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Die-Hard in a Mansion: Inside The Handyman · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right, it's that time again. Time for Cinema Union.
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Yes, welcome back. Cinema Union.
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Who can kill the bad guys? Save the girl from her.
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Fix a leaky faucet with a wink a smile
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and charm the handyman the
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handyman can
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the handyman can cause he's
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good with guns and knives and makes the bad guys cry
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and the bad guys cry because the handyman makes them die yes ladies and gentlemen
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it is rare for me to talk about a film which i wrote but i wrote the handyman and now.
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Because it's out there on Amazon Prime, soon on Tubi.
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Check the links in the description now because it's out.
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And me and the whole team behind the handyman wants you to see it now.
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Eugenites, welcome to the show. My director, Alex T.
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Huang, star Eric Anthony Rosso, and the handyman himself, Kevin Calibre.
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Uh gentlemen g'day and welcome to cinema you getting hey well thank you thank
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you thank you thank you for having us yes kevin how you doing mate i'm doing
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good bud ready to talk some sharp like only the handy we can fantastic you were
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singing that song too weren't you the handyman.
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Eric and i were just saying we should have put that somewhere musical like a
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number at the end Like, you know, like right at the end, like we all come back
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to the light and all the dead, all the dead rise up and it, it becomes a great,
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you know, musical interlude.
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The mid credits just go full show tune, kind of like, or the Bollywood style.
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It's like all that jazz. It's fantastic.
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Copyright issue.
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Mate. And so Alex, that's real rain falling in the background.
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Because you said you were plagued by Wither doing this all week.
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Yeah, you know, guys, I don't know if you know this, Ken's the one who wrote the script.
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Yeah, we're talking about that. I was just hoping I'd convey the character like
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he wanted to in the script, you know?
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Yeah, so, yeah, you're right.
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I mean, the Wither's supposed to be really good in March and April.
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Usually it's really good. And the script is supposed to be all sunny day You know, good weather,
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I think it rained four days straight, the beginning of the first day.
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Then on fifth day, I mean, we had snow, we had rain, and the wind. It was unbelievable.
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But we got through it. I mean, we have to play, because it's a small-budget
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film, I mean, we couldn't cancel anything. Everything was all locked in.
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So we just had to make the best out of it, and that's what we did.
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Wow. there's a scene when girl comes out of the swimming pool,
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it's gonna be a sunny day but if you look at the look at the closely in the
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background you see rain coming down yeah yeah when Kevin was in the club I'll
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never I'll never I'll never listen to Mozart again the same way,
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no I agree yes it was some cold night especially the first day I remember it
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was really cold I remember Kevin the night that he grabbed my balls Yeah, yeah.
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He had to get a blanket on him because it was free. He had his boxer shorts on.
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Yeah. And it was real. I think he went to the 40s that night.
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Were they stunt balls or were they your real balls?
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So I remember I begged them. I go, please. They are stunt balls.
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But when we did the close-up, I go, look, can we put a couple of rolls of socks in?
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Give me something to make it look good on the close-up, please.
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Can we do that? Give me some dignity. and.
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I'm going to snort that was a
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fun night that was a great night yeah I love that line that's a great line,
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yeah fantastic you know kevin you
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are so handsome if you really were a handyman you'd be
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getting so much work mate i actually
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there was a time in my life whenever i was a handyman it was before
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i went to la and no bs
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it was it did come in handy the in the looks department
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my work was very mediocre but there was
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never they kept bringing me back for more and more so yeah
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it's a true life thing i mean it's true
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i mean you're like you know when brad pitt goes to fix you
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know leonardo dicaprio is like and tanner and he's up there just the excuse
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to take the shirt off and like have a ciggy and you really struggle with the
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cigarettes in this one you just can't get that sucker lit hey so i i think in
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the beginning we wanted to have him smoke,
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but I thought it was kind of funny.
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Originally, the script itself was, you know, it was an action drama.
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On the first day, I made a decision, you know what? We got good comedians,
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good people with the timing, good timing.
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I'm going to change it into action comedy.
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So, if you see him, you know, holding a cigarette or spitting it out,
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it's kind of funny, in a way, because,
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Throughout the whole film, there's tons of cigarettes nobody smokes.
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Even the villain, Cigar, you never see him, that thing lit and have a smoke coming out.
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He does get to smoke, though, by the end.
