Den of Thieves 2 Pantera Movie (2025) - Partners in Crime - Gerard Butler
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00:00You and I are part of this weird symbiosis.
00:05You see, you only exist for a line, because of me.
00:13I done one, I kept the gangsters and the cops separate.
00:17You don't have any jurisdiction here.
00:21So it wasn't a lot of, you know, hanging out between cops and robbers.
00:27And we did separate training and I would go hang out with the gangsters one night,
00:31go to dinner with them and go training, go shooting.
00:33And the next day I'd go hang out with the cops.
00:35So I didn't really get a chance to pick his brain or really kick it in the first films.
00:40But this film was a different deal.
00:43Of course, ostensibly the movie's about diamond thieves and diamond heists
00:47and gangsters in Europe and that's the setting.
00:50But really at its heart and at its core, it's a buddy movie.
00:53You're going to rob that place and I'm going to do it with you.
00:57The first movie, I spent most of the time punching him in the face.
01:00I still bonded with him, I really liked him in the first movie,
01:03but there's only so much you can bond with somebody when you're choking them out,
01:06punching them, slapping them.
01:10It's cool to be back with Christian and Jerry for this.
01:14The gang is back.
01:16This movie, I didn't really slap him around so much, so we had more of a chance to talk
01:20and hang out and spend time together.
01:22We both rented villas.
01:24It's a big island, but we rented villas right next door to each other.
01:27And he got the bigger one, so I wasn't happy about that.
01:30I'm still complaining.
01:31Gerard is a cool dude.
01:33Every damn thing he does is an action movie, so he's well-versed in the genre.
01:40Been picking his brain, getting tips, getting pats on the back when I deserve it,
01:46which is all the time.
01:48O'Shea just makes me laugh.
01:55He brings such levity and such charm, and he's just so winning.
01:59And on screen, the camera really captures that.
02:03He's so much fun to be around.
02:04Hello there.
02:06I'm film and television's O'Shea Jackson Jr.,
02:08and I'm working on a Saturday so that you can go see Dignity II, Pantera.
02:14You want to say something, guys?
02:15Didn't think so.
02:16This is my first sequel in my career, so it's cool to go back to a character
02:21and kind of get a new feel for him, see where he is in his life,
02:26see where you are in your real life and how you can blend it together.
02:29I've been working on An Awful Christian now for 10 years.
02:31We really have a shorthand in writing.
02:33And we knew how important this character was to Jerry,
02:37and we had a long time to finesse and work on the script
02:41and work on both Nick's character and Donnie's character.
02:44You're writing with more specificity.
02:46When you're writing a spec script, for example,
02:49and you have no idea who the actors are going to be,
02:51no idea where you're going to shoot it,
02:53to know those things is a completely different process, really.
02:56Because you love both these guys, and it's fun when they're adversaries,
02:59but it's also kind of fun when they're bonding as well.
03:01And what kind of bonding is that?
03:03That was sort of the key to this film.
03:05You have to really believe these guys really learn to care for one another.
03:08Their dynamic was just incredible.
03:11Their camaraderie, their repertoire, their back-and-forth
03:15is fundamental to the success of the film.