Director Matthew Vaughn and cast members Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Ariana DeBose, Bryan Cranston, and Samuel L. Jackson tease the twists and turns of their new film 'Argylle'.
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00:00 We worked in a way that I didn't get a chance to see any of you.
00:04 Yeah. Really.
00:04 Well, you wouldn't let me make eye contact with you and neither would Henry.
00:08 So that was right. Well, that's the contract.
00:10 Yeah. I'm trying not to right now. Yeah.
00:13 Hi, I'm Bryce Dallas Howard, and welcome to Entertainment Weekly's
00:23 Around the Table with Argyle.
00:26 You and I, we're not so different, Agent Argyle.
00:30 Little help. Hold on.
00:35 The book is phenomenal, sweetie, but
00:46 what happens next?
00:48 It's called a cliffhanger, mother.
00:50 Ellie, it's called a cop out.
00:53 I watched Romancing the Stone with my daughters during lockdown,
00:57 and they said, why don't you make a movie like this that we can watch and we can
01:00 enjoy? And there was the serendipity of me getting this book there,
01:05 book one, and a very good script from Jason Fuchs.
01:09 And we came together and thought we would take book four, believe it or not.
01:14 George Lucas, my hero, it worked for him, starting with episode four.
01:17 So we started with book four, and it gave birth to all these
01:22 lovely, amazing characters/actors or actors/characters,
01:27 probably the better way of describing you guys.
01:28 The movie is really a story for me about old school,
01:33 cliche superhero style super spies, which this gentleman here embodies.
01:39 Thank you very much.
01:41 And I'm a big cliche of that, but I love super spies.
01:46 Honestly, with this, I just followed Matthew's input because he's clearly insane.
01:52 And there's no way I could have kept up with him or got ahead of him.
01:55 There's a quote from Roger Moore saying James Bond is possibly the world's
01:58 worst spy because who as a spy walks into a room and they say,
02:03 hello, Mr. Bond, would you like your nose?
02:04 Exactly what drink they have, what cologne they wear.
02:08 You know, spies are meant to walk in, not be noticed.
02:10 And I say this with all respect to this genius actor, Mr. Rockwell,
02:14 who knows how to be a chameleon and to slide in and just fit
02:19 into the background with camouflage and be the best spy in the real world.
02:23 So real world spy, fantasy spy.
02:26 In the middle of them is the poor author who thought this was the way it was,
02:31 but then finds out this is the way it is.
02:34 And together, create a whole new illusion for her to navigate.
02:37 How disappointing.
02:39 What a rude awakening.
02:41 Whoa, hey, there's a cat in there.
02:47 Oh, my God, you're Ellie freaking Conway.
02:49 Author of the R-Gal series, Ellie Conway.
02:53 I am such a fan.
02:55 Oh, yeah. What is it you do?
02:57 Espionage.
02:58 Would you sign my book?
03:00 Here we go.
03:03 It's so exciting to be in a room here with everyone because it's like a reunion.
03:08 And that's one of the things that's best about doing press
03:11 is that you get to reunite with your friends you went on an adventure with.
03:15 Yeah. So, yeah.
03:16 But I want to answer for all you guys.
03:18 I was just excited.
03:18 I think it certainly just makes it easier when you're surrounded
03:21 by a group of capable professionals.
03:23 You feel comfortable.
03:24 You allow yourself to be vulnerable.
03:25 You can take risks. You can swing big.
03:27 And that's what's great about Matthew assembling such an all star cast.
03:31 It takes the edge off and takes the nerves off and lets you make a good project.
03:35 Yeah. I mean, I was really nervous.
03:37 I mean, I made West Side and like a couple of other things, but I hadn't
03:42 like the world hadn't seen anything.
03:43 And I was like, how do I get everyone to like me?
03:47 I just want to be good at my job.
03:48 So I was very nervous.
03:50 I saw these two. Yeah. Yeah.
03:52 Right. That's it.
03:53 But I knew everybody else was in it.
03:54 I saw Henry one day.
03:55 Yeah. I came by set to visit the set designer.
03:59 Not even, you know, the actors and talk.
04:02 But yeah, no one.
04:03 Everyone was in it, which was a great thing for me.
04:06 Cool. So I had a good time.
04:07 The same for me.
04:08 I you know, I have a restraining order for with most of you.
04:12 We're breaking that now, but I was only allowed to work with Sam and Bryce.
04:16 That was that was my quota.
04:18 And that cat. Oh, damn.
04:20 Thank God the cat's not here for once.
04:23 It was a pain in the ass.
04:24 That cat from start to finish always wouldn't come out of its trailer.
04:28 Getting in my light all the time.
04:30 Whose cat is it?
04:31 Chip is Matthew and Claude.
04:33 Yeah. I don't like cats.
04:34 I love cats.
04:35 But it lives in your house.
04:37 It lives in your house.
04:38 I don't like cats.
04:39 I know. I love cats.
04:40 I love them.
04:40 It's not a cat. I'm not a cat demographic.
04:42 It's restricted to one room in the house.
