00:00Realism is boring but exaggerated realism is cinematic and that's what you want you want to get you want you want it to feel real but you want it to be you know entertaining and so I'm always going to have trying to make the move the moment feel as real as possible.
00:16What is this and who is they?
00:18Change of plans you two are going to help me steal 60 million dollars from the casino because if you don't your wife's dead.
00:25You let us go I'll let you bang my twin sister looks like me with long hair you trying to get us a shot.
00:35So Eddie I know that you handpicked both Pete and Kiki for this movie can you talk to me about what you
00:41He didn't handpick me he handpicked him John Davis John Davis okay I had Kiki first
00:47Okay he actually said Kiki she's the last person I see for this
00:52That's not what I said.
00:53And I was like Eddie why I've always looked up to you and he was like Kiki you're just not any good.
00:57That's not what I said.
00:59Okay so I'm going to hone in on the question and what did you see in Pete that made you want to ask him to be in the film?
01:08Pete is very funny and I saw that Pete could play this role.
01:12He's a good actor.
01:15Right.
01:15And then I know that both and I saw that I saw that we would have that we would have fun together.
01:21I was like okay we have a lot in common.
01:23We have similar backgrounds and stand-up comedy Saturday Night Live and you know so I was like hey we could have fun.
01:32And I'm actually glad you brought up because I was going to bring that to Pete as well too with you two being alumni from Saturday Night Live and you know you both started in stand-up.
01:42What's something that you learned from Eddie on this film not as a comedian but as an actor?
01:48Oh wow.
01:50So much.
01:51I mean there was a lot of scenes where you know certain things I didn't see it but it actually didn't make sense because I have so few.
02:02I haven't done a lot of movies and I don't have a lot of making movies knowledge where even just technical stuff like if I remember with that fight where it's like if he hits
02:12me like that or hits me with the gun like I'm dead right so we he changed around a certain fight where it would be like more practical and it made the scene work.
02:23So there was just a lot of stuff where he knew from past experiences and because he's really smart and you know makes movies that certain things.
02:32That was really cool to see that the day that he's talking about where we had an action scene and they have been showing me and Pete everything to do but then.
02:40I was like okay sir.
02:41Yeah we were like okay cool we'll do it.
02:43Eddie said absolutely not there's no way that I'm going to be doing that and if that happened he'd be out and she'd be dead.
02:48Y'all need to work this out.
02:50And then reworks the whole thing but it's just again it's the truth.
02:53He always does what is the truth and I think we always say that all the time in acting and film and making and all that type of stuff but it's it's for whatever reason sometimes we do everything but he's always going to ground it.
03:04Trying to make it real want it to be as real not all the way real and 48 hours it's a dude it's a scene where a guy has a hat on they get the Indian guy to kill the girl has an ER on the hat and people always think that stands for emergency room but it stands for exaggerated realism and that's what Walter Hill who directed the movie he was like this movie is like realism is boring but exaggerated realism is cinematic and that's what you want you want to get you want
03:34you want it to feel real but you want it to be you know entertaining and so I'm always going to have trying to make the move the moment feel as real as possible if it feels real then it's really going to be funny exaggerated realism.
03:51So Kiki I wanted to talk about the director real quick um Tim story he has like a wide range of themes with his films and I think you take a lot of diverse roles in your career as well so which made for an interesting dynamic.
04:04Um what was it like working with him as a director and what stood out to you most about his directing style?
04:10Well he thinks about everything from the moment that we started filming I saw that you know how incredible he was as a director because he scheduled everything around also our comfortability with coming in to working with this icon and also the fact that this is an icon and we need to make sure that we prepare everything for him because he knows what to do.
04:29So I remember like just the first day that we shot it was just Pete and I and then we both had some separate things and then slowly he rolled us into working with Eddie and even those details like directing starts in the pre-production.
04:42So not only all of that pre-production stuff but then when we got on set like it's a lot of stunt stuff so everything was just perfectly timed out I mean he just thought about everything I've been I've worked with a lot of directors where it's like okay their focus is the art their focus is the characters their focus is the script his is all of that and the schedule and how we're comfortable when we get there so it was a real breeze working with somebody like him.
05:05I hope to do many more with him so Eddie Kiki Pete I appreciate y'all thank y'all.
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