Latest / The Art of Costume Podcast / Napoleon with Costume Designers Janty Yates and David Crossman
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- 0:11Just a huge amalgamation of two very clever buyers and me just
- 0:19wanting probably a bit more out and out rather than discretion.
- 0:25They've always gone in the flash rather than discretion.
- 0:31We love you for that though. Hello, and welcome to the Art of
- 0:44Costume Podcast. I am your host, Spencer
- 0:48Williams, and thank you so much for joining me for another bonus
- 0:52episode. What's going on?
- 0:55Costume nerds, I am so excited to talk to you about today's
- 0:58episode as we just have so many exciting costumes to talk about.
- 1:04We're talking, of course, about the huge epic Napoleon directed
- 1:08by one of my favorites, Ridley Scott.
- 1:11You all know how I feel about the Alien films.
- 1:13I could talk about them forever, thanks to Ridley Scott.
- 1:16So you know, when I saw that Ridley Scott was doing Napoleon
- 1:21with some of these incredible costume designers, you know, I
- 1:24was seated. I had to see it.
- 1:25It's so good. It was worth the wait.
- 1:28But let's get into it with some of our usual business with a
- 1:31summary. Napoleon is a look at the
- 1:34military commanders origins and a swift ruthless climb to
- 1:38Emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often
- 1:42volatile relationship with his wife and one true love,
- 1:45Josephine. And now diving behind the
- 1:48costumes we have director Ridley Scott and costume designers Jan
- 1:52T Yates and David Crossman. You know Jan T Yates from her
- 1:56Academy award-winning work on Gladiator.
- 1:59She also designed the costumes for Miami Vice and American
- 2:03gangster Prometheus, which is one of my all time favorite
- 2:06films. When you get home from work or
- 2:08if you're home already, get yourself a box of pizza, a
- 2:11drink. Watch Prometheus, you'll thank
- 2:13me later. It is so good she also designed
- 2:16the costumes for Exodus, Gods and Kings Martian, for which he
- 2:20got a Costume Designers Guild nomination, Alien Covenant, The
- 2:24Last Duel, and of course the House of Gucci, for which Jante
- 2:29Yates was nominated for another Costume Designers Guild award.
- 2:33Then we have costume designer David Crossman, who really has
- 2:36such a incredible specialty in military wear.
- 2:40Even though David from his work on Rogue One, for which he was
- 2:42nominated for Costume Designers Guild Award solo A Star Wars
- 2:47Story, which is of course the Han Solo film 1917.
- 2:51And David was credited as costume designer on The Batman
- 2:56with Robert Panson for designing the Bat suit.
- 2:59Both Jan T Yates and David Crossman are currently in
- 3:02production on Gladiator 2, which I know is going to be
- 3:06incredible. I'm so excited.
- 3:08And of course, Jan T Yates and David Crossman were both
- 3:11nominated for a Cami Award for their work on Napoleon.
- 3:16I'm so excited to get into this film.
- 3:17There's so many costumes I I'm excited to talk about.
- 3:21Of course, just the breath of France, for which Janti really
- 3:26dove into some incredible research to bring this era to
- 3:30life. Of course, Josephine's
- 3:33incredible costumes when you see her going about the castle into
- 3:36the pond and Oh my gosh, that incredible coronation scene.
- 3:41It is incredibly beautiful. I was blown away and when I saw
- 3:45it is so good. And of course I want to talk
- 3:48about all the war scenes too, for which David Crossman really
- 3:51took lead on with his military background.
- 3:55They're huge, they're epic. And the breakdown of the
- 3:58costumes, there's blood, dirt, everything.
- 4:01These costumes just go through everything.
- 4:05It is a bloody mess. And you know that.
- 4:07I love that. So I'm so excited.
- 4:10And with that being said, right after this break, we're going to
- 4:13be joined by costume designers Jan T Yates and David Crossman.
- 4:18I am so excited. I have so many questions, so
- 4:22stay tuned. Thank you all.
- 4:49I'm so happy to welcome Napoleon costume designers Chanti Yates
- 4:52and David Crossman. Thank you so much for being
- 4:55here. I'm a big fan of both your work,
- 4:57David, your prowess, and Milty Ware Janti.
- 5:00I mean, I could go on forever. Prometheus One of the best
- 5:03movies of all time. Thank you so much.
- 5:07Of course, let's get into it. So Janti, you have been a long
- 5:11time collaborator, really. Scott's obviously going back to
- 5:15Gladiator for what? You won Academy Award.
