Transcripts For BLOOMBERG Charlie Rose 20160525

Syria and iraq with the command of the u. S. Central command, i am pleased to have him on the program. Welcome. David thank you. Charlie tell me about the trip and what you saw. This, as you suggested, the first time a centcom commander has done this in six years. This is a very unusual opportunity for me and other reporters to travel with the general, the commander of centcom, in that role as overall of the war in syria and iraq against isis. This is the First Time Since i think 2010, roughly, that a centcom commander has taken press with him. Under general austin, a predecessor, that was out. They did not want the press tagging along. He decided the American Public needs to know more about the wars, if people are going to understand and support them, so he decided to take a salon, not just take us along, not just to baghdad or kurdistan, but into syria. We were not allowed to disclose going. E were we were not allowed to file anything until we had gotten out of the country, and we were in jordan. It was a rare chance, and their unique chance, to see u. S. Military advisers on the ground in syria, working with the opposition, trying to build and launch against the Islamic State in its capital. Charlie there are few journalists and colonists who write about Foreign Affairs as well as you do. The notion is, understanding the patient of information and context you have from that point, what did you learn . What was surprising and what was new . David i have been covering the middle east off and on since 1980. I have been looking at this part of the world for a long time. It is the frustrations of trying to move forward in the middle east, familiar to me as all your viewers. What i saw on this trip first was the overwhelming power that the u. S. Military can bring to bear, once it really gets organized and gets authority from the president. This campaign against isis has had i think a slow start, but you could see on the trip, it is finally really beginning to gear up. There are daily operations. I was into huge operations rooms, where the screens, the display, the feeds from surveillance drones, monitoring of airstrikes, every operation theater. Ace across the that was the first thing, sense of u. S. Military power. The second thing was the chance when we were inside syria at a u. S. Training facility inside the country, to see the military advisers at work. These are just remarkable men and women. We are not allowed to see them. I cant really say that much about them, or even where they were, but these are amazing People Living off the land. They are living rough. In simple places. They are working with tribal fighters. The Syrian Kurdish militia, the white pg ypg. Over the lastho six months to a year have begun to really push i suspect. It was pushed isis back. It was a chance to see this and see the people who are doing it on behalf of the country. The final take away the mishmash between the military part of this strategy and the political side, which i just found so many contradictory elements as i. Raveled through iraq, syria, we are working on basing this military campaign is Political Fix and. Those of quicksand. Those were the three things. Looking at the power, the people doing this, and trying to think through the politics. What is possible before the Obama Administration ends in january . The obamahink administration has been accelerating its campaign in raqqa,against rocca mosul. Inst there are very few people who think the clearing can be accomplished before obama leaves office. , in part is aama legacy issue, and as role in commander in chief, wants to push hard using the tools he has at hand. That is what i was able to see. The most interesting thing i found in iraq we will talk more about syria, but in iraq, i was just there on my own three weeks ago looking at the campaign against most of mosul. I was able to see, in the euphrates valley that stretches towards the, jordanian border, there has been a lot ofmosul progress made. A lot of progress made. Sheiks were very pragmatic. They are beginning to think isis may not be the winning bet. In classic fashion for tribal leaders, they are beginning, but our experts listed it for me. I know some of these tribes are beginning to flip. I thought that story in the euphrates valley was interesting. The battle for falluja that has been launched is some ways the trickiest. Shiite militias, with the sunnis who are the primary residence of falluja, hated, but it will also involve sunni militia and the Popular Militia forces. Watching how that plays out is going to be really interesting. It will tell us a lot about whether the campaign will work. Charlie and that is a political issue obviously. David it is a political issue. All the tricky issues on which depends, areess political. The machine is cranked up. It is powerful. If it has a solid enough political foundation, it will get the job done. I dont know if it will be by the end of the year, who can say what the precise timing is . You just know this overwhelming power, once started, will push forward. As long as there is a proper political basis of support, looking at the events of the last week in baghdad, you have had essentially riots