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Smoke vans or whatever.
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That was fantastic. So, yeah, tell us some of the war stories from filming or
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funny stories. I don't know if we want to say Eric's.
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We could let, we could. We'll skip that one.
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We'll skip that one. No, we could jump straight into some of the action stuff.
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The action team was, God, those guys are. Yeah.
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I'm an actor that does my own stunts. I'm not a stunt man. And I see the stuff that they do.
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And I mean, they're just, it's the falls that they take. It is,
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it was unreal. It was the same stunt team.
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Almost all new stunt players, but the same stunt coordinator,
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Gary Choi, that has worked with alex in the past so we kind of style that we
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were going with and but god you you just they they keep raising the stakes and
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we're on like cement and they're just taking these.
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Backdrops and slams it's like do you want a pad though no i'm good yeah i don't
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know i've got to say that i'm gonna say that beat near the end where you take
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that chick out with the hammer that's that's that's a brutal kill that one man
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especially with that one with that one i yeah i broke the hammer.
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I literally broke the hammer on her.
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Because we just kept going for it. Because with this, you're kind of
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if you think about the movie segmented up the first home
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invasion it's a little slightly slapsticky that's
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the you know the grab and twisting of the balls nothing you know
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really like your girlfriends and yeah right
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yeah then then then by the next one it gets to that
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garage fight that's where you start the brutality starts
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to come yeah yeah racking guys with wrenches and
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like this big falls are happening then
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by the time you build it all the way up to last
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third wave of bad guy whatever you want to call it they're like
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the more mercenary you know like the batter but let's say
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the guys keep then you we really get up to the chick
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with the hammer or tyler slaughter or the fish hook
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with the crowbar the crowbar yeah the crowbar thing
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yeah it was brutal that man yeah that was fun
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but but you see it almost not that it looked like a different
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movie but if you see it from the first fight to the
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last you see that the evolution it's not with
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some of the some of these action movies that you see whether it's over
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the last 20 years we've seen like like taken all of a sudden every fight
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starts to look the same where it's just lambs and the intercut
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or every john wick i mean you get the first fight first minute of the movie
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is going to look like the last one it's always gung fu but what we did we tried
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to kind of build it up in a different way to have uh you know to kind of play
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it all for you know again for comedy and just for sake of the stakes getting
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higher as it goes along yeah.
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One of my favorite bits is in the middle of a part, actually,
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where the girl goes timeout, and you're like, there's no timeout in fights.
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I love how Kevin growls sometimes. He's like the shark in Jaws,
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the revenge. He's just standing there.
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That was Alex's directing there. He just kept saying, grunt more.
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So we were editing the movie, and I looked into my editor, And also my wife,
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who is a producer, because I,
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there's a lot of grunting in this movie. Should we cut so much?
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It's like, no, leave it in there. It's good.
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It's like, yeah, okay, okay. Are you sure? She's like, yeah, it's fine.
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But we're like, You need to do a pirate movie next.
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My thing is, I don't like a lot of dialogues in the movies. You know?
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So when he grunts, that's basically his dialogue.
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That's how he talks that's how he communicates when Molly his niece asked about
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the boyfriend he's like whatever that's his character,
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I remember my first day I didn't know what my character was going to wear so
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I get there day one and I just brought so many options for clothing I have no
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idea I know this guy is a piece of shit piece of work and he's a lowlife.
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So I just whipped out this track suit and I'll wear that.
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That's what your guy would wear, his track suit. So I'm like,
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all right, I'll wear the track suit.
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Gotta enjoy, gonna get some of that fuck you money. Woo! Yeah,
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exactly. Fuck you money.
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I'm like, I got this Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, wear the Hawaiian shirts.
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Or a home of music. Yeah, wear the Hawaiian shirts.
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So it got more ridiculous to my outfits because my character was this,
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you know, wild, obnoxious, you know, jerk. That's who I was.
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Hey, do you want to know an interesting tidbit, right? Because when Alex pitched
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this to me, he said it's like Die Hard in a mansion.
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All of the gang members are named after Die Hard, the gang in Die Hard.
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It's true. Ellis, why? Now I think of Ellis. Ellis, Franco, all those there. They're all there. Wow.
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Now I'm not trying to read that. Now you're real. Wow, that's cool.
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Yeah. Oh, wow. So funny thing about Ellis was,
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And Alice gets killed exactly like in Die Hard as well.
