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- 0:00G'day. That's right, it's that time again. Time for Cinema Yugen!
- 0:16G'day, welcome back Cinema Yugen. Every time they've presented me with a Nick
- 0:20Lion picture, it's been a classy affair from wholesome family fair with the boy,
- 0:26the dog and the clown to intense and intimate
- 0:29disaster dramas on fire now
- 0:32nick lyon turns his talents with the
- 0:35help of the asylum to explosive action and
- 0:38espionage with president down get down
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- 0:44review of this incredible little action spectacular
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- 1:00you now here on Cinema Yugen my little
- 1:03Yugenites we have Mr Classy Nick Lyon and the star a very integral piece of
- 1:10this action puzzle G Anthony Joe Scum to Cinema Yugen G'day gents oh thank you
- 1:17thank you so much Nick Kent it's an honour it's an honour to be on here and
- 1:21to have Nick on here too is amazing.
- 1:24We had a fun time on the longest scene ever which went up that was like an hour
- 1:32two hours because we have to
- 1:33block shoot because we had 218 scenes to shoot in 12 days so yeah this is,
- 1:41i i admit when i saw the press materials i was thinking what
- 1:44this is going to be like those two competing you know
- 1:47white house movies like white house down and you know
- 1:50or the president in peril sort of thing and it is but
- 1:54what i liked about it is it had more of a speed meets
- 1:57air force one kind of yeah with
- 2:01the bomb not being on the bus but the bomb is ostensibly or metaphorically in
- 2:06the president's chess yeah and that's what i think is something that's pretty
- 2:11cool because i never thought about that you know it's like if you if you had
- 2:15a pacemaker and it could be hacked which
- 2:18they do make them so you can control them from outside.
- 2:21Just like there's all sorts of devices where you can control it from outside.
- 2:25So I thought it was a pretty unique concept.
- 2:29As a way to extort a president. Yes.
- 2:34And as I've said in my review, which will be coming to FilmThreat.com,
- 2:39this movie, the asylum gets a lot of, I won't say they get a lot of hate,
- 2:45but they have a reputation for a certain kind of film.
- 2:48This really went over and above that. I thought this was a very classy piece
- 2:54of action. And it really felt like those mid-range pictures that they used to make a lot of.
- 2:59Way back when in the 90s like films like did
- 3:02you ever see that one um desperate measures and it was with
- 3:05uh michael keaton anthony garcia and no
- 3:08yeah he has to get like his son's
- 3:11dying and he's got to get this transplant and the
- 3:14only one who can give him the transplant is michael keaton who happens serial
- 3:17killer and yeah well films like
- 3:20that uh the morgan freeman keanu reeves
- 3:23picture chain reaction i just don't make and this feels like president down
- 3:29felt like one of those movies like if this was a different time in a different
- 3:33place this would be one of those mid-range action pictures right and we would
- 3:39probably have like 30 or 40 million dollars yeah yeah,
- 3:44and a lot more time to get in those scenes too nicky i know wouldn't that be great yeah i mean.
- 3:52You must have this planned right down to the last second
- 3:55did you just squeeze all that in well no we
- 3:58had i mean literally 218 scenes in the
- 4:01script luckily you know
- 4:04there's a bunch of like exteriors of planes and
- 4:08car chases through washington dc and
- 4:11stuff like that that we were able to
- 4:14use a lot of vfx with to
- 4:17to basically create but you know
- 4:20it's it's one of those just like you're just pushing pushing pushing to try
- 4:25to get everything you can out of every minute of every day and you have to you
- 4:31know luckily we we were able to buy a couple decent sets you know rather than
- 4:36trying to put it together in typical,
- 4:40you know, in low-budget, we got to rent some sets that, you know,
- 4:45a plane and all that, that helped.
- 4:47But the visual effects team, I mean, at Asylum, they did a pretty good job, I think.
