00:00When I first got the opportunity to meet with Alex, I was so excited.
00:04And initially, when I heard it was a war film, my heart slightly sunk.
00:08Just because I wasn't necessarily that motivated to be part of a war film.
00:13Then when I heard the objective, which was to try and contribute to the canon of war films
00:19with something that was made devoid of Hollywood grammar, no score, no fictionalization,
00:24like a very literal, apolitical and objective recreation of real events, I was all in.
00:32And yeah, I should have known better.
00:34I should have known that Alex Garland was too clever to do otherwise.
00:37When you see your legs, or lack thereof, for the first time, it was pretty intense.
00:41How did you prepare for that?
00:43And what was it like on that day?
00:46It was...
00:47What was that day like?
00:50They all kind of merge into one, if I'm honest.
00:52I think because of the nature of the film itself, it was all very contained within this building.
00:59So the working days themselves kind of felt very similar.
01:03How did we prepare for that?
01:05We rehearsed a lot in the three weeks prior to the shooting days.
01:09So we had three weeks of boot camp where we were rehearsing.
01:14We rehearsed it like a play, actually.
01:16So we were kind of pretty prepared, calm shooting days, to kind of get through the work that we'd already rehearsed.
01:23Obviously, as you mentioned, it was kind of an intense moment.
01:27But there was an intensity that kind of prevailed throughout the film after this event.
01:31So I think it was up to all of us to kind of maintain that energy throughout the rest of the film
01:39and to give off-camera support as much as we could, because otherwise the film wouldn't really cut together.
01:44So we wanted to kind of maintain this sense of shock, this sense of chaos,
01:50and this sense of these young men trying to make sense of a really challenging situation
01:56and to get out of there, really.
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