Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight is one of the greatest tennis players
Speaker 2: and one of the greatest athletes of all time. He
Speaker 2: is a twenty time Grand Slam champion. He's also a philanthropist,
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, and one of the classiest people you will
Speaker 2: ever meet. Please welcome Roger Federer.
Speaker 3: Roger Federer himself, nice to see you. Welcome to the
Speaker 3: Daily Show.
Speaker 2: It is so good to have you here because I
Speaker 2: mean you you have, for over two decades now, in
Speaker 2: many ways, defined a sport. You've defined how people see it,
Speaker 2: You've defined how people try and play it. You are
Speaker 2: a move I don't know if you ever think about
Speaker 2: how amazing that is.
Speaker 1: When people will say, they'll be like, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: Federer backhand, and I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You've transcended the sports as well, because tennis for many
Speaker 2: people is just this thing that happens somewhere. Who plays
Speaker 2: it and how do they play? You've become larger than life,
Speaker 2: and now it has all come to an end. Before
Speaker 2: we talk about the end, let's talk about what it was.
Speaker 3: When you look back.
Speaker 2: No, I want to talk about that just when when
Speaker 2: you look back, did you know from the beginning, did
Speaker 2: you have an inking, Did you look in the mirror
Speaker 2: and go like, oh, I'm going to switch this shit up?
Speaker 3: No? No, I did not know it was gonna turn
Speaker 3: out this good. I mean, in Switzerland, we don't dream
Speaker 3: this big. You know. We hope to we hope to
Speaker 3: be good, but not great. And in sports it's probably
Speaker 3: skiing and there's a bit football, a bit of ice
Speaker 3: hockey and all that stuff. And then tennis was coming up,
Speaker 3: and thankfully we had an Olympic champion, Mark Rosse in
Speaker 3: ninety two, him on the Olympics in tennis, and then
Speaker 3: we have Martina Hingis who also won the US Open Bimbledon,
Speaker 3: and they paved the way for me a little bit,
Speaker 3: to show me that it was possible. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: people were saying I could be the next Pete Sampress
Speaker 3: and I was talented and all that stuff. But you
Speaker 3: feel like they always say that, you know at some point,
Speaker 3: and I never thought I was gonna have this grade
Speaker 3: of a career. So I couldn't be more and more
Speaker 3: excited and more happy and more proud of everything, and
Speaker 3: unfortunately has come to an end. But it's been great.
Speaker 1: It really has been great. It's been amazing, truly, are
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 2: You talk about Pete Sampress, and I think about somebody
Speaker 2: like Pete, who who is a legend in the sports,
Speaker 2: you know, who defined so many aspects of the game,
Speaker 2: and he held the record for a very long time,
Speaker 2: and then you come into the sports. You it clips
Speaker 2: his record in what six years it takes you, you know,
Speaker 2: and Pete would talk about how you know that he
Speaker 2: got sort of tired of the sports, and you know
Speaker 2: he was a champion. It was, but you had this
Speaker 2: drive and this class about you that that nobody understood
Speaker 2: You're You're a multi generational talent as well. Because the
Speaker 2: class that you came in with retired before you. The
Speaker 2: next class played with you, and you were still the champion.
Speaker 2: And now the class that is there now is still goes.
Speaker 2: Roger Federer is one of the best competitors we've ever
Speaker 2: played against. You know, what do you think I would
Speaker 2: love to know how you how you found that drive?
Speaker 2: How did you keep on going? What inspired you when
Speaker 2: you didn't want it all?
Speaker 3: It's a it's a good question. And you know, when
Speaker 3: I was growing up, I had Michael Schumacher that I
Speaker 3: would look up to who was at the top for
Speaker 3: so long Tiger Woods, same thing, and I always thought
Speaker 3: it's impossible to do that, you know, to stay at
Speaker 3: the top for so long and have that drive. Now
Speaker 3: people ask me, how did you do it, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: it's normal. You just go out there. You do it again,
Speaker 3: and you try to win and again, and it's fun
Speaker 3: and so you keep doing it, and everybody else would
Speaker 3: like to be in your shoes, right and and then
Speaker 3: you also have a duty to in my mind, to
Speaker 3: represent the sport well and enjoy it while it blasts.
Speaker 3: And I really felt like I squeezed out that lem
Speaker 3: until the last drop, and I tried my very best
Speaker 3: in the end, and there was it was incredible. And
Speaker 3: I needed the likes of Pete Sampas, you know, to
Speaker 3: also show me how it is at the top. And
Speaker 3: it's it's tough, you know, but I feel like I
Speaker 3: made I had a lot of fun on the tour.
