00:00 When you said yes, did you know that you would be doing some stunts?
00:05 No, not when we first talked. As long as I could do it, I wanted to do it.
00:10 She was doing more and more as the shoot went on.
00:13 Because I think at first we were, you know...
00:15 Maybe we'll have a stunt woman do it. But I really wanted to do as much as I could.
00:19 She's not going to say this, but this is a legendary Broadway dancer
00:23 with a background of really being physically adept.
00:29 This movie, the idea came... I'm now explaining to you the idea.
00:33 No, but it's good to remind me.
00:35 It came from something that happened to your own grandmother.
00:39 Did you tell her you were doing this from the beginning?
00:41 I think it just kind of came up organically.
00:43 I think she was excited by the prospect of something about that incident being dramatized.
00:50 But I think she was also sort of wrapping her head around it.
00:54 I think she's still wrapping her head around it, honestly.
00:56 Just the fact that the movie exists, she's seen it.
00:59 And for her, there's a line where you say, "I'm Thelma Post," which is her name,
01:04 that I didn't change for the movie.
01:06 So I think that moment, she comes back to a lot.
01:09 It's very surreal to her.
01:11 I wrote it with June in mind, kind of from the get.
01:14 She reminds me of my grandma. I've been a long-time fan of her work.
01:18 And there was just something kindred about them in my mind.
01:21 They're both so resilient, but have a vulnerability to them.
01:24 There's just something about them that felt connected to me.
01:27 I got the script, and I loved it.
01:29 And I have somebody else that reads my scripts, and she called me up and said,
01:33 "You've got to do this, June."
01:35 So there was no question after receiving it that I would do it if he still wanted me to.
01:42 We all love action movies, but I also love reality.
01:46 And to me, nothing is scarier and more exciting than an action movie in real life.
01:52 And part of that is always fragility.
01:54 For any person to do anything, it's when you're worried,
01:59 "Can your body actually make it? Can this thing work?"
02:02 It's that human mess that I think makes an action sequence the most alive and exciting.
02:07 So when it came to the choreography of those moves and all that stuff, it was awesome.
02:13 But this was the main stunt woman.
02:15 This was the Tom Cruise.
02:17 You got to chase her a little bit.
02:18 Yeah, we did light chasing.
02:20 I was going to say light chasing by these folks.
02:22 You got to do some jogging down hallways.
02:25 Some semi-action jogging.
02:26 Was that thrilling for you?
02:27 It was thrilling.
02:29 Our first week of filming, we were actually at Josh's real grandmother's condo.
02:36 So the first week was in the real Thelma's house.
02:40 Spiritually, you feel this connection with the actual history and the love and the material
02:48 and the whole thing to be there.
02:50 It was just really special.
02:52 All the books in the world.
02:54 Yes.
02:55 All the books.
02:56 You could spend days just looking to find out what she really did read.
03:01 It was surreal to be there.
03:03 My whole life has been--I've spent time in that condo.
03:07 And then to be there recreating something based on my grandma, who's lived there my entire life,
03:15 and to be with all these people and making that, that was very surreal and very special.
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