- Title: Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman talk 'Lion'
- Date: 17th November 2016
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 6, 2016) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR NICOLE KIDMAN SAYING: "Gosh, I mean, I think my sister saw it and she was like, what's so beautiful about this film is that it shows the truth of adoption and it shows also his story which is obviously unique because he's an Indian boy who gets lost at a train station and 25 years later finds his birth mother. That's extraordinary in itself because that doesn't always happen as we all know, I mean it's so rare, so I think that is just fascinating how that unravels that way, yet he has this love for both his mothers."
- Embargoed: 2nd December 2016 20:39
- Keywords: Lion Nicole Kidman Dev Patel India Australia film interviews adoption
- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA00858U4F9P
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman say making new movie "Lion" was a "remarkable" and "nourishing" experience.
The film tells the story of a five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost on the streets Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home, and is eventually adopted by a couple in Australia. Some 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Patel plays the grown up boy, Saroo, while Kidman, who has adopted two children herself in real life, plays his adoptive mother.
"I understand the unconditional love and I understand, just being a mother, the power of that. I think the themes of this movie being motherhood and also memory, when you deal with memory and his memories and how he's able to pull those memories in a Proustian way and find his birth mother through just sort of a sense memory work almost, it's fascinating and true," Kidman said.
While he was making the movie, Patel got to meet the real life Saroo, which he found to be a nerve-wracking experience.
"I was very worried because we'd shot the whole end sequence of the movie first and I was like, 'I hope he likes me because we've got a lot of it in the can.' He is so confident, he's so charming, he's so ferociously driven and that's why he could find his mother, this needle in a haystack, using this Google Earth, find her from space, it's an incredible feat of resilience and perseverance. He's very inspiring," Patel said.
Shooting in India also turned out to be an important of his own personal journey.
"I've been lucky enough to shoot five films there, and I just am constantly surprised by India. It's so enthralling to me and exciting and it has this tendency to bring out the inner most feelings of your soul, if you're anxious it will heighten that, if you're lost it will bring out a sense of journey and push you somewhere that is kind of nourishing and beautiful. I spent a lot of time, growing up, trying to distance myself from my culture so I've been there and all those preconceived notions I had a young boy were broken and it's a love affair with it now," he said.
"Lion" is in theaters now. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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