00:00 I'm such a good tree climber.
00:02 Really?
00:03 Yeah.
00:04 Oh.
00:05 That used to be my thing.
00:06 Natural trip?
00:07 That was my forte as a child.
00:08 Being a dog and climbing trees.
00:09 Hey, I'm Dreamer from Asia 1.
00:17 Hey!
00:18 Hey guys.
00:19 Owen, you play the ape Noah with some motion capture technology, which they showed us a bit of in the beginning of the movie,
00:25 while Freya plays a human among apes. So how difficult is it to get into a role and imagine apes,
00:31 imagine eagles attacking apes, etc. in front of you?
00:35 Well, for me, I feel like these guys did such a great job at being these apes that I didn't have to imagine anything.
00:43 The times where I had to imagine was when they, you know, we basically had to do the scene twice,
00:48 and so I'd have to do the whole scene without the actors.
00:52 So then I really did have to imagine everything and remember exactly where they had been,
00:57 and that was the biggest challenge.
00:59 But when they were in front of me, I was, you know, I didn't really need to think about anything else
01:04 because they embodied these characters and then also the physicality so well.
01:09 Well, you know, after a very short period of time, a couple of days, it actually becomes very normal.
01:17 Personally, you know, you start feeling more comfortable as an ape than as a human.
01:24 So it's not like you have to imagine very much in terms of like, "Oh, I'm being an ape."
01:29 It's really not about that. It's about finding the truth of the character
01:33 and how you move and how you speak is a reflection of that.
01:37 It's just a costume that you're putting on.
01:39 In terms of the eagles, that did require some imagination, you know, because obviously there's nothing there.
01:46 And so like when Noah, you know, has his arm out and has Sun on his arm,
01:51 it's like I really had to be like, "Okay, where's the eagle's head?
01:55 You know, he's looking at me here, and this is what it feels like for him to take off."
01:59 That was actually tough, just getting that to look believable and feel believable.
02:05 Other than that, it all felt very real.
02:09 How do you think the themes in the movie relate to like our human society
02:13 and the way we kind of interact with each other and, you know, advancing of technologies and stuff like that?
02:18 I mean, I feel like one of the core elements to this, to Noah and May's relationship,
02:24 is that they grow up with such fixed views of one another and one another's species.
02:29 And then when they actually end up being put in a position where they are face-to-face with someone,
02:34 all of those assumptions are challenged.
02:39 And I think that that is a theme that, you know, is everyone can...
02:44 It's so prevalent in our world, you know, and people create such fixed mindsets around things
02:52 and sometimes can't seem to cross over the line into thinking that there might be more to that than they think.
02:59 And sometimes you need to go face-to-face with those people
03:02 and make the effort to broaden your mind in order to be intelligent.
03:07 I think, you know, especially now we're seeing a kind of refusal to be challenged
03:14 or to be shown that we're wrong.
03:17 You know, people are very, very closed-minded.
03:22 And that's what this relationship is about.
03:25 It's about their views of the world and their respective kinds, you know, being proved wrong.
03:33 So, here's kind of a fun one.
03:35 So, if both of you were lost and alone in a forest-like environment like in the movie,
03:41 what would your survival strategy be?
03:43 Climb a tree. I'm such a good tree climber.
03:46 Really?
03:47 Yeah.
03:48 Oh.
03:49 That used to be my thing.
03:50 Natural trim?
03:51 That was my forte as a child. Being a dog and climbing trees.
03:54 We definitely have to put you in a motion capture shoot for the next one.
03:57 Am I right?
03:58 Yeah. You gotta be a background chimp.
04:01 I think so.
04:02 Yeah.
04:03 The more and more we speak, I'm like, "Wait, I'm a chimpanzee."
04:06 Well, I am too, but we're both kind of- We're both a bit feral.
04:09 Yeah.
04:10 My survival strategy, I mean, figure out a way to stay warm and get fresh water and, you know, the basics.
04:22 I don't know that I would find a lot of use in climbing a tree, but maybe that.
04:26 I don't know.
04:27 Well, it's fun.
04:28 I guess-
04:29 Just have fun.
04:30 I guess predators, you know, they can't get you up high.
04:33 Yeah.
04:34 That's why chimps nest in trees.
04:35 Exactly.
04:36 Yeah.
04:37 You know.
04:38 It's what they do in the films, climbing a tree.
04:39 Yeah.
04:40 Together, you will die.
04:45 No.
04:47 Together, stronger.
04:51 Together, we will win.
04:54 Yeah!
04:56 Yeah!
04:57 Yeah!
04:58 (whooshing)
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