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Yeah. But I imagine that person Alice in the beginning, it was a man.
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Yeah. But when we did the table read, she showed up.
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I said, hey, I need some people to read some of the scripts.
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And one of them was the handyman. And she showed up. I said, hey, can you read this?
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You know, it's a man part, but I don't have a body here. Can you just read that part?
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And she was really good. But that's when we decided to change the gender of
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that character to a female.
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Yeah, no, she was good. And I like my back and forth with her.
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I think we heard a nice dynamic in the movie, just going at each other.
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It was like an old married couple, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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But that worked, I think, in the movie. I think it did, at least.
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That scene played really well between you and Joe with the whole thing where she's tied up.
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You know, keep your girlfriend tied up. Yeah, yeah.
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What the hell's wrong with you? That played really well. especially,
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yeah, we had an argument on the way out. She's pissed at me.
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Yeah! Something I would say, actually.
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When we were shooting...
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Yeah. So when we're shooting at the desert, that was smoother compared to other days.
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As I said, because of the weather and the rain, a lot of shots during the day
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that we're supposed to shoot, we couldn't do it. So we were switching.
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I mean, the first four days was chaos. I never, never had these issues before.
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But the night shot, day shot, we were mixing it together, you know,
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day for night, night for day. It was just chaos.
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The last day, or technically the second to last day at that mansion,
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it ended up being for a few of us. For me, Alex, the sound guy,
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John, and the DP, Adam, that ended up being a 17-hour day for us.
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Because we had to get the intro shot of the movie at the lake.
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So we hit the lake at like 8 a.m.
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Shot and then and then we had to get the pool shot because
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we filmed all the rest of the pool stuff around the pool without me going
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into it because again the 40s so we
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just kept in the can down the road until it's that final night that we're in
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there we're like we have to get the falling in the pool shot so that was last
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shot of the night everybody else had had pretty much gone gone to bed kind of
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and we had as many cameras on it as we could and i ended up taking in the pool
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fall twice and we did it like 2 a.m.
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So that was for some of that.
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But again, we had to get it and we were we're
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we're getting everything we could, but again, with the weather,
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just cold and rainy half the movie, you know, it's almost all supposed to take place at night.
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So there's only so much we could do during the day. And so, you know, we do what we do.
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And, uh, Alex just kept, you know, there was no, one of the cool things that
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we had a team that went between Adam and Alex and myself and John,
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it was just, all right, just keep going.
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Just, you know, if we got to go order, we do what we got to do.
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And anytime Eric was there, he was ready to go because he carried most of the
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dialogue for that segment of the guys, where the guys were all staying in the
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house. So they're all just kind of there and hanging out.
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And so anytime we needed them, all the stunt crew was just Johnny on the spot.
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And it was just, get it done.
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And I remember the desert location, we had a handicap where there was no electricity.
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Right at nighttime, there was no electricity. So we had to work as fast as we
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could because sunset was around 6, 7, 7 o'clock or so.
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So we had to work fast at the second location to get everything done.
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Yeah so but good thing about that was except the first day you know it snowed
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a little bit and uh rain a little bit other than that it was pretty sunny the
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very last day actually we got to,
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we had we got to,
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the last day when the the you
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know the explosions or the fighting running we were
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able to do that real quick and fast as we
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can and we were trying to get everyone out.
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You know uh before sun goes down so
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even yeah i wish i you know.
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This is funny thing i would i would say every time.
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I shoot a movie it goes god i wish i had two more days i wish
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i had three more days on this one god i
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wish i had two more days i wish i had one scene
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with kevin like a one i know we yeah moments for one
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last little fact like i i got shot in
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the head i get it but i wish i wish i had one moment
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because he grabbed my balls i want to have revenge for that just have
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one moment like a fight moment or something just wanted one more
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well that was one where this movie's
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cool because i am a big fan of movies where
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there's multiple bad guys for some reason it's just
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it works really well you know and
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there's just certain to have to have Eric be be like
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the main bad guy throughout meanwhile he's making the phone call
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then you hear and then we finally get to meet Joe's character
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at the end but and initially in the
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script it was supposed to be me and Joe have a physical altercation
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but Joe you know obviously is a little you
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know he's got got the you know bad needs it wasn't really meant for
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you know it wasn't the best of conditions to be
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fighting out there where a lot of them is a lot more
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controlled so yeah a nice hand-to-hand combat between
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me and one of you guys would have been you know
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which is like she brought up the you brought
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up i'm sorry i'm i draw a blank on her name now the blonde actress with the
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timeout it's funny because i don't know what order it's going to be necessarily
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as we're doing because editing you could really have fun yeah yeah so i go was
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that my final fight me and her that ended up being the last I love that.
