00:00When we talked the first time, I said, this is a movie that I want to see really badly.
00:05And with not skipping a beat, it was like, is it a movie you want to be in?
00:10And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to be in it.
00:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16We wrote the script, right?
00:18So we had the script first, and then we created like a deck, like a lookbook with all kinds
00:21of images and a description that was fun and had all the references that we had in the
00:27movie, and when you sent that with the script, did you get it with that thing?
00:30Was that helpful?
00:31Yeah, it's super helpful.
00:32It's just beautiful kind of like, you know, visual storybook in chapters referencing all
00:40of the amazing movies that I saw on repeat and through my childhood, way too early on
00:46cable, and just the idea of what you were after in terms of genre, in terms of what was
00:54personal to you guys, nostalgia and this collage of styles.
01:03For us, it was just, we really wanted it to be a fun, wild, freaky ride.
01:12And above all, you know, as we were kind of like exploring these themes of like underdogs
01:18who, you know, this like wish fulfillment fantasy of underdogs who were like having their
01:22day, we wanted it to be like a, you know, blast to watch.
01:30And I think that, you know, in our pitch deck, and as we were kind of, you know, talking to
01:34people about it, we wanted to express that like enthusiasm and that kind of, you know,
01:39liveliness that we wanted to bring to the movie so that, you know, the audience and the people
01:44involved, like everybody should just be having fun, like making and watching this movie.
01:49And whether you looked at the deck first or whether you read the spirit first, either
01:52way, you knew, like if you read it, it immediately like put everything in the context because it
01:59is in the different chapters.
02:00So like there was just this thing of like, oh, that's what they're going to do with this.
02:04Oh, that's what they're going to do with that.
02:05I just remember having that feeling.
02:06And then also like this, like graphic novel, comic book thing that was like really just
02:13jumping off the page.
02:15I remember feeling that I was, my, my thing was slightly different with Babe than Pedro's.
02:20I had worked with Ryan and Anna before, so I didn't even read the script and I was like,
02:24yeah, I'm in.
02:25I was really lucky to start my character storyline in the first week of shooting.
02:31And that felt like, um, every being a part of everybody, introducing themselves to the
02:39physical shooting of the experience.
02:40And it did feel a lot different than these, like, as you say, big overblown projects where
02:48you're kind of just getting into a much more intimate experience and you're fast tracking
02:56a connection to one another because there are just, you know, the elements are us.
03:01It's sort of the thing that I've dreamt about as a, as a kid, seeing a lot of the movies
03:06that are being referenced in this, um, being like, uh, uh, you know, seeing sex lesson videotape
03:12in the movie theater, half Nelson at what I thought was a little screening, but apparently
03:16was the premiere in New York.
03:19I'm like, I was, I was at that tiny, tiny little screening of half Nelson.
03:22You're like, oh, the New York premiere.
03:23I'm like, yeah, that one.
03:24Uh, basically as an artist, as an actor, it's what, it's the experience that you're, you're
03:31always after.
03:32And weirdly as great as, as, as fortunate as I've been, it's strangely been a very elusive
03:41one to me as far as getting to be in that experience.
03:45I know it got hard, but not the first week when I was there.
03:47Everybody was like working really hard to like pull something off that was nearly impossible.
03:56But with these guys, at last, we had like an A camera downstairs setting up for Pedro
04:00to come out of the house at the very end of the movie, one of his last shots.
04:03And so we're set up for that.
04:04The B camera's upstairs with Jay, who's like destroying people and spoiler alert, he's
04:08killing a bunch of people upstairs.
04:09So bodies are flying around and they were saying action downstairs.
04:12And Pedro's like, what if there's bodies flying around, I'm supposed to fuck.
04:16And, uh, like bodies falling down the stairs.
04:19It was crazy.
04:19So Anna and I were jumping from camera to camera and, uh, and sorry for, uh, Oh, geez,
04:24you would never know.
04:25And you see it and you can't believe that this very, very, um, immaculate sequence of
04:32action starring Jay Ellis is, you know, you'd think that they would have, it was all kind
04:38of happening simultaneously while the movie was getting finished.
04:42And I sympathize deeply in terms of how challenging that must have been.
04:47But the result is it's unbelievable.
04:50It kind of unnerves you to, to, to realize what you can get away with.
04:54I remember you calling me after you saw it for the first time.
04:57Do you remember that?
04:58Yeah.
04:58And you were like, dude, I am so sorry.
05:00I had no idea that you were up there doing that while I was downstairs doing it.
05:03He had no idea because we were truly same, same house, but we were fully separated and
05:07we were both locked into our flight of stairs, but we're also both very much locked into
05:11our own thing.
05:11We're going through both very big moments in this story.
05:16And so we are fully separated and fully focused in our own thing.
05:19And I actually didn't know that that's what you read downstairs.
05:21Yeah.
05:21Do we?
05:22And I didn't know what you guys were doing.
05:23I was like, they're really loud up there.
05:26Do they know we're rolling?
05:27And they're like,
05:28As directors, we really do try to like protect the environment.
05:34Like really give them the space to like, you know, get into their characters and feel like
05:42they're just in their own world.
05:44We knew what we were doing.
05:45Like there was never, we weren't like unsure.
05:48It wasn't just like executing a thing.
05:50It was, let's all come in.
05:52Let's create.
05:53Let's all get in this together.
05:54And like, do you have thoughts?
05:55Like, I will say you guys for as little time as we had, as much as you opened it up and
06:00we're like, tell me, what are you thinking?
06:02What do you want to try?
06:03Like with the, with the days that we had, like the space that you created for that, I
06:08think was just really amazing.
06:10And I think it makes you want to lean in for me.
06:13It makes you want to lean in even more and work harder and like, and get the moments.
06:17My vision born 20, 24.
06:20I'm about to get all embarrassing, but, um, as somebody did my tarot, there's,
06:25there's this one car is like the sun card.
06:27It's like this little baby on a horse and he's all like naked and he's like, here I am world.
06:33And that's my vision.
06:34I'm excited to get back to work.
06:36I think that we've been working on this for a long time.
06:38The movie has been done for a little while.
06:39So we're happy to get it out into the world and show people and, and start something new
06:44and, um, stay busy.
06:46I think for me, I think it's a work, like, you know, ready to get back to work, especially
06:50after last year.
06:51And then I think also too, like really excited to see this movie, like go out in the world
06:55and find an audience that people will be super excited to go see.
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