00:26This is Tim Wasper from Fast Track on CERC TV.
00:32You have to know how to push and how far to see how much the comedy would work with that
00:37character.
00:38Because he still needs to be dark, but he still needs to be light, does that make sense?
00:42Yeah, yeah.
00:43We actually had two songs in the movie and I think it was, there were two reasons that
00:48one of them got removed, got put into the end credits, but that was initially in the
00:52edit and we thought, half of it was maybe the movie was running a bit long with the
00:57second song in there, but also it felt like it weakened Tang a tiny bit, where he stopped
01:01being threatening, even though the gag was quite fun.
01:04Yeah.
01:04So you take those things into consideration and I'm always a big fan of, you know, first
01:10three takes, let's take it too far with a character like that, who's that big, because there might
01:14be little elements, little golden moments you can take on for the quieter performance levels
01:19if you do, you know, take four, five and six and basically modulate it that way.
01:23And you basically, you get too much, then you get too little and you can generally find in
01:27the middle of all those takes a performance that'll work, you know.
01:30But Jason and I, we kind of had many conversations beforehand of what was too far.
01:35And then, I don't know, we kind of felt that there wasn't, you know, we didn't hit far
01:41enough ever, you know.
01:42It was just fun to see what he did with it and how kind of campy he could be.
01:47And then, but then when he turns, to feel the sense that he really turns, when he jumps
01:51towards Leanne and gets right in her face, that's for him to feel like a monster and a
01:55beast there, you know, that was no jokes in that moment.
01:58But then when he's back into the deal, he loves the deal, you know, and that's when he
02:02kind of lightens up a bit more.
02:04500 quid.
02:05No way.
02:05Too much.
02:06That's too much.
02:07Feel free to call someone else, but we are the only service in the city open on the weekends.
02:12But I'm sure you can wait till Monday, yeah?
02:18I think it's all in the context of the genre as well.
02:21Yeah.
02:21And the films that we're talking about, the reference points like Sam O'Hong, Mr. Vampire
02:25movies, there's a real highness to them, you know, and so that was part of the challenge
02:28as well when you're like, is how you take that, the highness of those movies that are
02:33period, you know, that look aesthetically very different, they're made in a different
02:37way and try to transpose that into a setting in Dublin.
02:40So there's a highness, I think, that you get away with it because it fits within the
02:45whole world of the film and the genre of the film.
02:47But there's a difference between, obviously, Irish humour and, you know, humour, say,
02:51in the Far East with some of the films like Macomb and all that.
02:54Yeah.
02:55Could you talk about finding that, well, finding the tone?
02:57Because the thing is, is that it's a buddy comedy and yet there's, you know, the Kung Fu
03:02of action and yet there's a weird in-between sort of comedic element that it's not American,
03:08it's not European, it's somewhere in the ether.
03:11Yeah.
03:12It's very Irish.
03:12Yeah.
03:13Like, there's gags in there that an international audience won't get that are so Dublin and so are.
03:18So there's gags in there that the Irish audiences are going to, like, there's, there's, when you're
03:23characterised and you're told, welcome to the, welcome to the north side.
03:26Yeah.
03:26Irish audiences are just going to lose it over that.
03:28Like, it's, there's, so it's, it ain't like, it's the thing that is something that is so
03:33specific, it can be universal at the same time.
03:36And we just, you know, and you're, when you're working in, that's why the genre is so important
03:40because you can actually be local and it's the genre elements that carry, carry an awful
03:45lot.
03:45They carry a lot of weight for you.
03:46Yeah.
03:46But yeah, it's Irish leading, like it really, it's an Irish movie.
03:50Okay.
03:51Okay.
03:51I'll repeat.
03:52Happy days.
03:53Oh, total hottest.
03:54Knowing here, they come from outside.
03:57Again, you follow them, stop them, then you get paid.
04:04That sort of like nonchalance in a little way with these two characters.
04:09Can you talk about that?
04:10Because that really sort of gives the film the levity.
04:13It really leads.
04:16The relationship between Danny and Frank is such a large part of the movie.
04:21You know, it helps, it carries a lot of weight, if you know what I mean.
