Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt and The Cast Of ‘The Fall Guy’ Are Just Having Too Much Fun
Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke and David Leitch are loving their film "The Fall Guy" and you can feel it in their interviews. We sat down with them to discuss their favorite bits from the movie and behind-the-scenes stories, and we got the scoop behind the film’s big ending cameo (note the spoiler warning at the end of the video). Plus, David Leitch tells us why Aaron Taylor-Johnson should play James Bond…and why he should direct it.
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00:00I love this movie so much.
00:01So do I.
00:02So does he.
00:03Yes.
00:04Ooh.
00:05Fuckin' love it.
00:06Ooh.
00:07It's a perfect movie.
00:08What?
00:09I was not expecting that.
00:10Even I love you, Cavalier.
00:11I was bracing myself for impact.
00:12I was.
00:13I was bracing for impact.
00:14I was like, the hit's coming.
00:15Okay.
00:16Maniac.
00:17It sounds crazy.
00:18By the end of it, it felt like a big inside joke that the audience is in on.
00:26And that was the intention, that you were kidnapped into this madcap world of making
00:32a movie, and that you weren't excluded from all of the inside jokes.
00:37Well, because it's also like, I think we felt like everybody's already a filmmaker anyway.
00:43Everyone in the audience makes their own content.
00:47Everyone knows what's up.
00:48We all know.
00:49There's no need to pretend anymore.
00:51It's not like, we'll just acknowledge that we all know how movies are made.
00:56People are all filmmakers, and so it's just ... I'm glad you said that, because that's
01:01sort of how we wanted to approach it.
01:04These aren't really inside jokes.
01:05We're all in on the joke.
01:07To set an action film within the world of the people who make them, is just sort of
01:11like, yeah, of course, they're capable of doing it, because they are the ones that do
01:16it.
01:17Yes.
01:18It was such a ... I mean, just even that, and then of course, the opportunity to acknowledge
01:24stunt performers, and just what they contribute, and it's just ... They risk more than anyone
01:29on a film set, and they get none of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic.
01:34It feels like the movies that brought you to the theater in the first place as a kid.
01:38It's like all those big action epics, right?
01:43For me, one of the hallmarks is when the landscape is its own character, and we're setting it
01:47against Sydney, Australia, the opera house.
01:50Yeah, insane.
01:51The bridge.
01:52The bridge section in itself was making real-time news while Ryan was shooting it.
01:59I mean, that's just cool, isn't it?
02:01At the same time you're making this love letter to Hollywood, were you also airing some grievances?
02:07There are a few little jabs in there about obviously not being recognized, not being
02:14an award, the Academy Award for stunts.
02:17They're tongue-in-cheek.
02:18I mean, I think that that's something that we're all working towards in a real positive
02:21way.
02:22We've all been so supportive in the last couple of years that it feels like there's a really
02:27clear path and it could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make this a love
02:36letter to not just stunt crews and the people that make movies, but people that love big
02:43popcorn movies.
02:45We did think a lot every day of what would the audience want.
02:49Would they like to laugh here?
02:51Would they like to cry here?
02:53Can we make them feel all these different emotions and get away with it?
02:56Because that's the type of movie I like to go to the theater and see and really go on
02:59a journey.
03:01So every day we thought about the audience, we really did, and it was sort of like, how
03:04do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really appreciate it?
03:10I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan to be so...
03:15This is insane, man.
03:18I think we all need that.
03:19I think we all need one of those ride or dies that's like, okay, I'll do it.
03:24I got your back.
03:25Was that immediate?
03:26It was very immediate for me because I've always been such a big admirer of Ryan my
03:31entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since Young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37What do you want?
03:38What do you want?
03:39What do you want?
03:40So getting this opportunity, then seeing him on set the first day, I led with compliments.
03:45I was like, you're so good looking, man.
03:46Is that what you said?
03:47That was his response.
03:48I did, I did.
03:50And that was his response.
03:51He's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:52Stop it.
03:53Stop it, man.
03:54Get out of here.
03:55Get out of here.
03:56What do you want to do in this scene, man?
03:57And I think, you know, that kind of just like fun, playfulness also translates on screen
04:03because you feel comfortable.
