star tells Rachel that the experience helped him reevaluate his desire for perfection. Chris also debates predestination with Rachel, reflects on the struggle to feel awe and discusses his recurring childhood dreams of having tea with an elf in a tree.host Brittany Luse. I was asking her some of our Wild Card questions and one that came up was about what it means to live a good life.
I keep thinking about that answer. I think we all find ourselves doing things that aren't authentic to us — to please our parents, impress our friends or to meet some societal standard of success. But as someone who recently took a big leap away from that, I can tell you it feels pretty liberating. It can be scary too, though, because creating something new and personal means when people don't like it, well, it's on you.And this is where Chris Pine is at right now in his life.
And I remember going in and having tea with the elf. It probably was engendered by my mother. She told this fantastic recurring story about this family of mice that lived in the sycamore. So I think that's probably what dropped in my brain and percolated around and flowered into that dream.I don't have nightmares, thank God. I have anxiety dreams, I have fantastic anxiety dreams. But no, that was the one growing up that I remember the most.I'm sure I did.
So in many ways, this journey thus far has been so great to remember: I had joy. I experienced joy. It still gives me joy. That's it. That's enough. There is no perfect. That is perfect. There's nothing more perfect than that.felt predestined. I call it, like, a snowball. A snowball starts growing and at a certain point, the snowball is so f****** large, it's just falling downhill. You can't do anything about the snowball falling down.
That's what acting has felt like. That's what writing and directing and acting in this film has felt like. That idea of it being fated, I totally buy.Huh. And that surrendering – I mean, you had total agency over this film. You made this film, but in some ways, it got to a point where it took on a life of its own and then you just let it happen?One of my defense mechanisms is being cerebral, using words to block the emotion.