00:00I just had never been part of something so huge,
00:02so I didn't know how we were going to film it at all.
00:04And then hearing they wanted to do as much practical,
00:06I was like, but how?
00:08There's like people on fire.
00:09They're like, yeah, we're going to set them on fire.
00:10I was like, OK.
00:19I've done a lot of CGI, visual effects stuff,
00:21having played a superhero.
00:23Like, I've talked to a tennis ball in a lot of scenes.
00:26And it's just hard.
00:27And while you can do it, like, this
00:28makes it so much more genuine, and I feel like easier.
00:33Because when you're standing next to someone who's actually
00:35on fire, there's not much acting to be had.
00:38You kind of know instinctually how to react.
00:41Yeah, scream, run, great.
00:42One thing that myself and so many friends
00:44of this franchise love is the fact that it really just
00:47ruins everyday, like, activities.
00:49And that's the goal.
00:50That's the goal.
00:50That's what we're trying to do.
00:51Exactly.
00:52I imagine most things I do probably could lead, you know.
00:55But you're OK with it.
00:56You seem like you have a comfort in that.
00:58I'm wildly optimistic about how things are
01:00going to turn out for me.
01:02Things just keep on going my way.
01:06So you're like, you're the Mr. Magoo.
01:07You just keep walking through disaster after disaster.
01:10That was such a beautiful comparison.
01:13Richard is just like me.
01:15And that's what you call me, you know.
01:17I'm Mr. Magoo.
01:18When you call on the set, people are like,
01:19here's Mr. Magoo.
01:20Here's Magoo again.
01:22Mr. Magoo, I'm Magoo.
01:24All of mine have already been used.
01:25Because I feel like I don't do anything unique enough
01:27to not have been used already.
01:29I, I, for a while I was doing like aerial silks.
01:32And I feel like that has a pretty hot thing.
01:34Yeah, that would be a pretty high.
01:35I can't believe you've never told us
01:37that you were doing aerial silks.
01:39I can't believe you didn't know just by looking at me.
01:41Yeah, kind of doing my hair with like hot tools scares me.
01:44Yeah.
01:45It's, I mean, it's hot, like the heat.
01:47I don't know why it scares me.
01:48I mean, I know why it scares me.
01:49Anything plugged in, anything electric,
01:50and it's hot, that scares me.
01:52And in the bathroom, and you know, water running.
01:55Yeah, bathroom, water, that's what I'm saying.
01:56See, I've been saying this.
01:57Water next to electrical cords is mortifying for me.
02:00That's fair.
02:00Mm-hmm.
02:01I haven't thought about this until you said that just now,
02:03but I'm a jump roper, and suddenly you asked that question,
02:06and I was like, my jumping rope is questionable, maybe.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Maybe stay away from staircases also, yeah, like, yeah.
02:15I'm not really good on staircases anyway, so that's fine.
02:18I'm a rock climber, and recently I actually had a near-death experience.
02:24Well, not near-death, but a final destination experience.
02:26What?
02:26You did?
02:27So I screwed up my arm, that's why I wasn't going to be able to bowl.
02:30Oh, that's the injury?
02:31Okay.
02:31That was the injury.
02:31You were supposed to go bowling, and he couldn't.
02:33I fell from the top of a bouldering wall, and I hurt my elbow, so now I'm a little bit
02:39worried
02:40about that now.
02:41Sure, yeah, now that's going to permanently be in the back of your head.
02:43You should maybe have been worried about that anyway.
02:45Right.
02:45I'm just going to say that slightly on the extreme.
02:48Maybe.
02:48Yeah.
02:49Sure.
02:49I actually had to go get an MRI while we were filming, and I was, like, not kidding,
02:55like, full-on panicking the entire time, and it was a three-hour MRI, and, like, the doctor
03:00kept coming up, like, he's like, you're really freaking out, you're moving too much, am I going
03:04to have to take you out?
03:04And I was like, I don't think I'm going to be able to do this.
03:06So now I have a deathly fear, no pun intended, of MRIs.
03:12Revolving doors, I live in New York, so that's, like, an everyday occurrence for me, and now
03:16I'm like, is there a normal door I can walk through, please?
03:19We call that, what can we ruin for people?
03:22Right, there you go, yeah.
03:22Which is basically very relatable things, like you said.
03:26Everyday things, a penny, a cup.
03:28How can we ruin it so that you can never look at that thing again?
