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In: 16.33.49 Out: 16.34.48
Sound Bite: Russell Crowe & Leonardo DiCaprio – working together
DiCaprio – Well yeah we worked together, I was very, I was 18 years old and we were both sort of green in the industry he had just done a film called Romper Stomper I had done Gilbert Grape and were both…
Crowe – Which he watched every day.
DiCaprio – Every single day. Yes. And every day since.
Crowe – And he came running up to me yelling my lines from the movie. (talks)
DiCaprio – Yeah I loved the movie. But you know we were both young and green and sort of forged a friendship during that movie but.
Crowe – you have to understand that set and how much based on status it was because we were both you know continuously told we were hand-picked by Stone, you know Sharon Stone had chosen us for the situation but yet Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman and you’ve got all these wonderful character actors, Robert Blossom, Keith David, Lance Henricksen, just like all these guys with massive amounts of work you know and then there was the 2 of us you know and people looking at us going, what are you doing here? Who are you? And so we formed a, “What are you doing here who are you?” club. If you don’t want to talk to us we’ll just talk to each other.

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In: 16.35.20 Out: 16.36.25
Sound Bite: Russell Crowe & Leonardo DiCaprio – on Crowe’s character
Crowe – I think that’s his uh distance from what he’s doing, you know, he doesn’t have a moral connection to it, he doesn’t have any guilt about it, it wouldn’t even come into his mind. He’s insulated from the damage that he causes, I think that in itself is analogous to you know the world as we live in it. Um from 10 thousand miles away he’s causing great pain but he’s dropping his kids off to school.
DiCaprio – It’s almost like he’s playing a videogame and I’m the character in the videogame and here I am in the Middle East trying to forge these relationships, trying to do my job as effectively as I can, trying to be honorable to my country but at the same time I’m getting constantly undermined and screwed over and I’m trying, you know I’m operating on a different sort of uh moral spectrum than he’d like me to so it presents these different scenarios in this thus the plot of the movie wherein it’s this you know cat and mouse game of misinformation, disinformation and you can trust no one in this world. I can’t even trust my own country for that matter.

A05. HRN-2704 Cam A
In: 16.36.50 Out: 16.37.40
Sound Bite: Russell Crowe & Leonardo DiCaprio – do they take away anything from this movie?
DiCaprio – Well for me you know, what I loved about this movie is that it didn’t have a political, a clear political message. We didn’t have a political agenda going into this film, we all had to sort of check our politics at the door and say we’re gonna be as realistic as we possibly can about what this world is that we’re trying to create. Let’s take the stories that we have from the book, let’s try to gain as much information as we can but not tell people how to feel or what to think and I think everyone is sort of extracted their own uh quote unquote message from the film and it’s up to each individual but for me, my my message was wow, we’ve gotten into something that we’re, that is way too complicated for us to get out of. We have spun quite a web out there and it’s gonna take many many years to solve this problem.