Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito and Francis Ford Coppola Interviews | MEGALOPOLIS (2024)

[Music] it's amazing it's my first time at tip and so it's very special to be here at this movie um it's so exciting just to share anything um and with this crowd and in the city and its history with the festival like it's just a very proud moment well Julia is in a very difficult position you know she's kind of caught between two schools of thought she's her beloved father who has nurtured her and poured so much into her who has taught her tradition and values that um you know she holds really dear and then she kind of has her world kind of opened up by Caesar and she kind of Falls for this man and his his amazing potential and so she's kind of fallen in love with something that's in direct conflict with her father and you know the journey that they go on to some kind of place of understanding is really beautiful and it was great to explore that with those actors they're just so wonderful and I learned so much with Francis um there's no kind of like certainty what's going to happen on any given day he's very experimental very spontaneous but he's also like has a very clear vision and sometimes he would come in and it be very very specific but he also gave a lot of space for play and exploration so yeah it's it was the most unique um experience I've ever had and probably will ever had have say I mean I remember the first conversation that me and Francis had I was just like I feel like that character has a lot of Dimension and colors and I connect to her personally with what I've been through so I I think she's funny and thought-provoking and all the things mayor cero is a guy who has come from a certain period of time he believes that things he has very very rigid beliefs um about the way to be a mayor of a city he has fallen into a system um that has allowed him to believe that he has to serve big corporations and serve his um political base um he is the typical politician who is good at it his journey is that he cares about the people of New York and his journey is that the one person he cares about the most in his life his daughter um falls in love and falls under what he thinks is the spell of a very brilliant man who has new ideas that he doesn't agree with so you know his journey is that of being becoming more self investigative and becoming more vulnerable and allowing himself to in a moment understand that he has to change and so this film is a lot about family it's a lot about love it's a lot about what allows you to look at yourself clearly for who you are it and not be divisive and leave your blackmail tactics behind maybe you suffer um you know the the the the maybe you suffer the loss of Self in a way that you never realized before but it opens you up to something new it opens you up to a new child the Earth is like this new child wanting to be reborn and have we really forgotten that are we really satisfied with what's happening right now in the world I I don't I I know I'm not and I know that we are better and greater and bigger and deeper and more spiritual than all of what we speak so it's beyond words this movie you can feel and when you feel that it gives you a certain kind of hope that acknowledges that we have that space within us to agree to disagree and have it be all right and I can still love you and you can still love me it's not something that we have to kill over or kill for um so let's preserve the relationships that we have to each other and the relationships we have to this planet and let's bring about the goodness that we know that we can accomplish and achieve it was pure joy to do it uh you know I want to be able to serve the the deeper essence of creativity and Francis is not one to dictate but he's one to tell you stories and feed you with inspiration and and then allow you to do what you do the best and I love that he is open enough to go I don't know like I I I kind of this is what I was going for this is what I think but let's find it what I had in me was the desire to make a film that was some something of my own that was my own style and and I I even took off after I made uh John gish's rain maker and I just went into a sort of studying what movies could be and what's the best way how what's the best way to work with the actors and when I came to a conclusion then I came out and I made this made this film and well because they created the roles you know they they were you know this thing about oh the act the director gets Great Performances out that's not true the actors do the great performance thing the director's just a coach he's just there to say a word here and there that helps but the actor does the hard part because you're you're sharing something with an audience of hopefully two 300 people and and and it's it's it's it's an ancient Greek tradition to see see beautiful films with a with a crowd of people to it's not something you want to see alone you know I still remember seeing uh seeing uh Lawrence of Arabia or seeing the those films with audiences and and it's an experience you'll never forget well this is this film is about what kind of future we want we want to have the our children live in it's really it's up to us the kids are going to inherit whether they inherit a mes or they they inherit a Garden of Eden it's up it's up to us to do it when we have the talent to do it we have it's it's not necessary that things be awful but when you look at it you're going to say wow what was that I want to see it again one thing I guarantee is not boring so it's all right if you see it a second time it's it's even more fun