Rebel Wilson & the Cast of Juliet And Romeo

In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, it's all about the new film Juliet and Romeo. I speak to the cast, including Rebel Wilson.

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Nettn na, no net, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon. I thank you as always for hanging out with me for another episode of pop Culture Weekly. I am really excited because this episode, I am thrilled to dive into the enchanting world of the brand new musical film Juliet and Romeo. It's it's like a modern twist on Shakespeare's

That movie so much.

So he's behind that we are talking to him today about Juliet and Romeo. His take on it is fresh and bold and blends like modern elements with timeless themes and modern, super catchy music. It's really like just a cool take on it. So we are going to speak right now with Timothy Scott Bogart as we delve into the making of Juliet and Romeo. Here we go, Timothy Scott Bogart, Thank you so much, Timothy for speaking with me.

I really appreciate it for having me Kyle.

Of course, So first of all, congratulations on the film. Oh well, first of all, I love Spinning Gold, of course, but but I love the film. Why did you just you know, there's a million versions of this out there? Why did you decide it seems like it would be almost anxiety inducing at least for me to be like, I'm going to take on this, you know, project that has been told a million times, and I'm going to do it in my way.

What brought you there?

You know?

Interestingly, I started out in my early career as a stage director and directed Romeo and Juliet to play the actual Shakespeare text multiple times and always felt I failed, like I always felt, and the audience need to like it, but I feel there was more story there. So to me, I always saw there was other things to do around

He wrote Haymout for Beyonce. It was a amazing pop songwriter.

I remember asking him why did he think of Shakespeare's dyamic Contaminor. He said that was the poetry of his time. Said, well, that was interesting. What's the poetry of our time?

He said, pop music?

He said, watch the young generation. The music isn't something they listened to, it's something they are. It breathed through them. I said, well, that is the most glo description of anything that I could ever hear about what Shakespeare was trying to do in his time.

So that kind of idea started leading me off of inner.

Voice, but you know, accessible language that we could absolutely understand and get into with.

This incredible music that lifts us up.

So it was something that plagued me, challenged me, wanted me, and then I finally kind of found that way in and said, my gosh, Ultimately, Shakespeare is about adaptation. Every single version you've ever seen, I'm doing it in World War two, I'm doing it here. His themes were meant to be re explored, and my job ultimately was to figure out how to make them for this moment, this time, for this audience.

I love that.

And how did you you know, with your brother, how did you figure out, you know, song wise, because again you're you're dealing with material that you know is is revered, revered, reverd.

This is why No, for sure, you know, Evan and I always had a specific strategy about the kind of a quality of genre of the music and even and there we moved them.

This was a little more code play, this was a little more like this.

So we had a certain kind of approach that but ultimately it was so unique as these songs, and I do believe it's quite different than many other musicals.

These songs really.

Are so part of the tapestry of the piece. It'd be like a proper four minute radio cut, right, but it plays over eighteen minutes in the movie. So verse comes in, it goes into score, something else comes in and goes in. So it really was like a writer's room working hand in hand every second, even to the point we're in Italy. I'd suddenly be shooting something and we were doing a live capture and go, oh my gosh, the horse is taking four more seconds to get from

I love that, and I love you know.

The end product is incredible and I can't wait for everybody to see Juliet and Romeo.

Thank you so much, Timothy, Thank you, Kyle, have a great day too.

Timothy Scott Bauguard such an awesome creator, and I love his vision in in on Love, his vision in Love, his vision on Romeo, Juliet, and Romeo in Juliet, whatever it is. I love his vision with the new pop musical film Juliet and Romeo.

All right.

Next up talented actors Jamie Ward and Clara Regard, who bring the iconic characters of Romeo and Juliet to life. They both give really powerful performances and like I said, the fresh kind of take on the story is really awesome, and especially with like the kind of modern pop music, I just think people are gonna love it. So let's talk to Romeo and Juliet themselves. Jamie Ward and Clara Regard, thank.

You both so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. Thank you you as well.

So tell me, you know, first of all, congrats on the film.

What is it like to play?

I mean, these are iconic characters that everybody in the world knows and has for you know, Ever, what's it like to play characters like that?

What's it like?

It's a good question. It's definitely different to from reading it. You know, reading it is one thing, but to get to experience each pivotal moment that they went through sort of over the course of three or four months. I was in this sort of state of melancholy throughout throughout the entire process, I think, and I had this like nineties kind of playlist going on, so I was definitely in a different state. Felt not that I was going, you know, a method or anything, but it definitely felt

And yeah, and how about well, I'm sorry, and how about for you?

