00:00I love this movie so much.
00:01So do I.
00:02So does he.
00:03Yes.
00:04Ooh.
00:05F***ing love it.
00:06Ooh.
00:07It's a perfect movie.
00:08What?
00:09I was not expecting that.
00:10Even I love you, Cavalier.
00:11I was bracing myself for impact.
00:12I was.
00:13I was bracing for impact.
00:14I was like, the hit's coming.
00:15Okay.
00:16Maniac.
00:17It sounds crazy.
00:18By the end of it, it felt like a big inside joke that the audience is like, in on.
00:26And that was the intention, that you were kidnapped into this madcap world of making
00:32a movie and that you weren't excluded from all of the inside jokes.
00:37Well, because it's also like, I think we felt like everybody's already a filmmaker anyway.
00:43Everyone in the audience makes their own content.
00:47Everyone knows what's up.
00:48There's no need to pretend anymore.
00:51It's not like, we'll just acknowledge that we all know how movies are made.
00:56People are all filmmakers, and so it's just, I'm glad you said that, because that's sort
01:01of how we wanted to approach it, just like, these aren't really inside jokes.
01:05I mean, we're all in on the joke.
01:06To set an action film within the world of the people who make them, you know, is just
01:11sort of like, yeah, of course, they're capable of doing it because they are the ones that
01:15do it.
01:16So it just sort of kind of, it was such a, I mean, just even that.
01:21And then of course, like the opportunity to acknowledge stunt performers and just what
01:25they contribute.
01:26And it's just, you know, they risk more than anyone on a film set and they get no, none
01:31of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic.
01:34You know, it feels like the movies that brought you to the theater in the first place as a
01:38kid.
01:39It's like all those big action epics, right, where, you know, for me, one of the hallmarks
01:44is when the landscape is its own character and we're setting it against Sydney, Australia,
01:49the opera house.
01:50Yeah.
01:52The bridge.
01:53I mean, the bridge section in itself was making real time news while Ryan was shooting it.
01:59I mean, that's just cool, isn't it?
02:01At the same time you're making this love letter to Hollywood, were you also airing some grievances?
02:07There are a few little like jabs in there about, you know, obviously not being recognized,
02:13not being an award, the Academy Award for stunts.
02:16I mean, they're tongue in cheek.
02:18I mean, I think that that's something that we're all working towards in a real positive
02:21way and the Academy's been so supportive, you know, in the last couple of years that
02:25it feels like there's a really clear path and it could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because, you know, Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make
02:36this a love letter to not just stunt crews and the people that make movies, but people
02:42that love big popcorn movies.
02:44And so we did think a lot every day of like, what would the audience want?
02:49Would they like to laugh here?
02:51Would they like to cry here?
02:53Can we make them feel all these different emotions and get away with it?
02:56Because that's the type of movie I like to go to the theater and see and like really
02:59go on a journey.
03:01So we were every day we thought about the audience.
03:02We really did.
03:03And it was sort of like, how do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really
03:08appreciate it?
03:09I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan.
03:15This is insane, man.
03:19I think we all need that.
03:20I think we all need one of those ride or dies that's like, OK, I'll do it.
03:24I got your back.
03:25Was that immediate?
03:26It was very immediate for me because I've always been such a big admirer of Ryan, you
03:30know, my my entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since Young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37And, you know, what do you want?
03:38What do you want?
03:39What do you want?
03:40So getting this opportunity, then seeing him on set the first day, I led with compliments.
03:45I was like, you're so good looking, man.
03:49I did.
03:50I did.
03:51And that was his response.
03:52It's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:53Stop it.
03:54Stop it, man.
03:55Get out of here.
03:56Get out of here.
03:57What do you want to do in this scene, man?
03:58And I think, you know, that kind of just like fun playfulness also translates on screen
04:03because you feel comfortable, you feel comfortable risking.
04:06Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gail had to be a self-serving
04:12a-hole.
