David Freyne

You know, I had incredible care and doctors and incredible family and my partner.

And it's, you know, slowly it's gotten better and I've had a great, great outcome from the surgery.

And I will say, having gone through that in the last few months or

after making a film set in the afterlife, I felt quite contented.

I felt I was looking at death with a lot more curiosity than fear.

I think I would have been much more afraid had it happened before the film.

And I think just the experience of making the film was so fun and joyous.

And I think the

the the things we spoke about with with Devine and the cast and and my passion just like as well like even just not just the work you want to do but the people you want to spend your time with and the people you want to work with and working with good people kind people uh people that share your kind of passions I think that that becomes much more important because you don't really have time for arseholes no I also don't have time for assholes either

Yeah, yeah.

Our souls are our souls.

They're the worst.

what how does she like to work because we're talking to her today and she's quite studied I mean she has done a ton of she's like in like a student in voice and acting she has really knows her stuff yeah she's she's she's extraordinary I think um I think what really struck like me firstly I was we were desperate to work with her and I really wanted her for the role and then she won her Oscar and I was really bummed because I thought now I won't get to work with her

But thankfully, she still wanted to do the film.

But yeah, she's had the most...

incredibly varied career from opera to theatre to then finding acting.

And it does feel like she can do anything.

I mean, you know, we knew even though The Holdovers is such a dramatic role, we knew she'd be really funny, but like she might be the most naturally gifted comedian I've ever worked with.

She's extraordinary and it does feel effortless to her.

Like it doesn't feel like she has, like annoyingly she seems to not have any of the