WARFARE: entrevista a Kit Connor, Cosmo Jarvis y Michael Gandolfini para Hipertextual
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00:00Hola chicos, soy Gonzalo de Hipertextual en España.
00:02First of all, congratulations, porque yo realmente, realmente amo el filme.
00:05Gracias por decirlo.
00:07Lo que quiero decir es que fue una de las más intensas experiencias que he tenido en cine, en cine, en cine.
00:16Entonces, me gustaría preguntarte sobre cómo fue el proceso de filmación para ti.
00:20¿Es tan intensa como podemos ver?
00:26¿Por qué no te cuide?
00:27Yo iba a decir, probablemente no era tan intensa como lo que pensabas,
00:31pero porque de la naturaleza de los contenidos de la película.
00:37Pero fue un proceso de producción muy unico en términos de lo que la liderazgo requiere de los actores
00:47y cómo trabajamos juntos como un grupo.
00:51I read that you even had a bootcamp before starting the filming process.
00:59So, how was it?
01:00Because I read also that you even have matching tattoos.
01:03So, how did you develop your connections between your partners?
01:07Yeah, we had a three, three and a half week bootcamp, which kind of consisted of like firearms training,
01:20you know, physical strength training, tactical training.
01:23And, you know, also comms training, like developing the verbiage and the right kind of vocabulary that we needed to be able to speak.
01:35So, it was incredibly informative in terms of like the roles that we were playing.
01:39It was great prep for us all.
01:40But I do think the most important thing about the bootcamp was the fact that we were able to all build a real bond together.
01:47You know, we were all staying in the same hotel.
01:49We were spending every waking moment together.
01:53And, you know, yeah, it just bonded very, very, very quickly.
01:57So, as mentioned, we all got a tattoo, which was a testament to our love for one another.
02:05That's beautiful.
02:06And how was it during the filming process, the fact that, I mean, was it very practical, the movie?
02:13Because there are pretty powerful images in the movie.
02:18So, how practical was it?
02:20There was too much CGI or how was it?
02:23Michael?
02:24Yeah, I'll answer this one.
02:26No, it was really, it was mostly all practical.
02:31There wasn't really much CGI at all.
02:34You know, they had basically built, the house was essentially a working house and they had pre-lit it.
02:41So, we were able to sort of do these 10, 15 minute long takes and sort of roam around the camera wherever.
02:48And you would, you know, everything was functional.
02:50And in terms of like some of the kind of, you know, the explosions were practical.
02:57We used real blanks.
02:59We, you know, like, so everything that was done, they sort of drilled the actor out of us, right?
03:09Because everything, if we're carrying 60 pounds of gear, like that's what we're doing.
03:14And like if, you know, shots are being fired, they're being fired 24-7.
03:18And our ears are ringing and it sort of enabled our bodies to not really know if we were acting or not.
03:23And it really just sort of lent itself this new way of, it was much more like theater, right?
03:29And our bodies are sort of reacting based on the protocol that we learned in training.
03:34And so, it was, it was all practical.
03:37That's amazing because it gives a real sense of realism.
03:41So, that's great.
03:43Between you guys, who was the best and the worst with weapons during this training, during this boot camp?
03:50Taylor was pretty darn good.
03:51Yeah, Taylor.
03:52Between everyone or between?
03:53Yeah, between everyone.
03:55Taylor and Evan.
03:56Taylor's pretty darn great.
03:57And Evan were two that we really leaned on.
04:00Yeah.
04:00Taylor John Smith and Evan Holtzman.
04:03Yeah.
04:03They're both very proficient.
04:05Yeah.
04:06And they're what?
04:07The worst?
04:10You know, everyone had different skills.
04:13Everyone had different strengths.
04:16You know, Taylor's a terrible actor.
04:19So, no, I'm joking.
04:22He's actually especially good in this film.
04:24Yeah, he's a beautiful.
04:26But, no, I wouldn't want to say who was the worst.
