Bang Bang cast Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Plummer, Kevin Corrigan, Andrew Liner, Nina Arianda, Erica Gimpel, Daniella Pineda and director, Vincent Grashaw came out for the Tribeca Festival premiere of the film at the SVA Theatre in New York City last week. We talked to the stars about their roles and how some of them trained for the boxing film that follows retired pugilist Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski (Tim Blake Nelson) as he tries his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson.
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00:00Hi, I'm Tim Blake Nelson, and I am on Life Minute TV.
00:05Glad you're watching.
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00:09A really beautifully written role and a director I trusted.
00:13Getting to challenge like this was incredibly exciting.
00:17This movie dabbles in basically what boxers deal with post-career
00:20and kind of like movies, boxing is like the theater of the unexpected,
00:25so it's kind of where the movie goes.
00:27Six weeks of hardcore training, sometimes six days a week,
00:32for several hours a day, and hanging around the gym
00:35and trying to get into a completely different mindset
00:39from any with which I'm familiar.
00:42Honestly, I kind of like boxing, so I was in the gym with them a lot more
00:46before that, but not basically training to do anything.
00:50I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know what it looks like.
00:52Everybody else is telling me it looks great,
00:54so I'm going to see for myself.
00:57I play Bang Bang's grandson.
00:59I start training with Bang Bang, and it's messy and it's crazy,
01:04but we find a love for one another.
01:06I think I'm one of the younger ones in the cast.
01:08I really just got to listen and learn a lot, soak everything in.
01:11You know, with legends like Tim, it's really easy to just talk and listen.
01:16It was really a joy.
01:18In this film, I'm a cancer survivor, double mastectomy cancer survivor,
01:22who owns a bar, and myself and Bang Bang were high school sweethearts,
01:26and we reunite after so many years of being apart.
01:30It's a really powerful film because working with Tim was wonderful.
01:33We really found a connection, a rhythm, a support.
01:36We were really partners, and that felt really wonderful.