inside the green zone and the heart of the government. It shows how fragile it is. Is outsider a government who cannot control its capital is very fragile. If it crumbles, all the power operations i had the chance to look that will become difficult. Charlie when i saw the president in germany when he was going to saudi arabia and britain, and then germany, one of the things he said to me was he was making a strong effort to bring support for the Prime Minister of iraq among the european allies, to give him as much help as they possibly could, so that he could go through this. He was facing not only challenges from outside and isis, but challenges from inside. David what has happened interestingly in iraq is that the Shiite Coalition has begun to really fracture. Iransay that enron is having as much trouble as we did. The iranians used to be able to keep the shiites on the same page. That over the last month or so has clearly begun to blow apart. A bodys government is very his government is very fragile. He has made a lot of changes. His problem is one we should have sympathy for. The iraqi people are fed up with the gross overwhelming corruption. I says he will try to fix we and this warlordism, and will see if he has the political muscle to do that. For now, he has reached out to al sadr, the radical popular shiite leader, as kind of an ally in anticorruption. Charlie he is close to the iranians as well. David the iranians are close almost everyone in iraq. They work hard at play every side of the street. That said, they are having trouble. It is not a near interest writing in the green zone of the government that they are working with. I havent had firsthand reports, but people who talk with the religious leadership that many leaders are fed up. They think the country is corrupt. Effortey bought into the to build a new shiite led iraq, they have backed the government. One person said to me an interesting fact, that the religious leadership no longer delivers political sermons on fridays. Hey have pulled back the tradition has always been not so political. They got more involved in supporting the government. They may be pulling back. It is hard to know exactly what they think, except for they are fed up with what they are watching. Charlie i hear you talking about the americans. It is interesting that he will have questioned the president and suggested he was not in the fight. He clearly is now, as you suggest. Is their criticism he has been too much a victim of incrementalism, and all of a sudden realized there is more at stake and he had more of an interest in providing a stronger effort . David i think that the white this campaignled for a long time. It has taken them a long time to authorize the level of commitment, the level of special Operations Forces in syria and iraq, the advisors on the ground, the forward the point of people, that they resisted that for a long time in terms of numbers and authorities. That is now changing. I think in ways that we dont fully understand or know about, there are very aggressive operations now to go after and capture, kill operations, to go after isis. They are going after networks that could threaten the u. S. Homeland and europe. Charliei lowest thought the pret is better as a covert commander in chief i have always thought the president is better as a covert commander in chief than a overt commanderinchief. Heres a president who can say i killed osama bin laden, and he had of the taliban. Those were very tough operations, in pakistani territory. On that level, the president has been aggressive. He is allergic to syria. He has not wanted to do syria from the beginning. He found a level of commitment he is now comfortable with, which is training and a playing these furnishes Syrian Kurdish fighters that i have met ferocious Syrian Kurdish fighters that i have met. They are really the match for isis. I met the womens militia of the g,rian kurdish group, the yp women who i was told by the military advisers, where suicide belts when they go into combat, because if they are taken prisoner, they know they will be turned into sex slaves, and so they would rather blow themselves up. They are remarkable fighters. I have spoken to these women and it was a relation revelation. In that part of the world to see the women in trenches alongside the men, it is different. Charlie the coalition. How engaged is the rest of the coalition other than the United States and the kurds . David the last stop on our trip was the airbase in turkey, where the turks have allowed the u. S. And other Coalition Forces to operate. I was told by the commander of those are theron, sort of workhorse planes that are used to do targeting in , i was told there is a roughly equal Coalition Commitment there. I did not see the evidence of that, but i was told that on the record by the commander. They are there. The pattern of daily air operations over iraq and syria is pretty intense. When you go to these command display you can see the and combat information across the theater, you can see it is a 24 7 operation operation. They are targeting these people everywhere. It is very tough and dangerous to be in isis right now. Charlie and the russians . David the russians anddavid remain the