00:00 Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination.
00:09 I used to be Jerry Silberman.
00:10 When I was eight years old, my mother had her first heart attack.
00:14 Her heart specialist whispered in my ear, "Try to make her laugh."
00:18 My blank and my blue blank, give me my blue blank.
00:21 The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life.
00:25 And I did make my mother laugh.
00:27 He was a combination of innocence and danger.
00:30 Champagne?
00:31 You didn't know what Gene Wilder was going to do.
00:33 [MACHINE WHIRRING]
00:34 He was an actor who had an ability to be funny.
00:40 Hello.
00:41 [YELLING]
00:43 He's naive.
00:44 He's innocent.
00:45 Books?
00:46 He's sweet, simple, and honest.
00:48 But when he got excited, he was a volcano.
00:51 [SCREAMING]
00:53 He had a unique ability to find humor.
00:57 I never thought it could be like this.
00:59 In anything.
01:00 [GROANING]
01:01 I love Gene's choice of acting roles.
01:04 It's totally eclectic.
01:06 Oi, give out!
01:08 Gene and Mel, they go beyond.
01:10 Don't put the candle back.
01:13 And we couldn't not laugh.
01:15 May I go in?
01:16 [LAUGHTER]
01:17 We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
01:22 You could tell that this was going to be somebody
01:24 who was going to be fun to work with.
01:26 He wasn't treating me like a kid.
01:29 Gene was able to do things in comedy
01:32 that are dangerous to do.
01:34 Darling.
01:35 Would you get down?
01:36 Richard Pryor was my teacher.
01:38 What are you doing?
01:39 I'm good, bad.
01:40 My dad knew undeniably there was a magic between them.
01:43 It's all right.
01:44 They fueled each other, and their improvs
01:47 made them both better.
01:49 He embodied these characters, and we felt their humanity.
01:53 You'll never find another Gene Wilder.
01:56 He was amazing.
01:57 I didn't think Jerry Silberman had the right ring to it.
02:00 I wanted to be Wilder.
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02:13 [Music]
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