Speaker 1: Howdy partners, It's me Rosie Night. Definitely somebody from Texas
Speaker 1: and not from London. Welcome to a very special episode
Speaker 1: of X ray Vision to celebrate the release of Twisters,
Speaker 1: directed by Minari's Lee Isaac Chung. I'm coming to you
Speaker 1: from Universal Studios, where I was lucky enough to take
Speaker 1: an actual hay ride to the famous Stage forty four,
Speaker 1: where such classic movies like The Birds, Jurassic Park three,
Speaker 1: and Furious seven were filled. When I was there, I
Speaker 1: was able to chow down on barbecue and chat some
Speaker 1: of the stars of Twisters, A Man in the Wasps,
Speaker 1: Katie O'Brien, Nopes, Brandon Praier, and Hellboy Sasha Lane. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking time to talk to me.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, I just wanted.
Speaker 1: To start by saying love lives Bleeding Nope, American Honey, Pipeline.
Speaker 1: There's very special movies to me, So I really appreciate
Speaker 1: being able to chat to you guys about this, which
Speaker 1: I also loved.
Speaker 2: See, So thank you for taking the time to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very excited. So first of all, I was going
Speaker 1: to say something I love about this movie is in
Speaker 1: disaster movies, we usually see people who are trying to
Speaker 1: get away from the danger, trying to kind of prepare
Speaker 1: for it, like hide, shuffle themselves away. But you guys
Speaker 1: get to embrace it and you get to chase. It
Speaker 1: was that kind of a cathartic feeling. What did it
Speaker 1: feel like to kind of get to embrace the danger
Speaker 1: of chasing tornadoes.
Speaker 3: It's hard to sick for me because it's I feel like, realistically,
Speaker 3: we're in a safe vehicle, and like even if there
Speaker 3: was lightning, we weren't allowed to be outside, so realistically
Speaker 3: we didn't really do anything. But I think it's really
Speaker 3: it's cool that we got to at least learn a
Speaker 3: little bit more about the people that do and and
Speaker 3: what drives them to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to experience watching so much content and
Speaker 2: videos of people chasing, just seeing that thrill ride that
Speaker 2: they go on and just this i don't know, like
Speaker 2: animalistic roar they get when a tornado actually touches down
Speaker 2: and happens. It's just like uncontrollable. And I kind of
Speaker 2: felt that thrill because after the movie, I went back
Speaker 2: to Oklahoma to chase a little bit, and I started
Speaker 2: understanding a bit of why there is that drive to
Speaker 2: do it. But I was with a professional and he
Speaker 2: kept us at a safe distance from everything. But you
Speaker 2: want it to happen in a sense so bad. We're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I want to see this thing. And
Speaker 2: it's so exciting to be in the midst of like
Speaker 2: the hail and the rain and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: There is this adrenaline that's just uncontrollable that just just drive.
Speaker 1: You know what is expensive writing a hay ride around
Speaker 1: Universal Studios. I'm sure that cost them a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Luckily we didn't have to pay for it, but we
Speaker 1: do have to pay for other stuff. So listen to
Speaker 1: the ad.
Speaker 4: My back.
Speaker 1: And something that I thought was felt really organic was
Speaker 1: the relationship that we get with you guys. It's we're
Speaker 1: just thrown into it. We become a part of it.
Speaker 1: What was it like for you guys fostering that and
Speaker 1: kind of making that unit that we that we see.
Speaker 4: I think it's easy when you're shoved into a truck
Speaker 4: for long hours, you just you start to bond and
Speaker 4: like you, I think that's the whole reason why you
Speaker 4: pay attention to casting and understanding the circumstances of like
Speaker 4: if you want this to be authentic, you need to
Speaker 4: get a blend of people who can form authentic relationships.
Speaker 4: And going on the journey and being on location a
Speaker 4: lot and being stuck in random middle places of vocal Home,
Speaker 4: I just kind of made it like very easy to
Speaker 4: form that bond and then make it look real because
Speaker 4: we were genuinely enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you kind of mentioned about like preparing watching
Speaker 1: content like people who do chase. Were there any disaster movies,
Speaker 1: Like do you guys have favorite disaster movies that you
Speaker 1: revisited while this or that you just like outside of
Speaker 1: this job.
Speaker 3: I just to watch Outbreak, which feels real. It's really real,
Speaker 3: and there's something about it. I don't know what it was,
Speaker 3: but I like when I was a kid, I was
Speaker 3: obsessed with it. Yeah, and I barely remember it now.
Speaker 2: I think like watching the original Twister of course to prep,
Speaker 2: and also rewatching Isaac's films to just kind of le
Speaker 2: Isaac Chunk's movies to kind of prep as well. And
Speaker 2: also truly being in something like Nope where it really
Speaker 2: focused on spectacle made it and it was like a
Speaker 2: summer movie as well. Gave me that rev up for
Speaker 2: something like twisters of understanding the scale of what we're doing.
Speaker 2: But this was a new chapter of something that's already
Speaker 2: been done, so there is a different level of pressure there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's so fun to just kind of
Speaker 2: dive into everything.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Lee, I mean, he's such a fantastic direct
Speaker 1: and coming into this he's making something that's so unlike
Speaker 1: what we've seen before. What was your experience of walking
Speaker 1: with Lee and kind of the johnny of going with
Speaker 1: him on this movie.