- 5:17So going into Napoleon, this huge epic film, did you have an
- 5:21idea of what you're gaining yourself into this time?
- 5:25There was just another Ridley movie, another really movie.
- 5:31Right, Well, I'd also like to talk for a moment about the
- 5:35research process, for which I can only imagine was very in
- 5:38depth. I read that you actually
- 5:40travelled to France too, to get a better idea of who these
- 5:43characters were. We went independently,
- 5:46ironically, I went, we both went to province independently and we
- 5:53both went to Paris independently.
- 5:55It was just a matter of timing, because I think, David, you were
- 5:59on another film, weren't you, when I went.
- 6:02So he joined a little bit later. But yeah, we did every museum in
- 6:06Paris. We went to Fontainebleau, we
- 6:09went to Malmaison. Obviously the Music Museum of
- 6:16Military Museum in Paris, such as I could have spent a week
- 6:19there. It was so fast.
- 6:21Even though David did the military, you know, also I went
- 6:26to two or three other just museums in Paris that would show
- 6:31you how the French lived in that period in that time because you
- 6:37don't know really, you know, what they ate for lunch or what
- 6:40they ate for supper or whether they ate at all, you know, sort
- 6:44of things like that. You do need to know.
- 6:47And then also in England, obviously the British Museum,
- 6:51the museums Ashmolean and Pit River, and then also the pudding
- 6:58of the Jane Austen Museum in Bath, which is actually very
- 7:02helpful, very helpful for that period because they had simpler
- 7:06ideas. And then another museum in
- 7:09Chertsey, believe it or not, that allowed us to see how the
- 7:13costumes were made. We were able to tear them.
- 7:15No, not tear them, but turn them inside out and really examine
- 7:20the seams etcetera. It was a wonderful opportunity
- 7:24in actual fact. Well, that sounds fascinating.
- 7:26I have to admit, I'm quite jealous.
- 7:29David. Let's get into the military
- 7:31aspect of it all. To take on this enormous task I
- 7:35could imagine it must have been a little daunting, especially
- 7:38since there were so many. These armies were massive.
- 7:41Huge. So how did you and a team
- 7:44assemble all these costumes, and what did your research process
- 7:47look like again into the specific time period of military
- 7:51wear? Well, the, I mean the research,
- 7:55I think gente rang me about the job and then I think there was a
- 7:58break. I think COVID happened after
- 8:00that and then so there was a bit of a break and I was kind of
- 8:02half looking at the subject thinking the job might happen
- 8:06and when it was going to happen then I just started gathering
- 8:11you. You go after kind of every image
- 8:14of Napoleon you can get your hands on and try and collate it.
- 8:16Then you try and put it into some kind of date line.
- 8:19And so I kind of amass these books of his kind of life kind
- 8:24of in pictures. And then and then before you
- 8:28kind of start anything, it was important to me just to go and
- 8:32look at real clothing. And we've got a friend called
- 8:35Mark Wallace who has this clothing collection just outside
- 8:38London. It's all original pieces.
- 8:40Everything there is original. So he's got these beautiful
- 8:42original bicons of the period, lovely coats.
- 8:47He's got coats from from the French Revolution, he's got
- 8:51bridges, waist coats and lovely coats.
- 8:54And so we borrowed a good chunk of those and then we took
- 8:57patterns from everything. So we had kind of staple
- 9:01original shapes for everything that we were going to produce
- 9:04for actors, but also everything that we were going to try and
- 9:07produce for the crowd because most of those numbers didn't
- 9:11exist. And and The thing is, it's there
- 9:16were so many things like bearskins to make and all that
- 9:18and we didn't really want to use real fur and you couldn't
- 9:22really, you know, we were trying to make it a bit more vegan and
- 9:26trying not to sort of, you know, slay millions of animals.
- 9:30So we were, we were trying to work on kind of synthetic
- 9:33versions of like grenadiers, bearskin hats and things like
- 9:36that. So it was all sampling all these
- 9:38kind of pieces and getting, you know, original hats made from
- 9:42wackings bicons which are made of tree bark.
- 9:46And so we sent those off to our millimers in Rome who made
- 9:49brilliant shapes, you know, to the to the measurements that you
- 9:52can get in on the museum website.
- 9:54So they had all the kind of dimensions of these hats.
- 9:56So we made some of those just to kick off.