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And she just kicks you straight in the ghoulies.
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Oh, yeah. There was a final fight before the helicopter blows up between you and Joe.
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I mean, there was hand-to-hand combat knife.
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But we decided to kind of modify that and cut that and just blow him out because
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he couldn't do those stunts.
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And we tried to get someone that they could do.
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Or try to play him, but the time that we have, it just would not work.
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So we had to change a few things. But overall, I think it worked out. Yeah.
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Yeah. Next one, we'll have you. Yeah.
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Awesome. But listen, talk about that ending, because I mean,
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the, the, the use of the combined use of visual effects and models really comes
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together so well at the end of this movie better than,
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you know, better than expected, huh?
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Yeah. For a low budget film. Yeah. So it looked amazing.
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So we had miniatures, you know, the car was a miniature.
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The helicopter was partially miniature along with the photos and stock footage.
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And also we use AI to create some special effects.
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We had a special effect guy also who did some other CG special effects.
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But certain things, when we tried on AI, it actually looked realistic.
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Certain shots so that's how we went so it's combination of cgi practical effect
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miniature effect and also better way eyes yeah so but when you put it all together
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you know it worked out yeah look i look i didn't know how it was great.
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I was look i was honestly really surprised when eric when your character got
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shot i thought oh okay, he killed him there.
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Okay. So that's not going to be this other bit, but then, yeah,
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I did not expect cars exploding.
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I didn't expect, I didn't expect the helicopter at all, but as Alex said,
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you know, we weren't sure we're going to be able to pull it off,
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but I'm glad that you did because yeah. Wow.
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I mean, yeah, it's got a Rambo two ending for God's sake, which is fantastic.
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I mean, uh, yeah, just capped off, you know.
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Everything that came to the fore. If you watch The Last Act,
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it goes fast because it's action to action to action.
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I mean, I always like Jaws or the new movies where you start with the action.
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So I wanted to start with a big boom in a way.
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That's where you see right before the credit starts
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you see handyman hitting the pool and the
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title comes up then he's at the lake so i kind of
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started with a little bit of boom but then there's
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a midsection like kevin said the handyman
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said there's a shot you know the fights in the mansion and
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the fights in the garage but they're not right
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after each other but on third act you
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you soon as you know the bad guy shows up you
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got mercenaries fighting cabin fighting you got
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gunshots you know the the you know gun battles in
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the cabin uh more uh fights in
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the desert helicopters fighting shooting at the helicopters running while things
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are exploding in the background it just goes bam bam bam bam bam i mean there's
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i just like that okay you know take a little breather but there's more coming
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bam bam bam i i like that yeah.
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It's fair i look one of the bits i love kevin
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is when you're doing like the the handyman sort of montage bit
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i love the bit how you just look at the paint cans again like
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you fix everything else look at the paint cans like nah
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i'm not gonna do that painting well well that
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one was funny too because it got to the last day
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and we were we're loaded out everybody was
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gone because it was an airbnb the cleaning crews in there
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and we're shooting all the way up to the last minute
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of the crew being in there so we actually got kicked
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out of the house but then there was the big garage area
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which had its own little bathroom and little
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office built in and we're still there and
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i was like we didn't get enough of the montage so this
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was after we already got kicked out of the airbnb the crew was
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gone it was just me alex and adam the dp and we were just stealing those shots
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and it's sitting outside and i'm supposed to be out and with the gate and i
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was like i'm just we're was just staring at the rain i was like what can we
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do here in the garage so yeah we're just yeah the paint cans i got the tools
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i'm just like unscrewing something just to screw it back,
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screwing light bulbs i'm like yeah i love i love it it's like he's fixed everything
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else between one look at the paint cans yet no i'm not painting nothing but
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that montage my favorite is very at the end,
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He looks at all the wires. Yeah, and this guy's not. He's just going, oh, screw it.
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Next minute, he's out in the hot tub with a glass or something,
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and it's just like, yeah, nah. Yeah.
