Jordan Gonzalez takes 'The Long Walk'

Jordan Gonzalez sat down with 'Romeo International Podcast' on Audacy to share insights into his experience filming 'The Long Walk.'

Transcript

00:00jordan don't even know where to begin except for this is not just a simple walk they lied

00:06i'm proud of you boys you got sacked maintain the speed of three miles per hour walk until

00:18there's only one of you left who's ready to win you stepped into the role as richard

00:26where did you begin did you begin with stephen king or did you begin with where lawrence wanted to go

00:35you know lawrence wanted to go where stephen king went and and jt as well so there was always this

00:42beautiful synergy of understanding that stephen king is highly involved in this process and we are

00:49going to do as as as best as we can honor to the source material but i did start with rereading

00:58the book because i had already read the book rereading the book finding those those key points

01:03that that stephen king had made about who harkness is and then building and expanding upon that me doing

01:10my research and finding out that like this was a real thing what did you see the underline was

01:16as far as the purpose because your character was trying to find the purpose of why they were doing

01:23this i think for him like his purpose because it's unlike hunger games where where no one has anything

01:32everyone is is poor you know everyone is up against hard times everyone's trying to have to have a better

01:39life and also being 18 and a young man and trying to make a better life without understanding the the

01:45weight and the gravity of the situation you know the state really gives you no choice it's either

01:51you do this and and you're so young that you you maybe don't understand the weight and the gravity of your

01:58decision or and and you might get your chance to get out or you stay and you're poor and you have nothing

02:06and you are under a rule of the major that maybe goes against who you are as a human being and so

02:12they really make it difficult for for young men to say no to an opportunity like this i think it was

02:20so dope each one of y'all being so different yeah walking the same path you start to think like in

02:272025 is that how we are are we just people going in a direction that has no no end to it is there a

02:36falsehood in what we're being told and where we're going sure sure i think it's really relevant to

02:43what's going on in the world right now unfortunately you know stephen king wrote this so many years ago

02:49you know and like you said the baton death march happened so many years ago and like all these things

02:54that like we keep repeating the same cyclical things where we all are on this journey of walking

03:00forward together with the end goal being peace and the end goal being equality and acceptance

03:07but at what point is the is the scale is going to shift where we get there what walk me a while

03:14yeah yeah i do pete

03:17you boys are the answer the long walk is the answer