04:30But, yeah, I mean.
04:31And we all really leaned on each other.
04:33Like, you know, in comms training, Finn really, like, took on to it super quickly.
04:39And DP and me, like, he would help us.
04:42And we would then take that information and give it to Will and Charles.
04:47And everyone in the film, you know, they kind of assigned us, we were all playing different roles with different responsibilities.
04:54You know, our characters had different roles to play.
04:57So, you know, I was a gunner.
04:59So, I focused a lot on, you know, being able to shoot a machine gun.
05:04And, you know, you were always talking to air.
05:07So, you focused a lot on comms and things like that.
05:10Yeah.
05:10And then the medical applications we worked on a lot.
05:13Exactly.
05:13So, everyone had different kind of focuses and different strengths.
05:17And, you know, that was kind of the whole point of the boot camp and the bonding was that we could help each other through each other's weaknesses as well, you know.
05:26I think it trespasses the screen because even if with all this chaos and all this tension, you can perceive all your chemistry and how you help each other.
05:35And that's great.
05:37And I want to ask you about the fact that you worked with a person like Ray who is a veteran from the war.
05:43How was it filming with him?
05:45Because it's his first movie, but it's also his memory.
05:49So, how was it with him?
05:50Well, he's a great leader, great director, and he inspired enthusiasm and embracing of responsibility in his workforce that I've never really witnessed before in any director.
06:16And what he taught us and the way that he guided us and how he sort of inspired us in a very uniquely quiet way was kind of essential for the way that the production was made and for what it became.
06:36And, yeah, he's a really amazing teacher.
06:41And what about Alex Garland, because in my opinion, he's one of the best right now in Hollywood.
06:47So, how is it working with a director like him?
06:52Yeah, unbelievable.
06:54I mean, they're both unbelievably honest and incredible men.
07:00And, you know, like the way that they sort of worked together in order to help us was just a remarkable sort of testament to their humility, their ability to teach, their ability to lead.
07:16You know, Alex, I think, was one of the first people to really set up an environment of responsibility.
07:25You know, we were all responsible to Ray and to the story and to Elliot and sort of he was one of the first people that really, I think, enforced that within us.
07:35It naturally was there, but he was really sort of advocating for that.
07:40And, you know, he's he's just brilliant, as is Ray.
07:43And so we couldn't have asked for two better directors.
07:46Yeah, they both had an amazing kind of partnership.
07:49They worked, they balanced off each other incredibly well.
07:53They both, again, embraced each other's strengths and weaknesses in their own way.
07:58And yeah, I mean, we we all kind of had an immense trust in them, which is always nice on a film set.
08:05Yeah.
08:06Yeah.
08:06Very inspirational leadership for both of them.
08:10Yeah, that's nice.
08:12And I want to ask you, because I have one minute, about your favorite war movies, because if you had to recommend to the audience some some of your favorite ones, which would be.
08:28It's challenging coming on from the other side of like making a war movie like this to look back.
08:33Right.
08:35Especially because the movie that we've made kind of, as Will says, you know, like it breaks with convention from all of the other war movies.
08:45So it feels like.
08:47Yeah.
08:48I mean, there are some brilliant.
08:49I think I think Zero Dark Thirty, from my understanding, was a very well researched, well built and pretty incredible sort of investigation to that, you know, era of sort of tracking down Osama bin Laden and all that.
09:04And from what I understand, it was based on a lot of truth.
09:08But it's hard, you know, a lot of films in general have to sort of sometimes break some truths and sort of over exaggerate things.
09:20And so that was we did the sort of opposite of that or we attempted to do the opposite of that and stick with truth and sort of natural convention.
09:28So it's sort of like this old joke, like if you take a physics class and you can't watch an action movie, it's sort of similar to that, you know.
09:38Well, they're like, like Come and See and like I'll go on the western front.
09:45Those are those are like amazing films.
09:47Unbelievable.