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But I do love the hero shot when he first encountered the bad guys.
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Kevin walks in, he's just a boxer, short, and the white feeder. Yeah, that's great.
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And he takes off his mask that he stole from the bad guy. Yeah. And growls. Yeah.
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And after that, he throws the bad guys outside the house. And he walks in.
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You got a hero shot from the bottom up.
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I think that looks really good in slow-mo. Yeah.
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Neighborhood watch, asshole. Who the fuck are you? You know?
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I haven't taken a crap in a week. I need some.
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This was a bad shoot. If I looked at it again, what I would have done differently
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was, we should have shot all the days seen at the mansion, straight three days,
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or even two days, take a breather, then take another two nights just shooting
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the night scene instead of going back and forth the same day, you know, chaos.
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But, I mean, this is what it is. We got it done. Yeah. Yeah.
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You can see the very handsome Eric Rosso, the very handsome Kevin Kalbar, who is so handsome.
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In fact, in a alternate universe, he's playing me in a TV movie about the story of my life.
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You mentioned Alex's cameo in this movie.
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I know. And I was just about to say, Alex, I watched the movie twice before
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I realized that you do an Alfred Hitchcock in this movie.
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I don't usually be in my own movie.
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So what happened was that scene where Kevin's dreaming or thinking about his
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partner getting killed, there was another actor and we set up everything and
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he's getting laid. I'm like, where is his son's going now?
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And he called he was in traffic and we
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told him you know what just turn around it's okay we'll set up another date
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and I'm like you know what we have the props here screw it let's just shoot
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it give me the bag give me the gun let's just go with it you know it's like
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who's gonna play it my DP Adam goes who's gonna play it I'll do it do it.
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Look I said I watched it twice obviously if we would have known that we could have gotten something,
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while we were all together You know, one of those ones where,
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cause I did a little bit of a, of a, of a visual change for a flashback where
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I did, you know, knock down the beard.
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Yeah. Yeah. Try to try to make myself not the, not the old grunty drunk guy.
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And like, that would have been per if we would have known, but you,
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you know, you, you want to get a different actor in there and,
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you know, but at the end of the day, the show must go on.
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So what was in, what was in your, what was in your poison, Kevin?
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What was he, what were you really drinking? Yeah.
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I know it wasn't really booze. It was like Diet Coke and wine.
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So it's, yeah, and I don't drink soda. So it was the most, it was the most soda.
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Because I've heard that they use iced tea sometimes as well.
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Yeah. Iced tea? Have you had an iced tea? Iced tea is a big one.
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Iced tea problem with iced tea, though.
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I know whenever you put it in a bottle, it'll get a little funky.
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It'll start to separate where cola is consistent all the way through.
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So why not yeah especially boy that that stuff was showcased quite a bit you
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didn't want that separation there in that box getting called out on it you know
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no no because he liked his uh.
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Little libations so kevin let me what was your favorite kill i mean when you
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look at you did all the stuns and stuff what was your favorite kill uh i think
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it was i think it was with tyler The crowbar.
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That's my hope. I love that one. Yeah, it was.
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That one was fun because Tyler, just the way that he came in,
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because that one, the scene opens up with a Superman punch.
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He gets a couple shots off. We do an insert of a drop in of the clip.
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And then there's the crowbar. And whenever I got him, he did the Scorpion where he lands face first.
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Like you know then i mean just that whole
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thing was just every one of those little sequences was
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cool and then to put it all in a jam pad that was uh that
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was something something really cool but there's some there's so many so many
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good and fun ones i said we're talking about the hammer one the hammer really
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was just you know because the fun part was i was like all right i want to use
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the tools he's the handyman he's got the hands on him so what what tools do
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we get to use so that's one One of my favorite bits where,
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when he pulls up and he's in the car, it's like, should I use a wrench? No.
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Yeah. The chainsaw? No.
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I need the M16 with the, with the grenade launcher. Yes. I remember the,
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I'm like, yes, this is the one.
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I remember the screening and I remember the reaction of the crowd with that
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crowbar. Oh, and then you just hear the crowd like with the hammer, like, oh.
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Because Alex, Alex was, I have to say Alex was pretty faithful in this to getting
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like the matching the poster art with the film.
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Like usually the posters like
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better than the movie, but he managed to get everything that he put on.