- 4:54And the actors you know
- 4:58a G and you know Jesse and all of them everybody Gil or Grady they they made
- 5:05everything they were on point the whole film so it wasn't like a lot of missed
- 5:10lines or anything like that everybody was really on point which makes it a lot
- 5:15easier to do I would say yeah.
- 5:18Talking of the cast, the big surprise, uh, which I didn't see in the list because
- 5:22I'm a huge renegade and snake eater fan.
- 5:24How cool is it that you got Lorenzo Llamas?
- 5:27Yep. In this movie. Uh, how cool is Lorenzo Llamas? You know what? He's really a cool guy.
- 5:33And the thing is he had just come off of knee surgery.
- 5:37Oh, really? What I, what I didn't know about Lorenzo that I thought was really
- 5:41fascinating that he hadn't really acted for 14 years because he,
- 5:45he went and became a helicopter pilot. Oh, sweet ass. There you go.
- 5:49He was doing, and now he's back in acting and he doesn't have long,
- 5:55he doesn't have long hair anymore. And he.
- 5:58But he's got a good look now. He's kind of reminded me like of James Brolin
- 6:01as James Brolin got older. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
- 6:04Like when James Brolin was in that, uh, Soderbergh movie, uh,
- 6:08traffic is like the, the, the, the dude in the white house, the military guy who was like.
- 6:14Yeah. You know, that nice smooth with silver hair and yeah.
- 6:19So Anthony, your character is, it's hard. I don't want to spoil the plot too
- 6:23much because I want people to see it.
- 6:24But Anthony, your character has a very interesting journey in this movie. Yes, at least.
- 6:33And I won't say that you're the MacGuffin, but you're one of them.
- 6:40I mean nick nick and i spoke about this and emailed about this you know a lot
- 6:47because you know the the way that it's it he was presented and the things that
- 6:52nick did to make it even more interesting like some people wouldn't even realize
- 6:57and i can give away this little part you know that i was actually there,
- 7:01in the room, in the beginning, in the opening. One person who watched it,
- 7:05who texted me, said, gee, I saw that. I saw that. You know? Yeah.
- 7:10That was something that Nick thought of after I wrapped. You know, I wrapped.
- 7:15Nick thought of it that day, and they didn't even know I was coming back on
- 7:19another day until Nick said, no, he'll be back.
- 7:21I know. I just wanted him to sit in the audience there.
- 7:25And I thought it was great how at one point, like they did with the A-Team,
- 7:30big movie they did you went through the same thing that Liam Neeson did like
- 7:34fake that he was dead and then you get the injection,
- 7:39the resurrection injection.
- 7:43As a matter of fact when I saw the way Nick and Mark Mark David is just a fantastic
- 7:50DP so good when I saw the way they shot it I didn't even realize I said I wonder
- 7:55if that's a CGI vein they have raised in my neck i was really well done nick,
- 8:03yeah i i you know you mean with
- 8:06the injection yeah with the injection yeah i know
- 8:09and you know what the problem was that the it kept
- 8:12getting injected straight in so we cut it short so that it didn't show it because
- 8:16that always bothers me when people inject people into a vein and they just push
- 8:21it straight in right right right i'm like no i'll just cut away a little bit
- 8:26early it worked, you know. Right, it would definitely work.
- 8:29The real strength of this movie is stuff that we can't really talk about to
- 8:33divulge too much of the plot, but I think that both of you would agree that
- 8:37the twists and turns and the unexpected twists and turns in this movie is part of its
- 8:42strength that sets it apart, yeah, from just a run of the mill action thriller.
- 8:47Wow. Because you're not really sure who.
- 8:50You know, who's on his team, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
- 8:54And I can't really reveal too much, although people will, it'll come out quick.
- 8:58There's some reviews out there where they've said everything,
- 9:00but not everything, you know?
- 9:02So, you know, but between G and David Chokichi and, you know,
- 9:09who's very cool as well. Yeah.
- 9:11And even Lorenzo's character is kind of duplicitous there.
