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Acting is a stressful craft, people. You've got to look good, you've got to sound good, and you've got to be on point. All. The. Time. The pressure can get to you — especially when you're filming an epic action flick like Noah.

Co-stars Douglas Booth and Emma Watson play two lovebirds aboard the famous ark, and during the shoot, they learned a few things about committing to your craft despite all sorts of obstacles. Seriously, we're talking battles of humongous proportions, working through sweltering heat and freezing temperatures, and, oh yeah, the flood of the century. So, it's only natural that they broke down on set a little.

But, don't worry, it was all in good fun. They sat down with us to dish on the totally badass filming of Noah, and to also wax poetic on one of their mutual loves: the good ol' U.S. of A. That's right, these feisty Brits love America and they're not afraid to show it. Watch our video to see Doug and Emma share their thoughts about taking on a role of biblical proportions and charm our pants off.
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00:05You cry a lot in this movie, I noticed.
00:08I cry a lot.
00:09Douglas, you not so much.
00:11Well, I'm trying to be the solid one.
00:13What is the secret to the perfect on-camera cry?
00:17Sometimes I get really worried that I'm not going to be able to cry in the moment,
00:21and so then I just cry about not being able to cry.
00:23That's my tip.
00:24I get it.
00:25I cry about the pressure.
00:27Douglas, is there anything that's guaranteed to make you cry?
00:31Puppy commercials, sad?
00:33I cried at Marley and Me.
00:35Did you cry at Marley and Me?
00:36I didn't, actually.
00:37You didn't?
00:37Did you have a dog?
00:39No, I have cats.
00:40I think it's something about having a dog.
00:41No, I mean, it is something that you always think is one of the...
00:46People always ask you how you cry in a film, and I don't know.
00:49It is a hard thing.
00:50I never know if I'm going to be able to.
00:51It just, I suppose, comes in the moment.
00:52It's so individual for each particular thing.
00:53It's something about being under pressure for some reason.
00:55Yeah, and when the camera's rolling, it's like an athlete.
00:57When you're at the race, you can just do it then.
01:01I don't know.
01:02But also, sometimes crying is almost more effective than not crying.
01:06So I don't worry about it.
01:07You never know.
01:07The right thing will happen at the right time.
01:09Yeah.
01:09What did you guys find to be the hardest scene to film in this movie?
01:12I mean, everything is, there's some really intense stuff going on,
01:16and stunts and all of that.
01:18Was there anything that you were like, wow, this is...
01:20Well, I play a new mother, so for me that was obviously never having even birthed myself.
01:27That was quite tricky.
01:30It was very realistic, the screams.
01:32The thank you, yeah.
01:34So again, it was just a case of obviously emotionally demanding,
01:39and then also just trying to make sure that it felt authentic, you know, having never...
01:43So I did loads of research for that.
01:45So that was probably my biggest...
01:46You had a midwife in the set, didn't you?
01:47Yeah.
01:48So I had a midwife with me.
01:50And then there were other scenes that were difficult, like physical scenes in the sense
01:53of we were just...
01:54They were throwing 5,000 gallons of water down a minute on top of us,
01:58like more water than had ever been used on a set before.
02:01So physically when you...
02:02Wet and cold.
02:03Wet and cold.
02:03It's been wet and cold a lot.
02:05Yeah, when we started in New York, it was summer, it was so hot that people were almost fainting,
02:08like Ray Winstone almost collapsed from the heat.
02:12And then by the time we finished filming in New York, it was winter and it was snowing,
02:14and that's when we did all the rain, all the stuff with the rain, so...
02:17Yeah.
02:17All our fingers were going blue.
02:18Being Brits, what is your guys' favourite thing about America?
02:21I think the people always seem to be so warm and friendly.
02:24Sometimes, in some parts of England, especially in the South England,
02:26sometimes people don't like talking to each other on Tuesdays.
02:29People like, you know, on the bus or this.
02:31People are kind of quite private.
02:32Which is also nice in a certain way, but here, people always want to talk in restaurants.
02:37Don't you think?
02:37No, it's true.
02:38No, no, it's so true.
02:39Very friendly.
02:40There's warmth.
02:42It's really hard for me to choose one thing, because I've been at college in America
02:46and there's obviously loads of things that I've really grown to love.
02:51I guess it's just such an incredible country.
02:54There's just so much you can do without leaving America.
03:01In England, you'd have to travel...
03:02No, in Europe, you'd have to travel to so many different countries to get what you could
03:04get within one country.
03:06You've got mountains, you've got desert, you've got lakes, you've got everything.
03:09No.
03:10No, no.
03:11No, no.
03:11No.
03:12No!

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