00:00Do you think Matthew regretted it?
00:06I just think, you know, Matthew regretted it.
00:09He just...
00:11He was pretty decisive, I remember, you know,
00:14when he first delivered the script to me.
00:16We'd been talking before that, you know,
00:18this was a conversation that predated a script.
00:21But when the script arrived,
00:23he just chose that moment to tell me
00:26after I'd been kind of committed for about a year.
00:28Or you die.
00:31And I was fine with that.
00:33I think, you know, a spectacular death.
00:36It probably doesn't hurt your characters, you know,
00:39punctuate your character's arc with a spectacular death.
00:42But I didn't think it was going to happen on page 60 or whatever.
00:45And so, you know, when I read the first script,
00:48I was shocked.
00:51I didn't think that was the moment.
00:53I thought, okay, we think he's dead.
00:56And it was quite possible to think that,
01:00because there was no real follow-up.
01:02I mean, how he does just disappear.
01:04You know, we don't see...
01:05We don't go to the funeral.
01:06We don't see an autopsy.
01:07We don't get a close-up of his body.
01:09And I thought, that's because he's not dead.
01:11And then as the whole of Act 3 went on without me,
01:14I thought, guys, I've really gone.
01:16I'm not in the last act of this film.
01:19And so there was a feeling of being slightly hurt and left out.
01:25And I felt that again when I watched the film.
01:27And I thought, because I was so happy with the film.
01:30And I wasn't too happy to see Taron and Mark Strong
01:33steal the rest of it, really.
01:39So I've been resurrected, and that's something.
01:41And I just...
01:44When Matthew saw the reactions to the first film
01:47and also looking at how things had evolved on the set
01:51and our own relationships
01:53and the fact we'd all got on so well,
01:55it just felt right that somehow this is the team.
01:59And so then the problem was how?
02:02What do we do?
02:04Is it going to be a prequel?
02:05No, it's not going to be an evil twin.
02:07You know, there are all sorts of rather obvious ways.
02:10Because it's quite fashionable to bring people back
02:12to the graves these days.
02:13I mean, you know, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones,
02:16South Park, every episode practically.
02:18It's been going on for a while.
02:21But...
02:22And if you can be clever about it,
02:24people will buy it, hopefully.
02:27But the danger is then, you know, you'll lower the stakes.
02:31You know, every time someone gets shot in the head
02:33or blown up, you know.
02:36Everyone gets resurrected.
02:37You can't do that.
02:38So you have to be quite...
02:40You've kind of spent your capital there,
02:43if you do that once, I think.
02:51Well, I think so.
02:52I think it made it feel a bit less trite coming back.
02:54You know, if I just sort of burst through a door,
02:57perfectly formed.
02:59I think it would have, in some ways,
03:02it would have made...
03:03Even in this heightened world,
03:05I think it would have strained credibility.
03:06And it would have made it less interesting for me, perhaps.
03:09And what...
03:10Because...
03:11Without wanting to give too much away about this one,
03:13I think I have to earn my way back, I think.
03:16I think we all have to earn that.
03:18And even where we've left it now,
03:21I think there's somewhere to go for a number three.
03:23Well, I feel very, very lucky to be in this.
03:33Because I think Matthew has that quite unusual capacity
03:38to create a whole world around a film,
03:41around his own aesthetic.
03:46And, you know, I...
03:48Certainly it was his previous films that brought me here.
03:50And, you know, it was Kick-Ass,
03:51which I thought was genius.
03:53And the very, very underrated Stardust.
03:56You know, Leia Keg, I think they're very diverse.
03:59I think that he has a unique sense of humour.
04:03I think he can make things, you know, intense,
04:08quite brutal, and then funny.
04:11It's brutal without being...
04:13He's not very splattery.
04:14I don't know if you've noticed, with all this violence,
04:16it's not really gore.
04:18It's not blood all over the walls.
04:20It's quite specific to him,
04:21so I think he's almost carving out his own genre, really.
04:24And I know, because I've been sitting with Geoff this morning,
04:28giving his reasons for being here,
04:29and he was the first film.
04:30He said it was the sheer...
04:32He's, you know, you become quite a critic
04:34when you're in this business.
04:36You know, it's not easy.
04:37You can see what's wrong with an awful lot of other people's films,
04:40and your own.
04:42And when you see one that's been executed so well,
04:45you think, that's the guy I want to work with.
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