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Edi Gathegi discusses working with rising star, RJ Cyler, and having fun developing a friendship on and off-screen while working on "The Harder They Fall."
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00:00So I'm curious, you know, just what it was like for you working with some actors, you know, that maybe you hadn't before.
00:05I never met RJ and he's he's I call him my gift because we had such a great time getting to know each other.
00:15And our chemistry was real. And he's my baby brother. He's my brother for life.
00:19So it was a lot of fun to dance with him. You know, Bill Pickett and and Jim Beckwith in this film have a really close relationship.
00:28We created a backstory that was complex, that, you know, hopefully enriched what we're trying to do together on screen.
00:35And we had a lot of fun. But the fun is not to be confused with like fun, fun.
00:42It was fun to commit ourselves to the mission. And the mission was real.
00:46You know, these these people lived out here in this time. It was a harsh world.
00:50People were dying from disease and, you know, from murder. And it sounds like today sounds like 2021.
00:58But it was the Wild West and it was called the Wild West for a reason.
01:01It was total chaos. And, you know, it was the environment was harsh.
01:07So we were committed to to being in that time and place.
01:10But I think I think we had fun doing it because, you know, why make a movie if you're not going to have fun?
01:17Right. Do you have a favorite scene either that you filmed and enjoy doing or or that you saw in the final project?
01:25I do like that first scene with with RJ, our introduction scene.
01:32Hopefully, I mean, there's there's even more to it.
01:34I think it was cut down for for time and that happens all the time in films.
01:38But hopefully there's a director cut at some point that that shows the full scene because you learn a little bit more about the backstories of these characters.
01:47But I love that scene because it's the it's the first scene in the movie, but we shot it last.
01:53So there was a great anticipation through the whole shoot just to get to the beginning of our journey.
02:01So that day was a special day.
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