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WIRED sits down with Morgan Neville to talk about his new film, Pharrell Williams: Piece by Piece

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Morgan Neville's new documentary, Piece by Piece , is a biopic of Pharrell Williams' life animated entirely with Lego .

Neville conducted audio interviews with collaborators like Kendrick Lamar and Missy Elliott .

Neville knew he had to leave some things out of the film, including some of the interviews he didn't use.

Pharrell Williams' new film, "The Neptunes ," is a collaboration between the Neptunes and Beyonce .

He says the interviews were done over Zoom during the pandemic, but he did them on his couch at home.

Daft Punk and Jay-Z asked for a 3D render of their characters, and everybody was thrilled, he says.

The film is about the period after the Beatles broke up and after Get Back .

It's about the founding of Wings , really from the day the Beatles break up until the day John Lennon dies.

The director says he wanted to keep his voice in the film going down the wall.

He says he was surprised by the reaction it got.

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