Why 'Creed III’s' Michael B. Jordan Avoided Saying ‘Action’ Or ‘Cut’ On The Set

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00:00 Before you said action the very first time,

00:04 how much shooting had you done prior to that?

00:06 Were you making short films to test shots?

00:09 Were you filming whole scenes and cutting them up

00:12 just to see how it was gonna look?

00:13 - That's a great question.

00:15 I think I shot some references of like, you know,

00:19 one-ers, but never with the words action,

00:22 you know what I'm saying?

00:24 I didn't say action a lot,

00:25 even during the course of the movie, you know?

00:28 I think I mostly said cut, you know?

00:31 Or I just motioned for cut more than anything.

00:33 So that was kinda my thing.

00:35 - Sounds like a lot of editing.

00:37 - A lot of editing, but no, just like, you know,

00:40 just, you know, to get a scene started, you know,

00:43 it's probably better for,

00:44 sometimes I would just let the cameras roll

00:46 and we would just fall into it, you know,

00:48 without the anxiety of waiting for, you know, action.

00:51 But to get out of something is,

00:53 and not letting things linger as long,

00:55 I would just kinda motion a little scissor

00:57 to my first AD and we kinda built a system

01:00 that once he saw the scissors,

01:01 he knew that's when I wanted to cut

01:02 and then we would get out of it.

01:04 (upbeat music)