interesting ex factor here. Xfactor here. There have been attacks this week, they have managed to blow up car bombs. To damascus. The situation is chaotic. The russians have been trying to forces president assads in pushing back the islamic on the almost refund a l musra front. That battle space is very conflicted. I think both the u. S. And russians now are playing for some kind of diplomatic resolution. I think the russians are looking at this and realize what a bramble bush this is, and would actually like to see the diplomacy work, if they could find a way. Charlie and what is the way . David in syria, the way is the geneva process that secretary of state john kerry and the russians have been working on, which is to get the opposition with elementsle, of the Syrian Regime and the support of saudi arabia, iran, turkey, and all the feuding neighbors, and her more out some kind of process for a political aansition hammer out process for political transition. The problem is, out beside bashir allah said thinks he is winning assad thinks he is winning. Secretary kerry can do this, it is yet to be said. I dont see a strategy or a four four military success. Area, thereeast seems to be a more Clear Strategy led by the kurds, who the turks hate, but they are letting operations go forward. Charlie thank you so much. Who justatius, returned from syria and iraq. Back in a moment. Stay with us. Charlie we now turn to politics. Recent polls show donald trump is competitive in the general relation election. He has escalated his Campaign Tactics against clinton, attacking bill clintons character and raising questions about Hillary Clintons record on women. Meanwhile, the long primary battle with Bernie Sanders has hurt clintons standing in the polls. On monday, donald trump met with senator bob corker amid rumors he might be a possible running mate. Join me is bob costa of the Washington Post. Thank you for doing this. Tell me where you think each campaign is at this moment, in terms of their assessment of the general election to come . Bob the Trump Campaign manager campaign at the moment is in a moment of transition, but surprising ease. There is a sense from trump tower that the money is coming in. The Party Leadership is on board. They see the party base reflected in the polling. They are full board right now into the general election campaign. Charlie at the same time, they are launching these really escalating attacks against bill clinton. Bob they are. That comes from donald trump himself. I sat down with him a few days ago, and has been in touch with his top advisers. Donald trump has for many Years Associated with people like roger stone, who dabbled in conspiracy theories. A few weeks ago, donald trump had lunch with edward klein. These are the people in his circle at this time. Donald trump believes he will go really with no limits in the general election campaign, bringing up things from the 90s. Some of the ugly political chapters that many people have forgotten or shelved. Charlie what does that say about donald trump to you . Bob what it says to me about trump is that this is a candidate who sees the general election and keep victory on the horizon but believes he has to battle to get there,. He needs to bring up things that are not part of normal political conversation. 1993 death about the of vince foster to see where he was on that, and he said it was very suspicious. He said he will not make a central case in his campaign about it, but it is striking we have a Major Party Nominee who edges toward consideration some of these things. Charlie these kinds of opinions are held by roger stone and others, but not the vast majority of the political community. Bob they are not. And the republican party, talking to consultants in washington, are already uncomfortable. But they sense trump has a strategy. It is just not just an argument on populism, but it is to destroy the clintons, sully their brand, bring up her negative numbers. Charlie will they go deeper and nastier . Bob i think trump has a lot of things on his radar. You look at all the accusations of sexual impropriety, and different relationships, even one need of broderick who accused bill clinton of rape in the 70s, these are part of a conservative conversation in the country. This is just a rising conversation, a bubble on the right that i think is about to burst into the heart of the general election campaign, because trump is encouraging it himself. Charlie right now, the Clinton Campaign and the former president and former secretary sense,e, are both in a not ignoring it, but not trying to attack every attack against them. Thats right. They are not trying to relitigate it. They dont want to get in a position where they have to respond. Speaking to clinton advisers and allies, they believe they have to show he is unqualified, and hes not ready for the white house. But they also dont have a candidate ready to engage moment by moment on social media on the cable airwaves,. Their only concern on my is that the saturation by trump on cable, facebook and twitter could be a problem in the long run, because it dominates the national narrative. Charlie is that part of what trump understands about media . Bob he is running a media