Speaker 3: Was not just about tennis. It was also going to
Speaker 3: nice dinners with friends. And I'm happy that I didn't
Speaker 3: take tennis almost that serious or that professional. Still had
Speaker 3: that bit of an amateur twist to it and a
Speaker 3: bit worried that every sport is going into such a
Speaker 3: professional direction, which I hope we don't lose the fun
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's one of the biggest things that
Speaker 2: has struck me about you in meeting you as a
Speaker 2: human being. And many people will say this about you.
Speaker 2: You'll meet many athletes who have dominated the sport. The
Speaker 2: sport is their life. It doesn't feel like that for you.
Speaker 2: It feels like the sport is a huge part of
Speaker 2: your life. But Roger feder is still Roger Federer. You know,
Speaker 2: you're down to earth. You have fun, you meet people,
Speaker 2: you have conversations, you're living the life, and you're enjoying
Speaker 2: what the life comes with. In the sport, it inspires
Speaker 2: you in a different way. Do you feel like the
Speaker 2: whole sport has.
Speaker 1: Changed in that way?
Speaker 2: It has become like really meticulous and analytical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, more so more analytics in the game. Sports science
Speaker 3: is also coming in hard. It's okay, it's important, you know,
Speaker 3: and when you see somebody else doing something that works well,
Speaker 3: you got to kind of do it too, or at
Speaker 3: least try it, and then you go you follow them,
Speaker 3: you know, And I probably I did some of it
Speaker 3: for other players or for a lot of them, and
Speaker 3: now others are showing it how it's done, you know.
Speaker 3: And of course we're living in a very statistic based world.
Speaker 3: You know. We love our statistics, we love breaking records
Speaker 3: and who's the greatest and all that stuff. So you
Speaker 3: you come out, you just won a Grand Slam or
Speaker 3: you just world number one, And the first question, so
Speaker 3: how long you want to say? Well, number one likes
Speaker 3: when you're going to win the next Grand Slam, like
Speaker 3: what's your next win? Instead of actually enjoying it. And
Speaker 3: it's a bit of a problem. I think we instead
Speaker 3: of enjoying it, we have to move on too quickly.
Speaker 3: And one Wimbledon victory would have been plenty for me
Speaker 3: and ended up going on and winning several, but it
Speaker 3: was several. It was good.
Speaker 2: When people regard an f as the greatest of all time,
Speaker 2: oftentimes they're only referring to what the athlete has done,
Speaker 2: you know, in the field of play, on the court,
Speaker 2: you know, on the racetrack, whatever it may be. Every
Speaker 2: single human being who even if they don't know you personally,
Speaker 2: says Roger Federer is the greatest of all time, not
Speaker 2: just because of what he achieved, in terms of numbers,
Speaker 2: but how he defined the sport. For instance, you had
Speaker 2: the record for a very long time twenty grand slams,
Speaker 2: you know, then Rufa comes along and beats that with
Speaker 2: twenty one. Then Novak comes along and beats that with
Speaker 2: twenty two.
Speaker 1: And yet when.
Speaker 2: You talk to them, they say, Roger Federer is who
Speaker 2: we're aspiring to, and he defines how we're trying to
Speaker 2: play it. So I'd love to know, you know, is
Speaker 2: it a little bit irritating that they're using you to
Speaker 2: beat your record or does it strike you that these
Speaker 2: are your greatest competitors saying yeah, but you're still the
Speaker 2: pinnacle of what we're trying to be.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, look, I feel very lucky to be
Speaker 3: that guy. And I know I've been ever since they
Speaker 3: come on tour, I've been there, So I think it's
Speaker 3: a it's a great moment for them, you know, to
Speaker 3: now show who they are without that Federer halo effect
Speaker 3: me being around, and especially younger generation that were not
Speaker 3: allowed to say I want to win the US Open
Speaker 3: because they were told, ough, you can't say that, because
Speaker 3: you know, Novak and Rafa and Roger we're all playing.