- 9:58And then then we started all the embroidery for the kind of
- 10:03higher ranks and the generals because throughout the whole
- 10:06French revolutionary period and into the kind of empire, there's
- 10:10just so much embroidery, so much gold and bully and embroidery.
- 10:14So that was a real time challenge because obviously all
- 10:19of that's by hand. You're trying not to do that by
- 10:21machine. You're trying to get the hand
- 10:22kind of embroidery because it's much heavier, it looks weightier
- 10:25and more real. So you're you're just trying to
- 10:28hit all these things, you know at the same time you're just
- 10:31trying to do sort of it sounds like we went to Provence on some
- 10:34kind of holiday. But there is actually this great
- 10:36museum in Provence called the Museum of the Emperors.
- 10:40It's this collection of two brothers who had this huge
- 10:43Napoleonic uniform collection and they stored it in their
- 10:48house and it's been, it's owned now by the government but but
- 10:53they have these amazing costumes on manic complete from head to
- 10:58toe and and they're just such brilliant reference for us.
- 11:03So combined with the shapes, you know the combined with getting
- 11:08the kind of colours right and just doing a nice kind of
- 11:11balance of colours for the film, that's that's kind of how we
- 11:15approached it. This is a massive undertaking I
- 11:18can't even imagine. And I would like to turn
- 11:21actually to Napoleon, David, because we all kind of have an
- 11:26idea of what Napoleon might have looked like based on textbooks,
- 11:29but you really had to do probably more in depth research
- 11:33than just reading a history textbook.
- 11:34So how did he approach Napoleon's military uniforms?
- 11:38I think we first first of all hats and then how many hats are
- 11:42we going to do over the period of film.
- 11:44You know how many times would he change?
- 11:45Kind of his. His.
- 11:47His hat almost gets bigger as he gets more powerful.
- 11:49It almost turns into a you know the bike from eighteen O 5 to
- 11:541815. I love that.
- 11:57Wanted to do you know there was so many.
- 12:00There was we we sort of tried to hunt down every existing item of
- 12:04Napoleon's. There was 1 green coat left in
- 12:08in one museum which had been restored.
- 12:10So that was great even though it was only online but it was great
- 12:13it was a great resource for us. There's a grey coat hanging in
- 12:17the Museum of Paris along with his bike on.
- 12:20So we looked at that and then combined that with a real coat
- 12:22of the period and put it all together and then did it to
- 12:26wacking sizes. And so you wanted to get a nice
- 12:29skirting in the coat and you know, which I don't think I see
- 12:33how I've seen other versions of Napoleon.
- 12:35So I'm not, you know, but they're not always that kind of
- 12:38that shape of a riding coat of the of the time.
- 12:44But so you you're trying you you then try and build in some of
- 12:47the romance, the portraits and the paintings, but not kind of
- 12:50not overdoing it because Joaquin is going to do a kind of
- 12:53authentic ish, you know, kind of performance.
- 12:56And you say you want to kind of be in line with that and not be
- 12:59too fantastical. But yes, it's a combination of
- 13:03kind of combination. It's like in the same way
- 13:06there's different portraits. So you kind of take the best of
- 13:09everything and then try and put it into the one thing.
- 13:12As long as people look at it and go that's the podium, then it's
- 13:14OK. It's like.
- 13:16That, yeah, Well, mission accomplished.
- 13:17I think we got that point. I now want to turn to Josephine,
- 13:23who's played brilliantly by Vanessa Kirby.
- 13:26And the story of Josephine is quite intimate and emotional.
- 13:30Chanty could tell us about design these costumes to help
- 13:33tell the story of Josephine and also what your collaboration
- 13:36might have looked like between you and Vanessa and bringing
- 13:38this person to life. Well, there wasn't really any
- 13:43because she came in very last minute.
- 13:46We met Jodie Comer up until Christmas and we were shooting
- 13:51in February, so that was a bit of a lastminute.com.
- 13:57And she was. She was so in love with the
- 14:00costumes that we'd made already. We had to do a huge alteration
- 14:04because she's taller and slimmer.
- 14:07She had the same size feet, thank God.
- 14:10And so, you know, we just carried on really.
- 14:15But so luckily Vanessa was fantastic and she understood the
- 14:20arc that I was trying to, you know, just gently hint at from
- 14:25prison through to the greatest riches and basically the
- 14:29coronation and then going slowly downwards, really not from
- 14:35there, but from sort of the divorce onwards, very much, you
- 14:40know, the arc is descending. And I had spoken with Ridley and
- 14:44I said I want to keep her silvers and golds, gold bullion
- 14:49and lace and lots of embroidery, lots of, you know, beautiful,
- 14:56the the most beautiful fabrics in the world.
