'Greenland' Interviews With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin

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00:00 I'm going to hit you guys with a hard-hitting one right off the bat.

00:03 Do you know if bunkers like the ones featured in the movie actually exist?

00:07 - Yes. - Yes.

00:09 Do they really? Can you tell me about them or no?

00:11 Or is it like a lockdown secret?

00:13 The fragment has hit central Florida.

00:15 Oh my God.

00:16 Wait, are some more pieces going to hit?

00:20 Come on, let's go.

00:21 But the sky's on fire.

00:22 We watched it as a family last night,

00:27 and my wife woke me up this morning still thinking about it.

00:30 She came out of the shower early and was like,

00:32 "Yeah, but what about this part?"

00:34 And because I think that I want to emphasize

00:36 it relies heavily on the kindness of strangers.

00:39 Like, there's nothing really special that your guys' characters are equipped to do.

00:43 You just keep going forward,

00:44 but you rely heavily on the kindness of strangers.

00:47 And I'm wondering if that's something that appealed to you

00:48 when taking on the story.

00:49 Yeah, I love that part of the story.

00:52 But it's also the kindness of strangers and the danger of strangers,

00:56 because you see beautiful people doing terrible things,

01:01 but for the right reasons.

01:02 But a lot of the time, there is just such heart and humanity

01:06 in there by the people that pass.

01:08 And by the way, that's the world that we live in.

01:10 There's a lot of darkness out there,

01:11 but there's a lot of light, and we can't forget that.

01:14 And I think that's why,

01:15 despite the fact that this movie pummels you,

01:17 it's intense, it's a ride,

01:20 but at the same time, it fills you with hope.

01:23 Even at the end, as it all goes through,

01:25 you're kind of left with the feeling that maybe we're only moving on

01:28 to something greater and wiser now,

01:31 and more connected and appreciating what is important in life.

01:35 These events, just like the pandemic,

01:37 always in some ways allow us to tap into a greater consciousness

01:42 and remind us who we are and what's important,

01:45 which is connectivity and love and tribe.

01:48 Marina, I'm really curious when you take on a part like this,

01:50 because it is devastating scene after devastating scene emotionally.

01:56 If there's any hesitation that you're going to take this on,

01:58 because you're going to have to live in this headspace

01:59 for months at a time and live in this--

02:01 Yeah, I definitely had to gear up to it.

02:03 I was a little terrified.

02:05 I have a work motto that says,

02:07 "If I am scared to do it, then I should do it."

02:10 And this was definitely a movie that scared me

02:13 because of the emotional commitment and the physical commitment.

02:17 It's really these two characters,

02:19 you know, the whole movie,

02:21 in different peril at different times,

02:23 and then also together.

02:25 So, you know, I would have to rise to the occasion,

02:28 but I really enjoy a challenge.

02:30 [dramatic music]

02:31 We're scared.

02:32 We'll find him. It's okay.

02:33 Clark's largest fragment will hit in less than 24 hours.

02:37 [clock ticking]

02:38 I'm wondering if there was something really humanizing

02:40 about giving the threat a name, like Clark.

02:43 Every time I heard it, it sort of brought me back into the story.

02:46 Yeah, I think that we--

02:48 most of the time, extraterrestrial things

02:52 are given more of a number or some kind of a classification

02:56 that doesn't feel emotional.

02:58 But right now, there's a hurricane called Sally.

03:01 I mean, talk about a lovely name

03:03 that is just going to wreck the Gulf region right now.

03:05 And I like the idea of not--

03:09 of what it conveys, that it is more of an emotional attachment

03:14 to something because we've given it a personal name

03:17 of what that event's going to be.

03:19 You know, to me, it was always two monsters in the movie.

03:21 It was not only Clark, but it was humanity itself.

03:24 Will we turn on each other?

03:26 And are we capable of heinous things

03:27 when it's life or death?

03:28 Or will we do right by each other?

03:29 And there's so many scenes in this film

03:31 because you guys rely on practical effects

03:33 as often as you can in this,

03:35 where you guys in the middle of huge crowd scenes,

03:37 and I can't help but think, like,

03:39 how hard that's going to be to do in the immediate future.

03:43 Have you thought about obstacles like that

03:45 in terms of telling a story of this size,

03:47 the types of precautions we're going to have to take on?

03:49 I don't know how we do that before there's a vaccine.

03:52 I don't see how that's possible.

03:55 I think smaller movies, certainly.

03:57 And I think that's what we're going to see a lot of

03:59 in the coming months as things reopen.

04:02 Or obviously, if you're in a country

04:03 where there aren't many cases, then that's definitely

04:06 something that you can do.

04:07 They're going to be harder to put together,

04:09 but we're going to figure it out.

04:10 I'm in the middle of leaving on the next film

04:13 that Gerard Butler and I are going to do.

04:15 We're going to go three in a row together.

04:16 And there's some scenes with massive crowds in it.

04:20 And you just realize that we all have to make lemonade

04:24 out of lemons, and we all have to figure out

04:26 clever ways to do things.

04:27 And we finished "Greenland" during the pandemic.

04:30 I mean, this movie was filmed, cut, screened, tested,

04:35 locked before there was ever anything called COVID.

04:37 And what we thought was hypothetical

04:39 suddenly becoming much more of a reality.

04:41 It was a very surreal experience to be on a mixed stage

04:44 and then suddenly be in the middle of the pandemic.

04:46 In fact, we got shut down from the California state

04:51 because of it.

04:52 And you suddenly realize the more different parallels

04:54 with it, but you also, I was really moved

04:58 by a team of people, and I'm talking about 300

05:01 between visual effects and editors and colorists

05:04 and mixers.

05:05 We all went to our couches just like we are right now,

05:08 and we finished the movie remotely.

05:10 So I love the fact that we can all get it done,

05:12 and we'll get it done moving forward.

05:13 Just get up and rethink things.

05:15 And I think there's something a really favorite producer

05:18 of mine said is, I think things like this

05:20 will end up knocking the rust off of antiquated ways

05:23 that we used to do things and finding better ways to do it.

05:26 - Yeah, that's good.

05:27 'Cause this was a great return to practical also.

05:29 You know, it was great to see you immerse yourself

05:31 in sets like this.

05:32 - Two days, they got it all wrong.

05:33 There's a ton of fragments, planet killers.

05:36 - Space agencies are predicting an extinction level event.

05:39 - We're gonna be together, all right, get 'em.

05:41 - We're just trying to get to safety.

05:44 - Do you know if bunkers like the ones featured

05:47 in the movie actually exist?

05:49 - Yes. - Yes.

05:50 - Do they really?

05:51 Can you tell me about them or no?

05:52 Or is it like a lockdown secret?

05:53 - No, there's nuclear concrete bunkers dug into the ground.

05:57 And I think I heard that they can have been forgotten about,

06:00 and a lot of them had been covered in ice,

06:02 but that had receded again.

06:05 But they're there. - In Greenland, right?

06:07 - In Greenland, yeah.

06:08 - Yeah. - Yeah.

06:09 - Now I wanna go find one.

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