04:25And I think a large element of that is the casting is you guys genuinely found like two
04:31people who just, Michael and I, from day one, from day one, we were like best friends.
04:36We were geeking out.
04:37And I was just talking about how, how first conversation wasn't even about acting or the
04:42job, or we just geeked out about YouTube.
04:44It's something we're genuinely passionate about.
04:47So, yeah, when you find two people who, who like love each other like that and can be
04:53with each other, like overnight at an airport, I wouldn't get tired of them, you know?
04:57So that, that means something.
04:59And like, since you, you put the pieces together that fit so well, everything else was banter.
05:05Like we made up the, the handshake thing on the spot.
05:08But there was a good bit of, there's a good bit of banter, you know, on set.
05:11I think some of it was kept into the movie, finally.
05:14So, yeah, I got to give credit to, to first of all, you guys for finding Michael and secondly
05:18to Michael himself for being so brilliant.
05:20In the age we are obviously with YouTube and all that, you know, people think they know
05:23you, but then you have to change it up to sort of play a character outside yourself.
05:29Can you talk about the interesting thing of that, bringing those fans from there to this
05:34for you?
05:35Because it's a meta, it's an interesting meta sort of process.
05:39Yeah, it is.
05:40Actually, I stay more on the, on the filmmaking side of YouTube.
05:44As in most YouTubers, you'll, you'll see them as them.
05:48Whether it's a face cam of Log, something like a Casey Neistat.
05:52On my channel, you actually never do.
05:54So anytime you see me on my channel, I'm playing a character delivering a script.
05:58So in that way, I think the audience will be a bit more used to the switch.
06:02You know, it wouldn't be as jarring as a, if I'm a, like a PewDiePie type.
06:16Fall down.
06:17Stop them.
06:18Maybe you'll get paid.
06:20Maybe.
06:22In the script, it's a, it's the journey of Danny taking the responsibility of what he
06:29always should have had.
06:30And he even felt it in the beginning, right?
06:32He felt, he felt that something was missing.
06:35And it was something that the, in the beginning of the movie, he wasn't the guy to stand up
06:40to that challenge to bear the weight of something that is quite extraordinary.
06:43To be, to be the, the protectors and the defenders against a, a, a mythical monster, the Jiang Shi.
06:53And I think the journey of him learning to take that responsibility, the challenges along
06:57the way, and the, it's heartbreaking.
06:59The scene that gets me is between him and Frank.
07:02Like when the two of them kind of break up in the, in the bromance, bromance way, the
07:09challenges he has to go through to, to eventually realize what he should be.
07:13And then to, to take that responsibility a hundred percent and to be proud of it too.
07:19I think that's the journey.
07:20There's a tiny bit of trivia about that scene, the breakup scene, which is like one of the
07:23most, probably the most important part.
07:25One of the most important parts of the movie.
07:26We had 18 minutes to shoot that.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Yeah.
07:30Cause it was, I remember looking at my watch going, like, I'm going to die.
07:36That was a luxury.
07:37It was a luxury.
07:38Yeah.
07:41Well, maybe we'll get paid.
07:47You know, the great thing about the movie and the reason I think that it's connected
07:51and you probably saw that here is because everybody takes the piss out of each other.
07:55You know, it's literally, it's about, you know, you can take it seriously, but the thing
07:59is, these people are always sort of jabbing, even the bad guys are jabbing the good guys
08:03and back and forth.
08:04Yeah.
08:05I mean, again, like that kind of speaks to Dublin as well.
08:07I mean, you can't go through any kind of conversation without somebody being very insulting in the
08:11most, in most endearing, lovely way.
08:13Cause you know, it means affection.
08:16Yeah.
08:16I think, I think that's just that, that, that speaks to kind of the Irish side of things
08:19and that level of humor where, and also just to kind of, I think it's in the balancing
08:24of the tone to keep things to a certain, always trying to bring it back to the light, even
08:29when it's getting very intense.
08:37Bye.
08:44Yeah.
08:45Yeah.
08:47Yeah.
08:48Yeah.
08:52At solid.
08:53Yeah.
08:56Yeah.
