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'The Fall Guy' screenwriter and executive producer Drew Pearce talks about Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling's on screen chemistry and working with director David Leitch. Plus, he reveals why they touched on the dangers of A.I. and deepfakes in the film.

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00:00I guess, hey, wait, the fool guy.

00:02Congratulations.

00:03You got this matching memo, too, with all of them.

00:06Yeah, the irony is, I actually didn't get the memo.

00:09This is genuinely, see, algae is just very in, and we all went here.

00:14Yeah.

00:14Amazing coincidence.

00:16Yeah, I know, truly.

00:17So how did this kind of all come together, this idea, and kind of working with David on this?

00:22I got a call from David Leach, my favorite action director,

00:25and he said he'd got the fool guy, and did I have any ideas for how we did it?

00:32And I had a ton, and, you know, I said to David, let's make the best David Leach movie ever.

00:38I actually said it in a darker way than that.

00:39I said, I'll do it if this is the movie that they focus on in your in-memoriam at the Oscars,

00:45which is a weird thing to say to your friend in retrospect,

00:48but that is absolutely how it happened, and that's where we went.

00:52This is the movie we've got at the end of it.

00:54And was all too well written into the script, or did you have a specific song in that car scene, or?

01:01There were a lot of songs that went through that.

01:04The most significant one up until that point was In Excess Is Never Tear Us Apart because of Australia,

01:10but frankly, obviously, we landed in the right place.

01:13Of course we did.

01:14And do you all know Ryan and Emily would have this amazing chemistry,

01:18or did you kind of stumble on that along the way?

01:20I think they knew that they were going to have a chemistry,

01:24and we were lucky to have either of them, let alone both of them.

01:27And I think we genuinely have a romantic pairing for the ages,

01:30and we're lucky to have them.

01:33And this movie also kind of touches on the dangers of AI and deepfakes.

01:37Why was that kind of something that you guys wanted to address?

01:40Honestly, I wrote the stuff about the deepfakes and the AI before everything happened last year

01:46with the strikes and everything else,

01:47but what I will say is I think in a time when we're afraid of AI and what it's doing,

01:54like the humanity of what Colt and Jodie, what Ryan and Emily do in the movie,

02:01is straight up something that you can't fake.

02:04And so I think the movie is its own answer to the problem.

02:08And why do you feel like some people have been underappreciated for so long?

02:12I think the reason that some people have been so underappreciated

02:15is partly because their entire job is hiding, like is not being seen.

02:20But the trouble is at a certain point, you're not being seen by everyone,

02:24and you need the recognition you deserve, and that's what we're going to get.

02:27Thank you so much.

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