04:13I was just a bit like, you're not all that.
04:15Dead body on ice.
04:17He was so dead, Gail.
04:18He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gail's
04:24trailer.
04:25I was still so jet-lagged, I didn't know where any of my molecules were around the world.
04:29And they were so playful and encouraging to let me find her with them.
04:36And I wanted to constantly keep that barometer of the humor and her being a revolting, self-serving
04:45pig vomit.
04:46So I'm really thrilled that you saw that, because that's what we all have, isn't it?
04:51There are moments.
04:52Tom Ryder, the biggest action star on the planet, is missing.
04:58You need to bring him back.
04:59Why me?
05:00You're a stuntman.
05:01Nobody's going to notice you.
05:02That's your job.
05:03No offense.
05:04I mean, some taking.
05:05I can't believe you cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the biggest action star in the world.
05:09Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom Ryder.
05:11And then right as the movie's about to come out, they're talking about casting stuff.
05:16Yeah, I mean, I hope that, look, he would be an amazing James Bond.
05:20I'll just go on the record, like, I've never gotten to do enough action with Aaron, which
05:23is crazy.
05:24Like, we've done Bullet Train, and now we've done The Fall Guy.
05:28And all what I really want to do is an action movie with him, because he's such an incredible
05:32athlete.
05:33Like, Aaron is awesome.
05:35So maybe we'll get that opportunity soon.
05:38And I'll get to direct Bond.
05:39I don't know.
05:40We'll see.
05:41I was realizing that at some point, your character is doubling for Aaron's, and then in the reality
05:48of the set, you both have doubles.
05:50I mean, it sounds like this weird stuntman inception.
05:55How many duplicates?
05:56It's like a Matushka doll.
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58Just like big-faced cowboys.
05:59Yeah.
06:00So much gold lamé, Aaron.
06:01One smaller after the other.
06:02Yeah, but that was so fun, because I've been on sets where we're not acknowledging that,
06:06and it's just sort of like there's ten of the same character, and you know, it's just
06:10such a strange thing anyway, so to finally get to like actually work it into a film was
06:15so fun.
06:19Was it always Momoa?
06:20No.
06:21What were the other names that were thrown around?
06:23I don't want to say, I don't want to say because I feel like it was, we were, we, I reached
06:28out to a lot of people and friends, and it was really came down to, we were shooting
06:31in Australia.
06:33And it was like, it's hard to ask people to come down for a one-day cameo, you know, for,
06:40but what was great with Jason, and he was in New Zealand shooting his television show,
06:43and when I reached out to Jason, he's like, dude, I'll hop on a plane right now, it'd
06:47be fun, let's chew it up.
06:49And he did, and you know, he flew in that morning, we shot all day, and he flew back
06:55that night, so he could shoot the next day on his TV show that he was producing.
07:01So he's a good friend, and we go way back to his Conan, his first Conan movie.
07:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:07You had a pretty sick fight scene in the trailer, right?
07:10It was so good.
07:11And it was kind of-
07:12I felt the binder in the throat.
07:13Yeah, it was kind of goofy, too.
07:14That was your favorite move.
07:15What?
07:16That was your favorite move.
07:17You just sold it.
07:18You got to do just a straight action film.
07:19I would love to.
07:20She's a good-
07:21I mean, I do love a fight scene.
07:22I love a fight, especially with a big alien.
07:24A movie about fight scenes, were you like, yeah, I better have a fight scene?
07:28Yes, and I loved the confinement of it being in the trailer.
07:31I would use the smoothie blender, use the bullet, at some point the coir do choke, it's
07:36amazing.
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah, it's the pen.
07:40Finish it off with a pen.
07:41It's so tough.
07:42You need the pen.
07:43My favorite bit is at the end of that, where you're on the floor, and I come in with the
07:46pen, and then you're like this, and then your thumb goes up, your alien thumb.
07:50So good.
07:51One last stunt, going down in a blaze of glory.
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