- 15:00And he said fine, So we went to edge.
- 15:05Kind of like a costume design dream.
- 15:07This character I would say you could.
- 15:08There was a lot of fun stuff that could happen here.
- 15:12Well, I was very fortunate. We have to talk about the
- 15:15coronation scene, Gentie I was in the theater with another
- 15:18costume designer, Mitchell Travers, and we were absolutely
- 15:21floored watching this scene. It was so grand.
- 15:24And I've got to ask, just how did you and your team pull this
- 15:28scene together? It was.
- 15:30It felt like we were looking at a portrait the entire time.
- 15:33Well, we did actually completely copy David's portrait.
- 15:39I mean to the to the point where I found these wonderful floral
- 15:44copes for the Archbishop and we put those on and they matched
- 15:49the Well, it didn't exactly match, but you know they were
- 15:53probably 100 years old and found them in the Paris flea market.
- 15:58Not cheap, but anyway it was, it was a collaboration.
- 16:02It was David David nagging us constantly to get the get the
- 16:08trains embroidered, get them embroidered because they were so
- 16:14huge and we were getting quotes from all over Europe.
- 16:18And in the end it was a contact in Pakistan who they came in,
- 16:24they sent photos of them just sitting around 13 of them in the
- 16:30family, all embroidering the trains.
- 16:33Amazing. And they came back and they
- 16:35were, we were so lucky they were perfect.
- 16:38We never ever believed they'd come back perfect and they did
- 16:42and we were very lucky. And the dress is obviously
- 16:45everything was hand embroidered in gold bullion for the ladies
- 16:50in waiting and for Josephine and and Joaquim.
- 16:56And then all the jewellery, most of the jewellery we made in
- 17:00house or our jeweller. And then Dave, you can talk
- 17:04about your wonderful military splendour.
- 17:08I. Mean we made as many full dress
- 17:10Marshalls coats as possible because they're embroidered
- 17:13everywhere, front, back, sleeves, just all over the
- 17:16place. So as many as we could afford,
- 17:18basically. And then we were you know trying
- 17:20to pad out the ranks with as much as much embroidery on show.
- 17:26There was a book actually that Janti had which was the kind of
- 17:29it's a it's like a reprint of all the costumes worn at the
- 17:32coronation. It's like all the kind of.
- 17:34So we, I think we tried to add some of those into the David,
- 17:37looking at the David painting and then looking at the that
- 17:40book because we did some heralds from that and you know full
- 17:45dress uniforms for Ben Miles, Colin Cole when he comes over
- 17:47with the crowd. So he's wearing this kind of
- 17:49blue costume either designed by him or Napoleon or or David.
- 17:55I'm not sure who did it, but it's kind of pale blue with
- 17:58silver embroidery. We were just trying to sort of,
- 18:02you know, so we, yeah, we tried to mix those two together and
- 18:05just try and get as much luxury into it as possible.
- 18:10Yeah, what a beautiful scene. And David, thank you for pushing
- 18:12for an embroidery because it was quite the treat.
- 18:16But it was because we were just so it was such a lot to do.
- 18:19It was so expensive. So me and Janette would talk
- 18:22every kind of few days about where we were going to go.
- 18:24Thanks for coming up with eye watering amounts of money to do
- 18:29these things because you had to do them both.
- 18:31And then in the end, you know, as Jan T said, Melissa had this
- 18:36other person who could do it and and their price was really good
- 18:40and they could do it in the time.
- 18:42So you know, we, we went with them, but I think that was it.
- 18:45We just didn't want to commit too early.
- 18:47I think that was one of the things people were sending in,
- 18:49didn't want to do it on machine. We didn't want to.
- 18:51We wanted to do it by hand, but without kind of going insane,
- 18:55you know, and it's a, it's a huge risk, right?
- 18:59Because if it had been brought forward at all that scene, we
- 19:02wouldn't have made it, you know, We just made it, you know, it's
- 19:05like very close. Wow.
- 19:07Well, I now want to talk about one of my favorite aspects of
- 19:11costume design, which is the breakdown of costumes and David.
- 19:16We love. Nobody even knows about
- 19:18breakdown, I mean. You can't do this film without
- 19:23with you know and we had someone called Joe Weaving who ran our
- 19:27department and she I I don't know how she did it.
