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Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti tell Melissa Nathoo how Paul Thomas Anderson let them 'play' in One Battle After Another, and what it was like being mother and daughter. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00She don't age, so she gets to just be 16 at any point.
00:04Oh my gosh, this is so fun.
00:05She's starting at the top of the food chain.
00:08Ladies, it's so great to see you.
00:10Congratulations as well.
00:12Like, great film, and you're in a Paul Thomas Anderson film,
00:14which is just amazing.
00:16But the two of you, did you get to know each other during filming,
00:20or was this all happened during the press tour?
00:22It's actually, it's like half and half.
00:23Yeah.
00:24Like, for a long chunk of time, we didn't meet each other.
00:26And then when we did, we actually met each other,
00:29and we bonded then.
00:30It's been fun, like, getting to know your mom on screen.
00:34I know, right?
00:35That's so weird, though.
00:36Yeah.
00:37It's not.
00:38It is also fun, because we are, like, still bonding
00:41and, like, growing a stronger relationship even just from this tour.
00:44Now, this is, like, the most time we've spent together.
00:47How have you found all of this, Chase?
00:49Because I know this is the first time that you're having to do,
00:51you know, this much press and, like, for such an incredible,
00:54like, and big film.
00:55How are you finding this?
00:56Right before we started, I was very anxious,
00:58because I was like, I don't know.
01:00I've never done this before.
01:01And I was asking, like, some of my friends who had done press tours
01:04just to kind of get an idea.
01:06But now that we're, like, actually in it and doing it,
01:09I'm like, oh, my gosh, this is so fun.
01:10I get to sit next to her all day and talk about the movie.
01:13Right?
01:14Right?
01:14So good.
01:15When you got this script, were you like, I have the best lines?
01:19Because I watched, like, this first time.
01:21And I was like, you were, like, a boss.
01:23I was like, yes, I want to be like her.
01:25Like, were you just like, I have the best lines in this?
01:27Listen, she gave herself the best lines.
01:29Oh, this is true.
01:30Yeah, Paul let me play.
01:32Paul let Perfidia play for sure.
01:34And, you know, that was a great time.
01:37I think that, you know, I'm extremely grateful and lucky to be able to play a character like Perfidia,
01:43where you can be deep, but also still, you know, badass and fun and just, like, unfiltered, you know?
01:51Perfidia was definitely unfiltered.
01:52Yeah, you don't get to be like that in life that much.
01:54Yeah, Perfidia potty mouth.
01:56Potty mouth Perfidia.
01:58Yeah, you can't be like that all the time.
02:01And listen, Chase, I know you've been asked this question a million times,
02:04but I still have to ask you because you're working with, obviously, Tana,
02:08but one of the greats is Leo.
02:10Like, we've grown up, I watched every single film going to the cinema to see him.
02:14To get to do that, like, to get to work with him, what's it like?
02:18What's it meant?
02:18I mean, literally, the entire movie itself is working with the greats.
02:21Like, outside of the two of them, like, you have Benicio del Toro, you got Sean Penn,
02:26you got Regina Hall, Paul Thomas Anderson.
02:27You got this, I'm starting with that.
02:32She's starting at the top of the pool chain.
02:34Like, it's something that I am so beyond grateful for.
02:38But, like, it was an opportunity that I was not taking lightly.
02:42I wanted to make sure that I showed up for everybody on the day and the scenes,
02:45like, during prep and even during rap, just being like, I'm here to do the job.
02:50I trust Paul.
02:51Literally guide me towards whatever you want me to do for the story.
02:54And I'm grateful for the outcome and I'm grateful for the opportunity in general.
02:58But I was like, okay, this is big and I got to make sure that I show up for myself
03:03and show up for them.
03:04Oh my god, you showed up and, like, you killed it.
03:07You are the go-to girl to, like, be the daughter of, like, the famous people, right?
03:11You are that girl.
03:12And then she's, like, also so lucky because she gets to, she don't age,
03:17so she gets to just be 16 at any point.
03:20She has such, so much more time, like, in this industry.
03:25Like, you get to, like, you really kill it.
03:28You're both killing it.
03:29In this, like, no one did a bad job.
03:31Like, everyone brought it.
03:33So, congratulations.
03:33It was a great cast, sure.
03:35It is.
03:35Thank you so much, ladies.
03:37Appreciate you.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Yeah.
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