04:44 There you go. That's that's about a million people.
04:46 Oh, OK.
04:47 And I'm a dog person and I love my dogs.
04:49 I actually wasn't a cat person before the movie, but Chip won me over.
04:53 I think Chip thinks he's a dog.
04:54 So he's he's he's actually a cool cat.
04:57 He's yeah. Yeah.
04:57 Yeah. Very cool cat.
04:58 No pun intended.
05:00 Yeah. Here's the thing.
05:01 Here's the thing about Chip.
05:02 Just to just to like answer this question in a kind of like boring way,
05:06 because working with animals, working with children, it's really important
05:10 that the priority at all times is protecting those individuals and
05:14 and making sure that there's, you know, comfort and safety, et cetera, et cetera.
05:18 Oh, and actors have got to be clear.
05:20 I don't see any difference between that definition.
05:22 Yes. Yes. But but but, you know, we
05:25 we have more agency than, you know, than an animal or a child.
05:30 And so and yeah, sort of.
05:32 So we like to think we do. Yeah.
05:36 And so what was so wonderful about having Chip was that, you know,
05:40 he's like your your precious, beloved family cat.
05:43 And I I had so much respect for you in this process
05:47 because, you know, yes, like Chip is totally in the movie.
05:52 Lots and lots.
05:54 And then there are also moments where, you know, there's a CG
05:58 takeover of Chip because, of course, an animal would never be endangered on a set.
06:03 Yeah. And and then we also had a little like stuffed animal version of chip.
06:09 And so it was it was really sweet because there would be times when,
06:13 you know, everything was comfortable and good and quiet.
06:16 And Matthew would come on to set with Chip and he'd be like,
06:19 oh, it's a little chilly.
06:21 I'm going to let Chip stay in the trailer and we'll just use the stuff.
06:24 So it's just there was so much compassion, you know, for for working with Chip.
06:29 And it was like he was he was part of the ensemble.
06:31 That was fear of my daughters.
06:34 To be clear, I did something wrong with the cat.
06:36 I wouldn't be coming to work the next day. Yeah. Good.
06:39 That's how it should be. Yeah.
06:40 Who are these people? Real life spies.
06:43 Why would they care about me?
06:44 Because you're a goddamn fortune teller, Ellie.
06:47 When you wrote your new book actually happened
06:50 and you kicked a hornet's nest, you didn't even know existed.
06:52 I'm in some really big trouble, mom.
06:54 Oh, so now you're experimenting with drugs.
06:59 I want all assets on them now.
07:02 I need her to write the next chapter.
07:04 I think Ritter is a little misunderstood.
07:06 He likes control.
07:08 He likes to bring everybody under the same roof.
07:11 We have the same agenda.
07:13 And sometimes there are rogue people that get out of control
07:17 and they have to be brought under, you know, so make that case.
07:22 Brian, if I had a mustache in this movie, I'd be twisting it.
07:27 We worked in a way that I didn't get a chance to see any of you.
07:32 Really? Yeah. Yeah.
07:33 Well, you wouldn't let me make eye contact with you and neither would Henry.
07:37 So that was right. Well, that's tough for us.
07:40 But I'm trying not to right now.
07:42 But yeah, all of these characters are extraordinarily layered.
07:46 And and there are 11 twists in the movie, right?
07:50 You'll get nothing from me.
07:51 I think it's 11.
07:53 I think it's 11 twists in the movie.
07:55 And so it is definitely, you know, a bit of a puzzle and a Rubik's Cube
08:00 trying to kind of like figure out where where we are,
08:03 because you also we don't film these these movies in order. Right.
08:07 And so it's like, oh, wait, what what's happened that we haven't shot yet?
08:10 That's going to impact this moment here.
08:13 So it's definitely definitely a juggle, but totally fun.
08:17 Like really fun, because mostly movies are way more basic than this.
08:22 Yeah. Constantly confused.
08:24 Yeah. Like playing a really complicated board game.
08:28 Yeah, that's part of that sort of works for a spy movie, right? Yeah. Yeah.
08:32 It's dangerous to sort of plan for sequels.
08:34 We there's stories that we would like to tell, but this has to do well enough
08:39 so that we can make a sequel.
08:40 Look, if everybody loves the film and it does well, we'll make another one.
08:43 Yeah. Go see the movie.
08:44 Yeah. See Argyle. Go see Argyle.
08:47 I mean, I genuinely saw the film and was like, yeah.
08:50 Yeah, I was screaming the whole time.
08:51 It's five movies in one.
08:53 And it flies in the best way.
08:55 And the score is amazing.
08:57 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
08:59 It's really good music.
09:01 You know, the movie is like you.
09:04 The movie is a triple threat.
09:06 It's like a triple threat.
09:07 Yeah. Yeah. Time for you to meet the real agent Argyle.
09:13 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
09:16 Oh, my God.
09:18 This has been everything we need to know about the table with Argyle.
09:23 Check out our film.
09:25 It's here February 2nd.
09:27 And.
09:28 And.
09:29 And.
09:30 Well.
09:31 And.
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