00:00I think just aside from being away from our families for so long, we shot in South Africa,
00:05so it was quite far away and we didn't get to fly home every weekend because it's a 21-hour
00:09flight, so we were pretty much there for five straight months, but I think as far as the
00:13production goes, I think it was just getting, you know, working on Nate's, like the Nate
00:21Fu we call it, like figuring out what these fight scenes are going to feel like, how they're
00:25going to feel different, and most importantly, getting Jack to unlearn the instinct of flinching
00:33when you get hit, you know, and I think as an actor, you work your whole career and every
00:37time you do a fight scene, if you get slapped in the face or punched in the stomach, you're
00:40going to wince, you're going to sell the pain if you're a good actor, you know, and so he
00:43had to work with our stunt coordinator to kind of, you know, reprogram himself so that
00:48he could get punched in the face and not react, and yet, you can't go too far, you don't want
00:53to look like you're a robot, you know, there's still fear and anxiety and worry in your face,
00:59but not pain, and so that was something that Jack worked really hard on and we think is,
01:05you know, he absolutely nails it.
01:07When we were taking that pass on the script, whenever we write, we usually choose an actor
01:12that we're sort of writing in the voice of just because there's two of us, so it allows
01:15us to stay on the same page, and Jack was our choice at that stage in the game because
01:19we were watching the boys and he was just so perfect in that show and he was such a
01:23perfect Nate for this movie, and we were lucky enough to get him, and the reason he's
01:28so suited for Nate is because he can handle both the comedy in this movie, you know, which
01:34is quite demanding, you know, and he's such a talented physical comedian and such a talented
01:41improver, but then he can also handle the weight of the emotional scenes in the movie,
01:45you know, you have to buy that this guy seriously loves this woman and would do anything for
01:49her, and there's real stakes in this film, you know, it's very funny, but Nate's journey
01:54is still a real thing that we're supposed to invest in, and Jack is kind of, you know,
01:58the perfect messenger for that story.
02:01That version of the script was pretty different from what you see today as the movie, tonally
02:06it was a lot more down the middle, there wasn't really a lot of comedy in it, and so we came
02:09on when we attached to direct and we kind of pushed it in that more comedic direction
02:13and brought it to sort of our tonal sweet spot, so yeah, that is kind of the original
02:20concept, I think we just saw a lot of potential there, it was a very sticky, very commercial
02:23idea of this guy who can't feel pain who's thrust into an action movie and has to save
02:27the person he loves, and we just kind of ran with it from there.
02:30Absolutely not, no, it's definitely, you know, it's a debilitating condition to have, you
02:37know, like it sounds like it's something that would be cool, but you don't, you know, I
02:40think you don't really think it through usually, I mean that means that if you, you know, step
02:45on some glass, you might not know it until you've lost a pint of blood, you know, it's
02:50actually, you know, it's something that I think a lot of people might think is really
02:56cool but, you know, the actual condition is quite difficult to have.
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