The Crown star teams up with Joaquin Phoenix in Sir Ridley Scott's colossal French biopic, but the talk wasn't all of battles and baguettes at the London Premiere. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Congratulations on the movie, Napoleon. As brutal and as epic and scenic and incredible
00:07 as you'd expect from a Sir Ridley Scott movie, but with almost a surprising humour and even
00:13 cheekiness I think that kind of cuts through it. What's been the biggest surprise for you
00:18 in the process of making this movie and with the finished product that you've got?
00:22 Yeah, we wanted it to have a playfulness even though it was very strange, you know, what
00:27 an extreme time and a psyche in both Napoleon and Josephine being his counterpoint. So even
00:34 though it was kind of dysfunctional in many ways and they had this chemistry that was
00:40 very potent and we had to laugh all the way through it, often in scenes, sometimes a lot
00:46 in between takes because it was such a kind of intense, brutal world that we had fun in
00:52 the making of it and that was so important.
00:54 Speaking to Ben Miles, obviously your old pal from The Crown, he said there's a kind
00:57 of cheekiness to Joaquin on set which helped break things down a little bit.
01:01 Yeah, he's amazing. I love him and it was so magic to play this kind of intimacy and
01:07 this intensity between them. I had a really good time.