Speaker 3: So they are the ones that can say that. You're
Speaker 3: not allowed to say that, but I think, you know,
Speaker 3: the end was very emotional to be actually on such
Speaker 3: a great sort of a friendship really with the guys
Speaker 3: at the very end of my career, after everything that
Speaker 3: we've gone through, brutal matches, great wins, tough losses, and
Speaker 3: at the end always having this camaraderie is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe just a little anecdote because maybe people don't know,
Speaker 3: but we share the same locker room, we share the
Speaker 3: same restaurants, we usually get put in the same hotels,
Speaker 3: so we see each other all the time, and we
Speaker 3: even practice together. You know.
Speaker 1: That's something I think a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 2: And when I found that out, it was one of
Speaker 2: the strangest ideas I had to wrap my head around.
Speaker 2: I don't think there are many sports with the greatest
Speaker 2: rivals practice.
Speaker 1: With each other.
Speaker 2: I would go, like, you know, I think of like
Speaker 2: Kung Fu movies as a kid, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want you to know my secrets. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to know my tricks, and you would hit with
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 3: That's why I ended up not practicing very much with
Speaker 3: Novak and Rough anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Not so much for those guys you would stand, for instance,
Speaker 3: like breaking my gut guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a camaraderie that that your chief instance.
Speaker 2: Many were shocked, especially people who don't watch tennis to
Speaker 2: see when you know, when you were saying goodbye to
Speaker 2: the sports. So many people were sad because I think
Speaker 2: for many, myself included, we felt like we were robbed
Speaker 2: of you know, the last few years, COVID robbed us
Speaker 2: of so much in our personal lives, you know, in
Speaker 2: societal lives, but then also in moments like this, we
Speaker 2: got robbed of two years of Roger Federer playing the game.
Speaker 2: You know, it felt like your retirement came so early,
Speaker 2: and when you did say goodbye no.
Speaker 1: To us, it did it?
Speaker 3: You know, not for me. Yournes are telling a different story, hanging.
Speaker 2: But but then you know, there's there's there's that amazing
Speaker 2: video of the players saying goodbye to you. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's this clip of you and Rafael Nadel crying.
Speaker 3: We're all crying.
Speaker 2: You are crying, you are in tears, you're bawling together,
Speaker 2: and that was a special moment.
Speaker 3: No, I really think, I mean, this is a very
Speaker 3: unusual situation for us to be on the same team
Speaker 3: number one, and so I think that changed the whole
Speaker 3: dynamics of my farewell if you want, then my hope
Speaker 3: was I could play doubles with Rafa. So call him
Speaker 3: up after the US Open. And it was a very
Speaker 3: emotional phone call actually, because it was one of the
Speaker 3: first times I told somebody outside of my team and
Speaker 3: family and I had to call him up and tell him, Hey, Rafa,
Speaker 3: just before you make any other plans, I would love
Speaker 3: you to be at the Labor Cup and play maybe
Speaker 3: one last doubles with me would be amazing, because unfortunately
Speaker 3: my knee is not so good anymore. And I think
Speaker 3: it's the end, you know. And he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: oh my god, Okay, yeah, I'll be there whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: I just he's now come my father. I'm so happy
Speaker 3: for him. And we were we were not sure if
Speaker 3: he was going to make it, you know, because of
Speaker 3: the baby. So it was one of the first times
Speaker 3: I had to tell that story and come to terms
Speaker 3: like the career is ending. So when he showed up
Speaker 3: and Novak was there, and Murray was there, and be
Speaker 3: on Board was there and everybody was there. It was
Speaker 3: an amazing moment, and then I knew it was going
Speaker 3: to be incredibly emotional. I've always cried a lot in
Speaker 3: victory and in defeat when I was younger, and I
Speaker 3: don't know why, but I do it. But I'm happy
Speaker 3: because I remember those moments even more so because of it.
Speaker 3: And then when it was all over and I had
Speaker 3: to take the mic, I knew it was going to
Speaker 3: be terrible for me, but I felt it felt like
Speaker 3: I did actually pretty good, and I was so happy
Speaker 3: I was able to be there in tennis clothes and
Speaker 3: not like this because that was my in my vision,
Speaker 3: it was going to be a beautiful horror show, you know,
Speaker 3: for me to be there with the mic in front
Speaker 3: of the in the light and tell everybody, you know,
Speaker 3: this is it. And it was an amazing to do
Speaker 3: it in London too, where I had so much success
Speaker 3: and and Labor Cup was beautiful and Rafa they're holding
Speaker 3: my hand. Briefly people thought it was or I held
Speaker 3: his hand actually, but it doesn't. It was amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know you're.
