00:00I love this movie so much.
00:02So do I. So does he.
00:04Ooh!
00:06It's a perfect movie.
00:07What?
00:08I was not expecting that.
00:10Even I Love You Cavalier, I was.
00:12I was bracing for him back.
00:13I was like, the hit's coming.
00:14Okay. Maniac.
00:17It's crazy.
00:20By the end of it, it felt like a big inside joke
00:24that the audience is in on.
00:26And that was the intention,
00:28that you were kidnapped into this madcap world of making a movie
00:33and that you weren't excluded from all of the inside jokes.
00:37Well, because it's also like,
00:39I think we felt like everybody's already a filmmaker anyway.
00:43Everyone in the audience makes their own content.
00:46Everyone knows what's up.
00:48There's no need to pretend anymore.
00:51It's not like we just acknowledge that we all know how movies are made.
00:55Yes, that there is no illusion actually.
00:57People are all filmmakers and so it's just,
01:00I'm glad you said that because that's sort of how we wanted to approach it.
01:03Just like, these aren't really inside jokes.
01:05I mean, we're all in on the joke.
01:06To set an action film within the world of the people who make them,
01:10you know, is just sort of like, yeah, of course,
01:12like they're capable of doing it because they are the ones that do it.
01:16So it's just sort of kind of, it was such a, I mean, it just, just, just even that.
01:21And then of course, like the opportunity to acknowledge some performers
01:25and just what they contribute.
01:26And it's just, you know, they, they, they risk more than anyone on a film set
01:30and they get no, none of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic. You know, it 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?
01:41Yeah.
01:42Where, you know, for me, one of the hallmarks is when the landscape is its own character
01:46and we're setting it against Sydney, Australia, the opera house.
01:50Yeah. Insane.
01:51The bridge. I mean, the 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.
02:03Were you also airing some grievances?
02:06Um, there are a few little like jabs in there about, um, you know, obviously not being recognized,
02:13not being an award, the Academy Award for stunts. I mean, they're tongue in cheek.
02:18I mean, I think that that's something that we're all working towards in a real positive way.
02:21And the Academy has been so supportive, you know, in the last couple of years
02:25that it feels like there's a really clear path and could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because, you know, Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make this a love letter
02:37to not just, um, stunt crews and the people that make movies,
02:42but people that love big popcorn movies. And so we did think a lot every day of like,
02:47what would the audience want? Yeah.
02:49Would they like to laugh here? Would 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 like really go on a journey.
03:00So we were every day, we thought about the audience. We really did.
03:03And it was sort of like, how do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really appreciate it?
03:09Uh, I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan.
03:14This is insane, man. Uh huh.
03:18I think we all need that. I think we all need one of those ride or dies.
03:22That's like, okay, I'll do it. I got your back.
03:25Was that immediate?
03:26Uh, it was very immediate for me because I've always been such a big admirer of Ryan, you know, my, my entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37And you know, what do you want? What 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.
03:48Is that what you said?
03:49I did, I did.
03:50And that was his response.
03:51He's like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Stop it. Stop it, man. Get out of here. Get out of here.
03:55What 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 because you feel comfortable.
04:04You feel comfortable risking.
04:06Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gail had to be a just, self-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, Gail. He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that, that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gail's trailer.
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.
04:35And I wanted to constantly keep that barometer of the humor and her being a revolting, self-serving pig vomit.
04:45So 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. Nobody's gonna notice you. That's your job. No offense.
05:04I mean, some 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, the casting stuff.
05:15Yeah, I mean, I hope that, I hope that, um, 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 is crazy.
05:24Like, we've done Bullet Train and now we did, um, 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 athlete.
05:33Like, Aaron is awesome.
05:35Yeah.
05:36So, um, maybe we'll get that opportunity soon and I'll get to direct Bond.
05:40I don't know how it goes here.
05:41I was realizing that at some point your, your character is doubling for Aaron's and then in the reality of the set, you both have doubles.
05:50Yeah.
05:51I mean, it sounds like a, like this weird stuntman inception.
05:54Yeah.
05:55How many duplicates?
05:56He's like a Matushka doll.
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58Space Cowboys.
05:59Yeah.
06:00So much gold lemonade.
06:01One smaller after the other.
06:02Yeah, but that was just so fun because I've been on sets where we're not acknowledging that.
06:06And it's just sort of like, there's 10, there's 10, there's 10 of the same character and you know, it's just such a strange thing anyway.
06:12So to finally get to like actually work it into a film was so fun.
06:19Was it always Momoa?
06:21Um, no.
06:22What, what were the other names that were thrown around?
06:24I don't want to say, I don't want to say because I feel like it was, we were, we, I reached out to 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, but 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 cop on a plane right now.
06:47It'd be fun.
06:48Let's, let's chew it up.
06:49And, um, he did.
06:50And it, you know, he flew in that morning.
06:53We shot all day and they flew back that night so he could shoot the next day on his, on his TV show that he was producing.
07:00So, um, he, he's a good friend and we go way back to his Conan, his first Conan movie.
07:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:06Yeah.
07:07You had a pretty sick fight scene in the trailer, right?
07:10So good.
07:11And it was kind of.
07:12The binder in the throat.
07:13Yeah.
07:14It was kind of goofy too.
07:15That was your favorite move.
07:16What?
07:17You just sold it.
07:18You gotta do just a straight action.
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 where you like, yeah, I better have a fight scene.
07:28Yes.
07:29And I love the confinement of it being in the trailer.
07:32And you use the smoothie blender.
07:33Use the bullet.
07:34At some point.
07:35I wrap it around his neck.
07:36And then I hit him over the head with it.
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah.
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, you're on the floor and I come in with
07:46the pen and then you're like this and then your thumb goes up, your alien thumb.
07:49So good.
07:50One last stunt.
07:53Going down in a blaze of glory.
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