03:31Basically like the second movie did for logs.
03:34Yeah, yeah.
03:34It was like, you can never look at a truck again the same way after seeing, if you see
03:38someone parking behind a logging truck on a highway, you know they haven't seen Final
03:42Destination.
03:43And so we wanted to kind of take that approach to everything that we could in the movie.
03:47If you could trade a death sequence with one of your co-stars, who would it be?
03:51I would just say that there is a person who dies very, towards the end of the film, with
03:59almost no rigmarole or special effects, and just for simplicity, just because of all of
04:06the technical stuff I did have to do, I would trade with that one.
04:09Just have an easier day.
04:11Candle snuffed out, yeah, exactly, just have an easier day.
04:14I would go with the, I think that the last death in this movie is so satisfying and beautiful.
04:22It's almost like poetry.
04:24I'm picking that one.
04:25Good stuff.
04:26I think I would take, without saying anyone or who it is.
04:30No, talk about it.
04:31I don't think I'm allowed to.
04:32I would switch with someone who is blonde and is sitting in this room, so you can figure
04:42that out for yourself.
04:43There you go.
04:44They're not even in front of the camera, they're actually over there.
04:46Well, none of us die in it.
04:47Yeah, we don't know.
04:48No one dies?
04:49I don't know.
04:49It was so different in the movie then.
04:52We did actually, if we could, we tried to show up for each other's death scenes.
04:56Because they're fun as hell to watch.
04:58It felt like a birthday.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Literally.
05:00And they're intense.
05:01I mean, it was really, they were good days on set.
05:05I would love to be a part of the opening sequence.
05:08That would be, that would be cool of the movie.
05:10Yeah.
05:10When I signed onto the role, I had no idea what my role was.
05:13Truly, I didn't know anything out of the context of my three pages of audition scenes.
05:19When I got cast in the film that night, I went back.
05:22Actually, it was my first time ever fully watching a Final Destination movie, because
05:25I'm a scaredy-cat.
05:26With my whole family, they came over, we watched the first movie, and they're like,
05:29well, what's your part in it, and I was like, I don't know.
05:31So when I got the script, and when I saw I was going to be part of that big opening
05:36premonition disaster, I was like, heck freaking yeah.
05:38I was just so excited to get started.
05:40When we got started, I think there was a different disaster in the opening.
05:43But the team, you know, the producers and the writers were so eager to brainstorm and
05:48come up with new stuff.
05:49And the thing that we started with, really, was what is a visceral fear that we can tap
05:54into that can really freak people out?
05:57And we came up with this fear of heights, which is something that I suffer from.
06:01And so it was really fun to be able to exploit that and make the audience feel it on a
06:07big
06:08IMAX screen that they're 400 feet in the air and in danger.
06:12Sure.
06:12Richard is actually, he plays a background character.
06:16He's an Easter egg.
06:17Oh nice.
06:18He showed up in like a little bellhop outfit.
06:21Yeah.
06:21That's great.
06:22You could see him maybe.
06:23I don't know if you could see him.
06:24I don't think he made the cuts.
06:25I don't think he made the cuts either, but we all tried.
06:28He was there for support.
06:29There you go.
06:30Speaking with the trio in the other room, they actually mentioned something interesting
06:33about you, which is that you apparently have a little cameo beyond your role in the
06:38main film.
06:39They said that?
06:40I wasn't supposed to be there.
06:41That's why I was like, guys, I don't think you're allowed to say that.
06:45Richard is playing me in my house.
06:47There you go.
06:48And now the cat's out of the bag.
06:51Yeah.
06:51Can you tell me about it?
06:52Yeah.
06:54I'm in the 60s.
06:58I'm in the guy's face.
06:59You never see my face.
07:00I just walked through.
07:02Yeah.
07:02When they first get to the sky view, I just like, I run out of the place.
07:07And he pitched himself for every scene in the movie.
07:09He was trying to get into every single one.
07:11In the middle of our scenes.
07:12And they were like, finally, they were like, okay, you can have one other one.
07:15I'm playing all three of us right now.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Mission Impossible style.
07:20Some people might say this is unprofessional, but I felt like it made sense for my character.
07:23I actually didn't read the entire script because I felt like my character wouldn't know outside of, like, I read
07:31up until the part where, like, I come back and I stop the disaster.
07:35But I didn't know what was going on with them because I didn't think it was essential for my character
07:39to know.
07:39And I actually haven't even seen the entire movie yet.