- 9:14Yeah. You don't know who's really could be behind it, you know?
- 9:18Yeah. yeah or you feel like you do know and
- 9:21then g is like hidden his character dr walsh
- 9:24is basically the mastermind you know
- 9:27yeah well you think you think for the longest time
- 9:29that he's not really in it particularly when the when
- 9:32the secondary sort of operation were right and
- 9:37he's dead yeah it's like and jesse's
- 9:40out there trying to you know with his team trying to track
- 9:43you know down the the source of the interference and
- 9:46all that's right well one thing i think that
- 9:49i like about the script is it just stays a little bit ahead of
- 9:52the audience yeah i think that's
- 9:55what you're trying to say right is it like you don't really
- 9:57know what's going to happen next yeah which is
- 10:00which is good because it's not like i mean it on the
- 10:03surface it feels like you're going to go down a certain path but those um the
- 10:08the way it bends when it bends unexpectedly is is part of its is part of its
- 10:14allure I think and definitely keeps you like just when you think you know you
- 10:18don't know and then something else happens and you don't know you realize how much you don't know.
- 10:24Yeah yes no no I I
- 10:27I I wanted to say that you know and Nick was just very um he was very focused
- 10:35on that too I remember clearly the day that we had to shoot a lot of those pages
- 10:40inside of the um the mock-up soundstage of air force one and it would always
- 10:45stay with me forever you know he got,
- 10:48all of the actors together while they were still building stuff and he sat us
- 10:53down we had to sit on like plane seats and couches and i went through everything
- 10:58you know bit by bit by bit it was it's just something that would stay with me
- 11:03for for a long time it just it reminded me a lot of being you know,
- 11:05Shakespeare play. He was just that way, you know?
- 11:08Yeah, because, I mean, all of the surrounding cast all acquit themselves fantastically.
- 11:15And Jesse Cove gives off great Reacher vibes.
- 11:18He's the, you know, the square-jawed, you know, action hero who's also good on computers too.
- 11:25Yes. Which is different. Normally those guys are like, you know,
- 11:28they're a military tactician, but he's also good at computers.
- 11:32That working on right well it's funny because
- 11:35he said it's like a theater piece that's what
- 11:37that's because we're doing you know with block shooting that
- 11:41means you know like we're putting 10 scenes or seven
- 11:44scenes together back to back and you i've done
- 11:47it a lot and the only way to do it
- 11:50is to because like a lot of times you get like some actors will
- 11:53be like what the you know what
- 11:56am i doing this is like insane why are we doing you
- 11:59know a 10 minute you know monologue or
- 12:0210 minute long scene yeah and i really
- 12:05like working that way but it's like it throws people off at
- 12:08first and they go oh boy i don't know if i can do this
- 12:10some people some people the but after you've
- 12:14done a couple a couple takes or even
- 12:17just rehearsing through each scene individually and then
- 12:20i just erase i usually just cut out all the stuff in the
- 12:22middle because it balances back and forth just to
- 12:25make it one flowing big long scene and it's
- 12:29funny because like actors after rehearsing
- 12:32through it once yes all of a sudden it just flows naturally yes yes it's really
- 12:38it's really cool it's like no it definitely is cool nick in fact i i was surprised
- 12:44when you started shooting that way because i felt at home i mean being on stage
- 12:47a lot with shakespeare it was like wow you know Finally,
- 12:51you get to flow a scene from beginning to end.
- 12:55And wherever you want to cut in editing is up to you, but at least you have...
- 13:00An emotional flow without the cutting you know
- 13:02what i mean cut yeah you know and then you can decide
- 13:05what you want to do close-up song but it was i just
- 13:08loved the way you did that well it brings enough
- 13:11and the thing is you might be editing to other storylines in between but the
- 13:15fact is it keeps everything it adds a little bit of chaos to it too which just
- 13:20makes in my opinion makes it more energetic usually because it is a flow and
- 13:26it's a lot of fun to shoot that way Yeah.
