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00:20 Obviously this is a movie that is filled with a ton of awesome action sequences,
00:24 but I wanted to specifically ask you about the underwater scenes because
00:27 there's just some stuff there that you cannot fake. I'm hoping you can talk about those days
00:31 and also just how long can you hold your breath now?
00:33 Uh now or then? Back then I was pretty good. I mean maybe right under three minutes.
00:43 Maybe you know right at that. Can't remember the exact number but we definitely spent a lot
00:48 of time training just to prepare me to be able to you know just deal with the stress.
00:55 You know when you're when you're physically exerting yourself you know underwater and you
00:59 know you're you're swimming and going through obstacles and you know you gotta perform mental
01:04 tasks you know underwater. You start to use up your oxygen fairly quickly rather than you know
01:09 maybe you know sitting still and holding your breath you can hold it for a lot longer. Thank
01:14 God my you know my stunt team and my trainers and everybody felt comfortable enough to put me in
01:19 those positions to be able to do it so it was a lot of fun. To speak about the collaborations uh
01:24 you also have Michael B. Jordan who is not only the star of this film but also a producer. What
01:28 was it like working with him and just how much influence did he specifically have on the John
01:31 Kelly character? Oh it was a really really cool from the beginning because uh when I in the
01:38 beginning I pitched my vision on the on the movie I told him I want to make a movie that is hugely
01:47 entertaining but at the same time uh humanistic meaning that I want to make a movie where you
01:55 recognize the human being that is doing the action more than the action itself. So I asked
02:02 him uh I would love to have you playing all the action on your own without any double and
02:14 stunts and he was enthusiastic and the fact that he was also at the same time producer was a huge
02:23 help because it was like to have an ally split it in two because you have not just your actor
02:31 your star that is playing is building uh with you but you are you have the producer that is a sort
02:39 of shield. You're getting ready to make your directorial debut you're a producer on this film
02:44 I'm curious just kind of if you're looking at the production process differently and how you're just
02:49 processing all that information going into Creed 3. I mean I think I'm looking at everything
02:54 differently now that I'm directing I think from uh you know from top to bottom I think producing is
03:00 something I've naturally always done but I guess it's more now in an official capacity um you know
03:07 and when you have when you're looked to for the answer for almost everything as a director on a
03:14 project you have to have an opinion on everything I think it thrusts you further into the producing
03:19 on another level so I mean I guess to answer your question is like yeah I'm way more you know hands
03:24 on this project than I have with anything else. Initially Stefano our director like his initial
03:30 note to me was like I just never want to know what you're thinking I never want to know what
03:34 you want I never want to know um what your intentions are so um that was always something
03:40 that was in the back of my in the back of my mind I always just wanted to make sure that I was a good
03:44 adversary to John that um that we had good tension between us throughout the movie and um you know
03:52 and not necessarily playing as a bad guy he's just someone that you he's a enigma right he's
03:57 someone you can never quite figure out and that presented a challenge um but it was one that I
04:03 felt made it worthwhile doing. This is an intense role for multiple reasons like when you were
04:09 preparing what what was kind of involved with your research and your training? Yeah you know
04:13 obviously I worked out with a trainer just in order to keep up with cardiovascularly we were
04:18 going to be going through filming this but also you know we were working with some military guys
04:24 on set to make sure that we were moving and talking and and being in combat the way that
04:32 was meant to be the most accurate and then I also spent time before I got to Germany just
04:41 seeking out and having conversations with men who had done for a job what Karen Brea does.
04:49 I'm curious just how early in the process you got to meet with Michael B. Jordan and just had the
04:54 opportunity to discuss the relationship that exists between uh John and Pam? I actually uh
05:00 knew Michael before we filmed and Michael is actually what he called me personally and um
05:08 invited me to do the role. We just spoke briefly well intensely kind of just about grief and
05:16 you know uh how ready was I to even do this role and if this was something that I wanted to
05:22 contribute to and um what it would take to do the role and what I was comfortable with what I wasn't
05:29 he connected me to uh Navy SEAL's wife and I got to speak to her personally
05:36 about what that experience was like being the wife of a Navy SEAL. Was this the first time
05:41 like was working on this movie the first time that you had seen Michael B. Jordan since working on
05:45 Fantastic Four? I think I'd seen him maybe socially a couple times in between um but uh
05:51 you know certainly between that movie and this movie uh a lot has happened in his life and he's
05:56 become like a global uh like a stratospheric movie star so um you know through through great choices
06:05 and and great work of course but um a lot can change between you know a person from that point
06:12 and this point so I was always kind of like a little trepidatious to be like god I hope he's
06:16 still chill I hope he's still like a good guy he still like cares about it who cares what he's
06:21 doing and um what I discovered was that this is a man who has doubled down on his dedication and
06:27 his commitment and um he's really a man who raises uh uh up people around him and he's he's a man who
06:35 does it with his own identity and um um he's an inspiration to me I gotta say like you know he's
06:41 doing things that I want to do like he's he's making he's directing films like I really look
06:46 to him as an inspiration and um you know if he called tomorrow and said I've got something else
06:51 for you I would jump because he's a great person to work for and to be in a scene with and he's
06:57 just an overall great guy so very proud to know. What would you say was the most challenging
07:02 sequence to put together because also I mean you're dealing with two separate water sequences
07:06 which are just like that's gotta be hell. Probably I would say the plane crash because
07:13 I mean since we wanted to be so close to the to the character to John Kelly and
07:20 the idea was to build the entire action uh trying not to change too much point of view
07:31 and trying to be sticked on John Kelly's point of view and this of course in the plane crash
07:37 that starts from uh in the air and ends up underwater was uh kind of crazy for definition
07:46 so we built and almost everything you see in the movie is done practically so we had an
07:58 unreal physical airplane and then we we have this big long uh track tracking shot from when he's
08:08 seated and when he gets the water when the airplane splits in two and then he decides to go
08:14 and to emerge himself and start swimming in the fuselage that's sinking so this this sequence was
08:24 absolutely crazy to shoot. To also speak about the future I mean this film ends with a post-credit
08:29 scene and I promise to say this until after the film is out uh but it teases uh the future Rainbow
08:34 6 and I'm just curious what kind of conversations you've been having about that and also now that
08:38 Amazon's involved if Jack Ryan could potentially be a part of that whole universe? I mean I think
08:43 you're thinking in the right direction I haven't necessarily had those those conversations just
08:48 yet you know I think you know really just working on trying to get this movie out you know this uh
08:52 April 30th release we're really really excited about it and and um and hopefully in the future
08:58 you know yeah Rainbow 6 is something that to look forward to but uh the when the where the how and
09:03 the who uh is something that uh has yet to be determined but I'm excited about the potential
09:08 you know? Yeah I mean I'm keeping my fingers crossed because man I had a ton of fun with this
09:12 so and I definitely I'm glad thank you man thank you so much very cool. Has it occurred to you that
09:19 perhaps John Kelly has done something we can't?
09:22 Some situations warrant thinking outside the box.
09:28 Give me a name. You were supposed to be dead. Give me a name.
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