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Danny Boyle hands over the reins of his zombie saga to great and grateful hands.
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So really excited to have you both here because for one, we're coming off 2025
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Hedda was amazing. Love talking to you about that. Sinners was outstanding. Love talking to you about that. And then I talked to Dani before I even knew that you were in 28
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years later. So what an exciting surprise. And now like Bone Temple, like, oh my God, you guys
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you're starting off this year so, so strong. I'd love to hear a little bit about like how you came
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to the project and what it was like working together. I got a call from my agent who was
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like listen I know you don't have time for this you're busy you're making a movie I was in post
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on Hedda and he's like but they're they're making the 28 years later trilogy and they need a director
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for the second one and I was like I couldn't possibly then the next day Alex Garland called
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me he's like hey this is happening and I was like and so then I read the script and I was like can I
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please please do it did you have a previous relationship with Alex yeah I've known Alex for
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a few years um and and so I knew there was like something percolating but I was like is it
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happening who knows um and in my heart of hearts i secretly was like i want to direct that and then
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it happened which is cool but when i walked into my first meeting with them like your face was
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already on the board and on like the casting door yeah yeah yeah that fills me with joy yeah
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so how did they approach you with it yeah so um yeah there was a bit of information floating around about the projects happening and then it was a case of yeah please uh if i can shoehorn my way in that be great And then it was a case of yeah please if I can shoehorn my way in that be great And then there was a call to meet Nia at Danny Boyle house
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Yeah. Somewhere in London. And so I went. And this is a phenomenal experience, right
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Because I'm at Danny Boyle's house. And I'm there, which is even more exciting
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Nia DaCosta's hair. and then I get all shooed up the stairs
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Oh, yeah. I didn't see the area. Yeah. So I get all shooed up the stairs
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and it's like a room. It's a bit of a library in there
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All his vinyl collection is out. Oh, my God. Also, I'm just in there like making tea in the kitchen
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I'm like, my life's crazy. Sifting through Danny Boyle's vinyl. Oh, my God
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I didn't know this. I love this. Yeah, I was just left alone in his upstairs library
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You just got squirky. Yeah, exactly. he's like anyway uh thanks for this and then daddy comes up and then the meeting starts and
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and we sat down and and and talked about it a little bit and shared some views and then and then
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i left and just hoped for the best and the call came through and it was a good one so we had daddy
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by it was so it was so cool talking about him because i think probably similarly like i grew up watching his movies and then like having him in person it was like oh he the person i thought made these movies like did you have that experience or were there like discoveries for you and working with him no 100 because you just like watch him talk and think about things and explain things and he just
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like it's like galaxy brain all the time and I was like oh this makes sense like it makes sense
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why they're like 80 cuts a second in your movies because he's just like literally like the way his brain works it's amazing so it's I mean it's so great to like just talk to him and I I've heard
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you say that like when you pitch to be a part of this you were like look I'm not going to make a Danny Boyle movie. I can't. That's what you do. So I'm curious for you when you were like
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I want to make my kind of movie. How are you describing what that would look like
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Well, I was more describing what the movie I wanted to make would look like. And also just expressing like, I don't want to make a movie in the style of
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It's going to be like what I think it should be. And here's what I think it should be. And I was really clear about that in the beginning. And because I think I came in with like a clear
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idea of what it was and not just like theoretically, I want to do what I want. It was like, no, here's what I want to do
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and they bought into that so it made it like a like a good smooth process was this at danny
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boyle's house no this was at the studio where your picture was on the wall okay yeah but we
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looked at lovingly and for you finding the character of jimmy like i'm curious what that
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was like because you're having this meeting so are they saying like we're going to introduce you in
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this movie are you getting like a background are you getting like everything that you were going
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to do across these films uh yeah the the scripts both scripts uh came to me at the same time so I could understand from when we meet in to where we go
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And, yeah, quite a lot of it is there on the page. And I don't know, there is just something a little bit more liberating
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about playing in pure depravity, darkness. You know, it's a little bit more limitless
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so and and i i guess i suppose a way as well there was like without making him 2d just that
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um because i i think what what they've proven themselves to be is very efficient in this sort
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of apocalyptic uh post society um you know collapse yeah they've obviously survived so
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why is that um just taking clues uh from that that kind of uh within the writing and then
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room for invention which nia was great at cultivating and um it's a joy it's the best
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that like it's it's a lovely uh it's it's a lovely sort of arena to work within
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