- 13:30And, and it's interesting too, because there are a lot of what you'd call ensemble
- 13:35scenes in this where you have, you know,
- 13:38quite a group of people in the room, especially once the president gets laid
- 13:42up and she's, you know, in the hospital bed, oh, let's transfer her here.
- 13:46Let's transfer her here. Let's transfer her here.
- 13:48You know, and they're running around trying to solve, you know,
- 13:52trying to solve the element in the room problem.
- 13:54Yeah. How to keep her from getting hacked into. yeah they're
- 13:58trying hard to get her hacked into and they go you know what we're
- 14:01gonna take on air force one which on this
- 14:05budget i'm like going okay how are we supposed to do that okay we're gonna need
- 14:09to so i had to do some good cheating on it you know yeah when you guys did i
- 14:15mean when you both read the script and and saw all this like wow can we but
- 14:20was that was it that way for the whole film where you read all those.
- 14:23Oh, well, can we, well, it's pretty expensive.
- 14:26The scariest part is I had called David Latt at asylum and I said,
- 14:30David, how are we going to get a air force one?
- 14:33I mean, we, we really need, it needs to look legit, you know, it can't be.
- 14:38Can't be and they have this little old dilapidated you
- 14:42know airplane set it's kind of fallen apart i think they've taken it down in
- 14:47the meantime and so just to add a couple scenes there's a couple scenes that
- 14:52were shot in there just little ones of like lorenzo llama speaking and after
- 14:56he saw it on the dailies he's like no we can't use this and i was like i was
- 14:59telling you that all along.
- 15:02When he first talked to me he's like i don't know will jimmy rig
- 15:05together the set and i'm like no we can't do that can't
- 15:08jimmy rig the the falling apart set to
- 15:11sell as air force air force one in this so
- 15:14they they ended up saying okay well let's
- 15:17go to aero mock-ups and we ended up spending like three days in
- 15:20aero mock-ups because they have big airplane sets
- 15:23that are that are in good condition and
- 15:26then we ended up having to modify it and had to build walls and
- 15:29stuff like that and create the different rooms and it
- 15:32actually surprisingly worked out okay you
- 15:35know i mean i'm sure if i was on a real air force one i'd
- 15:38be running through the place a lot differently but you
- 15:42know we ended up getting the the legit jets and the
- 15:45legit everything you know so that that was very nice
- 15:48and i don't think you can that's where money spent
- 15:51is just worth it you know yeah la and la has those types of sets it's like because
- 15:58getting on a real plane would be really almost i mean it would be so difficult
- 16:02so yeah well i mean you don't you don't have the luxury of you know your breakaway
- 16:07walls and such as you can you know get into those angles that you want because inside.
- 16:12Fuselage you'd be you'd be pretty cramped especially when trying to get like
- 16:16the i don't know if the real air force one actually has like a medical bay in
- 16:22it does it yeah oh it does yeah it does. Wow.
- 16:26Oh yeah. It's a little bit less. There's a lot on that plane. Holy hell.
- 16:30Yeah. They have a medical, a medical sick bay on the real Air Force ones. Wow. There you go.
- 16:36So, but it's not, I mean, well, your audience gets to see a different,
- 16:40a different part of the Air Force One because there's been Air Force One in so many films.
- 16:44We've never seen the, uh, right.
- 16:46The medical, or, or usually it's the, you know, the boardrooms or the president's
- 16:53private quarters and stuff like that, or the cargo bay or something like that.
- 16:57And it's really, do we see the, you know, the hot tub in the medical room and
- 17:03the bowling alley and whatever else is on there.
- 17:07Bowling early in the water. I know. Well, we stretched it with,
- 17:13with our resources to get as much as we could, you know?
- 17:16Well, look, you did, you did really well, especially the, the big,
- 17:20beautiful control room too.