Speaker 2: Going to have and you will always be synonymous with
Speaker 2: the sport you As I said, you you know you
Speaker 2: cannot separate Roger Federer from the sport itself now, and
Speaker 2: and yet I was shocked to hear a story which
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was true or not. You know,
Speaker 2: I was like, Roger Feder everyone at tennis, you cannot
Speaker 2: the name is synonymous.
Speaker 1: With the sport. You kind of Roger.
Speaker 2: And then someone was like, well, you know, Roger couldn't
Speaker 2: get into Wimbledon recently.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, wait, that's not possible. Is Roger Federer?
Speaker 1: Is this? Is this a truth? Is there even a
Speaker 1: semblance of truth to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, nonstand what it was.
Speaker 3: It's actually two weeks ago. So I was in Tokyo
Speaker 3: for our response my sponsor Uniclone, and I came back
Speaker 3: to Wimbledon, actually to London to come see a doctor
Speaker 3: for having a second opinion on my knee because my
Speaker 3: knee has been not great lately. And then I didn't
Speaker 3: want to tell Wimbledon that I was going to maybe
Speaker 3: be there, and I didn't know if I was going
Speaker 3: to have time to go buy the club because I
Speaker 3: was going to fly home to the family. So doctor
Speaker 3: appointment was done. Look on the watch, Okay, we got
Speaker 3: two hours to kill so what are we going to do.
Speaker 3: Do we head to the airport or let's quickly go
Speaker 3: have tea at Wimbledon. Of course, so let's go. But
Speaker 3: I have not really been at Wimbledon when the tournament
Speaker 3: is not on. So okay. So I drive up to
Speaker 3: the gate where usually guests come in, where let's say
Speaker 3: you would arrive, and then you go up and so
Speaker 3: I get out. I tell my coach, who was with
Speaker 3: me at the time, seven, I tell him I quickly
Speaker 3: go out and speak to the security lady. You know,
Speaker 3: I got this, you know, and then I did not.
Speaker 3: So then I get out and I'm like, yes, hello,
Speaker 3: I just was wondering how I can get into Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: You know where, where's the door, where's the gate? And
Speaker 3: she's yeah, yeah, Do you have a membership card? I'm like,
Speaker 3: we have one? I don't because when you win Wimbledon
Speaker 3: you become a member automatically, yes, And I honestly I
Speaker 3: don't know about membership cards. They're probably at home somewhere
Speaker 3: and I've just been traveling, so I had no idea.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, no, I don't have my membership card,
Speaker 3: but I am a member. I'm just wondering where I
Speaker 3: can get in, and she's yeah, but you have to
Speaker 3: be a member. So I'm like, okay, this is going
Speaker 3: to be difficult here this one. So I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: I am a member, and normally i'm here, so I
Speaker 3: have to start again, right, So I tell her normally,
Speaker 3: when I'm here, i'm playing and there's loads of people
Speaker 3: and I come in in a different way. And now
Speaker 3: it's the first time I'm not here. Yeah, well the
Speaker 3: term is not on and I don't know where to
Speaker 3: get in. So I'm just asking you again, where can
Speaker 3: I get in. She's like, well, I'll decide, but you
Speaker 3: have to be a member. So I look at her
Speaker 3: one last time and I'm in a panic. Now I'm
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, and I couldn't believe. I still can't
Speaker 3: believe I say that because I still feel bad about it.
Speaker 3: And I'd look at her and I was like, I have
Speaker 3: won this tournament eight times, please believe me. I am
Speaker 3: a member? And where do I get in? So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: it was so so. Then so I get back in
Speaker 3: the car. My coach is like, oh good, where do
Speaker 3: we get in. I'm like, don't don't, don't talk. So
Speaker 3: I'm like let's go up and around the gate. It's so.
Speaker 3: Then I go out and I go around on the
Speaker 3: other side. So I get out of the car, and
Speaker 3: random person walks, you know, on the walkway and said, oh,
Speaker 3: mister Fedder, I can't believe you're here at Wimbledon. Can
Speaker 3: we take a selfie. I'm like, yes, let's let's take
Speaker 3: a picture. And the security and the security guards that
Speaker 3: are there, they're like, oh my god, mister Federwood, are
Speaker 3: you doing here? You have your membership card. I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: I don't, but is it possible to get of course,
Speaker 3: we'll open the door, let me organize it. And I
Speaker 3: walk in and the chairman was there and everybody, and
Speaker 3: I was having tea for an hour, and I thought
Speaker 3: of going over to the other side and giving a
Speaker 3: wave that I was in, but but I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: You'd never do that, But it was you would never
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 3: It was terrible. You would never do that. You see.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean. That's that's that's Roger federh When
Speaker 3: I said I want to wimble in eight times, for
Speaker 3: a split second, I wasn't sure if it was eight anymore.
