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02:33:19 33.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
I’ve had a production company and I’m gonna have another one. This was my buddy Dido who is just such a character who’s just such a character wrote this book that you could say was a boo, it was a serious of vignettes. My buddy Jonathan Elias who really is the guy who nobody, you know often times in movie the person who really sparked the idea is never mentioned at the junket. Jonathan Elias, Jonathan Elias. I said were going to have to develop this that means I have to talk to someone that is really producing and that was Trudy. Financing, up, down, the whole who-ha and then Sting. |
02:33:59 73.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
I’m from Manhattan, Dido and I came up together, I would only see him when he was in Manhattan cause I wasn’t rolling up to Queens. And I would see him, he was recording a record, I’d see him singing vocals, I’d see him on the street. He was usually clothed but that was optional on certain occasions if he was feeling lose or maybe had a swollen hand and was vicodin or something. And then all these years later we reconvened and I saw him back at Jonathan’s West Coast production Company, music production and I said wow dude there’s something here. |
02:34:44 118.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
It was an interesting choice, what I saw was like this is a weird thing to say but I think everyone for the most part there’s always exceptions winds up doing the parts that they were supposed to do. Tom Banger broke his leg before we did this and so and so did this move in the movie and I thought isn’t that weird, he was about to do this movie and now he’s not and now so and so is and this and that. I started developing this belief that as time tested itself that people wined up doing what there supposed to though it seems things shift a lot. Some movies the casting is really locked in and its obvious and in other times it keeps spinning and churning like some weirdo broken Swiss Watch pieces and then it locks in and you go of course. |
02:35:36 170.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
No (talks) I know I would have thought I would have. |
02:35:47 181.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
I met proactively everybody at some point and then the younger cast members, Channing I was starting to hear a really cool buzz about and Dido was really passionate about the casting process himself. But it’s funny ya know the script development, there was financing aspect there was cast and then there was production and then obviously you know post and now all this stuff. Its like it’s just been so ridiculously eye opening for me as a ever maturing adult now, to realize how many pieces there are to every project that I’ve been a piece of and now it was kind of like I don’t know what it was like. It was kind of like going back and really earning my stripes finally you know in my late thirties, in my mid to late thirties when I started producing this until now. Its been it’s been great. |
02:36:53 247.8 |
Sound Bite: Robert Downey Jr.
Yeah but what did I do come on, what did I do, did you see, this is the first one that came out. I’ve got great scripts and I’ve got ideas but here’s the probably most important lesson and this is very symbolic of saints too is Dido in the movie couldn’t be that guy who stands up when Antonio has the prison visit with him at the end if not for every piece in every puzzle in every little action that he has in the space of the story that we tell and for me I realized that I need, need need other people to do anything. I’ve never solved the problem by myself, I’ve never really done anything entirely of my own acore, writing is the exception but you know everything else you know there’s no isolation in creativity and I think that tends to happen you know. Dido’s father has become this island onto himself, the most is attached on this kind of steadfast co-dependent way but it actually has a real overview of the situation. One of his friends is right where he was, one of the guys never moved past the state he’s still in his mother’s shadow and then he’s gotta come and sort of detoxify this world view that he developed which is he feels responsible for leaving all these people behind which means at some point he felt like he was responsible for then which means there’s that kind of like teenage narcissism that somehow or rather you are creating the entire universe. As apposed to just being a worker among workers you know. |
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