00:00I, you know, I would love to talk about whenever I had the pleasure of speaking with Kirsten Dunst
00:03at The Junket, she told me, and maybe this was a joke or the way she was phrasing it,
00:07but she said that Jesse Plemons took his part in the film as a favor to her. And obviously
00:12paid off because that scene is honestly one of the most tense sequences. I think I've seen it
00:15in a very long time. I'd love to know the story of how he became involved in the movie. And if like,
00:20if their personal relationship off camera at all affected the scene on camera.
00:25Well, I don't know. I, I, I literally don't know about the way it would have informed
00:31the scene, but what happened was there was another actor who was going to do that part. And
00:39round about a week before we started shooting, because we were in the rehearsal period,
00:45for the various reasons that actor just had to drop out. And I was really worried because that
00:52scene is, is kind of a, like a pivot point in the film. And it contains a lot of really important
01:00information in a film actually. And I was pretty despondent. I was standing outside this tower
01:08block and had took the call outside and then thought, well, I better go in for the rehearsal.
01:16But inside I had a kind of hollow, empty, worried feeling like, oh boy, we're in big trouble now.
01:23And got the elevator up, went into the place that we were rehearsing and thought I should tell the
01:30cast this immediately because it's the right thing to do. And Kirsten immediately said,
01:36I bet Jesse would do it. Let me, let me, let me find out. And 24 hours later, Jesse said,
01:42yeah, yeah, I'll do it. Read the scripts. And so it was a huge result. Huge.
01:48It was honestly, it was unbelievable. I know it's again, it's a, it's a, you know,
01:5310 minute sequence, but it's one of my favorite performances of the year.
01:57He's, he's pretty stunning. It's a, it's a great bunch of acting, great, great bunch of actors,
02:04excuse me, but that what that thing he does arrive, encapsulate something, leave film,
02:14loves that. And it's, so it was a real, it wasn't exactly a pleasure to shoot that scene,
02:21but it was like a masterclass. It was very, very impressive to watch all of them together,
02:31joined him in the tension of that moment. All of them really.
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