Amanpour and Company

>> "THE TWO POPES" IS GETTING A HUGE AMOUNT OF ATTENTION AND CRITICAL REVIEW. VERY GOOD CRITICAL ACCLAIM. I'VE WATCHED IT. IT'S AMAZING. I JUST WANT TO KNOW, WERE YOU BORN TO PLAY THIS PART? YOU LOOK IDENTICAL TO POPE FRANCIS. >> THAT'S NOT WHAT I SEE WHEN I LOOK IN THE MIRROR, I FEEL MORE BRAD PITT. THE DAY HE WAS DECLARED POPE, THE INTERNET WAS FULL OF IMAGES OF THE TWO OF US. EITHER ME OR HUGH SPARROW COMPARED TO THE POPE. IT SEEMED A CERTAIN INEVITABLY, IF THERE EVER WAS TO BE A FILM ABOUT HIM, THAT I WOULD PLAY HIM. >> DID YOU HAVE ANY INKLING THERE MIGHT BE, THAT THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN, AND HAPPEN IN THIS WAY IN THE VEHICLE SO IS COMPELLING. ESSENTIALLY TIGHT SHOTS OF YOU AND ANTHONY HOPKINS PLAYING TWO LIVING POPES. AND REALLY MOSTLY JUST A DISCUSSION BETWEEN YOU? AN IMPORTANT ONE. BUT IT'S NOT ACTION AND ADVENTURE AND INTRIGUE AND VATICAN HIGH CRIMES AND SKULL DUGGARY. >> WELL, IT IS ABOUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS. HIGH CRIMES AND SKULL DUGGARY. IT'S ALSO ABOUT FAITH AND ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND COMPASSION. AND WHEN YOU READ IT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET THE SCREENPLAY SENT TO YOU, IT SEEMS A VERY DRY READ. IT'S TWO MEN OF THE CHURCH, TWO OLD MEN OF THE CHURCH, HAVING A DEBATE AND AN ARGUMENT. AND THERE ARE FLASHBACKS. WHEN YOU KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE DIRECTED BY FERNANDO MORALES, ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE FILMS, "CITY OF GOD," THERE'S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENERGY TO IT, IT WASN'T GOING TO BE A HOGIOGRAPHY, IT WAS GOING TO HAVE LIFE, VITALITY, HAVE A POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.