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ON HOW IT WAS WORKING TOGETHER:
Joy: Now tell me, what was it like working on this movie together, I mean we all know the drama you both have gone through since the TV series you starred on together, I mean it had to have been awkward, I mean, it has to be awkward right now, haha...
Mel: Of course. I was bloody miserable. No. I mean it was good fun actually. The first day we talked it over and decided to be professional and cordial and we stuck to that. It was actually quite easy.
Michael: Yea like she said, I walked in thinking she is going to make it a nightmare but she was incredibly sweet and we both came to work. It's a great film with a great cast and a dream project to be a part of and why ruin it with stupid drama. Just be mature and get the job done.
Joy: So being here today there's no tension? Michael you mentioned in a recent interview things ended badly between you two so ???
Michael: I said that? haha.
ON WHAT DREW THEM TO THE FILM:
Barbara: The thing I want to know is, and I am sure people are going to be curious and enquire about your personal affairs, but this film, I saw it last night, and it is amazing. Simply phenominal. What did you think of it when you first read the script?
Michael: I was confused as hell! Haha. But I loved it. It was very complex and moving and I felt it could be a masterpiece and the great thing about this film is I feel it's like a tag team of two great filmmakers putting their egos aside and teaming up and saying let's make the best sci-fi movie ever. When you combine David Fincher's visuals, and his camera work with D.P. Crash, the guy who was our cinematographer, and all the innovative stuff they were doing, when you combine that with Chris Nolan's AMAZING script and the character's he's created and this mind bending world he's concocted that just wraps your mind into knots, you have a great great cinematic ride that we think people will find to be, unforgettable.
Mel: Yea I got that same reaction too. I had a ton of questions for Chris when I was on set and had to be explained every little thing, I am very analytical about stuff and I'm sure I was annoying him but I was just so curious about how it all works and you have to see the film, a couple of times really, to fully get the logic of certain things, but I was very impressed with the thought level that went into it.
ADRIENNE'S CURIOSITY AND DEPTH:
Sherri: And that fits your character too, because she is new to this world, so she is like the audience in a way, learning it all as we learn it.
Mel: Exactly.
Sherri: And there's some real depth to your character, there's a twist there, I don't wanna give it away...
Mel: Don't spoil it, but yea....yea she's something special. She's fiesty.
THEIR CHARACTERS AND THE PLOT:
Elisabeth: Yea that's what I wanted to get to, explain your characters a little bit, and the overall plot of the film, if you can, without spoiling too much. We had Leo and Rachel on yesterday and they were very vague so hopefully we can get a little more out of you guys haha...
Michael: Well we cannot say much of the plot but all I can tell you is that it involves Leo and Rachel's characters who play husband and wife, they invent something for the purpose of helping people but they cannot get the funding for it. The film opens with a very rich and powerful businessman whose talking to Leo and I. He wants to give Leo the funding independently but he wants Leo to do something very illegal first. He wants to use Inception for something a little more, sinister, and so Leo reluctantly accepts and he gets me involved because he can trust me. I went to college with them and now I am a professor of psychology at Columbia. I used to teach at NYU and Mel was one of my students at NYU. We had an affair, a very inappropriate teacher/student relationship and the school board found out and she left to study abroad, so when the movie starts, we find her in Paris. My character was fired from NYU and now I'm teaching at Columbia like I said. The Cobbs, Leo and Rachel, get me involved and then they somehow get Adrienne involved and me and her are forced to see each other again. But the problem is me and her have some, unresolved love issues, so that complicates things a bit.
Mel: Yea, what he said. (laughs). But yea I mean, Adrienne, she's very complicated. She doesn't really trust alot of people. She has this bitterness toward Trace, Mike's character, that comes through, she doesn't really want to be in this, mission, if you will. But she has another...
Elisabeth: An alterior motive...if you will...haha
Mel: Yea you could say that. I think at the end of it all though, she's just a girl, a girl caught in a very manipulative world who feels as though she's the victim, all her life really, and decides for once to stop being the victim and ya know, be the manipulator for once.
Elisabeth: And there's a constant uneasiness with your character, the audience never really knows what she's after, if she really loved Trace or if it was just an affair, you both played off each other really well and I think you did an amazing job with it, I think this is your best performance...
Mel: Thank you.
ON THEIR LOVE SCENE:
Barbara: Now everyone has been talking about your steamy love scene in this film. You guys are in a hotel...
Mel: No no no no, dont show it, please..