07:41I'm seeing it on Monday.
07:43And I, like, can't wait.
07:44I've heard them, like, say little stories from their part.
07:46And I'm like, that happens?
07:48That's crazy.
07:50Maybe that's not actually coming for our family.
07:52Because that would be crazy.
07:58One thing that's never just been addressed is the origin of the psychic visions and why these people are having
08:03this, these previews.
08:05In your mind, do you have an answer for why that is?
08:08No, and I'll tell you exactly why.
08:10If we answer how they happen, that means that you, as an audience member, may never have it.
08:16You might not have that moment.
08:18I would much rather have it be a mystery so that you never know whether you are capable or whether
08:22it may happen to you.
08:24It's sort of like midi-chlorians in Star Wars.
08:26Oh, I can't be a Jedi now.
08:27Why would you not want to be a Jedi?
08:29So we want everyone to leave the theater thinking, what if I have a premonition tomorrow?
08:33And I'm perfectly capable of it because you never know when and you never know where.
08:37Do you almost project a personality on death to a certain degree?
08:40Oh, yeah.
08:40I mean, can you describe that?
08:42Well, death is so damn clever and has a great sense of humor.
08:45I think that's why The Final Destination is also very funny.
08:49You know, it's gory, it's intense, it's scary, but it's also kind of hilarious.
08:54And that's because death is so clever and funny.
08:57Sure.
08:58Has a sense of irony, likes to plant things and then pay them off later.
09:01And for us, that was such a joy because in a way, you know, there's no antagonist besides the shots
09:09that make up death's presence.
09:11So in a way, we as the filmmakers are death.
09:15Sure.
09:16You know, we get to create that personality through the way we're building the shot design.
09:21Sure.
09:21So, yeah, that was a lot of fun to play with.
09:24How do you think time has almost affected the audience's relationship with the franchise as well?
09:29Wow, that's a great question because I think the distance between the release of the last one and now, social
09:35media has taken off.
09:37And since everyone has a phone in their pocket that can both film video and take pictures, Final Destination moments
09:43become their own meme.
09:44Like everyone can have a close call and take a picture of it and post it.
09:47So we became a hashtag.
09:49We became like Xerox and it became a shorthand for people having a moment of deja vu or a close
09:53call.
09:54And every day people are generating memes that are personal to them.
09:57So we never quite left the popular lexicon.
10:00We were always there.
10:01Yeah.
10:02And over time, it made us realize that there was not just a big opportunity, but our audience has sort
10:08of grown from the people that are your or my age who remember going early on.
10:11And now there are younger kids who just know it necessarily as, oh, Final Destination, that's like close calls and
10:15like a log truck and things.
10:17But now they can either explore the franchise up to this point or they can just go see Final Destination
10:23Bloodlines on its own because the movie exists as just a story.
10:26Now, there's lots of fun Easter eggs for the people who are fans, but you don't have to have the
10:31experience of watching the previous five to thoroughly enjoy Final Destination Bloodlines.
10:36I'm curious if you guys have realized the 25th anniversary that is coming up this week.
10:40Yeah, May 13th.
10:41May 16th.
10:42Or, yeah, the 25th anniversary of Flight 180.
10:45Yeah, that's right.
10:46I got this feeling.
10:47I saw death's plan.
10:48Was there any purposefulness in the release date by any chance or is that just complete coincidence?
10:54There was some talk of it.
10:54I mean, it ended up being just fate delivering this movie at the right time.
10:59But you can also see May 13th within the film itself in several different places.
11:04Yeah.
11:04Those numbers, you know, are an omen of things.
11:06Just kind of like the 180.
11:07Yeah.
11:08Very cool.
11:08It was a huge opportunity and, you know, kind of challenge with this movie to make a movie for fans
11:16like the three of us that would really be satisfying.
11:19But also for a new generation that has never seen a Final Destination movie.
11:23You know, the last one came out 14 years ago.
11:26So a four year old at the time is now 18 and they might be going to see their first
11:31Final Destination movie next weekend.
11:33So it was something we wanted to really explore for the fans.
11:38Fill the movie with lots of answers and Easter eggs.
11:42Every license plate in the movie.
11:43Every little note written in the margins of a book.
11:47Every thing on the walls of the tattoo parlor.
11:50All Easter eggs that we've put in for the fans.
11:53But if you don't get those things, you still can enjoy the movie just the same.
11:58Good luck.
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