- 19:30We would literally give her thousands of garments to do and
- 19:34she. Messy It was.
- 19:35Dirt, blood, snow, water, ice, horses, everything.
- 19:40Before all of that happens, all those costumes go through this
- 19:44process before they get to the set, you know, so they arrive,
- 19:47you know, there they are, the brightness that bright that
- 19:49they're too much, you know. And so they all have to go
- 19:52through through Joe and it's she puts shape and character into
- 19:57them so they're not just kind of off off the peg.
- 20:01And she just coped with this kind of just, I mean huge
- 20:04amounts coming in by truck every week.
- 20:06And you know, she got through it with her team and it was, it was
- 20:10amazing, you know, huge. But you can't do a Ridley film
- 20:15with that huge Department of Breakdown, Really, Can you do?
- 20:20No, I mean it. It's it's so important that
- 20:22people often forget about it because it really helps you feel
- 20:25immersed within the story. You know, imagine if all these
- 20:28uniforms were just out of the laundry would look so
- 20:31ridiculous. So I I really appreciate it.
- 20:33I was. It felt like art.
- 20:35She helped us achieve was this kind of just controlling the
- 20:38whole way it looks rather than looking like a bunch of keep
- 20:43saying re enactors but like a bunch of kind of theatrical
- 20:46uniforms marching about, which often it just looks cheap and
- 20:49nasty right. It's often you just don't have
- 20:52the time or the money to do these things and it's so we just
- 20:56wanted to try and do it so it looked authentic and believable
- 20:59and and real and and that's where you you you can't do it
- 21:04without a great breakdown department, right?
- 21:08Gente, I know I want to turn to you.
- 21:09From seeing this film, I can tell that you must have a huge
- 21:12appreciation for textiles and fabrics.
- 21:16We noticed some furs as well. There's that one scene where
- 21:18Josephine's standing outside her home waiting for Napoleon and
- 21:22she's wearing like, don't remember the color, maybe it was
- 21:24like a a light purple, but the fur around the collar, I was
- 21:28very struck by that costume. So can you share your process
- 21:33when it comes to fabrics, furs, textiles?
- 21:36Well, I always start a film by going to the cost to the fabric
- 21:42warehouses and buying. Well, we both do really buy buy
- 21:47the mile and then we go off to various other places and I went
- 21:54to a favorite outlet in Lyon and.
- 21:59That's. Glorious for the upper echelons.
- 22:05And then we bought a huge, huge, huge amount in the flea market
- 22:11in Paris and basically lengths of fabric we took, we took the
- 22:18embroidery off and reapplied it. We appliqued an awful lot of the
- 22:24embroidery because you can't obviously use the original piece
- 22:28of fabric, You just have to steal the steal the embroidery,
- 22:34the fair is all fake. Of course, you know, in this day
- 22:37and age can't, can't use the Real McCoy.
- 22:41And you know it was just very cleverly applied because it, I
- 22:45think it's it's in the application that it looks like
- 22:49real fur, just a huge amalgamation of two very clever
- 22:55buyers and me just wanting probably a bit more out and out
- 23:02rather than discretion. We've always gone from the flash
- 23:07rather than discretion. We love you for that though,
- 23:16David. We talked about a little bit
- 23:18earlier, but I was fascinated by the use of hats and I felt like
- 23:22there's an evolution of the hats as a film kind of went from
- 23:26beginning to end. So you touched on a little bit,
- 23:28but if you could, you know in detail kind of talk about the
- 23:32use of hats? Yeah, I mean, it's the my one of
- 23:36my big fears having on hats and actors.
- 23:40They're often, you know, difficult pairing because people
- 23:44are kind of scared of big shapes on people's heads and it's.
- 23:48Especially these types of specific hats.
- 23:52Push back on various films with various hats.
- 23:55It's always about hats and you know because it's that's what
- 23:57you're seeing in the kind of the frame and but we we did take our
- 24:03we took our original shapes and we copied them and they just
- 24:07kind of they just kind of work in proportion of the uniforms
- 24:10And our com company and Rome made our first sample Napoleon
- 24:16hats from a kind of tree bark because wacking's a vegan so he
- 24:20can't wear wool felt. And so we found this bark that
- 24:24we'd been using for other things on other films and then we we
- 24:28got the milliners to try and try and do a kind of bike on from
- 24:32that. And it worked so well because it
- 24:35gave us this beautiful texture on the hat rather than just
- 24:38being a flat kind of felt look. So when it catches the light in
- 24:42some way, it looks more like a kind of Beaver skin hat where it
- 24:44has a kind of, you know, they have a lot of interest in them.
