WONDER interviews - Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Daveed Diggs, Vidovic

0:00 um by the way only because we're in London I have to say this I'm Kevin McCarthy with Horse and Hound I just do that remember in London yeah my wife and I went to the bookstore like a couple of years ago it's the greatest movie ever that scene is so good well first of all a serious note personally there's a great scene in the film I don't want to give what happens away but you're at a table crying after something has happened to a family member yeah I'll say and Jacob comes down to you and kind of consoles you there's this great moment and going back when I was a kid the only time I ever saw my dad cry was when something like that had happened and I think it's an interesting thing because you rarely see your parents cry so I wanted to know what do you think it is about parents that kind of withhold those emotions those particular raw

0:46 elements from their children I I think I don't know it must be a natural instinct to sort of want to be strong and you know protect your kids but yeah I only saw my dad twice get emotional and and it wasn't you know it wasn't a lot of emotion yeah it really does kind of suck here a little bit yeah and for you as a mother is there something like you like like holding back like that element of like a raw crab I never see my mom cry me like three times in my life maybe [Music] sometimes you cry and fingers yeah just daily I mean and I'm I'm comfortable

1:35 with that and I'm comfortable with explaining that you can be deeply deeply sad or moved by something and then that teaches them that you then recover from that you know because and also to let them be part of the healing of that I know when Mike Nichols died and I just felt like I would never stop crying that they were really part of my comfort because they would tell stories about Mike and oh mommy do you remember when Mike and Diane did this and said that and they were bringing so much joy of who he was and what he meant to us in our life it did help me get over what is just the selfishness of missing having that person to hold on to so I think it's

2:21 great to empower them in that way too it's interesting you know one of the things I loved about this movie was when I was a kid and I had was definitely bullied a lot and I I just loved watching how you handled it and the way you were reacting to the emotion of it I was just curious about you guys when you were in elementary school and middle school was bullying something that you ever experienced and is it something that you did it doing this movie kind of bring that back at all in regards to the bullying you may have witnessed or I've had on you yeah even though I didn't really get bullied it was easy to imagine that it could happen and your and you're always a little bit you know nervous that I don't nobody calls me out so yeah I think it's just you know part of growing out I did and I just laugh

3:09 about it now what the movie is when Jacob says you can tell a lot by someone's shoes and I kept I loved those shots I have my Chuck's on but I love I was wondering we can compare shoes here because in the scenes that we show your shoes you're wearing this suit and sneakers in the movie you have these awesome like cut shoes and then we don't know what those were very specific about my shoes in the movie actually that's a really does speak to someone's personality those types of shoes that they wear well it's funny cuz in movies you rarely get to see the shoes that you have spent hours days weeks even looking for for your character but I felt that with my character because she's an artist and has moved away from her art

3:54 as a creative practice that you see it in details of shoes details of jewelry and what were in that they're a little bit different instead of just a little slip on a log or something that like the leather shoes did have this cool little cutout you had sneakers on what the suit sounds like yeah that's really really cool I was just comfort well guys the wrap me I was in are talking to you thank you so much for the time today and it's such an honor thank you tell her she's raised to find young no thank you nice to meet you both I'm just a filmmaking standpoint I am very curious how the makeup worked in the prosthetics how long were you were in the chair and also was it was there an element of when you actually physically got into that

4:40 makeup did you find yourself just becoming the character immediately as you as you had the makeup on yeah I when I when I did see myself in the mirror for the first time with the makeup on it did it did help me feel more like Auggie and I was I was in the chair about two hours in the morning and there's like it was it took two hours in the morning and then in like at the end of the day to take it off it was usually half an hour so that was okay I was always the first person to get in they had lots of different pieces for it they had a neck piece they had the main face piece and

5:27 they had a helmet which was connected to a mechanism which pulled down my my lower eyelids and then we had a week interesting you know I was one of the things about this film is the different perspectives we see we see your perspective we see your perspective we see all the different characters and one of the moments for me was the moment when you're on stage there's just a lot of emotion you're kind of acting within acting in that moment I'm just curious like is that an interesting thing to find yourself playing a character and then playing a character within the character and that's kind of a weird question yeah that is it is a little bit weird because you're acting with an acting but I think I just had to put myself in our town for that moment and

6:13 not as via and I've seen I've seen the play too which helped and so I've studied that monologue and at that point you're just focusing on being in that play and not in the film that that's interesting now obviously I know you're a huge Star Wars fan and for me I was just because I know you're a star Wars fan and your characters a star fan so does that make it easier to have those moments because you're just naturally geeking out with a Chewbacca and like all the characters they actually had the real person from Disney in the Chewbacca costume what ya been able to visit the Star Wars sets that they invite you to go out to like last Jedi are gonna be like Jacob you got it

