Director Richard Linklater and stars Glen Powell and Adria Arjona detail the joyful, collaborative filmmaking process behind the scenes of their sexy, suspenseful thriller HIT MAN.
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00:00 You want to know all about me, but what about you?
00:02 You know all you need to know.
00:04 Is that right?
00:08 Chemistry is not something you can get ready for.
00:11 It kind of either is or it isn't.
00:13 The fact that we both feel so comfortable with each other
00:16 and we trust one another really is the entirety of this movie.
00:20 You're enjoying your pie?
00:22 All pie is good pie.
00:23 I always define this movie as an exploration of humanity, identity and passion.
00:27 His passions lead him in a direction where he's deceiving someone he's in love with.
00:31 He has to deal with those repercussions.
00:35 And this guy is the most dishonest, fraudulent kind of person there is.
00:40 Gary goes undercover and pretends to be a hitman
00:44 and incriminates all these people until he meets Madison.
00:49 Then the whole story kind of takes a mind of its own.
00:53 I got something we can play with.
00:55 I like the sound of that.
00:56 Pick a hand.
00:57 Left.
00:58 You lose.
00:59 Whoa, what is that for?
01:00 Casting Madison was, god, that was the crucial moment really.
01:04 It had to be someone a guy would risk everything they've worked for and have to be with
01:09 and yet she had to be very sympathetic.
01:11 Ultimately what we were asking her to do is just be a real person.
01:14 She isn't the black widow.
01:15 She's just really complex like all of us.
01:17 No.
01:18 Yes.
01:19 We never wanted that character to fall into a trope.
01:22 We didn't want her to be a femme fatale.
01:24 We found Audrey, it was like the heavens opened.
01:26 It was like, yes.
01:27 Why does a gentleman not kill in town?
01:29 I love people.
01:30 And yet you killed him.
01:31 Glenn as an actor and as a person, he's incredibly open and he's thoughtful and he's kind.
01:36 We both make really good scene partners.
01:38 I think a smart actor reads the script and knows what's required.
01:41 For this to work, we've got to hit this level of believable and sexy and funny
01:46 and they were both so up for that challenge.
01:49 Our chemistry was so airtight that it was so effortless.
01:54 Why don't you show the picture?
01:56 And we couldn't have planned for it.
01:57 It just kind of happened.
01:58 It was just a joy to act with her every day.
02:00 We just had the best time making this movie.
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02:19 com.
02:19 (upbeat music)