Speaker 1: Gene drives you home on cartoons, cartoons. Q I scrolled
Speaker 1: back furiously on my instagram to 2013. I found a
Speaker 1: picture of us wolverine red carpet and stole. I was
Speaker 1: in the media box. That was eight whole years ago.
Speaker 1: Can you see
Speaker 2: remember when we used to be able to stand that
Speaker 2: close together.
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? I mean this is unheard of right now,
Speaker 1: isn't it?
Speaker 2: It's good to see you again.
Speaker 1: Good to see you again Hugh. Now you've just grown
Speaker 1: from strength to strength. Congratulations on reminiscence. What was it
Speaker 1: about this role that made you want to take it up?
Speaker 2: Lisa joy the writer director who just from meeting as
Speaker 2: soon as I met her, I
Speaker 1: kind of knew I wanted
Speaker 2: to do the film. She, she pitched the film before
Speaker 2: I read it. She pitched it. She showed me some art.
Speaker 2: She told me why she wrote it. She told me
Speaker 2: she'd always had me in mind, which I didn't believe
Speaker 2: at first, but then she made me believe it and
Speaker 2: she had like a confidence to her and an intelligence
Speaker 2: and
Speaker 2: I know this is her first feature film. She's written
Speaker 2: on a lot of things and done Westworld of course.
Speaker 2: So it felt like she had done 10 movies. I
Speaker 2: just knew I just had them feeling in my bones
Speaker 2: that playing a character like Nick, which was something different
Speaker 2: to anything I've played in a movie
Speaker 2: that she had written and directed was going to be
Speaker 2: something original and fresh, Not just for me but for
Speaker 2: the audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard that. Like if you didn't play the part,
Speaker 1: she would have not wanted to do the movie. I
Speaker 2: actually, yeah, I actually said that like she handed me
Speaker 2: the script at the end of our meeting and I said,
Speaker 2: come on brad pitt said no, right. And she said no.
Speaker 2: I said, I'll prove it to you. I said, but
Speaker 2: how can you prove it to me? She goes, if
Speaker 2: you say no, I'm actually not doing the movie. And
Speaker 2: I went,
Speaker 2: really? She has no. And I said that's a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure on me reading this thing and it's just
Speaker 2: the truth, luckily I liked it. Amazing
Speaker 1: reminiscences about navigating your memories. So if you could get
Speaker 1: into that contraption yourself right now, which part of your
Speaker 1: past would you find yourself
Speaker 1: looking at?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get on my bike Singapore. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go down and say a prayer that temple, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to the local cafe and order some kaya toast,
Speaker 2: have my coffee. I was just such an awesome morning.
Speaker 2: I just, I loved my time there
Speaker 2: sit in that crazy pool on the top of that
Speaker 2: crazy building. I can't remember what it's
Speaker 1: called.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, so that's where I went to immediately. But
Speaker 2: honestly I would love to hold my kids again like
Speaker 2: his babies smell the tops of their head,
Speaker 1: I'm going to squeeze in one more quick question, Favorite
Speaker 1: part of the movie for you to film, which was
Speaker 1: your favorite bit
Speaker 2: whenever I was on set with Rebecca Ferguson and Tanda
Speaker 2: Wayne Newton together and lisa Joy who was always there.
Speaker 2: The three of them are wickedly funny. When I say wicked,
Speaker 2: I mean cheeky, naughty and funny, hilarious. It was that,
Speaker 2: that was always my favorite bit.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much hue
Speaker 2: and good to see you. Really
Speaker 1: good to see you all the best for everything. Okay,
Speaker 1: lots of love
Speaker 2: to see you soon.
Speaker 1: The best mix of music class 95 hygiene. I love Singapore.
Speaker 1: You do. We were there with Westworld year before your
Speaker 1: year before last, before this pandemic struck, it was my
Speaker 1: first time. I absolutely loved it.
