00:00 - I would love to talk about,
00:01 whenever I had the pleasure of speaking
00:02 with Kirsten Dunst at The Junket,
00:04 she told me, and maybe this was a joke
00:06 or the way she was phrasing it,
00:07 but she said that Jesse Plemons took his part
00:10 in the film as a favor to her.
00:11 And obviously it paid off because that scene
00:13 is honestly one of the most tense sequences
00:15 I think I've seen in a very long time.
00:16 I'd love to know the story
00:17 of how he became involved in the movie
00:19 and if their personal relationship off camera
00:22 at all affected the scene on camera.
00:24 - Well, I don't know.
00:28 I literally don't know about the way
00:30 it would have informed the scene,
00:32 but what happened was there was another actor
00:35 who was gonna do that part.
00:37 And around about a week before we started shooting,
00:42 because we were in the rehearsal period,
00:44 for various reasons, that actor just had to drop out.
00:49 And I was really worried because that scene
00:52 is kind of like a pivot point in the film.
00:57 And it contains a lot of really important information
01:01 in the film actually.
01:02 And I was pretty despondent.
01:07 I was standing outside this tower block
01:09 and had took the call outside and then thought,
01:14 well, I better go in for the rehearsal.
01:16 But inside I had a kind of hollow, empty, worried feeling
01:21 like, oh boy, we're in big trouble now.
01:23 And got the elevator up, went into the place
01:28 that we were rehearsing and thought,
01:30 I should tell the cast this immediately
01:32 because it's the right thing to do.
01:34 And Kirsten immediately said, I bet Jesse would do it.
01:37 Let me find out.
01:39 And 24 hours later, Jesse said, yeah, yeah, I'll do it.
01:43 Read the script.
01:44 So it was a huge result, huge.
01:47 - It was honestly, it was unbelievable.
01:51 I know it's, again, it's a 10 minute sequence,
01:54 but it's one of my favorite performances of the year.
01:56 - He's pretty stunning.
01:59 It's a great bunch of acting,
02:02 great bunch of actors, excuse me.
02:04 But that thing he does, arrive,
02:09 encapsulate something, leave, film loves that.
02:14 And it's, so it was a real,
02:17 it wasn't exactly a pleasure to shoot that scene,
02:21 but it was like a masterclass.
02:25 It was very, very impressive to watch.
02:30 All of them together joined him
02:32 in the tension of that moment, all of them really.
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