- 24:49And then so the and then the next thing was to find, we just
- 24:53found antique braids. We were always on whacking hats
- 24:56and all the Marshalls we were using original, not original
- 25:001805 but kind of period vintage braids that we could find, you
- 25:05know, whenever we found them in antique shops or in flea
- 25:07markets. And so we'd buy up enough roles
- 25:10so that you could do the actor and it's riding double.
- 25:13And then the actual shapes of the hats, they go kind of it's
- 25:18kind of French revolutionary Bicons, you know, in the early
- 25:21kind of period, in the revolutionary years.
- 25:23And they kind of evolve. The Bicons stays with you for
- 25:27about sort of 10:00-ish years, and then it turns into the kind
- 25:30of early looking hack called the Shacko.
- 25:34And then the shacko becomes the kind of symbol of late
- 25:37Napoleonic kind of late Napoleonic soldier.
- 25:41And the marshals and generals, they all wear huge Bicons with
- 25:44different coloured feathers which denote their kind of rank
- 25:46on the field. And then Napoleon, almost.
- 25:49So you'd have a lot of it, you know, elaborate hats and
- 25:52headwear hazards, busbys. And whereas Napoleon tends to go
- 25:56plain. And once, once he's passed the
- 25:58rank of generals in charge and he becomes emperor, then he goes
- 26:02into this kind of from from that day on, he's pretty much wearing
- 26:04a plain black Bicon hat. And he's kind of, you know,
- 26:08figuring out his his brand for the rest of his life.
- 26:11Oh wow. So there really is a evolution
- 26:14through the hats as we watch through the film I.
- 26:16Mean you could do more but you if you did too too many, but I I
- 26:21think we kind of got roughly the right kind of you know there is
- 26:26more scope but yeah. Right.
- 26:29Well, I mean, it looked amazing on screen.
- 26:33As we wrap here, I'd like to ask both of you, now that Napoleon
- 26:36is out in the world now, what do you hope the audience will take
- 26:39away from the film and supporting costumes?
- 26:42Chanty, I'll start with you. I hope they have deep joy.
- 26:46I think. I hope they're amused because it
- 26:50is very funny. I hope they're educated and in a
- 26:55nice way, not in a feeling like I've been sitting for 2 1/2
- 26:59hours in front of a school teacher.
- 27:02I hope they're entertained and say everything.
- 27:05I hope they have what we used to call a really good old fashioned
- 27:10film feeling leaving, but we don't have quite the same
- 27:16anymore. I hope they have the old
- 27:18fashioned satisfaction. Oh, I love that.
- 27:21I wish my history teacher actually did teach like this.
- 27:25David, what about you? It's true, I think.
- 27:28I hope they appreciate the the humorous aspects of Napoleon's
- 27:32life because when you read the books and the biographies,
- 27:35there's loads of funny moments and you can see why those are in
- 27:38the script and you I'm sort of glad of them in there and it's
- 27:41kind of, I think it's a very good portrayal in loads of
- 27:44places. I think it's very true to you
- 27:46know what you've read about it. So you just want them to exactly
- 27:50as Janet says you just want them to you just want people to enjoy
- 27:52the film. Just go, Wow, I really enjoyed
- 27:54that film because it is a it's a spectacle, you know, and it's
- 27:59you just need to go to the cinema, just enjoy yourself.
- 28:01Can't you for a couple of hours not not feel banged over the
- 28:06head by history's hammer or you know, but you but you know, just
- 28:11to actually enjoy because wacking is so engaging to watch
- 28:14and Vanessa's great. So the the two of them together,
- 28:17I think they make a really good, enjoyable film and it won't, it
- 28:20won't cover every aspect of Napoleon.
- 28:21It's not going to go everywhere and do everything but, but it's
- 28:25a great kind of basis for thought, isn't it?
- 28:29Well, I have to say the film is very immersive and I had a great
- 28:32time watching it. When I laughed, I cried a little
- 28:34bit. I was, I was scared from all the
- 28:37breakdown. So thank you so much, costing
- 28:41his iron janty eights. And David Crossman, thank you so
- 28:43much for joining. This was a real treat, and I
- 28:45hope everyone rushes to the theaters and sees Napoleon as
- 28:48soon as possible. Thank you.
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