- 17:22That's that features from, you know what? That one is actually not on the airplane. Oh, okay.
- 17:28That was, that was a, that was a, the studio and it's been, you know,
- 17:34but it's kind of funny because it's like, it has, you know, but it works. It feels like it works.
- 17:42Yeah, yeah. No, it didn't feel like it was a different thing.
- 17:45It felt like it was part, because it's supposed to be part of the same.
- 17:49Right. And they're a lot smaller on real Air Force One.
- 17:54So it is a little bit of stretch of, I mean, it's not 100% realistic or anything,
- 18:00but, you know. But no, no, it doesn't take you out of it and it flows well with
- 18:06the rest of it. Like you don't question it.
- 18:08Yeah. At that point, because at that point we're heading into the –,
- 18:13we're heading into the climax and everything is just, you know,
- 18:17getting worse and worse and worse for our heroes.
- 18:19That scene that takes place in there was a doozy.
- 18:24And that was like a big moment for, for G Anthony, for his character.
- 18:30I remember, do you remember what happened though? The first time we,
- 18:34Kent, the first, they organized. They had all the monitors.
- 18:37Yeah. Yeah. All the monitors went down and they had to cancel that entire day after.
- 18:42Everything yeah yeah yeah because
- 18:45we were shooting on a sunday and the the person that puts
- 18:48them together was not there and he
- 18:52said okay i'm gonna leave but don't let anything happen and
- 18:55all of a sudden the lights the the monitors all went out
- 18:58and so we're like well looks like we're not going to be shooting this
- 19:01today but but ken
- 19:04back to your original thing about how long
- 19:07to shoot when i read it yes i was like wow
- 19:10i'm glad this director probably has about four or five weeks
- 19:13that's what i said 12 days
- 19:17yeah no we ended up having like six hours or something so were your days longer
- 19:25or did you still know no we don't really do very much over time maybe maybe
- 19:32i mean like 12-13 hours around there,
- 19:37and that was like we did have a half day once that was like maybe 6 hours but otherwise.
- 19:47On these low budget you can't really do it and it's really important to and
- 19:53that's where it's like if the cast is so good and they all know their lines
- 19:57and stuff it makes life much easier because they can just like you just set
- 20:02it up and okay let's do all 10 scenes together and well anthony wouldn't uh,
- 20:08You wouldn't have a problem with that, mate, doing Shakespeare as you have.
- 20:13Learning your lines, hey? Oh, no, no, no. In Shakespeare, it's all about the lines, isn't it?
- 20:18It's not just that. I don't even like to have a script.
- 20:23I don't even notice that, but I don't even like to have a script in my hand when I show up.
- 20:29To me, it just adds to the realism of why I'm going there.
- 20:34So whenever they hand me one of those small scripts, no, no,
- 20:36no, I don't need it. It's fine.
- 20:38Yeah yeah the sides yeah yeah but you
- 20:41know after after listening to some stories of friends
- 20:44of mine that have done like Beauty and Black with Tyler Perry
- 20:47right it makes me go okay this
- 20:50isn't so bad because they do like 50 to 100
- 20:53pages a day oh my goodness wow yeah
- 20:56he holds he sent me a photo of him holding a
- 20:59script and and it it like literally
- 21:03it was on day one and it was like a double
- 21:06it was probably like 125 pages at least
- 21:09and he's like these are
- 21:12my sides for the day wow and i
- 21:15was like holy camoly but that's like a different style of shooting that where
- 21:21it is like i mean i do multiple takes but i i'm interested in that because i
- 21:27think it is possible to get good stuff if the lighting and everything's good
- 21:30if you if you if you have the actors that are there that can deliver.
- 21:35And that's really the important part, you know?
- 21:39Anthony, when you're doing film as opposed to the stage, do you still, do you still bring that?