Barbara: Oh we're showing it. But you guys really go after it in this scene and some reviews have called the scene gratuitious and a little over the top for a film like this. It goes on for quite some time, I think this article stated it lasted almost 3 minutes or something crazy like that. And I mean, of course to watch it is very, exciting, but Michael you said in a conversation to me before the show this morning that, and I'm quoting you, "we may be getting worked up for all the wrong reasons" about these scenes. So why in your opinion are we getting all worked up?
Michael: Uh, I shouldn't have said that should I? No what I was trying to get across was that it seems to be almost shocking. Because of the amount of sexual, intensity.
Barbara: I'm quoting you. Do you want me to say it or do you want to say it?
Michael: I'll say it. I think that we're all getting all worked up over nothing and those who complain the most just aren't getting enough of it or not getting the right kind. I think that if we all got into bed and did our most carnal desires, we wouldn't be so shocked. I think as a country, and I'm sure Mel would agree with this since she has a love for pointing out American's flaws, I think we are very hypocritical when it comes to sex. I think we are sending mixed signals by how we say sex is bad, sex is wrong, it's dirty, it's this, it's that, yet what country leads the world in producing pornography and the sex trade? America. How messed up is that? We need to let go of this puritanical shame we have placed on sex and look at it as what it is, a way for two people, or three or however many, no matter their race or gender or sexual orientation, to express their love or lust for one another. You can agree or disagree but it's how I feel. In movies we can show violence and people getting their heads blown off and it's cool but all hell breaks loose and the morality police get all upset when a guy wants to bend a girl over and show her whose boss, it's ridiculous! (stands and bows as audience applauds)
ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP BEHIND THE SCENES:
Whoopi: So I have to ask this because people wanna know. Fans have been camping outside our studio since last night to see you guys, you saw the scene out there.
Mel: It was a madhouse! I didn't understand it. I thought the Queen or something was here.
Whoopi: But everyone wants to know, are the rumors true, I mean I don't know if I can call them rumors but Michael you said in your Complex magazine interview that you and Mel dated or had some sort of sexual relationship while filming and you wanted more, she didn't, you went back to drugs, it was this whole big thing, so I mean, elaborate on that...
Michael: You just had to put me on the spot, haha. No but yea I mean, Mel is a very very very very very private person and I know she hates when I spill my life out there, especially when it has to do with her...
Joy: Mel does it bother you, when he says private things about your relationship, past relationship with him?
Mel: I'd prefer he didnt, and I've told him that, but he's going to say what he wants to say. I cant stop him.
Barbara: Do you read his interviews? Do you follow things he says?
Mel: Every one.
Michael: Really?
Mel: Of course.
Michael: That's crazy, because I still read stuff she says, just out of curiosity, and it's always about Robert Pattinson or something, she never mentions me. So I always feel kind of pathetic like how I always keep mentioning her. Like wow people are gonna be like man after all this time he's still not over it, or whatever. But I try not to, people just keep asking...
Joy: That's interesting.
Michael: But like I was saying, I have always believed in being honest with the fans and the public because they are going to ask the questions and want to know the truth and they will find it out eventually so why hide it. I'm not ashamed of my life and the things I do, the mistakes I make. We all fall, we get back up and the honest truth of the matter is I fell in love with this girl sitting to the left of me. I loved her. I told her that. On the set. She chose to not be with me and I have to accept that, and I finally have. I am actually very happy with someone. And whether I am single or dating or whatever, I try to find happiness in that. For a long time, I had this need, this pathological obsessive need to be around girls, since I was maybe 14, to get their attention, be around them, and I am trying to lose that, control that, need.
Sherri: I really am glad and commend you for saying that because alot of men, especially young men these days, don't have the courage to admit what you just did, they call themselves players, but what they are is needy, just in a different way than women.
Michael: Exactly.
ON FUTURE PROJECTS:
Elisabeth: So what's next for you guys?
Michael: Um, James Bond. That starts shooting in 3 months so I gotta get in shape, start training, working on my accent and get going. I leave in two weeks for London. Backstage she (Mel) was actually telling me different cool places to check out over there. I can't wait.
Mel: Um, I have two more Twilight films to make next year and I have a film called Never Let Me Go coming out this fall as well as Welcome to The Rileys finally coming out soon and next year I also am doing a film with Kirsten Dunst called On The Road which we are shooting in Brazil so I'm really excited about that. So yea, busy girl.
Barbara: Well we thank you both for coming here and being with us today, the movie Inception is WONDERFUL and we highly suggest you all go see it, it comes out in theaters everywhere this Friday.
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