00:01So Mark, what was it about Contraband that made you want to produce it and be in it?
00:05I just thought it was a fresh take on a cool heist.
00:11You know, it was just this little Icelandic movie that we found.
00:14But just, there was so much attention to detail.
00:17You learn so much about the world of smuggling.
00:19And these characters are so rich and well-rounded.
00:22You know, usually when you have a movie like this,
00:25whether it's a straightforward action movie or a heist movie,
00:28you don't really get invested in the characters all that much.
00:30But I thought, you know, the original did a great job of that.
00:33And it was a world that I wasn't really familiar with.
00:35So I thought it would make for a great movie to remake.
00:37Talking of your character then, who is Chris Faraday in your eyes?
00:41Chris Faraday is a guy who, listen, he lives in a pretty seedy world for most of his life.
00:46And now, you know, he's tried to go on the straight and narrow for his wife and his children.
00:50He's building his own business. He's gone legit.
00:52And unfortunately for him, his brother-in-law is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
00:55and makes some pretty stupid mistakes and has to,
00:58so Chris has to go in and basically clean up his mess.
01:01And he gets lured back into the world of smuggling,
01:03which is something that, you know, he finds exciting and thrilling,
01:06but at the same time, you know, the stakes are really much higher now
01:09where his family's in danger.
01:12So does Balthasar. Many people are going to discover him now,
01:14even though he's in Europe a very well-known actor and filmmaker.
01:17What was he like to work with?
01:19Awesome. I mean, he's, everybody's discovered him,
01:22but we've got him under a lifetime contract.
01:24We literally went back to old Hollywood and signed him forever.
01:26He's such a talented guy.
01:28You know, we made this movie in less than 40 days.
01:30I mean, I just did another interview and people,
01:32you know, they couldn't believe what the budget was
01:34and the amount of days that we had to shoot.
01:37He's right in there. He's a very hands-on filmmaker.
01:40He's an actor first,
01:41so he's great at communicating with the actors
01:43and pulling out the best performances from everybody.
01:46Most of the shoot was in New Orleans.
01:48Do you like working there?
01:50I love working there. We're working there again.
01:51It's a great town.
01:53You know, we decided to kind of show
01:55not the slickest parts of the city, you know.
01:58We wanted to show the real kind of, you know,
02:00back roads and seedy bars of New Orleans.
02:03And, you know, New Orleans is also a character in the film,
02:05as is Panama.
02:07You were a few days in Panama. How was that?
02:10Exciting. Exciting.
02:11It's like the wild, wild west down there.
02:13You know, we weren't regulated in anything that we were doing.
02:16We kind of basically got off the plane with the cameras
02:18and were free to do whatever we wanted.
02:21How comfortable are you shooting all the action, Mark?
02:24I'm pretty comfortable with it.
02:25You know, I don't ever want to do anything too dangerous
02:27now being, you know, a 40-year-old father of four.
02:30But, you know, I've done it all before,
02:32so, you know, I'm comfortable around weapons and stuff like that.
02:35And I'm always good in a car chase
02:36as long as I'm behind the wheel.
02:38I feel a little more confident, a little more safe.
02:41What do you like about your character?
02:43is that he's a guy's guy
02:44and also that he's as smart as he is tough.
02:47I mean, the way that he's responding to these dilemmas
02:50and he's faced with quite a few of them along this journey,
02:52it's just the way that he handles it
02:53and figures everything out in a simplistic way
02:55but also a very realistic way.
02:58The film also touches, I mean, very important themes
03:01like the importance of friendship, of family,
03:04of what one is prepared to do.
03:05Loyalty and trust.
03:06What are the themes of the movie for you?
03:08Well, you hit them right on the head.
03:09and the most important thing is being able to provide
03:12and protect your family.
03:14When somebody threatens your family in any way,
03:16all the rules are out the window.
03:18And so that was a big deal for me,
03:21having, you know, my own family
03:22and, you know, knowing that I would do
03:23whatever I had to do to protect them.
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