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00:00They're gonna find out I'm a fraud!
00:02If someone could just decide to, like, delete everything,
00:04I don't know, it's just like, think about that,
00:06that would be crazy.
00:07Whoa, that's crazy, think about it.
00:09Underneath the legs of the guy and under.
00:11I have to put it all in perspective,
00:12because we have Tom Cruise hanging off of airplanes.
00:15I think it was, it just felt like what Hollywood
00:19has always done really great is invite strangers
00:24into a dark room and to take a journey
00:28with an unexpected hero.
00:31And that's something that is kind of the core mission,
00:36I think, of what movies should be.
00:40And right now in this moment in time,
00:45I felt like, hey, that's what I wanna watch.
00:48I wanna watch something that's just a lot of fun.
00:51I don't wanna watch anything that's a little bit,
00:56there are moments for that.
00:58And I do like certain things, but I kind of just think
01:00that there's nothing wrong with making
01:03just a great kind of entertainment
01:06that takes us away for a couple of hours
01:09from our telephones and our lives
01:11and just get into a really good story.
01:14And I looked at all the works I was developing
01:19and I felt that Charlie's script was kind of pushing me
01:23the most in that direction.
01:25And so I went to my fellow filmmakers
01:29that we make movies together and said,
01:33would you bring your masterful talents
01:35and help me to tell this story?
01:38And everyone was psyched and we just decided
01:40to jump on board.
01:41I mean, there were times where they were talking about
01:43doing certain things.
01:44And we had an incredible stunt team.
01:46They kept me so safe.
01:48And yeah, there were times where they were gonna
01:53not have me hanging out of a window
01:56from certain angles.
01:57And then I watched it and I just thought,
02:01I really just wanted to do it.
02:03I mean, I have to put it all in perspective
02:05because we have Tom Cruise hanging off of airplanes
02:08and jumping off of cliffs many, many times.
02:11So everything in perspective.
02:13But I have been talking a lot about Jackie Chan actually
02:17because I was remembering the first behind the scenes
02:19I ever saw where Jackie Chan, you know, the bloopers
02:22or the deleted scenes.
02:24Fresh Hour?
02:25Yeah.
02:26Yeah.
02:26And like Police Story.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Were there bloopers on those?
02:29Well, it was like you got to see when the stunts
02:32didn't go like all the time they tried it.
02:35And when we have, you know, I feel like a lot of people
02:38do that on the internet now where they're like,
02:40you'll see the amount of times somebody tries to shoot
02:42a basket or something and then you see them finally make it.
02:44And the first time I ever saw that kind of thing
02:46was Jackie Chan, I think.
02:48That's cool.
02:49And so to have that with this, it was like,
02:51it kind of reminded me of being a kid
02:53in the first behind the scenes being those stunt things.
02:56That's cool.
02:57I think fear makes you want to run,
02:58but also fear keeps you there in a way.
03:00Do you know what I mean?
03:01And you've got to, part of being an actor is,
03:04I think we've all felt it at some point,
03:05there's like, there's this precipice
03:07that you have to jump off every day, really.
03:09It never, I mean, I don't know about you,
03:11but I always get nervous on the first day and stuff.
03:141,000% still to this day.
03:16Really?
03:17Oh, 1,000, I can't sleep.
03:18Because you would never, ever,
03:20I would never guess that with you.
03:21Really?
03:22No, hell no.
03:23You're ice cold.
03:24Yeah, oh, well, no.
03:25Maybe I'm just ice cold.
03:27Yeah, but underneath the legs are going under.
03:29Oh, absolutely.
03:30My stomach hurts.
03:31It's doing flips, all of that.
03:33It's weird, that, isn't it?
03:34But I think that's part of,
03:35because we care about it so much.
03:37Yes.
03:38It didn't mean that much to us.
03:39I don't think that we would be so nervous.
03:42Yeah, because we're so invested in the process of it.
03:45First of all, Jacob Chase is that director.
03:48I've got to say hello to him.
03:49But he's the first person who ever cast me.
03:52Wow.
03:53And I went and I auditioned.
03:54First audition I ever went to.
03:55Wow.
03:56You booked the first job.
03:57Yes, a student film.
03:58Congratulations.
03:59Yeah, yeah.
04:00Which is wild how memory works,
04:01because I can sort of close my eyes right now
04:03and remember what that room felt like.
04:05I remember the experience of being on that very first set
04:08and not knowing anything.
04:11Not knowing anything about craft
04:13or about movie making and asking him to...
04:19I sort of was looking for mentorship in a way
04:21and Jacob saying, you know,
04:24Darren Aronofsky's my favorite director
04:26and watched Requiem for a Dream
04:28and it blew my mind.
04:31And so, yeah, all these years later,
04:34and we're talking 20 years?
04:36I guess, yeah, 12 to like 32?
04:38Yeah, that's crazy.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Finally to have this full circle moment.
04:42It's really, yeah, very cool.
04:44Also, when you admire the people
04:49and have great respect for the people
04:51that you're working with,
04:53I think that...
04:55I think Darren Aronofsky,
04:58just his body of work
05:01and being such a fan of his work,
05:03that just makes you want
05:05to bring your A-A-A-A-A-A game,
05:10you know?
05:11And...
05:12To that.
05:13Yeah, I think that definitely
05:15brings in some of the nerves as well,
05:18but also brings in that level of commitment
05:21to doing whatever research
05:24you're doing as an actor.
05:26It makes you even more committed
05:28when the people around you are equally committed
05:32and their body of work
05:33has already shown what that commitment,
05:36the results of that commitment.
