00:00I'm a motorcycle enthusiast, I ride, I'm obsessed with motorcycles and, you know, for me, they had
00:06such a huge impact in my life, in my identity, that I wanted to essentially have an homage or
00:12love letter to motorcycles. So, and I realized that there wasn't a film set in the world of
00:17motorcycle racing. No, it just hadn't been done before. So I took it as a great challenge that
00:22maybe I'm the person to make this film. And also thematically, I was at a point in my life where,
00:27you know, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be a man in the modern world, you know,
00:31and searching for mentors and guidance about, about, yeah, going from essentially young man
00:36to man. And all those questions led me into writing it all in one fast move.
00:43I was working with Eric, with Edward and the rest of the cast on set.
00:48Oh, it was an absolute dream.
00:50A dream. I mean, I mean, Edward James Olmos, I've loved him since I was a kid.
00:55He's just an incredible actor, legendary. And I was so grateful that he responded to the script
01:01and I couldn't imagine the film without all of them. But Edward was just an incredible man
01:05and mentor to me. Eric Dane, obviously a wonderful actor and was so perfect for the role of Dean and
01:11brought so much of himself and his life into this film. KJ Apa is just a dream. You know,
01:16he came on for a year before we started shooting. He developed the script and the character with me.
01:21Just a great actor, fully committed, wonderful, wonderful guy. And Maya Rafiko, of course,
01:26an incredible talent, amazing singer. You know, she's on Broadway right now. She's
01:31just an amazing talent and a ray of light and really brought that, you know, she lights up
01:36the screen in one fast move. And so I can't say enough about it. It was just a dream.
01:41But there's always challenges that come up every day with unexpected things. But I would say that
01:45the main thing with the racing, for instance, because you're dealing with the fast moving bikes
01:51is safety and weather. You know, there was a lot of thunderstorms, lightning storms and rain. And
01:56so we had to, you know, we had a lot of delays in terms of waiting for the track and waiting for it
02:00to be safe. But again, those things are expected. You know, you roll with them and it ends up being
02:04exactly how it should be. But other challenges, I would say, just really wanting to try to capture
02:10the speed of the bikes, you know, was a challenge. But ultimately, when you have a great team and you
02:16have the time to prep and great racers, you know, we were able to to capture it. You know,
02:23Dean Miller is somebody who I think was didn't know how to be a father. You know, he wasn't
02:30shown how to be a father. So when you know, when he has a son, I think his the easiest thing for
02:37him to do is take a one fast move and get out of there, you know, and, you know, that obviously
02:43creates a void, I think, both in himself and a sense of guilt and shame for leaving, but also
02:50within his son. And so I would say, you know, it's two men who have a lot of pain, who are
02:56not good at expressing their feelings, who ultimately, by the end, are able to express
03:01those feelings, work for those conflicts and are better and changed for it moving forward.
03:08Hope for redemption, you know, that that people can change. And I think a lot of the catalyst for
03:13change is a lot of the first starting point is forgiveness. You know, so I do believe that we can
03:20we can heal these fractured relationships. If we express our truths, you know.
03:27And what's next for you?
03:29It's a great question. I don't know, I have a few things going on. But we'll see which one wants to
03:35jump out of the gate first. So we'll see.
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