Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day - Behind The Scenes | Universal Pictures

And good morning Kansas City. Let's...let's...let's...today is...today is... Well the story came to me because when I was making my earlier science fiction films, you know, I needed and trusted my imagination to think of things that perhaps hadn't been done before. And when the news cycle started to shift with more and more people from, you know, from let's say the United States Army, the Air Force, you know, Navy pilots, people in Congress, when they started to release or leak through whistleblowers information that made the incredible almost credible. And that all started in 2017 from New York Times reporting on the tic-tac footage that was captured by a Navy F-18 jet off the coast of San Diego. And when I saw that footage, when the world saw that footage, I suddenly realized maybe there's a new way of telling a story about the, you know, the clear and present opportunity to disclose what the government or what different, you know, deep state contract companies have been hiding from the general public for 80 years. And I started to work on a story that was going to be hopefully a reflection of what someday could really happen, not ever imagining that after I made the film and got the film all ready for release, the government would actually be starting to not leak but release heretofore never seen UFO UAP footage. If you do this, there's no one doing it. It's got to be one of the all-time greatest privileges of our lives working with Stephen. It was such an honor. You're made to feel so special by him as well. Just even the fact that he wants to meet you is a great honor and you want to breathe the same air as someone who has just changed the face of cinema like he has. And yet he doesn't wear that heavily. That is not his front foot as being Steven Spielberg. He is available and spontaneous and childlike and relentless in trying to chase something to make an audience feel. And you are a part of that process. Yeah, it's true. It's like it's a bizarre thing to say out loud. You've been in the Steven Spielberg movie. Yeah, it's even stranger to be sat doing interviews with him. But then at the same time, he is just the most humble, most kind, generous, excited, curious. It's like I imagine every movie is like his first. He's still so inquisitive. Yeah, it was a dream. Oh, that was the best ever. Thank you so much, guys. Beautiful, beautiful cut. That was it. It's the most joyous thing. It truly is. It's like he invites you in to this world to help interrogate with him, to wrestle with it. He's got a plan for you, but he's also very collaborative. I love his questions. He would give you a question that you would think about that will help you process how you fit in the world and how you maneuver through it. Because I feel like, yeah, Hugo is a character to think that like, yeah, there's an urgency, there's a propulsion to the film. And the idea of someone sort of lays back on his heels a bit more, inviting everyone in and trusting that they'll get there is a very tricky role to navigate. Stephen really helped guide me through that. Please, everyone, listen, I'm part of a league of people and artists who say they love working with Stephen because of the sets that he has you on, which is joyful and deeply interrogating work. It's open and he's fun. The first time I met Stephen, the premise that he told me, it was before I'd read a script. He was like, this is a story about two people who are connected by their past, but they don't know it and they're being pulled together. And so that was always the driving force of this movie. When I first read the script, but also having seen it, it's like a 100 meter sprint. It's like the gun goes off and we're with you the whole way. And that comes from these two people trying to find each other. It's very special. Once that tire starts to smoke, we move in. In this day and age, you know, why should something like an actual disclosure day ever be held in abeyance? Why? I mean, you know, it's like we all have the right to know. We know a lot of things that we don't want to know, but the one thing we do want to know, we're being denied that. I mean, the government right now is releasing some very grainy and misty footage that doesn't really prove anything scientifically. But what they're saying is we're going to let the American public determine what this is for themselves. And they're not coming out and saying this is what we have been interacting with or who we've been interacting with for the last 80 years. They're not saying that. That would be a true disclosure day. Our film is about a true disclosure day.