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Here's the transcript of Rupert's and Jeremy's 'interview' on Moviefone's Unscripted, which you can download at ICM. The info has been added to the first post.
Quote: Rupert: Hi! I’m Rupert Grint. You’re watching Moviefone’s Unscripted, here with Jeremy Brock, we’re both here… um… for our film Driving Lessons at the Tribeca Film Festival… um… we’re going to interview each other with your questions and some of our own as well.
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R: This is your first time directing… um… what was it like to jump in the director’s chair?
Jeremy: Uh… scary! Um… but I have wanted to do it for years… um… I started writing screenplays like 15 years ago and about 10 years ago I did a director’s course at the BBC and thought this is it, I’m going to start now and unfortunately I then had four kids and…
R: Sure, yeah.
J: I had to work and stuff and the writing sort of took off, so I finally did Driving Lessons, started writing Driving Lessons about 7 years ago I think it was…
R: Really?!
J: In reality, being in the director’s chair was very tough because you don’t realize until you’re doing it, you are fielding so many questions…
R: Yeah…
J: All the time…
R: Sure, yeah.
J: And… and I was very conscious of wanting to be there for you…
R: Right, yeah.
J: And for Laura and Julie, Laura Linney and Julie Walters
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J: How are you similar to the character of Ben in the movie?
R: How am I similar to Ben… um… dunno really… I noticed there’s a… there’s a few… I can relate to a few things with Ben… I mean, I’m not really… um… the most confident person all the time ‘cause Ben he’s quite shy… um…
J: Yeah, there was [_________]
R: Yeah, exactly, yeah. I’ve got a little bit of that and… um… I dunno really, the whole dancing thing (laughing)
J: Yeah.
R: I didn’t have to do anything with that ‘cause in the film I have to learn to salsa dance and um…
J: Which I have to say was a joy to watch…
R: Ah… I know… I was…
J: We only had one day…
R: Yeah…
J: One day to do the whole thing, rehearse it and learn it and…
R: It was crazy…
J: It was… a crazy day.
R: Yeah, I know… ‘cause Ben had to be… Ben he wasn’t really supposed to be a natural really was he?
J: No… I wanted to make sure that you weren’t… you know that kind of Hollywood…
R: Mmmm
J: thing… let’s do it here folks…
R: Yeah… (laughs)
J: And they’re all too practiced… it was really nice to see…
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J: I want to ask you… um… uh… the kiss…
R: Oh, yeah!
J: The kiss… um… ‘cause when we… when we were getting our character Brionny in the movie… um… you know… uh… the boy Ben finally gets to have his first kiss. How… weird was that?
R: Yeah… that was quite strange really…
J: ‘Cause that… for me as a director… that was one of the things I was really conscious of wanting to try and handle well… ‘cause I thought you handled it incredibly well. That was the most ‘family’ thing I experienced… it was the most like being your father…
R: Really?!
J: That moment…
R: Yeah…
J: ‘Cause I felt I couldn’t ask you how you were feeling ‘cause I know you were aware it was coming…
R: Yeah… no…
J: I felt it wasn’t appropriate somehow…
R: Yeah…
J: It’s not my place…
R: Oh, yeah.
J: I thought you handled it really well…
R: No… that was weird… yeah… dunno… ‘cause the whole crew as well… it was just… no… that felt a bit strange…
J: Yup.
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R: How do you think the British and American moviegoing audiences will differ?
J: I think that… the feeling I get here… being here in New York is that people are much more direct and more confident and one of the things about the movie is that the movie is about people who are from a culture where you aren’t as confident and you don’t express yourself so much, it’s one of the keys of the film, so I think there is a kind of probably fascination from an American audience’s point of view… we’re the culture that so… that apparently speaks the same language but is divided by the Atlantic and divided by thousand other cultural differences and I think that that’s one of the things which American audiences would enjoy… I hope
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J: What’s the difference between doing a movie like Driving Lessons and doing a movie like Harry Potter?
R: pfff… um… yeah… I did notice a lot of differences… um… really… just ‘cause obviously Driving Lessons is much sort of low budget sort of thing… and… um… that’s really one of the reasons I sort of wanted to do it really because it was so different. My first ever film was Harry Potter, I was straight into this sort of massive…
J: machine…
R: Yeah.
J: Exactly.
R: Just no blue screen special effects… just… um… it was really nice to do something much more simple and just really good… really… yeah…
J: And the six weeks of shooting…
R: Six weeks! Yeah.
J: Remind me how long it would take… I mean, if you shot on Harry Potter for six weeks, what would you have shot?
R: Well… that’s two big scenes…
J: Yup.
R: Two… um… big scenes of Harry Potter, yeah.
J: And you shot the movie in six weeks.
R: Six weeks, yeah! We were… doing like 4 scenes a day?
J: Yup
R: We…
J: We shot 560 set ups in…
R: That’s amazing!!
J: six weeks.
R: Yeah.
J: And you were in… you were in, I think, pretty much every scene bar about 10.
R: Really?
J: Yup.
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J: The 3 things I love about movies are… ?
R: Just love the… um… just being someone else like… um… I dunno… ‘cause as I said, I’m not really the most upfront sort of person… I dunno… when you’ve got a character, you can sort of hide behind it… and comedy movies are my sort of… um… favorite things and… um… ‘cause they can make you laugh… all these sorts of different emotions like make you sad and… um…
J: And also… you see a lot of DVDs!
R: DVDs, yeah.
J: You sort of can obviously watch movies….
R: Exactly
J: It’s a huge trend…
R: Oh, yeah!
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R: Thank you to Moviefone…
J: Thanks for watching and sending us your questions, we’re here to premiere Driving Lessons at the Tribeca Film Festival starring Rupert Grint, Julie Walters and Laura Linney… Bye!
R: See… *giggles* (squeakily) Bye!!
J & R: (laughter)
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