Nicholas Hoult talks working with Clint Eastwood

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00:00Clint Eastwood, he was 94 when you guys worked together?

00:0393.

00:03And he famously does one take.

00:06Is it nerve-wracking?

00:08I was lucky.

00:08I had a really good experience because I went from doing Nosferatu straight into the order,

00:11straight into jury number two.

00:12So those things were kind of literally a weekend between each shoot.

00:17And Rob Eggers, you shoot on film and it's kind of longer set up takes where, you know,

00:22you might end up doing 30 takes.

00:23And then Clint, yeah, is basically one take, sometimes two.

00:28But there's a wonderful thing where you're like, well, it's Clint Eastwood.

00:30And he's made countless brilliant movies.

00:32He knows.

00:33It's like playing jazz, I suppose, in a way where you just trust the process of it.

00:37I said to him, I was like, so we stood there one day and I was like, so how do you act?

00:41He was like, oh, well, it's, you know, it's an emotional art form.

00:44So, you know, don't think too much, just do.

00:47Just feel it.

00:47And I was like, oh, that's so simple.

00:49He really is like a believer in the story and a believer in the process and trust in the audience.

00:54And he just puts it out there.

00:56And I think that's why his movies are so good in many ways.

00:59So, it's, yeah.

00:59Here we go.