05:38It was great,
05:39because we put up Kim's Video
05:40and Benny's Burritos,
05:41which were two very much loved East Village institutions.
05:47And then there were,
05:51like, endless manipulations of the skyline,
05:55because New York's skyline has changed so much.
05:57And also, we really made the effort
06:00to even bring back the ripe period graffiti artists
06:03to the landscape as well.
06:05So, it was a lot of fun
06:09to kind of recreate that stuff.
06:11And even when we went to Coney Island,
06:14there were certain rides
06:15that weren't there back in the day.
06:17And actually, as a...
06:19You know, to get reference for that,
06:20we had a look at old footage
06:22of Requiem for a Dream,
06:23because that was actually shot
06:25in the same year as this movie,
06:26and that helped us to remember
06:28where certain things were.
06:29The idea of being...
06:33not feeling so guilty as a director
06:37when you change course.
06:39And witnessing someone as accomplished as Darren
06:43actually change his mind about something,
06:45which every director does.
06:48I feel so guilty about doing it,
06:51because it means more work for your crew
06:54and people around.
06:55And Darren didn't seem to carry that guilt.
07:00And what I do know is the result,
07:04you know?
07:05And what I do know,
07:06even with things that I've directed,
07:08I'm making a change because of the result.
07:12It is the story is first.
07:14Yeah.
07:15And this is what serves the story best.
07:18And yes, I'm realizing it now in the moment,
07:22but that's what serves the story best.
07:25So, seeing him not hold that guilt
07:28and lean into the fact that the reason for this
07:31is because it serves the story,
07:33I feel like probably some of that guilt
07:39that I had had something to do with
07:41that I'm so young in this as a director
07:44that, you know, you're like,
07:46oh, they're going to find out I'm a fraud!
07:48You know?
07:50But to see that he's doing the same thing
07:56and hearing from him that every director does that,
07:59Regina, you know?
08:00Then I went back to my acting self and was like,
08:04yeah, I have experienced that before from other directors,
08:07but I guess I maybe didn't pay attention to it
08:10the way I did once I've started directing
08:13and the way I did witnessing Darren do it.
08:16And I was like, I am going to,
08:17next thing that I'm directing,
08:19I am not going to feel guilty.
08:21I'm going to remember.
08:22And not apologize for it.
08:23Yeah, I'm not going to apologize for it.
08:24I'm going to remember that it's for the story
08:29and, you know, buy the crew extra coffee truck that week.
08:34That's it, literally.
08:36You know, I still encourage people to buy DVDs
08:39and things like that because there is something scary about,
08:42like, there are some films that you can't find sometimes online
08:45and then all of a sudden you're, it's like, wow,
08:47like, I was looking for all that jazz the other day
08:49and I couldn't find it and I was like,
08:51All that jazz is not online.
08:52It's hard to find right now.
08:53And so, you know, it just kind of reminds you,
08:56like, these things that are important to us,
08:57you know, it is, there's a lot of power
08:59in having a physical copy of these things.
09:02So I do always hope that there is some version
09:05of having physical copies of film
09:08because, I mean, if someone could just decide
09:10to, like, delete everything, I don't know.
09:12It's just, like, think about that.
09:13It would be crazy.
09:14Wow, that's crazy to think about it.
09:16Yeah, I know.
09:17I remember, like, the kind of screen tests and stuff
09:20and we were toying around with different colors,
09:22but I went back into my dressing room
09:24and I looked in the mirror
09:25and I had this kind of stud jacket on
09:27and these, like, tartan khaki pants
09:30and my hair was a mohawk
09:32and I had this big cut above my eye
09:33and I went, fucking yeah, man.
09:36This is cool.
09:38Whatever this is.
09:39And there's jewelry everywhere,
09:40massive bullet here and stuff.
09:41And there was just,
09:43there was a really detailed quality
09:46to all of the design,
09:47from the things on my wrist
09:49to the rings on me
09:50to the tattoos on me
09:52that I got to sort of design
09:53with the guys and stuff
09:54and just a brilliant team of creative people.
09:57And I think Darren is really conscious
09:58about having the best in every single department
10:01and that really shows.
10:02And actually, that's why, you know,
10:04he works with people that have won Oscars,
10:07present company, including.
10:08Yeah.
10:09I'd never, I'd shot on digital
10:11in my entire life, really.
10:13And then on Quentin's movie
10:15on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
10:16the, being in a car
10:18and hearing the sound of a,
10:20of a film camera,
10:21you know, it's different than,
10:23than a digital camera.
10:24It's silent, you know,
10:25but then you hear the sort of purr of the camera.
10:29And even that is like,
10:31I realize that's going to be a real lost thing
10:33where some people won't experience that.
10:36And what comes along with that
10:38is knowing that you only have,
10:40you only have,
10:42it's like when you,
10:43when you have a roll of film
10:44and you're shooting stills,
10:45you know, every picture counts
10:46so much more than when you take it on your iPhone,
10:48you know.
10:49So there's something that
10:51it, it focuses the creativity in a way.
10:54But also, you know,
10:55there's something to be said for,
10:56you know,
10:59the, the,
11:00all the possibilities that come with
11:02technology making it easier.
11:03But yeah,
11:05it is wild to think about.
11:06I mean,
11:07we were just talking about AI.
11:08Yeah.
11:08I hope the writing stays,
11:09writing has to stay human,
11:11in my opinion.
11:12Yeah, keep writing human.
11:13Yeah.
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