Speaker 3: Because I was I thought it was seven. Was it eight?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I said it because I never
Speaker 3: talked like this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know what, I love that both of
Speaker 2: you in that situation because on your side, you never
Speaker 2: talk like that.
Speaker 1: You're never that person I've bumped.
Speaker 2: I've been with you in places where somebody for some
Speaker 2: reason doesn't recognize you and you don't respond as if
Speaker 2: they should recognize You're not that person.
Speaker 1: But on herself, I believe she deserves a raise.
Speaker 3: She was gangst about it, she was doing it. Where's
Speaker 3: your membership cards? Because I mean, you know, you know
Speaker 3: how it goes sometimes do.
Speaker 1: Where's the membership car?
Speaker 3: Where is your name? Where's your picture? You don't have it?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: It was good. It was good.
Speaker 2: What what I've enjoyed about about knowing you is we
Speaker 2: have so many things in common.
Speaker 1: You you may not know this.
Speaker 2: As an audience, but you know, like Roger and I
Speaker 2: have many things in common.
Speaker 1: We we both we both are half Swiss off South African. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're both Africans.
Speaker 2: We we both speak multiple languages.
Speaker 1: We both played at the record holding. You know, I
Speaker 1: think it's gold.
Speaker 3: We both played tennis.
Speaker 1: We both played tennis.
Speaker 3: We do we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the world record for the heighest
Speaker 2: of tennis for the tennis match that we might still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I played for twenty plus years, right,
Speaker 3: but to break the record. You know, I need, I
Speaker 3: need you needed help. Yes, I did it help.
Speaker 2: I don't know would happened without me. You know, we
Speaker 2: have between us twenty grands time titles. It's crazy, and
Speaker 2: you know, in many ways, you know, you know we're
Speaker 2: both moving on to something different. And I'd love to
Speaker 2: know from your side, as an athlete who's defined yourself
Speaker 2: as something for so long, and if people have defined
Speaker 2: your one thing so long.
Speaker 1: You've talked about how how hard.
Speaker 2: The idea of moving on has been the idea of
Speaker 2: what you will do when tennis isn't your life. But
Speaker 2: I've noticed that you you've almost seamlessly slid into everything.
Speaker 1: You know, your your clothing is everywhere, your shoes.
Speaker 2: You know, like one of my one of my camera
Speaker 2: guys on the team, Tim, he was telling me, he's like,
Speaker 2: these are like walking on clouds. You know not but
Speaker 2: you and you've done everything exceptionally your philanthropy, all of
Speaker 2: the work you've done to help education in Africa, Roger
Speaker 2: Federer has excelled at everything in life. What are you
Speaker 2: most excited about that won't be tennis related?
Speaker 3: You know, I feel a little bad at the moment
Speaker 3: because I mean, it's been super easy transition so far.
Speaker 3: I feel really good. Fall off the cliff tomorrow, who knows,
Speaker 3: but I feel really good. And the thing is, I've
Speaker 3: told a lot of people who had so many requests,
Speaker 3: you know, while I was still playing, like well, reach
Speaker 3: out to me when I'm retired, so they have now
Speaker 3: and so now we've had to say no in a
Speaker 3: thousand different messages ways, you know, unfortunately no still not
Speaker 3: you know, so I feel bad about saying no, but
Speaker 3: I think I have to take the time to make
Speaker 3: the next move. And ma anyway, still very busy. I mean,
Speaker 3: I have four children and they mean everything to me,
Speaker 3: twins twin boys that are eight and twin girls that
Speaker 3: are thirteen. So that needs to be my priority with
Speaker 3: my wonderful wife Mirka, and we.
Speaker 1: That's right. She deserves is amazing if you've met this really.
Speaker 3: Every step of the way. So no, So I mean
Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to what's next. I mean, like
Speaker 3: you said, I have my philanthropy, I have my partners,
Speaker 3: my sponsors, I have my business and it's going super well.
