Rebecca Hall

0:00It's radiation poisoning. The bullet must have been laced with it. The effect is irreversible. Will's body is dying, but his mind is a pattern of electrical signals. We can upload his consciousness. We can save him. Not like this. Assuming that this works, if we missed anything, a thought, a childhood memory, how will you know who you're dealing with? Well, my God. I can't feel anything. I'm here. You really carry this film, man. This is like, I know he's on all the posters. But it's so heavy. Was it? No. It's probably just a little thing. No, it's so heavy.

0:46Maybe? Yeah. Actually, they're probably like that big now. Dependent of his TV TV. He shoots on film, so it's probably a big reel. Yeah, a big reel. Relatively. That's how we start these things. Here's what we talk about film reals. Now, you pair. So you said this is the most original script you've read. I have said that. You have said that. The most original is the most original. The most original? Yeah. What if I said it? So how come? I mean, I saw the movie. Why don't you tell what? Well, I would say it's one of the most original films. Maybe that was what it was. I'll give you that. Yeah, sure. Okay. I've read mostly because it surprised me. It consistently surprised me when I read it the first time. First off, it surprised me because it was billing itself as a sci-fi action thriller.

1:33And I thought, hang on a minute. This is a sci-fi action thriller that also has a very strong emotional core. Second reason it surprised me was it's billing itself as a sci-fi action thriller. That usually has a man driving the narrative. This one has a woman driving the narrative. And the third reason it surprised me was because as one does when one reads a big Hollywood script, one assumes that this is the stuff of Hollywood fantasy and hence called science fiction. The big surprise for me was how alarmingly close to science facts, all of the stuff in this film is. And I was blissfully naive about nanotechnology and the singularity and all of these concepts

2:20which are very mainstream and tracked and thought about by many very reputable people in serious institutions around the world. So that was, to harness all of those elements and make a story that you care about and that you are interested in that makes you think and is exciting I think is completely original. It certainly makes you think, I mean I talk about my friends all the time just our reliance on technology now and how we're all in front of our phones or computers that we didn't use to do five years ago. No. And we'll only be more. So you must have learned a lot researching for this role. And Raker as well thinks 2045 is when all this is actually happened. Yeah 2045. What do you think? I don't know I suppose to a lot of people about it.

3:06The thing that I have no idea when, the thing that really freaked me out was the fact that I didn't speak to one person that didn't think it was going to happen. I was expecting one person to go, but then I'm like oh no no it will happen. Just nobody knows when. Like that's, but it will happen. And then you think about it and you're like well actually we're far more integrated with our machines than we fully understand. I mean we're probably living a good half of our days in cyberspace. You know, whether it's just checking our phone once every hour or whatever it is or more for some people or checking the Facebook feed or writing something or whatever. I mean that's probably half your day is somehow in the realm of the machine. And then when they used to be this big out of this big out of taking their everywhere

3:52and then they'll be here and then they'll be chipping our brain and I look up to send an email. Well like that. Well apparently I've heard that you know but it's a, the thing is these, I don't know when the technology is moving faster than our brains can adapt to work out if we can maintain what makes us fundamentally human or I don't know. That's an interesting dilemma. And I could talk to you for hours but I got to let you go. So we do some cool five questions, five quick questions, one word answers. Scripper improv. Oh, kind of one without the other. Good answer. Stage or screen? Both. One under McCartney. One. So you give me an answer for that one. Thanks. No. Hitchcock or Kubrick. Oh no, you can't make me do that. In one word transcendence.

4:38Wow. Whoa. I don't know. In one word transcendence. Transcendent. Clever. Thank you Rebecca.