00:00and i look over and ben's just sweating and he has like sweat in his chest i was like this dude
00:07serious hi guys how are you what's up how you doing man good matt uh i want to start with you
00:14you know obviously you and ben go way back but here you get to work with him as your director
00:18i'm willing to bet my career on michael jordan come on man you ask me what i do here this is
00:24what i do i find you players and i feel it this time i'm curious did you learn anything new about
00:31him from going through that experience uh i don't think so i mean i knew he was a great director
00:38so that did that news wasn't surprising to me um and you know i i we've worked so much together
00:44over the years uh in various capacities that this felt like a natural progression you know it didn't
00:50uh you know plus when i act opposite him he gives me notes anyway so you know that wasn't a change
00:56uh no it felt it felt very it was it was it felt very uh natural to be uh directed by him but but boy he
01:03is really good at it i thought he was the real deal and uh you know as an actor's director he was really
01:09good but i'll tell you what messed me up when he actually picked up a 90-pound camera and held it
01:16like this and was literally getting and we was doing a long take it must have been like an eight
01:22minute take and i look over and ben's just sweating and he has like sweat in his chest i was like this
01:29dude serious with marlon you remember how hot it was in that room because it was the middle of summer
01:35and and it was you know in those scenes whenever that you have a scene like that you know they turn
01:39the air conditioners off right because they because it's no good for sound and so it was cooking in
01:45this thing and ben's trying to shoot the scene and you know and he's like okay start again so
01:49marlon and i are doing a bunch of them on repeat by the end of it ben was just like soaking wet
01:54halfway through you just see the camera go well marlon maybe you can tell me like what was it about
02:02joining this that that made you say yes like i heard you jumped at it and obviously it's such a good
02:06time with everybody on set you know if i had to equate this uh movie to a basketball team
02:12it's the 92 bulls i gotta i gotta jump on the 92 bulls it's just you know you got ben you got
02:19matt you got tucker you got you know chris with this such amazing job bateman i'm a big fan of his
02:26and then viola davis um i'd be a fool to say no so i mean yeah that's how i felt too that's literally
02:34how i felt josh i i i couldn't this was one of the i mean and i said i have not i've never had a better
02:40time in terms of like just completely all-encompassing like because the work was so fun
02:45but the people were just so great well yeah you basically had a front row seat for everybody right
02:50like everyone gets to work off of you and it was just like yeah i showed up and i was opposite like
02:56muhammad ali every day nobody was like i had a great heavyweight across from me no matter no matter
03:00what day it was it was it was unbelievable well i gotta ask you i know you prepare a lot for your
03:05roles i'm curious how much of research went into this versus how much getting used to that uh that
03:10belly well it was a lot of it was really about you know capturing the uh the spirit of these guys
03:18like ben didn't want impersonations he didn't want you know he talked to all of us about that you know
03:23he's like it's more about what this time meant to them and and you know i spoke to sunny a good deal
03:29about it and and and and his nostalgia for this time and how much he loved these guys and how how
03:35they were like you know they were friends they were kind of a misfit but you know their band of kind of
03:40renegades and and they did this incredible thing that totally bucked conventional wisdom and it changed
03:45the world and so that's what we were trying to capture that spirit oh absolutely and marlon i want
03:51to ask you uh if someone were to come to you and pitch you another shoe story maybe about those big red boots
03:56and i hear you like those would you be into that i'm gonna do the big red boots as a parody to this
04:03movie i'm i'm gonna do that story that that is definitely the story i would do as a filmmaker if
04:12you do that parody you know you have to cast all of us right we all have to come in
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