00:03El protagonista de Beast
00:03Amigos de Dierores Américas, me encuentro con Daniel McPherson, el protagonista de Beast.
00:08¿Por qué nos tratamos tan duro?
00:09Para que pueda respirar.
00:11¿Por qué necesitas respirar?
00:12Para que pueda pensar.
00:13¿Por qué?
00:14Daniel, esta historia tiene muchas cosas que se van a hacer.
00:17Esta es una redempsión, la reenvolución, la confrontación del pasado.
00:22En todas estas cosas, ¿cuál fue la cosa que te gustó, te llamó a decir que quería contar esta historia?
00:28No, it was so much more than a fight film.
00:31It was a film about family.
00:32It was about a marriage.
00:33It was about a man with the responsibility of fatherhood as a young family as well.
00:39But it was a man who was fighting for his own identity and fighting to realize who he was.
00:46And I think that was so relatable to me and a lot of people I know.
00:50In my era of life, when parents are getting older, we have young families.
00:54There's the constraints of relationships and responsibility and life in general, you know.
01:01And it's easy to get lost.
01:03And I saw a fighter on the page who got lost in his identity and who he was.
01:10And I wanted to jump in and tell that story of going, let's get this guy making this big, bold,
01:17brave decision to go against his wife, to go against his family, to go against everything and risk it all,
01:23to go out in search of who he really is.
01:26You're one of the greatest MMA middleweights of all time.
01:31Come on!
01:34Now you're working on a fishing trawler.
01:37How was building your character beside the physical part, that inner part, the emotional part?
01:42I got a great level of gratitude and debt to Tyler Atkins, our director, and to our editing team, Todd
01:53Miller, who was editing as well.
01:54Because I gave them a real spectrum of emotion.
01:58I wanted Patton to be a really emotionally connected but emotionally deep character, which meant sometimes what I was doing
02:05on the day was too much.
02:06And, you know, often guys, you know, these fighters that I've met contain so much.
02:12So I wanted Patton to have a really deep well of emotion underneath.
02:17He carries so much responsibility to his brother, to his wife, to his daughter and family, to all the expectations
02:24that he carries.
02:25But there he goes, his own well of emotion on there as well.
02:30And that makes him, I was trying to make him a compelling protagonist that people would want to go on
02:38that journey with him.
02:39And so to do that, I think you've got to open characters up like that emotionally.
02:45You've got to allow people to get inside and really access what's meaningful to him.
02:50And I think, you know, people have been surprised just by how emotional and how compelling the story is outside
02:57of the fighting.
02:59I took a fight.
03:00When's the last time you trained?
03:01It's been a while.
03:03He's got no engine.
03:06When you read the script, what do you add to Patton that wasn't in the script?
03:12And what do you take from this character for you in a personal level?
03:18I added a personal sort of message to Patton, which was I have a lot of friends who struggle with
03:28mental health.
03:29And I think male suicide is one of the biggest epidemics around the world.
03:35And it's very easy for men in this day and age, I think, to lose their way, to lose their
03:42direction, to lose their identity through expectations and responsibilities.
03:48I wanted to create a man that was bold enough and courageous enough and brave enough to go and fight
03:54for what he really, really believed in,
03:58as well as fighting for those that he loved and fighting for those that he wanted to provide for.
04:02So that was a personal touch that I really just lay it in on top of Patton through a personal
04:09connection.
04:14And then Patton, you know, I think Patton is inspiring people that they can fight themselves to change their lives
04:22and that the world around you that you've got right now doesn't have to be your future forever,
04:27that you've got the control and the ability and the power to go and change things.
04:32He's out of retirement for the shot he never got.
04:35This fight is all about redemption.
04:38On a physical level, besides the fights, also the training was very, very hard.
04:45When you read the screenplay, there was some scene or something that you say,
04:51OK, this is going to be tough for me.
04:53I think the scariest part was, you know, in the first five pages of going,
04:57you've got to be fight fit, walking out into a cauldron, into an octagon as an MMA fighter.
05:03And when I read that, I'd never had a boxing lesson in my life, let alone an MMA lesson.
05:07Like I didn't, you know, I didn't know.
05:09So I knew that the level of work and the amount of work that I had to do to create
05:14that character,
05:15not only aesthetically, but in terms of the physicality, of the gravitas, of the way he moved,
05:20of the way he was able to throw a punch, the way he was able to grapple and kick.
05:25I mean, I'd never kicked.
05:25I'd never learned to kick before.
05:27These hips didn't, these hips went forward and back.
05:29That was it.
05:30You know, now I've got to, you know, I had to teach myself all sorts of stuff.
05:33But thankfully, I ended up having almost three years.
05:36I committed to the project for three years, waiting for it to finally get greenlit.
05:41And I never stopped training during that time.
05:44But yeah, from the moment I read it, that first four pages, that's daunting.
05:48But then you add in the Russell Crowe, you add in the script, you add in the performance.
05:53And that first four minutes, no one leaves without getting goosebumps and getting fired
06:00up in that first four minutes of this movie.
06:01And that was, you know, that was, that was the calling card when we were shooting it,
06:05that we, that was, we sold the movie on the first four minutes.
06:10If I can breathe, I can think.
06:14If I can think.
06:15I would love you on April 10th to come and see Beast in theaters all around America.
06:21It's an Australian MMA film shot between Sydney and Thailand.
06:25It stars Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth and myself.
06:28We think it's some of the most authentic, intense and technically proficient mixed martial arts
06:34ever seen on camera.
06:35But it's a film that's got so much heart.
06:37It's about love.
06:38It's about family.
06:39And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:41And I can win!
06:45And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:46And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:46And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:47And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:48And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:48And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:50And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:51And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:51And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:53And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:53And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:54And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
06:54And it's about fighting for what you believe in.
Comentarios