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Lets start off with the question everybody is asking you.
What does that mean?
you’ve got the option to expect a really great celebration.
Is there any more to that it’s possible for you to describe at this point?
Okay, whatareyou allowed to tell me?
First and foremost, this has been such a strange year.
And here we are in April.
We had a thought of what we wanted to do with the show.
So who is going to be in the building and who is not going to be in the building?
Everyone who is presenting and nominated has to be there, is that correct?
Anybody who can be here is going to be here.
Last year, the absence of a host turned out to bean asset rather than a liability.
How do you plan to build on that this year?
Im not against hosts.
We did a couple of shows without them and they came off well and it was fine.
And thats what Steven [Soderbergh] was alluding to when he said, Its more like a film.
So, yeah, the fact that there is no host … theres a cast here.
Theres many people that are going to come on and deliver great moments and great awards.
Soderbergh is known for pushing the filmmaking envelope andtaking a lot of risks.
What kind of dialogue have the two of you had about making the show more narrative than usual?
Steven came in with that thought with, Lets change the narrative.
Lets present this differently.
And we had great, really collaborative conversations about how to get there.
Its been a really interesting journey.
This has been a pretty theoretical conversation so far.
I wondered if there was anything you were looking to stridently avoid.
Is there something you wanted to contrast your Oscars against in the history of the Oscars?
There used to be 90 days between those things.
Butthat window has closed.
Yeah, dont say dead and In Memoriam in the same sentence.
I think youll appreciate what you see in that category.
