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Vanessa is coming in. Here comes Vanessa. Vanessa is coming in.
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Watch this person coming, its Vanessa.
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Hello Vanessa. Nice to meet you!
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A Golden Globe, a SAG Award, now the Oscar nomination
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wow it's really impressive, congratulations. Thank you!
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It feels good, thank you! How do you feel when you wake up in the morning,
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just knowing you might take you first Oscar home.
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I haven't really thought, I haven´t put myself there
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I don't put myself in that - imagine that position
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I'm really enjoying this whole
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approach to it in this whole award season I've been going around
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supporting this this film that took 20 years to make
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and we got it made and now
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its at a time when it's getting a light shine on it
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you know for picture for editing for performances and that's something I'm
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I'm proud of and I'm proud to be sharing it and I'm gonna
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I'll be able to better answer that after
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the season's over whether I win it or not
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Honestly, when I first read about this movie and I saw your pictures how
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much weight you lost
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I thought, why would anyone do that for role,
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and then I saw the movie and now I get it. Bravo!
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it was truly worth it this movie, right?
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It was an obvious responsibility that I had
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to go play the character,
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if I didn't do that, I really wouldn´t have worked.
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I would have been embarrassed, I wouldn´t have been doing my job.
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So it was very clear to me, it was never a question
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going into it that that wasn't necessary.
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I didn't know how much I was gonna loose, I just knew
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there was a certain place I needed to get
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to best represent Ron Woodruff
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How did playing this character influence your day-to-day life?
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I'd say then and still
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I'd definitely challenge authority more aggressively
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than I did before, politically
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on a government level, on many levels
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challenge authority. Don't just take someone's word for
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things as easily as maybe I did before
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I always question, what actually did Ron Woodroff
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at the end he doesn't go that court and win
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he goes there and looses. But what did he do?
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And I would say, to the best of my knowledge,
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his shook the tree and made enough noise he was obviously making enough noise that the FDA
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came down and shut him down three times so he was obviously
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important enough and it was on their radar as you know
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a criminal and we gonna shut this guy up and so what do I think probably happened
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well, you know the congressmen and senators who had their special-interest staced up on
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their desk
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I think he got, you know, the people with HIV and how do we better treat them
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that move from the bottom of the list closer to the top
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And so I think he helped fast track; what he did
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help fast-track the government doing research about the thing, there's a better
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way to treat people with HIV.
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You shot this movie in 25 days.
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That must have been a challenge because thats not a long time for a movie like that.
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No, it#s not. It was a challenge, but in hindsight, I also call it a privlege
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because you didn't have to reset
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in the day, you almost didn't have to reset at night or at the end of the week.
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It felt like the camera was always rolling
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so there what happens when you know that you're under the gun
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one: you're forced to get creative. Number two:
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you don't warm up into the scene. You show up that morning and you're hitting it
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because there's not gonna be time to warm up. You don't get in a scene and kinda find it
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which you have the privilege of doing in more considerate films
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we have more time which those are nice as well but this was like boy get outta bed
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I'm on. Everybody better be on,
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until they tell us to go home we're not shooting anymore, ever.
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Which came after 25 days. Thank you so much. it was great to talk to you.