00:00There's always something, you know, a muscle that you tear or something, a joint that you bang, a neck that you twist, a finger that you snap.
00:09There's just mistakes that happen.
00:10Rick, when you have someone like Jason, do you just know, like, you can throw anything at him and he'll just do it?
00:15Well, you don't know that until you work with somebody.
00:18And then the minute you see his work ethic and his willingness to go into places that maybe I'm pushing his comfort zone,
00:25and not with the physicality, but even with the emotion and places of playing with a hero that is an anti-hero,
00:32that you also want to have a relatability and make them human.
00:35And I'm always trying to shatter that.
00:36I'm always trying to take the action star or the, so to speak, and then crack into it in the veneer in a way that makes them human.
00:44Does now having a little girl, has that made you even more protective and something you probably were thinking about when you were doing this?
00:51Well, certainly more relatable, yeah.
00:53Yeah, I mean, absolutely, you'd do anything for these little people.
00:57Something's softened you.
00:58I'm a big softy.
00:59In my later years, I've become that person.
01:01You know, I've worked with other people that you're trying to understand if they're going to ever have that sense of family
01:07or a sense of father, you know, or mother kind of thing.
01:11And the minute I saw Jason with not only his little boy and girl, his wife and his parents,
01:18I knew that family side was going to resonate.
01:19And that was, I think, is the most important thing for me in this movie.
01:22It's all about family, right?
01:23It's all about how we need each other.
01:24And also hiding from the cameras.
01:26Are you generally quite good at hiding from the cameras these days as well?
01:29I feel like you must have a lot of experience.
01:31Many masks and long beards.
01:33I live in South London.
01:35There's not many sort of paparazzi down there, thank God.
01:37That's true.
01:37I shouldn't have said that, should I?
01:39Now we're not.
01:39Next thing I'll be hanging out in front of my house.
01:42Yeah, I mean, you get used to it.
01:43I mean, I spent a long time in L.A. and that was a different kettle of fish over there.
01:49Yeah.
01:49You're getting followed around relentlessly.
01:52Yeah.
01:52So it's nice to be in a place where that's not the case.
01:56Right.
01:56When you're seeing Jason doing all these stunts and everything, do you miss it?
01:59Not one bit.
02:00No?
02:01No.
02:01I've been there, done that.
02:03But what I appreciate is I appreciate that he's actually really doing it in a way that
02:09I'm blown away by his choreography.
02:11You know, and I've worked with a few people and I've been around even my stunt game where
02:16people say, oh, they did their own stunts.
02:17Eh, bull****.
02:19He's doing it.
02:20I have a whole new respect for you, by the way.
02:22Like, even just having done that stunt day, like, I think I came out with, like, whiplash
02:27and all sorts.
02:27How are you these days?
02:28Like, when you finish doing all of this, are you feeling still good?
02:32Ruined is the word?
02:33Yeah.
02:34Absolutely.
02:35Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's part of the course.
02:38You can't go into these movies and come out unscathed.
02:41Yeah.
02:42There's always something that's gonna, you know, you're gonna catch, you know, a muscle
02:46that you tear or something, a joint that you bang, a neck that you twist, a finger that
02:53you snap.
02:53So there's always something.
02:55And it's never by lack of, you know, practice or understanding of the choreography.
03:01There's just mistakes that happen.
03:03And you just get used to it, you know.
03:05No pass to it.
03:06Carry a pack of Norepine.
03:07Okay.
03:08Any plans to do anything a bit softer?
03:10Maybe ones that your kids can watch?
03:13Maybe.
03:14I mean, look, I like what I do.
03:15Yeah.
03:15I mean, at some point, they'll be able to see them.
03:17It's, you know, kids somehow get their eyes on things that they shouldn't at some point.
03:23Yeah.
03:23And, yeah, there'll be an all-in-due course for my little ones to see what I do.
03:29One day, I would love to just see.
03:31Jason Statham rom-com, you know what?
03:33Like, I'm here for it.
03:34You're not the first person to say that.
03:36I really?
03:36Two within three interviews.
03:38Well, there you go.
03:39That's what we're all crying out for as well.
03:42But you know what?
03:42You always deliver.
03:43Well, that's why I said.
03:44On this kind of film, like, you always deliver.
03:46So that's wonderful.
03:47That's very kind.
03:47Thank you very much, guys.
03:49Lovely to see you.
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