we got lucky we got ralph fiennes to be his avatar. that happened to "coup 53," the incentive of this from, the british have not officially admitted to their key role, their leading role. it was an mi6 coup aided by the cia who is dragged -- an organization in 1953. the first time it went off campus to play and it did well. it was quick, cheap, and no americans were killed. if you hundred iranians died, but -- a few hundred iranians died, but who cares about that? it emboldened them to the game. kermit coming back and saying, have a great weekend. coming on monday, have other ideas stop there was one other thing i had to say. kermit roosevelt, in not really being an expert, write his book and give the interview [indiscernible] he says i have $700,000 and only spent $10,000. i would not take anything kermit roosevelt says at face value as true. he was a fabricator, a self grand i think i. darbyshire says in his interview , [indiscernible] i know because i spent it. juan: i would like to bring in professor ervand abrahamian back to the c

and then i remember -- so we were on-set and we showed up, and we showed up to ralph fiennes.off-book, and he presented to me, will, and our amazing director, mark mylod, exactly what he was going to do for his first four big monologues and he was completely off-book and i think -- i think you do know that feeling whenever you write something for someone. and then they're doing it exactly in the tone you thought they would do it and then they're also doing it 15 times better. >> seth: yeah. >> and it's like, ah >> seth: just elevating. >> yeah, yeah. >> seth: it's the greatest gift a writer could get >> an amazing thing for the director and for the crew where he would kind of do it five takes of it, which was the agreed upon, that's what we probably are going to go with. but then he'd give you just for the edit, a fast one, a slow one, a more intense one, a funnier one, a looser one. >> yeah, and i would say every actor we had - they were such a group of smart actors and they knew the tone of the movie completely so, there --it was always great. and each take they just made it