00:00Hello Jesse, thank you so much for your time.
00:02I'm so sure that you're tired of telling the story, but are you okay?
00:06What happened to your finger? It looks quite painful.
00:08I'm doing the third Now You See Me movie, and it's a lot of action.
00:12And it turns out, I don't know what the expression is,
00:16but in my mind I'm more of an action hero than my body would like to agree with.
00:21Well, I'm glad you're here tonight.
00:23Me too.
00:24Can I ask, congratulations on your second feature film, which you've already directed.
00:28Where was the idea sparked from for this screenplay?
00:32Yes, so this movie has been like 15 years in the making,
00:35and my wife and I travelled on the same tour that these characters go on in this movie.
00:39We did that in 2008.
00:41I came back from that trip, and I wrote a play that took place in Poland
00:45and starred Vanessa Redgrave as my second cousin,
00:47and I played a character named David who goes to Poland.
00:49And then I did another play on the West End called The Spoils,
00:52where I played a character named Benji, who is kind of stuck in his juvenile phase in life.
00:56And I took those two characters and I put them in the same room together
00:59and got them talking, and there was a real funny rapport that came out.
01:03And then I realised I can set them on this very kind of serious journey
01:07while still maintaining a levity and a kind of brightness to the story.
01:10The chemistry between yourself and Ciaran on screen in this is just so bloody believable.
01:14Oh, thanks.
01:15Was that because, did you guys put in the work beforehand
01:18to create this chemistry, this dynamico, or did it click straight away?
01:21How was the casting?
01:22I can only attribute that to that the script was quite specific
01:26in how they feel about each other.
01:28It's not just that there's one thing.
01:30It's not just that he intimidates me.
01:33I also intimidate him with my stability.
01:35So it's all this various stuff, and it's very specific in the script
01:38because I played these two parts in different plays and written this kind of thing before.
01:41And then the second thing I would attribute to is just Ciaran's brilliance,
01:45which is just that he's very comfortable on camera being natural.
01:49It sounds like an easy thing.
01:51It's like the hardest thing in the world.
01:52That's the goal of an actor.
01:54And he is just the greatest thing I've ever seen.
01:57I mean, watching him perform every day was like a dream come true
02:00as a director and as an actor, exhilarating,
02:03because he's playing off me in a way that feels so realistic.
02:06It's hard to describe, but it's like, as a director and an actor,
02:09it's like the greatest possible thing in the world.
02:11I've had a lot of fun with you, but you've got to move on.
02:13So thanks so much for your time, and congratulations again.
02:16Cheers.
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