campaign. This is not a candidate who is he is having fun raisers, but he is not planning an allout assault on the air. Grassroots organizing does not matter so much. This is the first time we have ever seen a true media candidate, someone who is every day calling into reporters, going on social media, going on cable as much as possible. Its a totally different paradigm. Charlie and tweeting about everything before he goes to bed. Bob everything. All hours a day. Does every day, he reads every article about him. Of course you can argue it is narcissism, and it is but at the same time it is, part of his strategy where he wants to be in the ecosystem of everything trump. Charlie are you primarily covering him . Is that your responsibility in the campaign . Bob im not a trump beat reporter. Charlie i know. But you are doing revealing articles along with bob woodward, in some cases about trump, not clinton. Bob clinton is not as accessible. I have always told clinton sources and advisers, i would welcome a phone call from her every day. Trump just makes himself accessible. If you put in a request, and if he is game, it may take under one hour to get him on the phone. With trump, i have been covering him for two years, and even further than that. This is a candidate who lives on media. If you can come to him with the news of the day, he is usually willing to have a conversation. Charlie hes absorbed by media. Bob obsessed. This is someone who grew up politically and professionally in the tabloid culture of new york in the 1980s. This is someone who knew then how his public image with everything. It was everything for his companies and that is how he sees his brand. Charlie what else do you think he understands about media . Bob i think he understands as bad as one day can get, it is only a day. He is not rattled by something that consumes the new cycle on wednesday. He thinks thursday, he can have a tweet or call in and change the whole context and debate, within hours. He really sees media is something not always going to be focused on one specific story, but can move quickly. He understands that instinctively. Charlie i assume choosing a Vice President ial nominee is one of the Big Decisions that he faces. Can you tell us what his thinking is about that . On i think on cbs, they had hit on what is happening. Trump wants an insider. If he wins, he doesnt have experience. I think the corker meeting was about Foreign Policy on paper. But you see someone like that, a committee chairman, he has insights on how capitol hill works. If hes not on the shortlist he is on the longer list. Charlie who else might be there, Jeff Sessions . Bob i think so. But he brings credibility on populism, immigration, conservative issues that trump already has. Trump has also often talked about kasich behind the scenes. And could experience bring a swing state. You also have to look at another big state governor like rick scott who has been an ally. Another person im hearing from Trump Associates is john thune, the senator from south dakota. He really like someone who can come in and work with mcconnell and speaker ryan. Charlie what is it that you think, and i know it is a broad question, what is it that we dont understand about donald trump at this juncture, even though we have been covering him every day, writing about him in every magazine and newspaper . Hes been at the center of News Coverage since the primary campaign began, if not earlier. I think what is always misunderstood about trump is that he is not running as part of an ideological project. He does not come from the right. That is unusual in republican politics. What that means in this general election in my view is we have a candidate who does not play by the rules, and traditional republican politics. What he relishes is to fight. This is often underplayed with trump. He loves to fight politically, personally. He thinks he can outlast you, outpace you, the relentless and eventually he will win. That is how he is approaching the fight with hillary clinton. The relentless, go beyond the litm limit. Charlie why doesnt he releases taxes . It is not because of the audience audit. Bob it is certainly not because of the audit although that is the reason hes thats. When you talk to real estate in new york, there is a sense that many real estate moguls rarely pay much in taxes. And are getting tax breaks, are sometimes not paying much at all. His return could be very small. I think that is part of why hes uncomfortable with releasing them. Charlie he hasnt paid as much as people might think. Bob or maybe not at all. The Washington Post has done some reporting. In the 80s he did not pay much at all. Charlie and that was the time he was not doing as well in business, and almost bankrupt. Bob thats right. Its also a question about his value and wealth. So much of his billions are associated with his brand, which he values in the multibillion. When it comes to actual liquid cash he has, to what his assets are worth, so much of it is in property. The tax returns, they dont think it is revealing of the scope of his fortune. That is why he is reluctant to do it. Charlie but the problem about that would suggest, when you go to Financial Institutions to borrow money, you have