Well?

I The beautiful thing about this adaptation is that it's it's written in very accessible language and also with the pop music that's sort of intertwined and runs through the whole story, it it feels very relatable for and for a modern audience. And it really helped me get underneath the skin of of Juliet and in this version and understand how sort of complexity and nuances and moxy yeah.

And did you both, like you know, are you able to kind of separate what you this kind of history that these characters have and be like, Okay, no pressure, this is my take on these characters. Or do you feel some kind of responsibility in some way?

I mean you go, yeah, I mean I felt responsibility for sure, but I think the fear went away when we knew what world we were going to be playing. It's it's so different. It's it is an adaptation, and it's it's a pop musical. So I never really felt the pressure. I don't know whether you feel the same, Clara, but I never really felt the pressure to be like Leo or to be like to do a national theater production or something. It just it felt different and special.

Yeah, I think I would completely agree. And I also think once you go down that rabbit hole of you know, all the amazing performances that have been of Romeo and Juliet, you can quite easily start spiraling. I think so cocon mechanism for me as well, was leaning to this very different and modern and bold reimagining of the characters.

I love that, and you guys have both now put your mark on these iconic characters with this awesome film. Thank you so much for joining me, and I can't wait for everybody to see Juliet and realmea.

Thanks Carl, Thanks, have a good day.

Guys, Jimmy Ward and Clara regard Romeo and Juliet themselves. What I think is interesting, by the way, is that Jamie Ward, in his last feature played Jesus. So now he's gone from playing Jesus to Romeo. He's kind of racking up those iconic characters. I mean, not that Jesus is a character, but you know what I'm saying, iconic roles for his career already. All Right, we're gonna take

We'll be right back.

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Hi Kyle say good to chat.

Yes, So, first of all, congratulations on the film it is. I love how it's like a fresh take on this. What drew you to Juliet and Romeo.

I think the pop music, like it's so cool, Like these are such great like standalone pop songs. And I love when I saw movies like Greatest Showman and they had all these like killer songs. I think this movie has got that. It's just got these anthemic type songs that are really cool. And so I heard the songs the demos and I was like, oh, yeah, okay. I wasn't thinking Romeo and Juliet adaptation would be on my radar, but when I heard the music, I was like, damn

And for you, you know, as you play Lady Capulet, you know, on an character that's been around forever, how do you like kind of find your own way to put your own spin on it?

It is, Yeah, it's normally quite a villainous character Lady Capula, and a lot of really famous actresses throughout the centuries have played her. And I guess I tried to play the dilemma of you want your daughter to marry somebody who they're you know, not in love with, but playing it in that I was that girl twenty years before, and I had to marry somebody in the movie. It's Rubit Everett, and I had to marry him when I

That's that's interesting.

And so you're able to pull those pieces through your life and kind of channel that into your version of her.

Yeah, so I just you know, hopefully it's a slightly less villainous because often she's just played as outright evil and yeah, and hopefully this portrayaler is slightly you know, she doesn't do the right thing by her daughter, but she definitely struggles with it.

You've done so many great characters.

Do you take each one as like you know, you're waking up and today you're doing this character or is in other words, I feel like it would be hard when you're doing you do such a range of characters to like be very specific for this character, for this project, Like do you are you able to separate each project completely?

I mean, I'm lucky when I get to do like some of the big Hollywood comedy films, A lot of it is a lot of me. So like playing fat Amy and the Pitch Perfect movie is like a lot of it is. I'm not really doing any prep, just come into work and hanging out with my friends and just being having a laugh, whereas Juliet and Romeo is different. It was more back to my early days of playing playing characters. And I hadn't have an accent for the film,

Well it works, and I thank you so much. I can't wait for everybody to see it. You're so great in it and everything you do. Thank you, Rebel, Ah, thank you, Rebel. Will see.

Love love love her.

She's hysterically funny, she's so sweet, and she's so talented, and I just I'm I love that she is on the show. Juliet and Romeo is out. Now go see it. Let me know what you think. I really think. You know, if you like films like The Greatest Showman, which I absolutely loved, you know those kinds of musicals, or you're a rom com fan, or you're a fan of you know, classic Shakespearean stuff, You're gonna really love Juliette and Romeo. So make sure you see it. Let me know what

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