Emily Blunt & Matt Damon talk Barbenheimer!

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00:00 Guys, what a film.

00:01 I was saying to Florence and Killian,

00:03 it's like a piece of art, this work.

00:06 It's definitely for me, I think,

00:07 one of Christopher Nolan's best pieces of work.

00:10 For you, do you feel like it's

00:12 one of your best pieces of work?

00:14 Best mustache for this one you've ever had.

00:17 Is that the only mustache you've ever had, or is it?

00:19 - Uh, I had one in True Grit,

00:22 but this was my real mustache.

00:27 - True Grit was a fakey?

00:28 - True Grit was a fakey.

00:29 (laughing)

00:31 - But you know what wasn't fake

00:32 was your performance in this.

00:33 You know what wasn't fake was Killian's performance.

00:35 I think we have to just talk about Killian.

00:36 - I was going to literally come to that,

00:38 'cause I-- - So mesmerizing

00:39 and extraordinary, and one of the great

00:42 screen performances of all time.

00:43 - And Chris was really clear with us,

00:45 like he needed everybody in support of that performance.

00:48 The movie really works if you come in through Oppenheimer,

00:51 through those, they--

00:52 - And his subjectivity, it was like so clear in the script

00:55 that we were there as like these colorful characters

00:57 for him to bounce off.

00:58 - Oh no, everyone in here I feel like had a proper like--

01:01 - We had some cool moments.

01:02 - Yeah, everyone had their bit to play.

01:05 Everyone was significant.

01:06 Like I don't feel like, I know you're supporting,

01:08 but almost not because you have got these significant roles.

01:12 - What's your line?

01:13 That is the most important thing.

01:14 (laughing)

01:15 - The most important thing that's ever happened

01:16 to the president.

01:18 - Oppenheimer was a genius though,

01:19 and when I was listening to it,

01:22 and you hear like he'd learned Dutch in six weeks,

01:24 and I was just like, how?

01:26 My brain can't even remember what I wore yesterday.

01:30 As actors, I'm sure you have to learn

01:31 a lot of different skills and for different roles.

01:34 What would you say is the thing that you've had to learn

01:36 the quickest, in like in the shortest amount of time?

01:39 - How long did you have to learn that equation

01:41 in Good Will Hunting?

01:42 - Well that was, that's easy, like that stuff's,

01:45 you can just, no, but I mean--

01:45 - But that's easy for you 'cause you've got that brain.

01:47 You'll look at something and you'll be able to kind of do it.

01:50 - Yeah, but I don't know what it means.

01:50 - Like that would take me forever.

01:52 - That's like learning a hieroglyphic

01:53 and just, and then forgetting it immediately after.

01:55 - I'd say learning sign language for Quiet Place

01:57 was like, I feel like I didn't have as long

01:59 as I would have liked.

02:01 And Millie, who plays our daughter in it,

02:03 who is actually deaf, she would say how cute

02:06 our sign language was, that we all signed like babies.

02:09 - Is that what she said?

02:10 - Yeah, she said you signed like babies.

02:11 - That's funny.

02:13 - Yeah, I love that.

02:14 There has been obviously so much talk

02:17 about Barbenheimer, of course.

02:19 But surely it can only be a good thing for cinema.

02:22 - We think so. - I think so, yeah, yeah.

02:23 Absolutely.

02:24 - I think it's fantastic.

02:25 Go see both, do the double bill.

02:27 - Yeah.

02:27 - What were they saying?

02:28 They said like, have your steak dinner

02:30 and then follow it up with the ice cream sundae.

02:33 It's a great way of talking about it.

02:34 - That is great.

02:35 - It's amazing for cinema and it's a wonderful weekend

02:40 and I want everyone to enjoy both movies.

02:42 - Yeah, for sure.

02:43 We need people going back to the movies too,

02:44 coming out of COVID and this is what Hollywood

02:47 should be able to do, put really good movies

02:49 that are very different in the movie theaters

02:51 on the same weekend and that's what we're supposed

02:54 to be doing.

02:54 - I love them both and I love them both.

02:56 - Oh, good. - That's great.

02:56 - Good.

02:57 - Yeah, I think everyone should go out and see it.

02:59 However, watching this, I felt not that bright

03:03 because a lot of the science stuff went over my head.

03:05 - I think it went over all of them.

03:06 - I was gonna say, how much did you understand about--

03:10 - Of the science?

03:11 - Yeah.

03:12 - No, very little of the science.

03:13 - Okay, but when I read it, I didn't find it overwhelming,

03:15 all of that.

03:16 I feel like it's almost the backdrop to this very subjective

03:20 sort of internal trauma of this guy,

03:22 of this one man who takes you through it.

03:24 - Yeah, and our job is really about the kind of the humanity

03:28 and the dynamics between the people.

03:30 - That's how we've been justifying it anyway.

03:32 - That's why we don't--

03:33 - Yeah, I hear all of us going, my job is to really just

03:37 find the human side.

03:38 We just didn't understand it, it's okay, we just don't.

03:41 - That's fine.

03:41 Your character, though, Emily, she feels like a modern woman

03:46 out of her time.

03:47 - I think she was.

03:49 - I feel like, was it even the last 20 minutes

03:51 that made you take that role?

03:52 - I was just like, wow.

03:54 - No, what made me take the role was them going,

03:56 Chris Nolan wants to meet you.

03:58 I was like, jet pack on, go.

04:00 Like, I was like, desperate to meet him.

04:02 No, I honestly, you can see from all the actors in this

04:05 that people would have shown up for a scene.

04:08 And she was an amazing character.

04:10 Super complicated and interesting.

04:12 And yeah, she does have a bit of a showdown

04:15 towards the end, which is fun.

04:17 - Amazing.

04:18 - Thank you.

04:19 - Like, genuinely.

04:19 - Thank you so much.

04:20 - I think that end part, especially for me,

04:23 I was just captivated.

04:24 - Oh, thank you.

04:25 - So, yeah, it's amazing.

04:27 I know it's long, people, but please go and see it

04:30 because it's so worth it.

04:31 It's so worth it.

04:32 Thank you so much, guys.

04:33 - Thank you so much.

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