to have real facts. You cannot safely say, i am more this and therefore you have to believe me, or say my brand is worth this. You have to be able to prove that if a Financial Institution will lend you money. The real estate is this is all about borrowing money to build buildings. Bob i couldnt agree more. He should release his tax returns. It is a regular for a major president ial candidate and not release tax returns. The other thing trump has not answered is the question of what is the audit all about . Has the federal government made a statement requiring a certain settlement . Have they said how much he owes in potential back taxes . All these things are floating as questions. Youlie but my point is, know him better. I asked him what reporter understands him and he said you. What is your sense of this . Bob on the tax returns specifically . My sense is this is something he is not countable sharing. He has asserted himself for the last 30 years for someone who is a multimillionaire and he covets that position, and he doesnt think everyone understands his fortune and the extent of it. He thinks the tax returns are only a representative or a sliver of who he is. Charlie but it goes to the heart of his ego, and how he wants to be perceived, and how he has sold himself. Bob thats right. I think back to last summer, charlie, when he started to run for president , he released his financial statements. We got it first. The trump namee, itself, at 3 billion. Is indicative of how much state he puts in his brand. That is how he think of himself and his fortune. Charlie most of the political people you know, are they increasingly political people regardless of what they thought politicalt or affiliation, whether their strategy is for one party or . Nother do they believe donald trump could win the presidency . Based on polling, but that is based on conversations with all insiders, democrats and republicans. What trump saw a year ago was a broken republican party, the institutional vacuum, that he has strolled into. And because of the concerns about globalization and the republican base, they dont think the party is doing anything on immigration, and the economy, of frustration on the right with president obama, and add in his celebrity, he has consumed and taken over the party. He is running against a historically high democratic nominee in secretary clinton. Clinton, she cannot make the case that trump is not coincide qualified to be in the office. If you cannot make that case, he has more than a shot of being the next president. That is a stunning reality for many in washington, but in this time of upheaval, we see the rise of the far right all across the globe. There is a sense it could happen here. Charlie but hes not an ideological guide, and you would not call him of the far right. Hes simply a guy who has been able to persuade the far right to join him. Bob that is the important distinction. He did not come out of the grassroots. He associates with elements of the far right, conspiracy theorists. That element is there. But i part of it he is a businessman who has a nativist view, America First is his foreignpolicy, he is antiintervention abroad. That is who he is. Charlie that is who he is and who he means to be. Cut deals. Loves to whether he can cut a deal in washington, who knows . That is why paul ryan is so uncomfortable. Ryan grew up in the conservative movement. He senses he is not one of the troops not someone who thinks about, reagan and jack kemp. Charlie bob costa, thank you for joining us. Always a pleasure. Bob thank you. Charlie the newest production of a streetcar named desire transports the play to the 21st century and finds the cast performing on a transparent, revolving set. The New York Times calls this version a wounded person picture of communal loss. Is that brooklyns saint anns warehouse. Joining me is the cast. I am pleased to have each of them at the table. Welcome. This, thisapproach character that a number of actors have, especially Marlon Brando . Ben i suppose it is about an act of forgetting. N, bys marked by kaza brando. Benedict andrews, our director, said he wanted to explore the material in and out of time, and was interested in the returning soldier aspect. That seemed like a new door to unpack. Charlie is integral you jump at . Is it a role you jump at . Ben i hadnt seen the film or in at least 15 years. By rereading it, it is daunting on paper. History is daunting. But upon reading it and talking with the director, i felt like we could find a new way in. Charlie is blanche daunting . I dont know about daunting. Exciting, i think. I wanted to do this for 30 years. It seems like it took that long to realize the production. Enough fromnedict the things i had seen him direct in the past to leave everything at the door, and walkin completely with fresh eyes and im really glad that i started with a clean slate. We immediately just started from word one, punctuation one, to dig into it, in a really forensic way. Charlie what is the difference in a good stage director and good film director . Gillian what i do know about Benedict Andrews is he is a very smart man. His interest is in the truth of whatever piece it is he is working with. Whether he can temper