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Fisher recalls in a recent conversation with Vulture.
I actually just got back about ten days ago from working with him again in Spain.
I love his movies and I love him.
Most of the actors in this film have been in theater except for the kids.
We were all bubbled together in a hotel, which was an old monastery.
I think its going to be quite an extravaganza.
InThe French Dispatch,you have a role in some key scenes with the fictional editorial team.
Thats how we did it withThe Grand Budapest Hotel, watching Ernst Lubitsch films before we shot it.
I didnt know what a story editor did!
And how literature was kind of disappearing from that time.
Its a little tricky to fully grasp the world ofThe French Dispatchat first.
A repeat viewing serves it well.
It felt like three movies.
I was like, How is he going to make this one film?
I was shocked when I saw it, that it was pretty seamless.
I did have to read the script a few times, because its very dense.
Characters [have] incredible names like Nescaffier.
When youre reading a script without seeing a face, sometimes the names get a little blurred together.
But I need to see it again as well.
He just surrounds the actors in the world and that really helps us as well.
I want to ask you about your nonfiction work a little.
You won the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for producing the2009 documentaryThe Cove.
Environmentalism clearly motivates you.
Im not going, and Im just very upset with the bullshit inactivity.
You know, as Greta Thunberg says, Blah, blah, blah.
Because its really so sad.
I feel very little is going to happen.
Unfortunately Joe Manchin, the West Virginia senator, is going to venture to stop progress.
And Im so upset.
Im like, Well, I should be making another film.
But to be honest, I get so angry now that I need to take a step back.
I got into it because I was a scuba diver.
We went on this dive in the Pacific in 2005.
We came up and he was like, Oh my God.
The ocean is dying.
I said, What are you talking about?
And he goes, I was here 10 years ago.
There were millions of fish.
And then he basically just schooled me on climate change.
He is a physicist, a professor.
He gave me books and then he was like, You are a filmmaker, start doing something.
And I said, Well, youre rich.
You start doing something.
That actually did turn intoThe Cove, which he financed.
The more you read, the more you dig in, the more you see.
Im just feeling pretty negative about it.
Lets talkSuccessionfor a bit.
And then, Oh my God, this is so good!
In a weird way, its the same as Wess films.
When I got there, they were like an acting troupe, like a theater company.
I think I had a few lines in my first scene.
And then they just put me next to Brian [Cox] on the airplane.
And I just felt immediately, Im a part of this.
Im going to be a scumbag like the rest of these people.
I feel good about this.
Youre on the receiving end of some memorably brutal Logan Roy outbursts this season.
Its the only way I can function.
I have to get it out because Im getting crushed.
Brian is so good at that, honestly.
I gotta do what he says or this guys gonna kill me.
Or fire me, which is worse.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
