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, and 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, I think, because of the nature of...
00:54the 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,
01:19to kind of get through the work that we'd already rehearsed.
01:23And obviously, 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,
01:42because 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.
01:57So let's see.
02:00I'm going to make sense of a flourish.
02:01So...
02:02I can't make sense of the game of this world.
02:02So...
02:02I started to make sense of what's best...
02:03Because I told you last time a day...
02:06I don't have to be able to be able to destroy the game of this world before this time.
02:08But I'm going to make sense of.
02:08And I'm going to make sense of it.
02:08I'm just going to make sense of the film.
02:10So...
02:10and I'm going to make sense of what happens when you're using the film.
02:12How about this film?
02:13What has happened in the film?
02:14So I thought it was...
02:15So I think of my...
02:16Then I'm going to make sense of it that you've made any sense of stuff.
02:17And as you know, you know, I've been looking at this film.
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