no double down on it i'll i'll double down on it and in fact i encourage you
to bring it up with him and i i i i i'm quite certain he won't argue
yeah baby yeah these girls so great how come i've never heard them they're from compton it's
okay they're just not used to seeing good-looking people like us she's nervous they could step up
maybe she were to take a few more steps up just get someplace safe it was really inspirational
to see you ask rick some of the words you were saying when you were coaching venus literally
has inspired me i mean whenever she got a bad hit you would tell her you know let
it go you're here now you're in the present so i wanted to know what's another piece of
encouragement another act has given you that keeps you going when you are acting on set
oh wow uh you know sometimes it's uh um a lot of times it's not really words i think it's it's
more energy you know i i i get so much uh sort of inspiration and and and energy just from sort of
the spirit of the the people that i work with i i think on this film specifically um you know when i
you know being with with with sanaya and demi and and and michaela really all the the the sisters
you know um their energy was so palpable and so contagious and uh you know i loved i loved
making them laugh and and it just it made it a real joy to be at work so um you know
i i really feed off that and it's it's such a collaborative thing uh movie making and and so um
you know i love working with people who love it as much as i do and and who are uh as hungry as i am
can we talk about the girls for a second because if they don't get oscars for their role in this
i'm gonna have to i'll be very upset there are a million in this yeah look it's it's uh it's it
it really terrific uh all the way around and and i think you know listen uh for me i'm i'm i'm very
much into um the power of an ensemble i i really believe that their strength in in numbers and the
the sort of quality of the group uh makes the entire piece sort of um it's what gives it it's
it's it's strength and and you know when i look at um the girls uh the work is so beautiful um
i i also think that uh the work of um you know the the sisters as a whole that whole unit um the work
that they do is just really beautiful always being on uh whether they're off camera or on and um
you know really sort of picking each other up and lifting each other up and all the the games they
played it it's really hard to um really make that sort of um uh you know love uh and fun uh
authentic and real and um it really means you have to kind of give over to it and and they definitely
did i like the quote in the film if you fail to plan you plan to fail do you have a favorite quote
in life that keeps you going uh be where you are while you're there you know i i think that's a
big thing for me i i have to spend so much time in this business away from my family um and when i'm
working i'm all the way in and and and i try to uh follow that same sort of uh rule when i'm when i'm
with my family the phone goes away the work goes away and i'm all the way in with with my kids and
and my wife um and i i think it's really important in this day and age there's so many distractions
and there's such a sort of tendency uh and and a pull to to multitask uh i i don't believe in
multitasking at all i believe in being where you are while you're there i love that you just
stay being inspiring i'm gonna write that down cool you wanna show them how dangerous you are
venus and serena gonna shake up this world and last night before i go i mean you said that you
would demolish will at tennis and i'm seeing him later for his book launch so before i tell
him that do you want to take do you want to take your words back or do you stand by what you say
i'll double down on it i'll i'll double down on it and in fact i encourage you
to bring it up with him and i i i i i'm quite certain he won't argue
i feel like i i don't want to start any beef but i don't want to start there's no beef the truth
is the truth you know it's like there's no beef you know i love him doesn't make
me love him any less but yeah no i yeah yeah there's i i have no worries in that department
i have time for one more question actually so then how much of your off-screen relationship
with will inform your relationship with rick and richard because i love you you guys dynamic in
the film like it's almost like you just want to are rich and like he's really grinding my gears
at the moment but i love him you know i think i we talked about it a little bit last night but um
will is uh you know he's one of a kind he's he's uh his spirit is uh it's it's palpable
it's undeniable he's he's um such a beautiful human being he's so generous he's so unbelievably
talented and you know he and i just from the second we kind of got together we just started
playing and riffing and this dynamic between these two characters um you know it's really what will
and my relationship is we're constantly kind of going at each other and and um but there's real um
love there and and and respect i'm i'm enormously proud to call him a friend and i'm i'm just sort
of staggered by his talent and his generosity and i really really admire and look up to him
you