rises it or not can temper izes it or not, we can go from truth to treat. If it doesnt fly, then we adjust it. That is part of what the reincarnation is, just tweaking those little moments just to build the historically relationships. Charlie i think you said that stella was avoiding reality. Vanessa you know, it is easy to forget that they are sisters from the same place, and that they have experienced the same history. Theyre just taking different paths, and stella has run away in the same way blotch blanche has and in an equally destructive situation. But it is more accepted by society. So in stanley she can avoid and runaway, and denied a history. She doesnt mention, she does not tell them. I always hear it in the first scene, where are you from, blanche . It seems strange for husband doesnt even know where stella is from. Right from the beginning, i was aware that she had this history that she wasnt able to face, and wasnt able to confront. Charlie what is the set that is so revolutionary here . Ben we do it on a round, rotating stage, constantly revolving in different speeds and different directions. Is a transparent set walls. Ere are no law is a very lean, stark, metal outline. Charlie what does it say about old,y, that is 50 years and yet it is relevant if you put it in a contemporary setting . It says that it still speaks to all those issues that are part of the human experience, right . Yes. An it is fear, shame, guilt. Charlie and there is meant. Gillian yes. The ways we tried to deny the truth of ourselves, and also our human nature to fight for ones own survival, whether it is stanley fighting for that or stella or blanche. Tennessee talks about, i can never remember the words he talks about the abuse and belittlement of the tender. Charlie as good a playwright as Tennessee Williams is, you just look at the text and say, this is what i need. I dont need to go any further. Gillian further into what the text says, going into the past, based on what the text says, and obviously the history of that time of the south, and womens place in the world, and what was expected of females at the time and patriarchal society, particularly in the south at t time, is all infirmity informative. But the text is the thing. Charlie i grew up in the south, in north carolina. I have known people like the characters at every stage in my life. Theres always someone who is a very strong woman, and always a woman who somehow his worldly in terms of her aspirations, and in terms of what she reads, what she wants to do. Gillian i think that potentially blanche had that, if it werent for the course of events that happened. If it werent for her falling in love with a gay man very young and being responsible, or feeling responsible for his killing himself, and what happened historically. If those events had not happened, she probably would have found a way to be a Strong Partner to be someone. She is certainly outspoken enough in this incarnation of she wouldven though have continued to be dependent upon people, i imagine she would not have held her tongue. Ben so much of this is about, and posttraumatic stress, whether an event happens or not, and have how we cope. Theres so much unpacking of the ideas of how we have been hurt, how we deal with it, and how we push the wounds into each other. Blanche is coming from a war, it seems. Stanley is coming from salerno. The Wounded Warriors are meeting in a living room. Vanessa theres so much about theres a quote, a family is only as sick as the secrets it keeps. They talking about expressing the pain and the trauma and the repression. And all three of them in different capacities, and the running away from it is, like a up. Ami that catches you cant run. That is what the play is looking at. Charlie there is a reference of stanley as being apelike. You are smiling. Gillian blanche refers to him as being like an eight. Ape. Charlie and there is a story that you went and looked at silverbacks. [laughter] ben the play touches on some of the ideas. It seemed like a fair place to start. [laughter] the beginning of man. Charlie you went right evolution. Gillian thats what blanche says. Ape, likee an from the stone age. In the jungle, he comes home every day with a package of meat. Ben and stanley does not like being called names. It is also a play of class. The play of magic, and reality battling each other. It is also the battle of highclass, lowerclass. Having the opportunity to look at this and call it homework is not a bad life. [laughter] youlie i will end there is mbarrasshere is e you. You said shes one of the most elegant and savage performers you have ever seen. [laughter] there is a nimble quality and ferocity to being present. Anything can happen, and staying in the game, you could not ask for anything better with a dancing partner, or a boxer. Two. Ery lucky with these charlie do each of you know each others lines, and do you have to . Vanessa i do now, i think. Charlie by osmosis. Vanessa its funny, on this run, if any of us had forgotten things, which we dont anymore i think it feels so supportive. Once,n im off stage when im in a bathtub. Onset, so a bathtub they are seeing it happen on the other side of the shower curtain. I realized how many times actually