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Good job, Alex. And I was just waiting for Kevin to strap on a belt with like
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16 wrenches, like in the AI.
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And this is like, I bought my 16 wrenches of death to like kill every one of them.
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And, uh, yeah, that would have been. And all of a sudden we look at his hand
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and he's got like 10 fingers.
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Oh yeah. You know, we, we thought about having her, having him kill people with
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the screwdrivers and stuff like that. Yeah, like throwing screwdrivers like ninja stuff.
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You can't really see it. It's a body. The head is one thing. It's a body.
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Yeah, so we're like, let's use a hammer. And you know what made it work?
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It's his, you know, just... Yeah, that's savvy. I agree.
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The girl, Julia, the way she screamed, that worked really bad.
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You know, it made it work. Her scream.
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Yeah. That was great. Cause even, uh, even the knife that I use for a Daniels
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character after, after he executed Ellis, that, that, that's more like a box cutter utility knife.
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It's not a, you know, it's not a commando knife.
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It's specifically a tool right out of the, uh, right out of the tool belt.
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So it's, uh, yeah, we could have gotten, but, but, you know, we still did.
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I mean, there was still the utility nut. Yeah. Let's say a hammer and,
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you know, I beat the hell out of them with wrenches and crowbars and all things
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that are legit handyman tools.
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Yeah. I love how he gets to say it. Like, that's why I put it in there specifically.
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He's got to say like, so what do you do for a living?
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I'm a handyman. I mean, it's, it's iconic. It's like, I'm Batman. Yeah, exactly.
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We did variations of it. Like one time I tried to play it off.
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Like I'm just a handyman, you know, it's not just a handyman.
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You know, give it that nice Clint Eastwood out of the side of your mouth.
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Lucky. Yeah.
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I mean, overall, I mean, I hope your audience goes to it. I mean,
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like you said, he's on Amazon.
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He'll be on Tubi in next few weeks. Oh, sweet. Yeah. So.
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I may work on it I'm not there yet I may work on it but it's like you said it's
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die hard in the mansion die hard in a action pack in a desert you know,
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I think,
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If you like action movies from beginning to end, and you want to see a lot of
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action, instead of just action here, action there,
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I think The Handyman is one of those movies that has action throughout the whole movie.
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And if you look at it, it's different.
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You know, first one is hand-to-hand, nobody gets killed.
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Then as time goes, the action gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
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And darker, too. with it. I mean, just, like, when it starts talking about comedy,
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then it gets progressively darker and more sinister, and just,
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it's sort of full-blown, kick-ass action movie, you know?
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But with light-hearted, you know, comic lines and comic timing, yeah.
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You know, it's all there, yeah. So, last question around the table,
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what do you think is in the box?
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Oh, what's in the box? Come on, what's in the box?
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I know, they wouldn't tell me. I just had to do the reactions Oh you're looking
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at Cross we're going to reference full picture I think Do white chocolate No,
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Marcellus Wallace's soul Right Yeah exactly,
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So that was direction Like Eric It's a bar of Sydney Sweeney's soap.
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Alex like you admire it He's giving me You know directions As I'm looking And
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the camera's on me It's this It's that So I need to see A sack Kennedy's I'm
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like oh You know I like the infinity stone I like that one it's an infinity stone.
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And the handyman touches it. He becomes handier man.
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The handier man. I am handyman.
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There was a talk. There was a talk at the end of the movie.
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I mean, at the end of the movie, we see Molly picking up and taking it with
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her. But there was a talk before that shoot.
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She doesn't find it. But later on, after the credit goes, in the middle of the
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desert, you see a deer coming, passing by at night, and all you see is a glowing light at a box.
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We thought about that, but we said, no, let's just keep it grounded as much as possible.
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It's the Pop Fiction Box, folks.
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Anyway, thank you, gentlemen, for being on the program.
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Thank you very much. Thank you. making this
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wonderful movie audience get over
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it's going to be on tubi it's out right now on amazon
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prime the handyman can
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please thank my guests eric a russo alex t
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wang and the most handsome handyman
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in the universe thank you gentlemen
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thank you thank you for having us the handyman
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can check the links in the description
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amazon prime right now coming to chile hopefully physical media but right now
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amazon prime go and get the handyman you can i can everybody can the handyman
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can go and watch the handyman tell me what you think be nice.
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