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The RobCast

Episode 84 | Andrew Morgan on the True Cost

The RobCast

Rob Bell

Religion & Spirituality

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay friends, it's Rob here, it's another Robcast and this one there is a movie on Netflix called True Cost.

0:11.0

If you get that Netflix, do you have the interweb? Get that Netflix and see this movie True Cost.

0:18.0

It is about the clothing industry and it's, I'm telling you, I don't even know what to say about it.

0:24.0

Other than the director, narrator, creator of the film is here in the back house with me now Andrew Morgan, Andrew. Welcome.

0:35.0

Great to be here. This is his first time on the Robcast, obviously. And this film, it made me so angry.

0:45.0

Did you have that response to the film? Yeah.

0:48.0

I teared up multiple times. It produced such anger and frustration and rage.

0:58.0

Andrew has made this film. Well, I don't even know how about this. Where did you first get the idea of for True Cost?

1:06.0

Yeah, I was finishing up another film and I was getting coffee on morning.

1:12.0

Actually, very close to your house here. And I was standing in line half asleep, looked down at the cover of The New York Times and there was a photograph that morning.

1:22.0

And it was this photograph of these two boys, similar in age to my own boys at home. And they were standing in front of this huge wall of missing person signs.

1:32.0

And it was one of those just grabs you and I picked up the paper and I read this headline about how clothing factory had collapsed and bangled as just outside of DACA.

1:42.0

And it had taken the lives of more than 1,000 people, mostly women, some children. And I went on to read about how at the time of the collapse, it was making clothes for these major Western brands, brands that I knew, brands that I had frequented.

1:58.0

And I remember thinking too, unforgettable things as I stood there that morning, instantly very awake. I remember thinking, first, how is it possible that in industry, this powerful, this profitable is doing business in a way that's leading to this kind of loss and as I read in the article, lessening of human life.

2:17.0

And then second, on a more personal and chilling level, I remember thinking, how is it possible that I've never stopped to think about where my clothes actually come from?

2:27.0

And it was that question that led me to take the article back to my office, cheer up my producer. We started to kind of research, read everything we get our hands on, follow that story. It was on the news cycle for a couple days.

2:39.0

And by the end of that week, I was just convinced that this was just a profoundly important human story that touches every single one of us that I had never seen.

2:51.0

And that it was producing so many questions that I couldn't answer. And that that's really, I mean, by the end of that week, we knew we were making the film.

2:59.0

It feel there are moments in the film that makes sense to me now when it feels like you're hunting, you're trying to answer questions.

3:08.0

So you sort of follow where do clothes get made and it takes you all over the world.

3:14.0

So that was the kind of surprising thing is I think we started and at that time it was all about Bangladesh. This factory had collapsed in Bangladesh, not long before that there had been another major fire in a factory in Bangladesh, before that there had been one in Pakistan.

3:29.0

So it was this very condensed area of the world. And I think as we did more research, as we started to talk to more people, it kind of, it unraveled really.

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