On the eve of its release
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00:00 Well, Carroll Shelby's like 6'3".
00:01 Yeah, there's nothing I can do about that.
00:03 That was like Invictus.
00:05 Invictus, that guy was 6'5".
00:07 I'm like, "Alright, well..."
00:08 I love that that's the first thing.
00:09 I thought you were going to talk about some detail about the car.
00:12 It's like, "Matt, you're too short to play Carroll Shelby."
00:15 It's like, "I am as God made me."
00:26 And that's it, folks. Ferrari wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the fifth consecutive year.
00:32 What is a cooler car? The Ford GT40 Mark I or the Tumbler from Batman?
00:39 Oh, you know, actually, pure driving, of course, it's the Ford in terms of racing.
00:50 But that Tumbler was really something else.
00:52 Built without an axle, a front axle, genuinely.
00:56 I mean, you could do that. It actually could jump over the top of the other cars.
01:01 I mean, there are different models that could do different things.
01:03 Some of it was just rolling up at 15 miles an hour and looking cool.
01:06 But others, you get inside that thing, and it was not comfortable at all,
01:11 but it could do well over 100.
01:13 First cool car you guys ever bought?
01:17 I think it was like the 44th Tesla Roadster.
01:21 Ooh, that is cool.
01:22 Yeah, that's 10 years ago or something. That was fast.
01:27 Yeah, that was a good one.
01:28 I had a TR6 for a little bit.
01:30 Can you guys tell me about what's it like to work with Jim?
01:34 The fact that he is not a real racing fan ended up being quite strangely a benefit with this film
01:42 because he was learning all about it. He was really excited about it all,
01:48 but was always coming at it from a human storytelling point of view.
01:53 But also, he didn't fall into that trap of fetishizing the cars, right?
01:57 Like, here's a shot of a bumper. I'm going to hold on it for a week
02:01 because who else, you know, don't we all want to look at this?
02:04 Look at how the sun glints off it.
02:06 And you can fall into that trap if you're making a movie about something you love so much
02:10 that you assume everybody loves it that much too, you know?
02:13 It's awful, but there's a problem. The computer will find it.
02:16 Get some Scotch tape and a ball of wool.
02:18 What are they doing?
02:19 Making your car faster.
02:21 That's more like it!
02:24 What did you guys have to learn for this film?
02:26 When Jim was shooting my feet on the pedals close, and I'd be doing the heel-toe in one,
02:29 he was like, "What are you doing? It's how you do it.
02:32 It's how you're at those speeds. That's what you've got to do."
02:35 I think people just--unless you're a racer, he was like,
02:38 "I don't think anyone's going to understand what you're doing."
02:40 Like, people just think you don't know how to drive.
02:42 What's he doing with that thing there?
02:44 But I don't know that I had to learn all of that,
02:47 but I really wanted to learn all of that
02:50 and went to the Bob Bondurant Racing School out in Arizona.
02:53 I had an incredible time there.
02:55 Yeah, I've been there.
02:57 I think that gives you an appreciation of the absolute adrenaline rush
03:02 of racing at high speeds for me.
03:05 Not that Ken Miles would have been sitting having a sandwich looking backwards,
03:08 but for me, high speeds, just inches from another car.
03:12 It's so exciting.
03:14 So that gave me something of--I would practice being Ken as I was running around that.
03:19 He was a very colorful character.
03:21 He wasn't absolutely stoic.
03:23 He was an exuberant guy.
03:25 So we learned that.
03:27 There's always something that you have to pick up,
03:29 whether it's accents or whatever that you've got to do
03:32 or how to have a fight and look absolutely pathetic.
03:35 Yeah, it was a new fighting style we've learned for us as well.
03:39 As Christian's saying, they all have their different challenges.
03:41 It's like troubleshooting what you're going to need to do to make the magic trick work.
03:49 But the fight was very, very fun.
03:51 It's rare you get permission to be that goofy.
03:55 Fun to watch.
03:56 Yeah, normally they want us to be really serious about it.
03:58 Morning, Shelby.
04:03 Morning, Molly.
04:05 I'm Hughes.
04:06 I'll go to hell.
04:07 I think we're out of time, so thanks guys very much.
04:09 Appreciate it.
04:10 Thanks.
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