do know your lines without trying to our realizing it. Is a london audience different than the american audience . Gillian yes. Charlie how . [laughter] you dont want to tell me . Vanessa i prefer the american. They seem less ready to judge. Its so funny, actually. I just finished a play in london the week before and came over. I really understand the differences between the audience. The relationship and dynamic between the audience and actors like the arteries for the play. They become one animal. Its really incredible. Its amazing how the minority can affect the majority. A particularly vocal group can spread, and seven somehow they can become really engage. Sometimes they feel standoffish. For us, we are very sensitive. Gillian its a very visceral production and very sexual as well. There is a scene where these two are making love on the bed, and floor. Blanche is on the staircase. In london, more of the audience was watching us on the staircase. In america, more of the audience is watching the two of them on the bed. In england, it was a little bit like, you know. Charlie does every good play affect you like it gives you an insight about life that you did not have . To haveis a privilege been allotted time to meditate on a set material or practice it, or explore it. Hearing the words every night, it feels like a prayer. The way someone can go on a mountaintop, or sit in a cabin, or out in the wilderness, we go in a dark room every night and consider the words in a tactile and visceral way. We may know each others lines, but in many ways we try to forget them to hear them a new. Charlie and to hear the differences and nuances and everything else. Is the audience affected by your mood and everything . Gillian by each other, and the exchange. Vanessa someone asked me, do they get bored . You just cant come every moment is new and every night Something Else happens. Gillian and im still finding stuff. And saying, that is the way to say a particular line, or going back to the text, and realizing the punctuation is different than i had been saying it. Charlie is it better as a play than a film . Gillian i would say so. Having said that, here is Marlon Brando in a scene from the 1951 film. [video clip] stella you put that down and go to bed. You set up. Stella [yelling] hey, stella charlie mr. Foster. [laughter] ben what a mug. Charlie a goodlooking guy. Ben you cant beat that. You have to go different way. [laughter] charlie you dont want to be thinking about that when you go your way. How is this more sexy . Is that the idea . Gillian one of the ways the director was thinking and one of ways, blanch escapes his, and stella, they had that kind of relationship. Very tactile. Both women have found comfort through sex. I will let you speak for that aspect in terms of stella. The minutety, stanley and blanche are in the same room it is tangible,. Blanche undresses purposely in front of the poker players, shes constantly flirting with stanley. And in this production, the guys have a very tangible and tactile sexual relationship that plays out through the whole thing. Charlie do you have to have some chemistry to do that or can you simply act . Ben im not that good an actor. We are very blessed on the set. Charlie people do say that. Sometimes you watch a film, and people will say, there was nothing there, i could not feel like they were connected how they were connected,. As you said, the reverse of that, you can see it. Ben you have to promote yourself in certain ways. Every night is new. It is fortunate to work with people that are appealing and energetic, and have a life within themselves. That is appealing. I prefer it when we have chemistry, it is less work for you to do when you dont have it. Gillian i was thinking about that recently, whether this particular version of it could have the impact on film that it does that it that it doesnt theater. , they leaving tears cannot leave their seat. I do know whether a film version of this would deliver an audience to that same place. That is part of the tragedy of this, and the nature of this particular production. If you cant do that, then what is the point . The point is this moment of it here, live for the audience to experience. I always question whether it would translate. Charlie how would you put this opportunity against the other things you have done . Gillian this is probably the hardest. Yes. Beean, she is supposed to hamlet for women. It is. It is sometimes, at the beginning it certainly feels insurmountable. It feels impossible. Until you get your rhythm and it, if the play can sit on your shoulders, and you are under it, that is terrifying. Charlie thank you all for coming. It is a pleasure to have you here. I cant wait to get to the theater. I dont have that much time, but i will get there. It is a magnificent production, and will be there until june 4. One silly question. Is this story about james bond . Am i looking at the next james bond . Gillian it was started by somebody creating a cool poster with me, and it has gotten a lot of attention. It means absolutely nothing at all. Charlie thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining us. We will see you next time. 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