7:05 you've got a spill now you know one thing I love what this feel know is is that there's there's an emotional Court over there's also there's a comedic element in the sense of like you you're laughing you're crying but there's also like it's just a really real emotional film and I'm wondering at the end of the day when you leave then go home do you bring it with you I mean I'm wondering like is it hard to like shake the character and kind of go home and be yourself you know I find that it's really about the the environment that you're on in this onset so if it's a funny amiable set and and it's and it's good vibes all around then but it's easy going home because you feel good and you feel it's a gratifying feeling coming home and last question well my favorite moments in the film is the idea of you explaining that you can tell someone's personality by their shoes and I just

7:52 think that it's such an interesting thing we go down to the devii digs his shoes and you see is adidas and you see the different shoes that Owen Wilson's wearing sneakers is that something that you kind of incorporate down to your real life do you look at people's shoes differently now because you know it's it's manners to look at someone in the eyes that's true but you know there are now I'll notice shoes but I don't I don't really um I I'm not really like a big cheese person so I don't really pay attention to shoes I'm gonna choose differently from now on because of this film thank you so much as an honor scene thank you so much for the interview and thank you well nice to meet you I saw you obviously in Hamilton you were phenomenal I wanted to ask you what the difference between having a live

8:37 audience reaction on a stage every night versus making a film where people kind of have to be quiet on set and you can't really gauge what they're reacting yeah well I mean the great thing about this film and the great one of the great things about being a teacher - about my specific role in the kids do have an audience actually that's what teachings like - I was a teacher for many years also so you know you you you actually were responding to to an audience but generally you know it is it is different it's about sort of shaping you shaping your performance in a vacuum and it's it's a different kind of experiment and it is also a lot about you know trusting a great director like Steven to sort of like take the ideas that you had in the moment and shape them into the the story

9:23 right you mentioned shaping their performance in the vacuum would you adjust your performance every night in Hamilton like if you noticed one thing was working I mean I know after a while it probably got like similar but would you would you make changes on stage always I mean the audience's is dictates everything you know so you're always you always were responding to your your scene partners and on stage like the audience is a consistent steam steam partner who's different every night and that causes you to make different choices and also the other folks are on stage with to make different choices so now you're responding different cues from them it's all it's all very different and then in a film it's about you know you're still dealing with the other people you're onstage with but you're also reacting to where the camera is and where the it's a it is like a very different game but the principles are the same which is trying to be

10:09 honest and tell us sir one of the beauties of the movie I love the scene when Jacobs telling about how you can tell out about person's personality by their shoes yeah and then we cut down to the adidas you're wearing and I'm just curious was the adidas your choice cuz they could to me like that signified he's cool yeah that's what I thought about like when I saw the shoes I'm like that means he's a cool teacher yeah it's in the book it's one of my favorite things about about yeah one of my favorite descriptions that Auggie gives in the in the book in RJ's book is of mr. Brown and looking down at his shoes and describing them it was like oh yeah do you feel that same way do you feel that like like shoes do tell the personality of a person it's a it's such an interesting thing where it's such a cool passage and I think maybe you know

10:56 it also write like you got chucks on that means a lot to me I'm from California like that's it those checks say a lot to be it's I think I think it also but also is about you you know what what do I read into your shoes that's interesting now obviously you you play this role it's an amazing really of an amazing cast here and I was talking to Steven about this he said that when they filmed the scene when Jacob first walks into the classroom no one had seen his makeup yet yeah and everyone's the kids his reaction was that your first time seeing him as well did so that reaction is your genuine first react I'm meeting Jacob Tremblay if it was that moment I'd never met him I purposely kept him away until that scene for that moment Wolfer I it was just because I happen to fly in that

11:41 day but I think the kids had met and hung out with him just like how to make table reads but out of makeup so there's the first time anyone was reacting to to his makeup which was yeah a really smart move what do you remember about that moment like because it's that shot is in the film yeah it's varrick's right there we can see everyone's reaction to it do you remember like just like was Stephen like think this is the first time you're gonna see him remember like filming that scene I think for me you know it was interesting and I was I was just in my first film so I was also like getting my bearings a lot but for me it sort of instantly sparked this these feelings of compassion both for both for this character this Augie walking into a class and and you know sort of processing all of these looks and stares but also for Jacob who clearly had had

12:28 to spend six hours in a makeup chair you know so is also so that compassion worked on all levels for me which was just getting to to see this incredible young actor who has already been on set all day coming into just start their work today you know it was hot in there it was like there's you know there's a lot of things that he was just dealing with as an actor admirably in the same way that I think Augie deals with coming to a new school so I haven't really they're wrapped me real fast yesterday I spoke to Leslie Odom jr. and he's in London for I wanted to ask you because it's so cool because but it's both your first movies yeah yeah and you're both of London knows is it weird it was totally cool yeah we just like you know we were hanging out last night just talking about how crazy it was that we were both here yeah yeah that's so

13:14 cool I think things happen for a reason and I think