00:00attracted me was I it was a new take on you know the genre
00:04because it was really a politically charged and family
00:10oriented film story and I thought I could do something
00:13with this there's a lot going on with this guy and I also
00:17knew that I could bring in some great actors to play those
00:21roles at which you know John Suave being the director he is
00:24was able to attract that kind of talent and yeah, I was it
00:28it was it was really exciting putting the film together in my
00:31life at this age now, you know I've had I've had a big family
00:35and we've had a lot of risks.
00:38And during those risks sometimes a couple of times the
00:41family members have passed away.
00:44And I remember thinking man if I could just get back 20 seconds
00:48to say what are we doing like you know what's important is
00:51that we love each other and you know we were we're here a
00:54limited amount of time and that kind of resonates with me with
00:57this story, it's like I'm running out of time and she
01:00Melissa Leo says something to me.
01:02She said you know
01:05you were a certain kind of man soon you're going to be an old
01:08man.
01:09And that and that's that resonates because I'm at the
01:12age now I think about death a lot.
01:15And I'm thinking
01:17I got I got to really be a better person I got to be a
01:20better person to my kids to my to my friends, my family,
01:24I want I want to reconcile all that nonsense and I want to do
01:28the right thing and that's kind of again that was kind of the
01:31building blocks for gunned for gunner
01:34movie started in Puerto Rico and it went down because of
01:37money problems and then we got to do it again.
01:40But we went to Columbia.
01:42And so part of the difficulty was
01:46getting the cast in line again, putting them back together and
01:50getting the same feeling we had when we started the movie and
01:53that was that was I credit, John Schwab to really holding
01:55it all together.
01:57So the difficulty for me in this film was was
02:01with keeping everybody together I was more of a
02:04a producer almost trying to keep the family together
02:09to get this task done. And it really by the way going to
02:13Columbia made it better for us because we were in the jungles
02:15in Columbia,
02:17not on the beaches of of Puerto Rico and Columbia and
02:20Venezuela are very close. So it wound up, you know, sometimes
02:24you see obstacles is just obstacles. But sometimes the
02:27universe is giving you that obstacle because there's
02:29something better on the other side and I think that was the
02:31case with this movie.
02:32What I learned from gunner is
02:37tolerance
02:38to you learn I had to learn how to be tolerant of what I didn't
02:43understand and that's those people and that's that place I
02:46say it in the movie, I don't care about that as well care
02:49about Russia, I don't care about I don't watch CNN.
02:52But the truth is
02:54given somebody cracked his heart open which she did I did
02:58care about those things and you know what my children in my
03:01life have taught me to open my heart and open my my brain to
03:06what's around me and not just worry about myself and my my
03:10own family, but people and that's again that was the
03:13themes that we were looking to explore.
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