Speaker 1: Stand away. Really wonderful seeing you. Director lisa said she
Speaker 1: wanted somebody who is tough, yet full of heart for
Speaker 1: this film and I think you totally encompassed that in
Speaker 1: the movie. Were you excited to get the call for this?
Speaker 1: I was terrified. I love Lisa so much that I
Speaker 1: was so worried that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: like what if I let her down? That was my feeling,
Speaker 1: I love her. And it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: isn't it better just to not in case I did
Speaker 1: let her Anyway, I got over that very quickly because
Speaker 1: as soon as I got into the costume fittings, I
Speaker 1: just felt absolutely just inspired and thrilled. And then I
Speaker 1: met you Jackman and it was like, oh, this is just,
Speaker 1: it's a match made in heaven
Speaker 1: Now. The film is about navigating your memories. If you
Speaker 1: could get into that machine right here right now, where
Speaker 1: would you want to go to? There was a coat,
Speaker 1: a mani cote that I think I either left on
Speaker 1: a plane or it may have been in the car
Speaker 1: and it was about 20 years ago and I really
Speaker 1: would like to find out where I left it
Speaker 1: and I'm joking, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to use it to go and like,
Speaker 1: I would want to use it to try and discover
Speaker 1: stuff that would help people who have messed up so
Speaker 1: many people try and alter history so that some of
Speaker 1: the cataclysmic events in our world could perhaps be altered,
Speaker 1: you know, and it is the stuff of many
Speaker 1: movies and books, this idea that if we could alter
Speaker 1: the past,
Speaker 1: how would it affect the present? And you always come
Speaker 1: down to, well even the bad things have had consequences
Speaker 1: that have been beneficial. It's a really interesting concept. Hi Daniel,
Speaker 2: how are you? I'm
Speaker 1: okay. So we saw a lot of your martial arts
Speaker 1: in this movie
Speaker 1: and I read that you tend to like to do
Speaker 1: all your own stunts. So did you do them all
Speaker 1: for this film?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I mean this, this was not as complicated as,
Speaker 2: let's say something like into the Badlands, I wouldn't say
Speaker 2: there was a lot of martial husbands a lot of gunplay,
Speaker 2: like john russell gunplay and so it was a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. Yeah, it was, we, we did all our
Speaker 2: own stunts, including Hugh as well, like with his head
Speaker 2: in that fish tank, when it blows everything. That was
Speaker 2: that was you doing everything himself.
Speaker 1: Now, your character ST joe battles Hugh, Jackman's character, nick, Banister,
Speaker 1: what was it like filming the scenes together?
Speaker 2: Um it was really interesting, you know, first of all,
Speaker 2: Hugh is a great guy, like he's a triple threat
Speaker 2: who can sing, act and dance. Every actor was jealous
Speaker 2: of him, he played wolverine, all that stuff, but when
Speaker 2: it comes down to like working with him, he is
Speaker 2: really down to earth and really cool and generous also
Speaker 2: as well, like for example when we're doing that fight
Speaker 2: scene with his head in the fish tank, he did,
Speaker 2: he did it himself, we could have done put a
Speaker 2: double in there, we could have put someone else in there,
Speaker 2: but he did it himself and he was wet all
Speaker 2: day long and a lot of actors last to like,
Speaker 2: you know, change out of their clothes and being something
Speaker 2: dry and comfortable, he was like, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: wet anyway, so let's just leave it like this and
Speaker 2: he was wet all day long for like three days straight.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's really down there was a really cool
Speaker 2: guy to work with, very easy to work with, great guy,
Speaker 1: great guy. Indeed. Now if you could get into that machine,
Speaker 1: you know, and go back to a specific memory yourself
Speaker 1: right now, where would you, where would you go, Daniel?
