Toby Wallace reflects on reading the script of 'The Bikeriders' for the first time and how his character was so well written. Plus, he tells THR how he's kept up with bike riding after filming.
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00:00What did you think when you first read the script?
00:02I thought, what the hell is this and how are we going to make this?
00:08And my character was so well written.
00:13But I would have said yes to anything that Jeff asked me to do.
00:17I've been a huge fan of Jeff's for a really long time.
00:20So he approached me, we had a meeting first, I think before I'd even read the script.
00:25And I think I said yes before I even read the character to be honest.
00:29And that was how I got involved with it I guess.
00:33Did you ride motorcycles before this or were you starting?
00:36No, I did not ride motorcycles before this.
00:39I got a license about a week before I flew out to Cincinnati in Melbourne where I'm from.
00:45And then proceeded to get on a lot of motorbikes from the 1960s that are almost impossible to ride.
00:53Mine was this 1940s custom suicide shift thing that was so difficult to ride.
01:02And we had to kind of learn on all these things.
01:04And now I'm obsessed with it.
01:06So you've kept up with this?
01:08I've kept up with it. I just bought a Harley recently.
01:11That's really started something then.
01:14And who was the best one of you guys on the bike?
01:21Who was the best?
01:22You know what? Embarrassingly, I'm pretty sure that me and maybe Damon and one other person
01:27were not great at riding motorcycles.
01:29Everybody else seemed pretty good.
01:32Everybody seemed to have ridden before, was pretty good.
01:36I'm pretty sure even Jeff could ride beforehand.
01:39So I was pretty nervous coming in.
01:41I'm like, OK, I've got to really learn quite quickly.
01:43Someone like Norman has been riding for a long time.
01:46Did he give you guys advice?
01:48I think everybody that rode probably gave me a bit of advice at some point because I needed it.
01:55It was nice to have, I guess.
01:56It was nice, yeah. It was a necessity, I think.
01:59And we don't really see this genre of biker movies anymore.
02:02Why do you kind of feel like that is and the value of this genre?
02:05I really don't know, to be honest with you.
02:07I'm not sure why people haven't really touched it.
02:09I mean, there's sort of Sons of Anarchy and stuff like that.
02:11There's a few old films that touch on biker culture in a beautiful way.
02:16But it is sort of an undone thing.
02:19So I'm glad to be a part of something that feels really original and feels like it's fresh and original.