00:00All right, if I'm gonna do somersaults naked in this sandbox, let me check it all out and see if there's any broken glass
00:14Welcome to a not rainy London now, isn't it?
00:16Look what happened. Hey, this is a very interesting project for you
00:20I know because you have your son and your mother on set. Yeah in the same way to see them at work
00:24Were you happy to like see dad at work? They get to see dad at work. Well, they've seen
00:29They've seen dad at work like like levi and the kids have been on almost all the sets i've worked on
00:35And we put them to work they take jobs on the set like levi worked in the camera department
00:39For two months before he stepped in front of the camera and took the role
00:43In this film, so they've seen me work, but we've never worked in a scene together
00:49You know to see i worked with levi on that scene and
00:53for weeks and then i told him i said look the day we go to work
00:58He's yours the character's yours i'm not going to be there as a safety net i'm not going to be there as a thumbs up or thumbs down
01:05Go in and own what you the choices you made and it was a proud moment as a dad to show up at work that day and him
01:12Not even looking over his shoulder at me for any approval like just him working with paul and him owning his man
01:18And that was a proud moment for me to see him take that ownership
01:21There's two moments in this film two different characters say we need to do things not by the book anymore
01:26I feel like that describes mcconaughey as a human as well
01:29You're not going to do things by the book when the time allows for it do you think that's a fair
01:33Well i'm more and i don't mean this as a political term i mean it as a sort of
01:38Choice-making paradigm i'm more conservative early liberal late i do like to check out the book first
01:44What are the rules of engagement how's this game supposed to be played all right if i'm going to do somersaults naked in this
01:49Sandbox let me check it all out and see if there's any broken glass we're going to jump in the pool
01:54Let's check and see if there's water in it first let's go by the book and check out the rules and regulations all right what the consequence could be
02:00After that you've created your own weather i've studied the script or have an idea of what i want out of a relationship or
02:08Or whatever that is then throw the book away now go off now call audibles now
02:17Play and that's the fun part the work is the preparation when you study the playbook of whatever it is you're doing
02:24But the play is once you're in the game you don't want to be thinking about the playbook when you're in the game
02:28So that's probably where i think you're talking about maybe you've seen me improvise or do things my own way
02:34It's based off of certain values that i've already studied and prepared for it's a pleasure to talk to you
02:41Thank you so much appreciate enjoy thank you
02:47I thought it would be an entertaining story even if it wasn't based on truth
02:52And then to know that it was based on truth gave me a little more resonance a little more
02:55reverence and purpose for reason to dive in and tell it
02:58The father son story the second chances aspect of the story the idea we've all felt like we're too late or something's too late
03:09To handle or help out or amend and when do we get those second chances how often do we just pump them down the road
03:17Over and over and over thinking that they'll always be there and then that window closes and that opportunity is not there
03:22And the idea that when you do get a second chance take that opportunity right then
03:26Then the idea of uh
03:29On a human level you know you we we have another gear that we kick into when we're on death's door
03:37That we don't give ourselves credit for and sometimes you got to drive
03:41Through hell and right down the throat of the dragon to get to get out of it. It's not a passive
03:47Kumbaya sit on the sidelines. Let's hope this storm passes
03:50Sometimes it is a lot of times. It's like i'm gonna go right down the eye of the storm to get through it
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