00:00You kind of look at each other and go like, holy s**t, did we do that?
00:04Tell me what you remember.
00:10We won the war.
00:17Help me go home.
00:19Congrats, guys.
00:20An absolute triumph of practical filmmaking.
00:22I was sat there right bang in the middle of an IMAX and I felt like Malcolm McDowell in A
00:26Clockwork Orange when he has his eyes.
00:29It's flooding into me.
00:30It's a lot.
00:31But in a good way.
00:32It sounded like an odyssey just to make this, though.
00:35Six countries, lots of different locations, wet beaches and rough seas and real caves and castles and everything.
00:41Was there ever a moment you guys kind of yearned for a green screen at all?
00:44No.
00:44No.
00:45No, that was the joy of it, was that it was incredibly ambitious.
00:49And so we all knew what we were doing and knew what Chris's ambition was.
00:54And it just took hundreds and hundreds of people to make it happen.
00:58So the feeling was really one of elation.
01:00Like when you would get to the end of a week, you kind of look at each other and go
01:04like, holy s***, did we do that?
01:07And week after week, it started to dawn on us, first of all, that we were going to be able
01:12to finish this thing in IMAX,
01:14which we didn't know when we started because nobody had ever tried to do it.
01:17So technically it was super challenging and that was the fun.
01:21Yeah, but to be right in the middle of one of those cinemas, it's an unbelievable experience to have that
01:26kind of flooding into your brain.
01:29Christopher Nolan said about your casting, Matt, that he wanted someone not just to kind of go along with him
01:33on this journey, but also to help him lead it.
01:35Did you feel that kind of responsibility in that role?
01:38I think I felt that responsibility just as I'm sure Annie did too.
01:43Like just these are such iconic characters in Western literature to be the people who are playing them.
01:49That's a lot and it just helped me that Chris cast me because, you know, had this been my idea,
01:56I think I would have been nervous the entire time.
01:58But the fact that he saw me as the person he wanted was, it actually helped me a lot.
02:07Who's looking after your wife and son?
02:10Do you see?
02:12My dad is coming home.
02:15Bringing vengeance.
02:19Bringing it all.
02:20You've both worked with him a few times now, I think like three times maybe each.
02:24What do you think drives Christopher Nolan to make such challenging, difficult films?
02:29That little thing in his brain which makes him take the rough path.
02:33I think he loves the art form.
02:35I think he loves cinema and he wants to push and he wants to do what's possible.
02:41And I think he also loves his audience in a way that every single decision he's making, he's making with
02:47the audience in mind and what that experience is going to be for them.
02:52And he's just pushing against what's possible.
02:56It's just the coolest thing to be around.
02:58I feel like he's at the absolute height of his ability right now.
03:03And he's still young enough to fulfill it.
03:06He's just got endless energy.
03:08And the people who work with him, you really get a feeling.
03:13It's a palpable feeling that every single person wants to be there.
03:17Everyone's excited to be there.
03:20And because this is what we love to do too.
03:22And he's the guy doing it at that level.
03:25And finally, an incredible story to be telling.
03:29It's a story that touches on themes of kind of purpose and responsibility, identity, how we change.
03:34And it did make me wonder how you guys navigate the pressures in your kind of lives as actors to
03:40continue, continually evolve without turning into somebody you don't recognize in a way.
03:47Do you need something that grounds you when you go on these incredible adventures?
03:51I don't know that it's necessarily because I'm an actor.
03:55It's just how I want to live my life as a person.
03:59You know, I think we're all trying to figure out that thing about how do you pursue opportunities that will
04:05change you and make you more of yourself as opposed to make you turn into someone else.
04:12You know, when we were talking about Chris before, I was thinking, you know, one of the things that defines
04:17Chris is his integrity.
04:20And so I think that's, you know, and you see somebody live their whole life according to that integrity.
04:26And I just can't, when you were saying about, I just can't help think about the fact that Chris saw
04:30an IMAX film when he was 16 years old and had the idea, I want to make a whole movie
04:35like that.
04:36And it's taken him this long to not just develop as a filmmaker, but also to push the art form
04:44to that place where it was possible.
04:46You know, he has a hand in developing the camera that allowed us to shoot intimate scenes, which has never
04:51been done before.
04:53And so, I don't know, when I think about somebody like Chris, who's doing things like that, I'm not so
04:58worried about falling away from myself.
05:01I just kind of am like, okay, what is it that I want to achieve?
05:04And who do I want to be when I get there?
05:06And that kind of keeps me straight.
05:07Also, I've got kids and they just, it'll just.
05:10That's the easy answer.
05:11I mean, they'll just, that's the truth.
05:13I was trying to give something else besides just kind of like, they don't care.
05:17The kids don't care.
05:18No, but it's.
05:19What you accomplished that day.
05:20It made me think, as you were talking, that if you're really doing what you love, and if you're really
05:25living out your purpose, it makes you more of who you are.
05:30And that doesn't take you away from who you are.
05:32Well, we love what you guys do.
05:34And this is a perfect culmination, I think, of a lot of you guys at the Peaky Power.
05:38So, congratulations.
05:41And enjoy the ride, I guess, the impact this is going to have on people over the next few months.
05:48And this is going to sound like, but trust me, enjoy the sleepless nights because they do end and you
05:55will miss them, believe it or not.
05:56I know it doesn't feel like that right now.
05:58Well, I know.
05:58I'm pretty sure they'll end with my untimely death.
06:01I know.
06:03You're going to make it.
06:04You're going to make it.
06:04I promise you.
06:05I hope you get a nap.
06:06I hope you get a nap.
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