- 21:47You still feel the need to bring that same intensity, even though the level
- 21:50of it, I mean, you're not playing to the back row, obviously,
- 21:53but that same intensity you bring. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
- 21:58Yeah, especially because when you're doing Shakespeare's, the one thing you
- 22:04learn about Shakespeare early on, Shakespeare's characters do not saunter.
- 22:10Yes. You know, they don't wadger or just kind of lackadaisical,
- 22:16you know uh they're very much a purpose yes they've they all have a purpose so that's kind of.
- 22:23Definitely bleeded over to when i
- 22:26get a an offer for a role and i and i have to study and break it down that definitely
- 22:31bleeds into it you know from the moment you from the moment nick says action
- 22:37to until he says cut you know there's there's no there's no sauntering you know
- 22:42yeah you you have your central desire fixed,
- 22:46and so you've always got a sounding board within yourself, true?
- 22:50Definitely. And the thing that I do the most when I am preparing to portray
- 22:57anyone on screen is I have to get to the point where by the time I get on the
- 23:03set, they forget they're in a movie.
- 23:05Right. You know, so that, you know, when I'm just ready to pounce the moment Nick says, let's go.
- 23:14You know yeah and you uh i know
- 23:16you have incredible intensity in this mate very much that's
- 23:20why i said uh air force one in my review because
- 23:22you reminded me very much of gary oldman in the picture who
- 23:25has just incredible very much
- 23:29caged intensity like he's really good at like that
- 23:32menacing like you're very good at that menacing
- 23:35sort of stare where you don't really have to do
- 23:38too much physically because it's
- 23:40all in the eyes yeah and and i and
- 23:43i want to i want to give credit to i think i have to
- 23:46give credit that to my mother you
- 23:49know when i was 10 years old she took myself
- 23:52and my two sisters away from the caribbean divorced to
- 23:55baltimore to live in the baltimore city right and
- 23:59having been bullied she put me in a martial arts system
- 24:03that i'm still practice into this day and that just turned
- 24:07my life around and you need to have that
- 24:10switch it's to turn off and on immediately
- 24:14you know so it has a lot to do with that so it's like when i came first time
- 24:19i came to hollywood and i picked up a script and i was able to do that that
- 24:23was one of the first things somebody said about me that the urine and i knew
- 24:26it came from that yeah yeah there's also that incredible physique of yours.
- 24:34I know we're sitting there looking at it on the phone i know i'm like i feel
- 24:38like i have to go and work yet now she gets but he does have that he had that
- 24:43when he in the audition tapes too it's just this quiet,
- 24:47very quiet but sophisticated and and
- 24:50like you described just the look and
- 24:53a calmness and inner calmness it's very i don't
- 24:57know and i told him i said look you remind me of like giancarlo esposito yeah
- 25:01yeah yeah you know from from breaking bad and and from star wars and or you
- 25:07know mandarin mandalorian he has like a similar vibe like just like could still
- 25:14eyes just the penetrating look,
- 25:17And a quiet sophistication, but danger.
- 25:22Well, as James Lipton on the Actors Studio once said, some actors find it very
- 25:30difficult to do silence or stillness.
- 25:33De Niro is one of them that can do it. Morgan Freeman and Anthony G.
- 25:39Yeah, I think one of the things, one of my first, well, first and only two,
- 25:44I had two acting coaches and you used to hear this over and over again.
- 25:51Can you just do nothing? Right.
- 25:55And some actors really take that as literally doing nothing.
- 25:58And you just do nothing. And it took years to figure out what that meant. Right, right, right.
- 26:07Some actors, you can tell they're trying to be natural by doing nothing,
- 26:10but they're not doing anything. Right.
- 26:13That's good. No, they're always like, yeah, or, or, you know,
- 26:17yeah, doing nothing, you're right.
- 26:20Or there's the ones that are always looking to nudge themselves in,
- 26:23even though they're doing nothing to get in closer, to get the close up,
- 26:27you know, or, you know, it's.
