00:00I was at a house party and I was dancing and all of a sudden I looked over and there was someone
00:05dancing like really specific and I was like that guy's just like letting it loose and it was Tom
00:10York and I was like okay that's cool and then I was like all of a sudden very self-conscious of
00:14like trying not to dance too weird. I wanted to make a screwball romantic comedy about the military
00:27industrial complex. It was kind of like Haley looked at me and said what have you never done
00:32really because we were going to adapt the short film but we're like we needed to make it something
00:37else and I was like well never really done proper like romance right yeah yeah I was like I'm I'm
00:44writing a part for you like yeah what do you want what do you want yeah I think once the project
00:49started to come to life we were like who who could you know fill this kind of role. Cal was like
00:57one of the very first people we thought of and Callum's like an old friend of mine and I was
01:02like now he's like a big movie star and I was like let's see if we can get him and I sent him a text
01:06and he was like yeah yeah sounds great send me a script. I didn't I hadn't seen the the short film
01:10or the script. We did Green Room together 10 years before and fell in love with Alia and I think she's
01:18the best comedic actress of our generation and then I watched the short film I was like I've got to do
01:23this. So it takes place on a train facility how are we described we're describing it as like a
01:30kooky train facility where actors pretend to be in a war zone right that's I mean it's a it's a real
01:38life thing that happens it takes place on a sort of set that the military is built with the help of
01:45Hollywood set builders to create fake Iraqi villages to train soldiers before they deploy to Iraq.
01:52Hayley knows more than anyone should about this place because she's also a documentarian so she
01:57does her due diligence and has done lots of you know filming and stuff and so she wrote lots of it
02:02into the film um whereas I'm just like I'm just here for the movie but when all the details that we
02:08found out like something that's in the film about like the smells that they actually have like
02:13burning flesh smell you know and sewage smell smell fake I mean fried red yeah try
02:21it's quite a bombastic idea that this thing exists before we did green room that's where we met
02:27on one of these sets what do you mean that you were both that's where we started oh right
02:34but that is the story about his character that she wants to become a Hollywood actress and she's
02:38working there I don't know if in real life the role players there really want to be actors what is one
02:43thing about Luca as a producer that stands out that we might not know people only on this director
02:48I mean I think the thing about Luca is that his his generosity is like very very fierce and not
02:56casual and he gives such incredible opportunities to young people that have never you know that are
03:03very green and hadn't done these things before like I mean I guess the last couple movies he's done
03:08have been first-time writers which is incredible um and he's you know he's he's hard on me and like
03:17all the best ways and that's how I know he really loves me I know him because he sent my boyfriend
03:23a fan letter because he was obsessed with paranormal activity three so we had dinner with him like 10
03:29years ago we've been really good friends ever since and um when we were on the set of challengers
03:34somebody got COVID and we were shut down for like a week so I was there for a really long time even
03:40I'm in the movie for just a hot second we were talking and I was talking about this another movie
03:47that I had written that was having some trouble and he was like we make another movie okay I was
03:52like we do okay great and Alia was in um Greece filming a movie called Drift with a producer Naima
04:00Abed who also made Call Me By Your Name which also premiered here um and Naima wanted to do something
04:06else with Alia so we all sort of joined forces does anyone remember the first time you were starstruck
04:15starstruck I think this was really weird but I was in a restaurant when I was a kid and I saw
04:21Charo that's good and I was like hold my god because she was like the hot frog in Thumbelina
04:29oh yeah you know and I was just like I could not believe it that's amazing what if anyone remembers
04:36the movie that made you want to be an actor or filmmaker you could you know I want to say like
04:41the one that makes me sound smart is Harold and Maude because I've watched it so many times but
04:45weirdly meet the parents I've seen that movie many times and it holds up it was just like on HBO a lot
04:52it's a good movie that's a good movie I watch Burden of Dreams a lot have you ever seen that it's a
05:02Les Blanc documentary about the making of Fitzgeraldo it actually premiered here um in the 70s you know
05:09that I saw that nod um and it's so amazing it's almost better than Fitzgeraldo I always say Mean
05:16Streets I was about 15 and I bought a DVD and I had a friend that I'd go to HMV and we'd buy the cheap
05:23DVDs and it was in one of those and we'd be really competitive who can watch faster and that was
05:29just one that's how you watch movies exactly that's how I started yeah watch on fast forward
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