[Grammar] we felt like we wanted them to see the world of Monster Hunter ...

[kadioguy]

(In an interview about the movie Monster Hunter, which is based on the game of the same name)

Milla Jovovich: But it also feels like when we play the game we are in the real world, and so to introduce this movie to people, you know, we felt like we wanted them to see the world of Monster Hunter the way strangers would, and, you know, so we come from the real world and go there, and you have that amazing aspect of seeing it for the first time like anybody playing the game.
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1. Is the red part in the past simple because the feeling is somewhere in the past when they introduced this movie to people?

2. But why does the blue part switch tense from the past to the present again?
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(The source) (At 2:06)

 

[Rover_KE]

The whole quoted passage is garbled and ill-prepared. She's not sure what she wants to say from one second to the next.

 

[kadioguy]

The whole quoted passage is garbled and ill-prepared. She's not sure what she wants to say from one second to the next.

So how would you rewrite the passage? How about this? Is it better than the original?

[Using the present tense through the passage, which means that these happen regularly or all the time]

"But it also feels like when we play the game we are in the real world, and so to introduce this movie to people, you know, we feel like we want them to see the world of Monster Hunter the way strangers would, and, you know, so we come from the real world and go there, and you have that amazing aspect of seeing it for the first time like anybody playing the game."

 

[tedmc]

It was an impromptu speech from an interview and is not a good example to study grammar. The speaker said things that came spontaneously to her mind without giving them much thought. The sentence is too long to be good for a written text.