00:00I love this movie so much.
00:01So do I.
00:02So does he.
00:03Yes.
00:04Ooh.
00:05Fuckin' 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 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.
00:48We all know.
00:49There'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
01:01sort of how we wanted to approach it.
01:04These aren't really inside jokes.
01:05We're all in on the joke.
01:07To set an action film within the world of the people who make them, is just sort of
01:11like, yeah, of course, they're capable of doing it, because they are the ones that do
01:16it.
01:17Yes.
01:18It was such a ... I mean, just even that, and then of course, the opportunity to acknowledge
01:24stunt performers, and just what they contribute, and it's just ... They risk more than anyone
01:29on a film set, and they get none of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic.
01:34It feels like the movies that brought you to the theater in the first place as a kid.
01:38It's like all those big action epics, right?
01:43For me, one of the hallmarks is when the landscape is its own character, and we're setting it
01:47against Sydney, Australia, the opera house.
01:50Yeah, insane.
01:51The bridge.
01:52The 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 jabs in there about obviously not being recognized, not being
02:14an award, the Academy Award for stunts.
02:17They'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.
02:22We've all been so supportive in the last couple of years that it feels like there's a really
02:27clear path and it could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make this a love
02:36letter to not just stunt crews and the people that make movies, but people that love big
02:43popcorn movies.
02:45We did think a lot every day of 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 really go on
02:59a journey.
03:01So every day we thought about the audience, we really did, and it was sort of like, how
03:04do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really appreciate it?
03:10I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan to be so...
03:15This is insane, man.
03:18I think we all need that.
03:19I think we all need one of those ride or dies that's like, okay, 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 my
03:31entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since Young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37What 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.
03:46Is that what you said?
03:47That was his response.
03:48I did, I did.
03:50And that was his response.
03:51He's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:52Stop it.
03:53Stop it, man.
03:54Get out of here.
03:55Get out of here.
03:56What do you want to do in this scene, man?
03:57And I think, you know, that kind of just like fun, playfulness also translates on screen
04:03because you feel comfortable.
04:04You feel comfortable risking.
04:07Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gale had to be a just
04:11self-serving a-hole.
04:13I was just a bit like, you're not all that.
04:15Dead body on ice.
04:17He was so dead, Gale.
04:18He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gale'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.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Tom Ryder, the biggest action star on the planet, is missing.
04:58You need to bring him back.
05:00Why me?
05:01You're a stuntman.
05:02Nobody's going to notice you.
05:03That's your job.
05:04No offense.
05:05I mean, sun-taken.
05:06I 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.
05:15Yeah, 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.
05:58It's one of the 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, I reached out
06:28to a lot of people and friends, and it was really came down to, we were shooting in 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, and he did, and you know, he flew in that morning, we shot
06:53all day, and he flew back that night, so he could shoot the next day on his TV show that
06:58he 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 love 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, it was just-
07:31Oh, and you used the smoothie blender, you used the bullet, at some point, the Co-Ardu
07:35choke, it's amazing.
07:37And then I hit him over the head with it, I mean-
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah, it's-
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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