I love Mummy and Daddy... can I marry them? Um. Not in most countries... TRAILER AUDIO: Love, time and
death, these three things connect every single human being on earth. We long for love, we
wish we had more time, and we fear death. Did you lose a child, Howard? Hey what's up
everybody, I'm Will Smith, we're here representing our film Collateral Beauty. I play Howard,
and Howard's a character that suffers a loss and in the process of trying to put his life
back together he gets angry one day and he writes three letters to love, time and death.
He mails the letters and then love, time and death respond. So what we're going to do today,
we have questions from the children of Mumsnet subscribees... we have questions form the
children about love, time, death and life. Dame Helen, would you like to - I'm always
the one who starts first! I am death. Those are the questions I have. When will you, or
I, or any of us die? Well the great mystery is that we don't know, do we? Sometimes people
have an idea about when they're going to die because they get sick and maybe the doctors
tell them theyve got a certain amount of time left, but most of us don't really know the
day or the time we're going to die. And in a way that's the sort of magic of it, isn't
it? If we did know, it would be kind of pretty difficult to live. But anyway that's the great
mystery of life, actually none of know when we're going to die. Love that answer. Thank
you for the rave reviews! Naomi? Who are you? I'm life. The question for life is: why do
grown ups sometimes say things they don't mean? That's true... yes. I think the answer
to that is basically that as adults, we're trying to navigate lots of things and the
biggest thing is people's feelings. We don't want to hurt people sometimes and it wouldn't
be appropriate to say the truth, like you can't truly say if you feel that someone doesn't
look very nice in a particular dress. You couldn't say - you look awful. You just have
to say something nice. Which makes people feel good. Even if we don't truly mean it.
So when you said I looked nice in this dress... I truly meant it! Jacob? Yes, I play time.
The questions for time is: where does the moon go when the sun is up? Ooh! Where does
it go? Well, I've actually seen the moon while the sun is up. I mean it's hard to find because
the sun is so bright. But it's still up there, in the sky. It hasn't disappeared. It's just
behind the clouds. That's a good one. I'm going to do love. A question about love. What
does it feel like to be in love? You know being in love is almost the most beautiful
feeling that a person can experience. Somehow when you're in love, everything is possible,
it just feels like food tastes better, the sun is warmer, things smell better. It's like
when you're in love, you feel and you can experience everything that's beautiful about
life. And in a strange way, being in love while it feels like it's going out, it really
is this kind of showing you the best things about yourself.How long does it last? Being
in love? Yes. It's different for different people also. Being IN love is very different
to love. People sometimes mistake being IN love - the feeling of being in love, which
has a whole load of physical aspects to it, there's things in your brain which happen
when you're in love - but actual love is more of a verb. Right? Love is a choice that you
make when you're going to dedicate yourself to helping someone have a better life. The
actual process of love is a lot closer to work than it is to being in love. Also when
you're in love you laugh at people's jokes. You laugh at the jokes of the people you're
in love with, even when they're really bad jokes. You think they're hysterically funny.
It's always a sign, when someone's laughing at someone's jokes HAHASOFUNNY, and everyone
else is going no it's not. Anyway - so what happens when you die? I don't know. But I've
been thinking about this, because I play a character called death um and I was thinking
well, what happens before you're born? It's kind of the same thing isn't it? You were
- where were you before you were born? Well when you die maybe you're in the same place,
I don't know. But what I do know because I'm alive, what happens after you die is that
the people who are alive remember you. And I always think of the wonderful image of a
comet going across the sky - the memory of your life becomes a comet if you like across
the sky of all of human life on this planet. And you live on, in that way, you live on
in people's memories. So as I say, it's a mystery, none of us really know but what I
do know is that you will be remembered. Beautiful. Naomi? What's it like being old - i.e. a grown
up? That's a really interesting one... I used to think there would be a point where I would
feel like a grown up. As a child I remember wishing away my childhood because I wanted
to be a grown up and I want to feel what that's like. But actually now I am a grown up, and
I still feel like a child. The best adults for me, always keep that child alive in them
and don't truly grow up because to grow I think can mean to forget the magic in life.
And I still believe in magic. People say that's childish but I really believe that's a huge
part of life to believe in magic. So I don't think growing up is really something to aim
for personally. It's great to be able to drive a car. To drive, yes. That's just a skill
though... your parents might not agree with that answer. My question is: how big is infinity?
OH. That's deep. I think infinity is unmeasurable, you can't say how big it is because it doesn't
end, it's infinity. Like a trazillion, gazillion, billion times the size of the biggest thing
you can imagine, and even then it's bigger than that. That's deep. What I got? Um...
I love mummy and daddy, can I marry them? Uhm not in most countries. No, I don't think
you can marry mummy or daddy. But you can marry someone else and you can become your
own mummy and daddy when you get older. That's how it works. There's your mummy and daddy,
that's one set of mummies and daddies, and then one day you'll be your own set of mummies
and daddies. And that will go on for infinity. And THAT will go on for infinity. Yes. So
thank you guys for the questions, brilliant, fantastic, this was actually really fun for
us to be able to go through this stuff. You can see the movie Collateral Beauty on Boxing
Day, it comes out in a theatre near you... Waheyy. And cut. TRAILER AUDIO: You've been given a gift,
this profound connection to everything. Just look for it, I promise you, it's there, the
collateral beauty.