i am joined by peter landesman and will smith and gugu mbatha-raw. >> how i try to understand a character, i start first and foremost to try to figure out what they want. we all want lots of things, but we all have primary desires that most of our life is directed towards. what did i found with bennet is he wanted to be accepted as an american. from the time he was a little boy, he wanted to be accepted as an american because he thought america was the place where god sent all his favorite people. so everything in his life, he had 8 degrees -- where he dressed, where he lived, who his friends were, everything was about living up to this spiritual ideal of what it means to be an american. >> rose: and we conclude with director tom hooper, his new film is called "the danish girl." >> to not identify with the gender you're assigned at birth, i cannot imagine a more profound block a human being can experience and can be the cause of such distress. >> rose: "concussion" and "the danish girl" when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a prov