and i cast billy connolly. >> rose: who is younger than the character. but you thought he would be right. >> well, he never ceased telling us that he wasn't 70 yet. the rest of us were all in our 70s. with a scottish accent, i'm only 69. >> rose: but you thought coplay 70. >> yes. yes. with help from lighting. >> rose: what did you think you could bring to this movie? >> after i saw tosca's kiss about real opera singers retired, about real-- i hate that word is so repugnant. >> rose: retirement. >> yeah, i'm retired. i'm a retired opera singer. and musicians t hit me. i turned to the cinematographer and i said we have to get the real thing. we have to get real opera singers, retired and real retired musicians. and once i got the okay to do that i felt that we had a movie. we had a shot because we were going to integrate these stars, maggie smith, pauline collins, billy connolly, tom courtenay where the real thing. and what we didn't expect is that no-- these people were at the top of their game at one time, had played places like la scala and at the end

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with billy connolly. zero dark 30.hat movie is on the screen and of course arci will see you at the weinstein gallery. >> that sounds interesting. this quick look outside of the bay bridge look at how nice this looks. that means that it will hopefully stay that way and here to give us the forecast is janu. it >> good morning. this is from our mount tam cam. finally, a little bit breezy that as what is been happening with this cloud coverage and the fog. as for temperatures? 40's. 54 and novado, fairfield, hubert, redwood city. and low 50s in the self bay. as for take a look at the satellite and ritter the '50s in the--- south bay a cool down toward the satellite and radar.3. most.. of bed more struggle remain out of our area more of that moisture. as we take a look at the seven day are around the bay. we are going to take a look at the possibility of sunshine. we will take a quick break and we will be right back.... >> let me take you back to this gun-control rally. this is from our nation's capital. president obama hi