanted. And obviously any award would be incredibly well
received and thankfully received because it will put more attention in the audiences around
the world. And I hope that this time he can receive what he has deserved maybe for many
years already I think.
Well it would be well deserved, the film is incredible as was Birdman.
It's been a pleasure to meet you thanks very much.
Thank you very much