Almost 30 years since the legacy cast were together.
How was it? Fantastic.
As I've said, as you've heard me say, I'm happy to hear it again.
I celebrate every day the greatness of Laura Dern and Sam Neill
and the rare lucky can,
you know, ensemble that we made 30 years ago
in a movie that was unforgettable to me, a creative experience
with them and with the great Steven Spielberg
that was unforgettable, transformational and unforgettable.
And now if somebody had told me back then, 30 years from here,
I'm going to be talking to, Fae Cleary and about this thing,
you know, so unbelievable.
And we were nostalgic and sweet and we we sang and we improvised.
It was great.
And then to be mixed up with with the glorious moment to watch.
Yeah. And well, it's true. And the rest of the cast.
Yeah. Yeah.
He and I have if you haven't seen the movie, you and I.
Lucky for me, Lucky for me.
Well, I think so.
Have several, several moments
and scenes and even a back story which connects us.
Yeah. Yes, we're partners. We're a team.
And what was that like for you?
That must've been incredible.
Yeah. No, it was. It was. I mean, I'm sitting next.
I'm now in Rio.
We're going to have a lot of laughs
and you know, I'm going to make fun of them a little bit.
But honestly, it was. It was a real treat.
I mean, I admired all three of these actors
since I was a kid, and just, you know, we went to the same school.
The Williamsburg. Yeah. School of acting. Yes.
Yeah.
And, you know, I saw him as a kind of model of like,
you know, oh, this
this is also a leading man, you know, somebody who's highly individual and also,
you know, just interesting in their own right,
but also can, you know, lead a movie and I took a lot of inspiration from that, so.
Well, thank you, Jeff.
Thank you.
Well, you and I appreciate so much there's so much we need to talk about,
about that Williamsburg training, which is the Sanford Meisner training.
It's very particular.
And those who have studied it are passionate about it.
And, you know, it did something to them.
But, you know, I'm just thinking you are something.
You are something.
No, you have you've seen his past work,
the front runner and uncorked, which I saw.
Oh, no.
You are every bit of a talk about leading man spirit, very kind of.
And person of deep
emotional gifts and substance and wit and charm.
Oh, yeah. That's it in my humble opinion.
Am I right in thinking that during this set and during the filming,
you all stayed in the hotel together because of COVID protocols?
But that must have been great team bonding.
Yes. Yes, it was.
We were in the say it was Colin Trevorrow who suggested I remember.
Call you shortly. No.
Oh, good, good, good.
These are great director.
You made a heck of a crackerjack movie, I believe.
Yeah. Which is no small tale.
He did. He's the architect of these three world movies.
He wrote, directed the first one and wrote second one, et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah. Yeah.
He said on the phone call, we said, Yeah, maybe we'll live around Pinewood Studios
where we're going to make it because it's a British show, this show
with a big crew members and big British crew who were great.
He said we could live in houses around there or we could all stay at
this hotel that I know of that they says that I think we should do that
because on weekends we could get together and rehearse.
We could
really not only bond with each other, but make it useful, creative bonding.
And that's what we did.
So it was not only the delightful and forever bonding where
we talked to each other all the time, but
but it was useful and it was a heck of a creative experience.
Yeah, I like that word useful. It was right.
It was fruitful.
We'd get together on a Sunday.
He'd schedule every hour on the hour, a very focused
and serious rehearsal session.
And even though Emily Carmichael and he'd written a great script, we'd
go over the next week's scene yeah.
And he was so sweet and collaborative.
He'd say, Hey, you know the characters better than I do,
and you know what I would do?
What do you want to do?
I mean, honestly, it was the most collaborative process I've ever had.
I think anything which is insane.
He was smart, he was talented, very sweet and generous.
But it I think it was for the good of the thing.
You got something because yet taste and I came in, I said, How about that?
He went, No, how if I what am I say that?
No, I go, OK, good.
It tickled me, but I'm glad that's
I wanted to say it one time before it got discouraged.
And we got to that one thing.
And then he said, Oh,
but how about that thing that we're thinking of and a couple of things,
you know, got in.
And so it was I loved it.
Oh, well, I've run out of time.
Thank you so much.
I really love the movie. I'm a huge fan of.
Yeah.
Patriotic of shots.
No, the ah ha ha ha ha. Ha.
Yes, I'm a great believe.