Speaker 3: And I don't know. I want to see how I
Speaker 3: maybe stay involved in tennis in some shape or form.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure yet how it's going to go because
Speaker 3: there's not that many jobs if you want in tennis,
Speaker 3: like in maybe in soccer or in golf. I feel
Speaker 3: like they have many more interesting. Yeah, we're either a
Speaker 3: coach or a commentator. Right, it's very solitary, very small. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'll have to see. But I will always be
Speaker 3: open to to mentor kids and do all that stuff.
Speaker 2: There is one thing that you're doing exceptionally right now,
Speaker 2: and that is being an ambassador for Swiss tourism.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the ads. They're really amazing. No,
Speaker 1: there really are some of the funniest ads.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You did one with Anne Hathaway. There was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: One would the role. Robert de Niro was one of
Speaker 1: my favorites, you know, but I was, I was.
Speaker 2: I was intrigued by this because I came to Switzerland
Speaker 2: for the first time on my comedy tour. Right Roger
Speaker 2: reached out, which this is this is the kind of person,
Speaker 2: this this man is this is Roger Federer, the greatest
Speaker 2: you know, tennis players ever lived, one of the greatest
Speaker 2: athletes of all time. And I get a call when
Speaker 2: I'm in Switzerland. He goes, I know you're here, would
Speaker 2: you like me to maybe? Would you like to for
Speaker 2: lunch maybe and talk about Switzerland? Or would you can
Speaker 2: show you around? Or can I'm like, can you like?
Speaker 2: It's so gracious and it's so unassuming, Like it was
Speaker 2: like I would expect you.
Speaker 1: For and be like, I know you hear you're going
Speaker 1: with me? But no, Roger fair was like, if you
Speaker 1: would like maybe I can you know?
Speaker 3: Anyway? It was amazing, show was unbelievable, and you're one
Speaker 3: of the best.
Speaker 1: Tour guides of tourism.
Speaker 3: No, I learned from you.
Speaker 1: I put stuff on the show and and so I'd love.
Speaker 3: To know that those those ads were nerve wracking, because
Speaker 3: you know, the good thing with the Robert de Niro
Speaker 3: one is that, I mean number one, I can't believe
Speaker 3: he actually did it, which in itself was a victory.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a huge fan. And then he shot
Speaker 3: his first was during COVID and was like everyone on
Speaker 3: a on a call together, you know I was on
Speaker 3: a video call, so he has had done his before,
Speaker 3: and then I could just act on what he did,
Speaker 3: and I obviously could do one hundred takes if I
Speaker 3: had to, and there was no pressure and he wasn't around,
Speaker 3: so but I agree. It was actually very creative and
Speaker 3: it was a good piece, especially his side. Me. I'm
Speaker 3: not not the best, but then but then and Hathaway,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, she was sitting next to me
Speaker 3: when I was doing the the ad and.
Speaker 1: Was that stressful.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was very stressful because I hadn't the script
Speaker 3: had changed a lot of the times. And then I
Speaker 3: gave up because I knew Anne was doing her magic.
Speaker 3: And when I showed up, the director said, I usually
Speaker 3: shoot in one piece, And like, what do you mean
Speaker 3: in one piece? You like the whole thing? Yeah, one
Speaker 3: take and then it goes like an action And literally
Speaker 3: I had no idea about any of the lives. So
Speaker 3: they created all these tele prompters for me so I
Speaker 3: could read off them and then the camera would be
Speaker 3: moving in front of the tailer prompt and I'll be
Speaker 3: chasing the text. Anyway, I got better over time, and
Speaker 3: then Anne was super sweet. You could have been nicer
Speaker 3: to me, and and then she tells me at one
Speaker 3: point towards the end, she's like, you know, Roger, you
Speaker 3: have improved so much during the shoot and you're doing
Speaker 3: so good. You're improvising incredibly well. And I look at her,
Speaker 3: I was like, you don't have to tell me this.
Speaker 3: I don't need to be an actor. I'm not a
Speaker 3: good actor, and I need you to come home and
Speaker 3: just say, you know what, Swiss tourism, this was a
Speaker 3: fun ad. You had a great a great time, and
Speaker 3: you don't need to tell me. I'm a I'm doing well.
Speaker 3: It just needs to be good for you. I'm fine,
Speaker 3: don't worry. I can be terrible and I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: You're terrible, you work great.
Speaker 2: You're a great ambassador for Switzerland, you're a great a
Speaker 2: great ambassador for the sports of tennis, and honestly you're
Speaker 2: a great ambassador for human beings.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everything you've done.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, thank you, Thanks you for taking.
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Speaker 3: is the fatter everybody.
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