00:00You thought you could destroy a tornado.
00:02We never had a chance.
00:06What impressed you the most about Lee Isaac Chung as a director?
00:10I think how intentional he was about the relationships between the people, right?
00:15It's such a big, big film, so you think Twisters, and automatically, if that's where you point
00:19that, oh, it's a movie about tornadoes, and sure, yes, it is, but it's very much a movie
00:23about the relationships between the people who are caught in the middle of these storms,
00:28right, and how these storms affect the people and what that does to them before and after
00:32and how they deal with that, so I think he did an amazing job at really, like, focusing
00:37on the relationships between the people.
00:39I think Isaac, being raised a lot of his life in Arkansas, has experienced tornadoes, so he
00:44brought that aspect of experience to it, and also just his film background of really knowing
00:49how to showcase heart within a film, so that's just the best combination, to have heart within
00:54a big, action, crazy, spectacle type of film, and there's just such subtlety between the
01:01relationships between all of us in the film, and he knows how to capture that so well and
01:06highlight everyone so well, and there's just so much trust with the actors, too. I felt very
01:11collaborative, and yeah, just the fact that Isaac trusted us with these roles to take it to places
01:17and trusted us to help, so.
01:19Yeah. Isaac's the reason I really wanted to do the film. I absolutely loved Minari, I thought.
01:25It's one of my favorite films. His way of capturing, like, intimacy and interpersonal relationships
01:30is so beautiful, and so I thought it was really cool to see what he would do with something like
01:34Twisters. This is such a, like, huge spectacle of a film, and I know that growing up, one of his
01:39favorite directors was Spielberg, and obviously Spielberg's producing, and it's just, like, it's so fun to be in
01:44something of scale that also has that filmmaker's eye, that real, you know, ability to capture truth,
01:52and also, like, a reverence for the natural world, which you see in Minari, and Isaac really has,
01:57I think, yeah. I just loved working with him. What a pleasure.
02:00I think what also makes Isaac really special is he's, like, a listener, you know, like, in terms of when
02:06we
02:06would go out to, you know, some of these places, we're around real storm chasers at the National
02:10Weather Center, just us and our thoughts. You know, he's a very quiet person who's got a very
02:17strong point of view, which is, like, I think the best quality in a director. It's not someone who's
02:22trying to push their worldview on the, you know, on the movie. It's, like, letting where you're setting
02:27the movie and the world of the movie really be expressed at its best level. I think, to what you
02:32guys are saying, which is someone who can maintain heart in the midst of scope, it's such a hard thing
02:37to
02:38do, but I think it takes someone who can sort of quiet the storm, you know, literally a metaphor.
02:43Yeah, he not only listens to us, but I think he listens to the moment. He's so good at listening
02:48to the moment, you know, and kind of just paying attention to what the moment is telling him
02:53and what life is something to do with him.
02:55Yeah, he won't really overpower. He'll just give you one little thing that'll change the scene
02:59because what we're doing, and it's just, yeah, it's great.
03:03It was a very liberating set to be on because we got to put all of our experience, our ideas,
03:10and so everybody felt like they were, like, breathing life into those characters at the
03:14highest level. I don't know, I felt very empowered on this movie to just play.
03:18For sure.