- 26:30Yeah, that's another thing that you bring that up, Nick, about the close up,
- 26:34because I've always seen, I've seen it firsthand. Of course, I've heard it.
- 26:39You know, look, save your intensity for the close up. And I'm thinking to myself.
- 26:44You don't know what the director is going to use. You have to be,
- 26:47to me, I have to be at 150% all the time, you know?
- 26:54And that's why I was so happy. I told a director friend of mine a couple of days ago, I said,
- 27:00when Nick shot that scene inside of the medical facility in Air Force One,
- 27:07It was so, it was so a breath of fresh air when you,
- 27:11you just had the cameras way back and you shot the entire master in one,
- 27:17you know, it's amazing. I, I, I can't get over it to this day.
- 27:21Well, as you say, it's a great luxury for, from an actor's point of view,
- 27:25not, not just economical from a filmmaking point of view, but from an actor's
- 27:28point of view, because you get to play it, as you said, the whole scene without,
- 27:32okay, now we'll do, come and do the reverse on you.
- 27:35And then, okay, come and do your close-up and come and do this and that and
- 27:38all the different shots.
- 27:40If they can just play the scene out, you can play the emotions and the intensity
- 27:45for all it's worth, Drew.
- 27:46Yeah, yeah. And I don't know if this is an issue or not, but I think we may
- 27:55be getting less and less of that, and Nick can correct me if I'm wrong,
- 27:59because it's all digital now, so people feel the need. Well,
- 28:02I don't have to know it all.
- 28:03They can just cut. Let me stand there. Okay, let me see.
- 28:06Right, there's no film or tape. Right, right. It's just a hard drive. Yeah.
- 28:12I mean, it has its advantages too, though, because you can run an entire scene,
- 28:17and then let's just say somebody's overacting, they're giving full intensity
- 28:23and it's because they're meant to give intensity, but you're like going,
- 28:27okay, now they're already at a certain level.
- 28:30And then say, okay, now take it back to the beginning and I want you to whisper everything. Yeah.
- 28:36And all of a sudden, they still have that intensity. Right.
- 28:40And, you know, we did a little bit of that where, you know, you did a bigger
- 28:44take at the beginning and then I, like, said, let's do another one and have
- 28:49you, you know, be more up and down, you know?
- 28:53Like Nick Meyer said to Riccardo Maltabon on The Wrath of Khan,
- 29:00you know, a madman is more terrifying when he whispers.
- 29:04I think so. And then loud. And then was, you know, to vary it,
- 29:09to not be the same the whole time.
- 29:11No, up and down like El Pacino. Ooh, ah!
- 29:16But to get to the level, you know, I think it's great to get the intensity and
- 29:21the level there and then to like...
- 29:23Sporadically pull it back a little bit and to change it up a bit,
- 29:27it makes it a little scarier, I think, or more intense, actually.
- 29:31And that's actually one of the things, Kent, that Nick told me during that massive
- 29:35scene, you know, he said, okay, now I want you to try this and do this.
- 29:40You know, he, he knew that was, that was the one thing about Nick.
- 29:43He knew, he, he knew exactly what to say, just knew exactly what to say.
- 29:51And I thought, okay, Nick, got it, got it, got it.
- 29:53It's called don't say too much yes don't throw all the baby out with the bath water.
- 30:01But uh yeah mate look look fellas you've
- 30:04done it again this is a fantastic movie it's on fox and tubie originals right
- 30:09now president down there's no excuse for anyone listening not to get over to
- 30:14shoot me right now and check out all the awesomeness provided by the great nick
- 30:20lion and the great G. Anthony.
- 30:23All right. Thanks, Kent. It's an honor and a more than you would ever know.
- 30:28And Nick, thank you so much for it. Yeah, thank you too. Great.
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- 30:36And as always, my little Eugenites, thank you for listening to us on Spotify
- 30:42or wherever you choose to listen to your favorite podcasts. I'm Kent Hill.
- 30:46And until next time, you've been listening to Cinema.
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