00:00and then like tom holland i was like wait a second what do you mean tom holland
00:05what
00:11literally no one on the planet knows more about the developments of this screenplay than you
00:15uh on cinema blend we've been writing mark walberg on charted stories for about a decade
00:19so i'm just curious i apologize you know what i should have kept my mouth shut until we were
00:23actually into physical production that's okay listen we need content so we'll take it uh what
00:29were some of the i just i just don't like to count my chickens before they hatch i hate that
00:32i'm never
00:33one of those guys say oh i'm doing this i'm doing that but it just always felt so real you
00:37know
00:37whether it was with david russell in the beginning or whoever else we were kind of you know got close
00:42to to the starting line but never got out of the gate right it was one of those things where
00:46you
00:47just feel like you sound like a broken record you know can you remember a project that you
00:51stayed that closely to or attached to for that amount of time no because this now is well north
00:56of a decade but um with the fighter it's oddly enough all the movies that i wanted to make that
01:02i have gotten made usually it's like the six year rule so fighter took six years to make uh a
01:09father stew took six years to make peter berg is was developing lone survivor for i think almost
01:14about that amount of time right so but this one yeah it was so funny because it was actually just
01:21like one of those things where i just chalked up to not going to happen same thing with six billion
01:24dollar man actually so it was just kind of like one of those things where i just thought it wasn't
01:28going to happen then i got the phone call and they were like all right we're going to make uncharted
01:31i'm like cool who's the guy you know before it was deniro maybe you know jack or whoever right and
01:37they're like tom holland i was like wait a second what do you mean tom holland that's me being generous
01:41wow and they were like well tom holland i'm like for what he was like for nate i said who
01:46am i gonna be
01:48and now you know we're strapped on the mustache and here we are
01:52what is that thing on your face yeah puberty's right around the corner kids you can grow your own
01:57i'm really telling everybody they have to see this in imax because the third act action set pieces are
02:01fantastic um it's pretty cool what was a harder one to film is it the the plane sequence from this
02:05movie or the finale of uh homecoming the plane sequence from this movie is the hardest thing i've
02:11ever done just really months of hard work hanging off of these boxes being pushed and thrown and
02:18dragged by wires and smashed into boxes and falling off of boxes losing your grip like all of us tore
02:25our hands up because you know you're hanging on to these kind of ropes and you know it gets to
02:31a
02:31point where you just can't hang on anymore but you're trying to you're trying to and you let go
02:34and you cut your hands up so we had bangs and bruises and tears all over the place it was
02:39it was tough
02:40it's definitely relieving to hear that for sure yeah no it's definitely yes hard physical stuff
02:49took some balls took some hits how many days does it take to put the sequence like that together the
02:54airplane sequence i think it took two weeks to film that i could be lying though but it felt like
03:00two
03:00weeks at least oh my god come on ready and action tom tell me about the first time you tried
03:10on the
03:10shoulder holster for the scene that's such an important part for nathan it was actually really
03:15exciting uh gary dawson who was our props master who was a very good friend of mine i've worked with
03:19him for on numerous occasions he gave me the holster i tried it on and there was something about putting
03:26it on which like completed the look it kind of just brought the character to life in a really
03:32really visual way uh so it was it was really awesome it's pretty cool huh pirate ships are one
03:43of the most inspired set pieces i've seen in a really long time uh and i'm assuming it's a lot
03:47of cgi but they also look really really practical too what were those days on set like well they actually
03:52built a couple of ships so we had the ships we had the ship suspended in air you know or
03:57a portion of
03:58the ship uh it was pretty cool you know i mean for me it's like it's a real movie like
04:04an indiana jones
04:05type of movie it's not like a small intimate story this is like big huge hollywood blockbuster
04:11action adventure fantasy all that stuff you know which i just think is uh just a different level and
04:18height of cinema i gotta ask you with the line uh nuns why is it always got to be nuns
04:23is an indiana
04:23jones nod it is absolutely an indiana jones nod yes snakes why did it have to be snakes i think
04:31for us
04:31you know we realize that those films are so incredible and so unique that we wanted to pay
04:37respects to them and we wanted to lean into that genre and and what better way to do it than
04:41than to
04:42reference it uh in the film you have no idea who you partnered with i love that uncharted uh could
04:56end up becoming the film uh that's a gateway for young girls who uh watch these characters
05:02on screen and they think you know that could be me uh and sometimes you know they don't see great
05:07representation uh in action movies and so i want to know who was your action role model uh when you
05:12were growing up who did you look at and think oh i want to i want to do that my
05:15two action role models
05:17when the first was actually zoe saldana and colombiana that was the first time that i had like seen
