00:00 I have sentiment about our picture and the relationships in the picture.
00:06 Brad, Matt, Don Cheadle is fabulous.
00:10 Casey Affleck, George Clooney, come on, and Julia Roberts.
00:14 She's a doll.
00:16 Now they tell me that I paid my debt to society.
00:19 Funny I never got a check.
00:21 So it was going to be challenging.
00:28 We knew to shoot in a working casino and hotel.
00:31 They don't have lulls in their business as far as I know, or very little.
00:36 They're busy all the time.
00:37 And obviously there's a lot of money exchanging hands there.
00:40 And so I think they were excited about the prospect of having us there
00:45 because it was going to be great PR for them.
00:49 But I think it was also difficult to decide how much access they were going
00:54 to give us and whether they were going to be able to close off
00:56 parts of the casino or the restaurants or their facilities
01:01 to make it possible to shoot.
01:03 In the end, when we did shoot there, I think that it was really
01:06 exciting for their guests.
01:07 We always had a crowd of people around.
01:09 And so I think it kind of added to some of the fun of being there
01:13 for the bystanders.
01:15 Sometimes we just get surprised by how they decide to shoot something.
01:18 Or what shows up on film is maybe not always the way you
01:21 planned for them to shoot it.
01:23 So you try to be prepared, but we don't always know.
01:27 I think we try to make it look great in real life and imagine that,
01:33 but don't always know exactly what they're going to shoot.
01:37 In terms of locations that we were able to shoot at there,
01:40 there were things that would have been just really difficult
01:43 to reproduce the scale of.
01:45 And the casino floor is one of those because it's cavernous.
01:48 It just goes on and on.
01:50 So that would have been difficult to recreate.
01:51 So we knew we needed to get that.
01:53 Also the exteriors, the fountains.
01:56 So we knew we had to shoot that.
01:57 There were things that we knew up front we would never be able to shoot in,
02:01 like their money counting room or their safe or vault.
02:04 They were great about letting us have access to see
02:07 what the reality looked like.
02:08 They let us go down into the inner hallways.
02:11 They let us see their money counting room,
02:13 which I think we were maybe the first people to ever have access
02:17 to something like that.
02:18 There was a lot of security involved.
02:20 Don't believe we ever saw the actual vault.
02:23 Quite sure it was not as interesting as the one that we built.
02:26 You know, it was really fun doing the money counting room
02:29 and it was really fun doing the vault,
02:32 just because we did get to...
02:34 Well, there's a lot of manufacturing of things
02:36 and there's a lot of problem solving that goes into doing that
02:39 because in the case of the vault,
02:41 that's really making it up from our imagination.
02:44 And, you know, there was a lot of action that needed to take place in there.
02:46 So there were a lot of specifics for that.
02:48 And you just want it to look interesting.
02:49 And in real life, it probably doesn't.
02:51 Coming up with stacks of money is actually a big challenge
02:56 that people probably wouldn't realize,
02:58 but you can't just Xerox money and reproduce money.
03:01 The government frowns upon that.
03:04 So there's a lot of parameters to making giant blocks of money
03:07 and a lot of different techniques for doing it
03:10 that all kind of come together.
03:11 And then the money counting rooms,
03:12 we did get to see the money counting rooms
03:15 where everything is made out of plexiglass and lucite
03:19 because you can't be able to stash money under the table.
03:23 And so we had to build all of that and create all of that.
03:26 So that was kind of just something different that I hadn't done before.
03:29 We're just supposed to walk out of there
03:31 with $150 million in cash on us without getting stopped?
03:35 Yeah.
03:41 You know, Stephen's amazing to work with,
03:44 and he's a great director for the creatives and the design department
03:49 because he really kind of is very collaborative
03:53 and lets us kind of have an idea and run with it.
03:56 So that, you know, makes it very satisfying to work with him.
03:59 Oh, you know, my favorite scene was probably
04:01 when they're at Ruben Tishkoff's house
04:03 and all kind of planning early on in the film.
04:06 So that was a really fun set to do.
04:08 Oh, Stephen is very smart.
04:11 He's very bright, brilliant,
04:16 and he's honest.
04:19 I met Stephen, just the two of us.
04:21 We had a little something to eat, just the two of us.
04:24 And then he said, "I'll cast you."
04:28 That was as simple as that.
04:29 For us to cast me as Ruben,
04:34 and I remember Akim Tomaroff from the original.
04:37 I know some of his career.
04:39 He was, anything he did was amazing.
04:44 So Akim Tomaroff created the role that I play,
04:48 and then they, we cast me and gave me
04:53 the relationship of that guy with all of the fellas.
04:58 What, did you guys get a group rate or something?
05:00 It was fun making those movies.
05:03 The cast and crew all got along really great.
05:05 There was a real sense of camaraderie amongst the cast, clearly,
05:08 and there were a lot of dinners and drinks
05:12 after the filming of the day,
05:15 and a lot of times the crew would be invited to those things as well,
05:18 which is not always the case, so it was fun.
05:21 It was really kind of fun and exciting to shoot in the Atrium Garden
05:26 because they have a massive floral department at the Bellagio,
05:30 and they have a huge full-time staff.
05:33 They import thousands, or probably hundreds of thousands of dollars
05:37 worth of flowers regularly,
05:39 and they're constantly changing it with the seasons.
05:41 I think it's very different to work in a place than to visit a place,
05:46 and sometimes I'm surprised by that because, of course,
05:49 I have an idea of what it would be like to work in Las Vegas,
05:53 but in reality, there are a lot of people that are working there and living there,
05:57 so there's a lot more depth to it than what you would see.
06:01 Vegas is an amazing place,
06:04 and the Bellagio, I like the way that sounds,
06:08 but also the Bellagio with the music at the end moves me now.
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