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(both laughing)

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- How dare you? A menace. The two of you.

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- [Mother] Well, you're not
to associate with him again.

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- What do you mean? Why?

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- I think you know what I mean.

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- What is the deepest you've ever gone

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prepping for a role?

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Like, the craziest, maybe,
research rabbit hole

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that you've ever been
down that made you think,

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"Wow. My job is very unique
and not like other jobs."

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- The first thing that came to mind was,

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I went so deep on the
research for Les Miserables,

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that I discovered that there was a law,

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against prostitutes in France,

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at the time that the book was set,

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or Fantine's portion of the book was set,

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that a prostitute could be jailed

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if she did not have her head covered.

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And, so, in the film, I
brought that to our director,

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Tom Hooper, and I said,

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"When I'm fighting with the
man played by Bertie Carvel,

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could he knock my hat off?"

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Because if I were to have
the police come upon me

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and my head is uncovered, it
instantly means go to jail.

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Like, there's nothing to be done.

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And it just, it's a savage, it's just,

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in a savage system, that's annihilation.

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- I mean, it always kind of
feels like that every time,

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you know, you do exhaustive research

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and I think, for this,
like, I found myself

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on an airplane from
Copenhagen, where I was living,

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like with a digital
tape reporter in my hand

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and a hope that I would be able to get it

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in front of James' father and landing

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and going right to the Queens Museum

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and visiting the panorama
and his home with his family.

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And, you know, you never
know what sort of journey

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you're gonna find yourself on as an actor.