04:04You feel comfortable risking.
04:07Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gale had to be a just
04:11self-serving a-hole.
04:13I was just a bit like, you're not all that.
04:15Dead body on ice.
04:17He was so dead, Gale.
04:18He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gale's
04:24trailer.
04:25I was still so jet-lagged, I didn't know where any of my molecules were around the world.
04:29And they were so playful and encouraging to let me find her with them.
04:36And I wanted to constantly keep that barometer of the humor and her being a revolting, self-serving
04:45pig vomit.
04:46So I'm really thrilled that you saw that, because that's what we all have, isn't it?
04:51There are moments.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Tom Ryder, the biggest action star on the planet, is missing.
04:58You need to bring him back.
05:00Why me?
05:01You're a stuntman.
05:02Nobody's going to notice you.
05:03That's your job.
05:04No offense.
05:05I mean, sun-taken.
05:06I can't believe you cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the biggest action star in the world.
05:09Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom Ryder.
05:11And then right as the movie's about to come out, they're talking about casting stuff.
05:15Yeah, I mean, I hope that, look, he would be an amazing James Bond.
05:20I'll just go on the record, like, I've never gotten to do enough action with Aaron, which
05:23is crazy.
05:24Like, we've done Bullet Train, and now we've done The Fall Guy.
05:28And all what I really want to do is an action movie with him, because he's such an incredible
05:32athlete.
05:33Like, Aaron is awesome.
05:35So maybe we'll get that opportunity soon.
05:38And I'll get to direct Bond.
05:39I don't know.
05:40We'll see.
05:41I was realizing that at some point, your character is doubling for Aaron's, and then in the reality
05:48of the set, you both have doubles.
05:50I mean, it sounds like this weird stuntman inception.
05:55How many duplicates?
05:56It's like a Matushka doll.
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58It's one of the big-faced cowboys.
05:59Yeah.
06:00So much gold lamé, Aaron.
06:01One smaller after the other.
06:02Yeah, but that was so fun, because I've been on sets where we're not acknowledging that,
06:06and it's just sort of like there's ten of the same character, and you know, it's just
06:10such a strange thing anyway, so to finally get to like actually work it into a film was
06:15so fun.
06:19Was it always Momoa?
06:20No.
06:21What were the other names that were thrown around?
06:23I don't want to say, I don't want to say because I feel like it was, we were, I reached out
06:28to a lot of people and friends, and it was really came down to, we were shooting in Australia,
06:33and it was like, it's hard to ask people to come down for a one-day cameo, you know, for,
06:40but what was great with Jason, and he was in New Zealand shooting his television show,
06:43and when I reached out to Jason, he's like, dude, I'll hop on a plane right now, it'd
06:47be fun, let's chew it up, and he did, and you know, he flew in that morning, we shot
06:53all day, and he flew back that night, so he could shoot the next day on his TV show that
06:58he was producing.
07:01So he's a good friend, and we go way back to his Conan, his first Conan movie.
07:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:07You had a pretty sick fight scene in the trailer, right?
07:10It was so good.
07:11And it was kind of-
07:12I love the binder in the throat.
07:13Yeah, it was kind of goofy, too.
07:14That was your favorite move.
07:15What?
07:16That was your favorite move.
07:17You just sold it.
07:18You got to do just a straight action film.
07:19I would love to.
07:20She's a good-
07:21I mean, I do love a fight scene.
07:22I love a fight, especially with a big alien.
07:24A movie about fight scenes, were you like, yeah, I better have a fight scene?
07:28Yes, and I loved the confinement of it being in the trailer, it was just-
07:31Oh, and you used the smoothie blender, you used the bullet, at some point, the Co-Ardu
07:35choke, it's amazing.
07:37And then I hit him over the head with it, I mean-
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah, it's-
07:40Finish it off with a pen.
07:41It's so tough.
07:42You need the pen.
07:43My favorite bit is at the end of that, where you're on the floor, and I come in with the
07:46pen, and then you're like this, and then your thumb goes up, your alien thumb.
07:50So good.
07:51One last stunt, going down in a blaze of glory.