Mismatched cousins David and Benji embark on a Polish journey to honour their grandmother, but old family tensions emerge along the way.
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00:00I was sitting at my computer for a number of months really trying to hammer out this
00:11story of these two cousins who had kind of grown apart, and I was always hitting a wall.
00:16And then I came upon this online ad banner, and the ad banner said, Holocaust Tours, in
00:22parentheses, with lunch.
00:31My name is James.
00:32I will be your British tour guide.
00:34The script was tight.
00:35It was perfect.
00:36I instantly went, I know who this guy is.
00:38I know I can play this.
00:39I don't want to think about it.
00:40I can do it.
00:41To answer the question, maybe you are thinking of asking, I'm a survivor of the genocide.
00:46Oh, snap.
00:47Sorry.
00:48No, I just meant, no, that's like, I meant that in a good way.
00:50It's like, I'm a fan, basically.
00:53It was so elegantly written.
00:55It had a lightness to it, and there was comedy within it.
01:00You've mailed yourself wheat.
01:01Oh, man.
01:02I mailed us wheat.
01:03Jesse has a really forthright, clear-cut, fast-moving mind.
01:09He writes so eloquently, and it's so fully realized on the page.
01:12I had this immediate trust based on Jesse's humanity that's very clear from the script.
01:20We passed Lublin already, and you didn't wake me up.
01:22Oh, you were having such a good nap, dude.
01:24Jesus Christ, you're on a twerk group with people.
01:26Sorry, yeah, I know I just didn't have the heart to wake you up.
01:28The best you can get is somebody that wants to collaborate.
01:30They're always asking the producers what they thought of things.
01:32The cinematographer, he was always asking about the shot and what we could do, and then the
01:36actors, too.
01:37He wanted to know what they thought.
01:38You look great, Benji.
01:39This movie is one of these rare experiences where we were able to just do everything I
01:42wrote, and, you know, in a way, it felt like this is kind of, I don't know, some kind of
01:49beautiful fate.
01:50Thank you so much, man.
01:51That was a lot of fun.
01:52Thanks.
01:53No problem.
01:54No, it was so much fun.