05:23especially like a woman of color seen like a just super like you know dope girl do her thing charlie's
05:30angels really very more lucy lou cameron diaz yep and i was so young when it came out too young
05:38to
05:38watch it but i did anyway in fact that was angelina jolie and like salt and wanted and things like
05:43that um yeah that made me like i want to do that one day and tomb raider one of the
05:48better video game
05:49adaptations before you guys knocked it out of the park yeah all right i need to know about your
05:55relationship uh with your unique weapon uh with your knife uh did it take a lot of training is
06:01it something that you held on to all the time on set to get better with it what was that
06:05what was
06:05that working relationship like um so i didn't get a lot of like the i guess one-on-one training
06:10with
06:11the crambit itself most of um how i learned it was through like my own research watching youtube videos
06:16um and then yeah they gave me a a fake one a rubber one that yeah i had that thing
06:21all the time like
06:22at home i would just like flip it around just try to get comfortable comfortable with it as i could
06:26um to make it look like it was something that you know was radic's weapon of choice yeah it's a
06:31unique
06:31skill set that you now bring with you to whatever film you do next i love the nolan north cameo
06:41of
06:41course and i'm just wondering if there's anything that he was able to give you from his own experience
06:45that you incorporated into your own portrayal i think for me he gave me enough from what he did with
06:51the games you know i was a big fan of the games i dabble and i went back and played
06:55them again
06:55in preparation for making the film uh and i just was able to i didn't want to copy what he
07:02did if it
07:03like the ruben and chuck and alex are producers they didn't want me to mimic him in any way uh
07:08which
07:08i'm really glad because otherwise i wouldn't have been acting i would have been mimicking so i i i was
07:14able to sort of take the essence of the character and some of the lines you know i say oh
07:18crap all the
07:19time and we have the well well well joke uh which is something that he has been known to say
07:23so
07:23there's a few things i took here and there but mostly i kind of reinvented the character
07:31what are some of the things that creatives need to pay attention to when they're adapting
07:35a video game over the screen well i think we learned with max payne there just wasn't
07:40i don't know it wasn't as big a broad and interesting a story and world for people to want to
07:46see
07:47you know um it's kind of dark brooding guy you know similar to like the punisher and
07:52um this movie it's just it's for everybody you don't have to know the video game to really go
07:57and enjoy this film uh there's so much wish fulfillment in there it really is for entire
08:01family and obviously we wanted to first and foremost do justice to the game and the die hard
08:07gamers who made it so successful but then we also wanted to make sure we introduced a whole new
08:11audience to uncharted i've been dreaming about this my whole life and the john's gold it's the
08:19biggest treasure that's never been found what's happening they're starting to come through and i
08:25can't stop them uh over my shoulder is my new favorite movie of all time my friend it's uh it's
08:32a masterpiece i have to ask about a scene it's my favorite scene in it that's when you're saying
08:36goodbye to the other two peters uh and then you go in for the hug is that scripted or improvised
08:43i don't remember i don't remember okay every so much of this film was improvised you know based
08:51off of great writing but you know we all were allowed to bring our own spin to it so it
08:56wouldn't
08:57surprise me if it was something that was improvised but it definitely was something at the time that felt
09:01so right uh we had a very similar moment in real life only a couple weeks before um so maybe
09:08some
09:09people saw that on set and were like we need them to recreate that but just on camera uh so
09:15so yeah
09:15so maybe it came from that i'm your co-stars playing the most popular superhero on the planet
09:21uh somehow you have managed to avoid outside of blue falcon which i loved uh you know getting into
09:27the superhero genre is it's just a lack of opportunities or something you wanted to avoid
09:31no i think i i first of all i'm not brave enough to walk out of my trailer with a
09:36cape and uh spandex
09:38uh but i did want to and i've been trying to make six billion dollar man for quite some time
09:43which i
09:44thought was a great balance of all this kind of wish fulfillment and these abilities to do amazing
09:49things but still being very grounded and real uh and and doing it with normal clothes on
09:55and this is happening well i mean right now it's not happening but we're we're eager to get it made
10:02if we can i mean we were kind of close i would say uh within the last year and then
10:07the studio was like
10:08oh we're gonna press pause for now so we'll see i mean we i would i would never close that
10:13door
10:13completely um i still have lee majors calling me asking me what's going on and what's happening and
10:17i wish i had better news for him but it's just one of those things where you know unless i
10:22finance it
10:22myself um but right now it's probably not going to happen but well this is this is a blast and
10:28uh
10:28i really appreciate your time as always mark thank you oh thank you appreciate you hey you still with me
10:35barely
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