Speaker 2: I know most people would be surprised to hear this,
Speaker 2: but I would go back to my high school years
Speaker 2: like 16-18 because I think that was probably
Speaker 2: the most innocent time in my life where you didn't
Speaker 2: have to worry about the future so much, you had
Speaker 2: no responsibilities, I didn't have to make money. I didn't
Speaker 2: have to support anybody. I was living at home with
Speaker 2: my parents. My mom was cooking good food for me,
Speaker 2: you know, it was, it was good times and I
Speaker 2: was hanging out with my friends and had a car,
Speaker 2: I could drive around. So I would go back to
Speaker 2: that period of time
Speaker 1: sounds amazing daniel, One final question. I read that the
Speaker 1: film did not use any green or blue screens and
Speaker 1: use this new technology. Can you tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about that?
Speaker 2: I was very surprised about that because when we're making it,
Speaker 2: I was like where are the greens beans? What are
Speaker 2: we going to do with that? And they're like, no,
Speaker 2: we have this way to do it. We used some,
Speaker 2: some of these effects on Westworld
Speaker 2: because lisa joy worked on Westworld and so we're going
Speaker 2: to employ those effects on this thing. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: which is interesting because as the actor, you don't get
Speaker 2: to see what the movie or the world really looks
Speaker 2: like until the movie comes out. And so when I
Speaker 2: saw it two weeks ago, I was like, wow, amazed,
Speaker 2: just amazed at how they were able to make a future,
Speaker 2: you know, Miami in the Future in New Orleans um
Speaker 2: with the practical effects and the effects they were able
Speaker 2: to do on top of that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Daniel. Real pleasure speaking with you.
Speaker 2: All right, Dean, take care
Speaker 1: The Best Music Class 95.
Speaker 1: Hi lisa, Hi jean, how are you? I'm good. So,
Speaker 1: you wrote, you directed you produced this Baby. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that the story was based off of something
Speaker 1: that you actually experience. What was the push for you
Speaker 1: to make it into this film? You know, I I've
Speaker 1: always been fascinated by memory and I think so many
Speaker 1: people are, it's a way of encapsulating the moments that
Speaker 1: were the most valuable for us. Love stories, uh
Speaker 1: stories of happiness and excitement and I think everybody likes
Speaker 1: to travel back in time to relive those things. So
Speaker 1: I just, I couldn't help it and I was having
Speaker 1: a baby at the time and I knew that I
Speaker 1: would be cherishing that moment forever. So, it all felt
Speaker 1: very top of mind. I heard that you wanted Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackman and Hugh Jackman alone for this movie. If not
Speaker 1: you probably weren't going to do it. Is this true?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was true. I mean, it was my intention,
Speaker 1: that I just felt like it was meant to be creatively.
Speaker 1: I had a very idealistic take on it and that
Speaker 1: if you didn't want to do it, then I had
Speaker 1: to really reevaluate what where my head was at because
Speaker 1: I was so sure that he was my nick Banister. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he was excellent in it. So you were right
Speaker 1: to go with your gut for sure. The film is
Speaker 1: really apt for our times and people wanting to look
Speaker 1: back pre pandemic days. Did you personally, also during the
Speaker 1: course of making this movie, find yourself doing a lot
Speaker 1: of that? Yeah, I I think that absence is the
Speaker 1: greatest aphrodisiac in some ways when you're unable to touch
Speaker 1: and connect with people in the way that you were,
Speaker 1: it makes you so much more powerfully drawn to them
Speaker 1: and so much more palpably appreciative of what you had.
Speaker 1: And so I hope that after we come out of
Speaker 1: these times, just like after people come out of watching
Speaker 1: the film, if there's any lesson that we learned, it's
Speaker 1: to hold on to those that we love and to
Speaker 1: really cherish the moments of happiness that we have in
Speaker 1: this life,
Speaker 1: I hear you already have a follow up in mind
Speaker 1: a bit of a distant cousin as opposed to an
Speaker 1: outright sequel. Is there anything you can spill about that,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of action, it's very heavy on
Speaker 1: that and there's a new form of action that I've
Speaker 1: been noodling around
Speaker 1: within my head that I'd very much like to bring
Speaker 1: to the screen. We're very excited about that, lovely speaking
Speaker 1: with you, lisa, and really enjoyed the movie.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It was lovely talking with you,
Speaker 1: Gene drives you home on cartoons.