00:00 - Did the bear have music cues like Jaws kind of does?
00:03 - Yeah, the bear has, yeah, of course it does.
00:05 Yeah, yeah, the bear has its own theme, if you will.
00:08 - Right, yeah. - Yeah.
00:09 (bear growling)
00:12 - A bear did cocaine!
00:14 (upbeat music)
00:16 - Let's see what kind of effect that has on us.
00:22 - There is, as expected, a ton of cocaine in this film.
00:26 It's snorted, it's eaten, it's sprinkled in the air.
00:30 I wanna know what you used for it
00:32 to make sure that it photographed
00:33 the way that you needed it to.
00:35 - Oh man, we did a lot of testing on that.
00:37 It's mostly sugar.
00:39 It's like a combo of powdered sugar and granulated sugar.
00:42 There's some salt in some of the scenes
00:44 when people actually have to try it
00:46 because we wanted a real reaction.
00:48 I was a little worried if people were just eating sugar
00:50 that they would like it.
00:52 And, you know, that's what we did.
00:54 We imagined also if you crushed up baby aspirin,
00:57 like what it would taste like, tastes disgusting.
00:59 So things like that.
01:00 We did a lot of experimentation
01:02 to get the cocaine just right for this movie.
01:05 Thank you for noticing.
01:06 - There you go, girl.
01:08 Yeah. (laughs)
01:09 - O'Shea, I wanna start with you
01:11 because this material can and often is
01:14 played for either comedy or horror.
01:17 You can take it from either direction.
01:18 I'm curious what kind of conversations
01:20 you had on set with Elizabeth
01:21 to make sure that you sort of hit the balance
01:23 that she was looking for.
01:25 - Elizabeth likes to say that comedy and horror
01:28 are two sides of the same coin,
01:31 which I agree because there's a lot of scary situations
01:35 that happen in your life that later on down the line,
01:38 you end up laughing at.
01:39 So it's, you know, it definitely is a weird balance.
01:43 Suspense and anticipation can, you know,
01:47 either flip on the scary or the fun side.
01:50 And yeah, she just wanted to make sure
01:52 that "David" was a nice balance of,
01:56 not only are you playing a criminal,
01:58 but you're also, you know,
02:00 me and Eddie work as a bit of a heartwarming story
02:03 with our relationship and things like that.
02:05 So yeah, it was a lot of creative conversation
02:08 with Elizabeth for us to make sure that we hit the balance.
02:12 And yeah, I feel like we hit the mark.
02:15 - Your dude had a tough day, man.
02:17 He went through a lot.
02:17 - A lot of people had a lot tougher days.
02:20 (laughs)
02:22 - He was four!
02:23 - Hey, that's inappropriate.
02:25 (gunshot)
02:26 (woman screams)
02:27 - And then of course, staging all the kills
02:29 were, had to be a ton of fun.
02:31 And I'm curious which one might've been the hardest one
02:34 to pull off, like to move from page to screen.
02:37 - Well, for sure, the ambulance chase
02:39 took a long time to do.
02:41 It's a many, many pieces pulled together for that
02:45 because there's so many people involved in it too.
02:47 You know, but I gotta give props to Jesse Tyler Ferguson
02:50 because he got up in that tree in a harness.
02:53 He was fully up there, 40 feet up.
02:55 He did all of his own climbs.
02:56 He did all of his own stunts.
02:58 He hung upside down, which is not easy.
03:01 I've had to do it in things, you know,
03:02 the blood rushes to your head.
03:04 It was so intense and he got up there and did it all.
03:08 So that, I really relied on him
03:10 to make that as real as it is.
03:13 - You held that shot for such a long time.
03:16 - Yeah.
03:16 - I was like, how much longer is she gonna make
03:18 that poor man hang there?
03:19 - I mean, it was really fun and realistic.
03:22 You know, the other thing about bears,
03:24 bears don't kill their prey before they eat them.
03:27 Bears eat everything alive.
03:29 - As we found out later on in the movie.
03:33 I'll let people discover that for themselves.
03:35 (dramatic music)
03:38 - Oh man, you fucked.
03:41 - There's a moment in this film
03:42 where you get trapped under the bear.
03:44 Your character gets trapped under the bear.
03:46 - Yes.
03:47 - I'm curious how you guys filmed that.
03:49 Was there anything ever on top of you
03:50 for what amount of time?
03:52 - Yeah, I think we put a bunch of like
03:54 big beanbag chairs or something on it.
03:56 It wasn't that, but it was some kind of heavy thing
03:58 they put on me so that I could kind of
04:01 like rub around in the dirt and sound muffled
04:04 and yell out from under it.
04:06 And then we had Alan, who's this great creatures performer
04:08 who's playing the bear with a bear face
04:11 on the end of like a frame in front of his head.
04:14 And he was really great.
04:16 - How long did that take to get used to?
04:18 - I don't, I never got used to it.
04:20 - Yeah.
04:21 - Yeah, that'll make showers hot enough.
04:23 (laughing)
04:26 - It kind of seems like the thing
04:27 that stays with a man forever.
04:29 - Of course, I love your song choices for it.
04:32 I think they perfectly set the tone that you're going for.
04:35 I'm curious, what was the one song that you knew
04:36 that you needed to have in order to complete the film?
04:39 - Jane, for sure, the opening song.
04:42 It was an homage to "Hot American Summer,"
04:45 one of the first movies I was ever in.
04:47 Took place in the '80s.
04:49 I've never made anything in the '80s.
04:50 I loved going back and going through all of the music
04:53 of that time period.
04:55 I was very specific that no song could be in the movie
04:57 that didn't come out before September 1985
05:01 when the movie is set.
05:02 So that it's all realistic.
05:04 And then we had Mark Mothersbaugh do the score.
05:07 Of course, he's like an icon of the '80s
05:10 and totally gets what the tone of this movie is.
05:14 He's like a breath of fun and energy
05:18 every time we work together.
05:19 And he brought so much to this film as well,
05:22 tying all the music choices together.
05:24 - Did "The Bear" have music cues like "Jaws" kind of does?
05:28 - Yeah, "The Bear" has, yeah, of course it does.
05:30 Yeah, yeah, "The Bear" has its own theme, if you will.
05:33 - Right, yeah. - Yeah.
05:35 - The bear. - It loves cocaine.
05:37 - O'Shea, this is one of Ray Liotta's last performances.
05:42 And I'm curious what you'll remember about him
05:44 as a collaborator.
05:45 - Just laughing off camera, laughing in the makeup trailer,
05:50 always cracking jokes with him, grade A trash talker.
05:55 Yeah, it's just a titan in this industry
05:59 that you got to go spar with a little bit.
06:03 And it's a gift that I didn't know that I wanted
06:07 or would be receiving and that I'll cherish forever.
06:11 - Man, you rest in peace.
06:13 - Lot of cocaine was lost.
06:14 I need you to go and get it.
06:16 (dramatic music)
06:20 (explosion booms)
06:22 (upbeat music)