Speaker 4: He's so calm, So that was really nice because you're
Speaker 4: making something big scale, and obviously we all kind of
Speaker 4: feel a little bit of pressure given the circumstances, but
Speaker 4: we all had a lot of faith and trust and
Speaker 4: what he was going to do with this film and
Speaker 4: why be down to be a part of it, And
Speaker 4: he just remained so calm and so you could just
Speaker 4: kind of trust his vision because even some of our
Speaker 4: more like improvd parts and whatever, it was just like
Speaker 4: it was just allowed est like room to just go
Speaker 4: with it, so that it was nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the what I told Isaac the first
Speaker 2: time we sat down and met was you've earned my
Speaker 2: trust as a filmmaker and as an artist. So I
Speaker 2: trust you. I'll do anything. I'd play the bush if
Speaker 2: you need me too, I would literally do anything. You've
Speaker 2: earned my trust in that. And then at the end
Speaker 2: of the meeting, I was like, now you've earned my
Speaker 2: trust as a human. You have a good heart, and
Speaker 2: I'm just here for you as a friend and as
Speaker 2: a collaborator, and let's go on this journey. I'd love
Speaker 2: to be a part of it in any way that
Speaker 2: I can't. And he continued to showcase and earn my
Speaker 2: trust more and more, and especially after seeing the final cut,
Speaker 2: him like I do anything, he says over and over
Speaker 2: and over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He also is like, it's a really rare and
Speaker 3: cool thing. But he gives us a lot of onus
Speaker 3: of our character, and so he's like he trusts us
Speaker 3: as well, which is really cool. But yeah, just a
Speaker 3: really brilliant, sweet, smart, lovely human.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was going to say something that really struck
Speaker 1: me about kind of the Tornado Wrangler crew is there
Speaker 1: are archetypes. There's somebody who's the wingman, there's somebody who's
Speaker 1: good at tech, but they feel unique. So could you
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about those archetypes laid out for you?
Speaker 1: Was that something in the script did you kind of
Speaker 1: improve to bring those characters to life in a way
Speaker 1: that felt a bit more natural.
Speaker 4: I mean I feel like in terms of me with
Speaker 4: the drones that was given for me, yeah, but then
Speaker 4: having free range of not even having to like, hey,
Speaker 4: talk like you're from here or talk like this. It
Speaker 4: was just you just really get to embody it and
Speaker 4: go with it and kind of But I also could,
Speaker 4: for me at least like hide behind my prop if anything.
Speaker 4: It was like drone and goggles, you know, I couldn't
Speaker 4: see anything, so I was just I was just living.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what I received too, is just
Speaker 2: in one of the early drafts, it was something about
Speaker 2: Boon being into the music aspect and then also being
Speaker 2: the camera guy. But that's all I really got from it.
Speaker 2: Everything else is kind of just shaped. And what's funny
Speaker 2: is I never got to showcase how I play Boone
Speaker 2: really like I ended up ultimately just getting that role.
Speaker 2: So there's in the midst of my prep, like a
Speaker 2: few weeks in, I was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I have to send a voice note to Isaac to
Speaker 2: be like, Hey, this is all I'm gonna sound. Man.
Speaker 2: I hope it's all right. I hope boon because that's
Speaker 2: not written, you know. And he was just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I love hearing boone and then just gave me the
Speaker 2: thumbs up and I just ran and threw things at
Speaker 2: the wall, and it was just good to continuously get
Speaker 2: that push and trust of like keep pushing, go, go, go,
Speaker 2: do whatever you want, and.
Speaker 4: So wild to hear that accept for the first time
Speaker 4: just talking to him. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 4: he was like, oh, let's run a teat and he's
Speaker 4: like I want to.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, like I could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't do that.
Speaker 2: I'm like you, I don't even know where a game from.
Speaker 2: It was just like in the.
Speaker 3: Moment, just like I like, I know people to do
Speaker 3: that all the time. Yeah, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I also like I didn't go to college, so
Speaker 1: I was really I love I didn't go to college
Speaker 1: representations show. I was like in the screening, like thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I feel like a lot of time,
Speaker 3: depending on what you're doing, you don't need it.
Speaker 4: You know. The trade is a.
Speaker 3: Really like an underutilized thing these days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people have been asking me, what do you relate
Speaker 2: to with boone. I've been like, I don't really know
Speaker 2: he's longer, but I can relate to the go to college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, we've made it all kinds of right
Speaker 1: things you kind of touched on seeing the finished cut.
Speaker 1: I was not even tease a pun, I just say
Speaker 1: this look becau. I'm English, But I was blown away
Speaker 1: by the movie. It was like, it was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: How did it feel to go on that journey, be
Speaker 1: on location, be in those trucks, and then see the
Speaker 1: finished cut and see that kind of the vision the
Speaker 1: isa is a cad because I feel like you feel
Speaker 1: his care and you feel that his skill is on
Speaker 1: the screen. We were talking about it after watching the
Speaker 1: film yesterday, but it almost feels like you're not watching
Speaker 1: a movie. You're just in it with you guys, and
Speaker 1: it feels really natural. So how did it feel to
Speaker 1: kind of watch that final cut?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the official final Yeah you yeah, watching
Speaker 2: the final cut was just like I said, maybe you're
Speaker 2: in Isaac's trust even more. But then also being surprised
Speaker 2: because there's stuff that I was filming on the cell
Speaker 2: phone that I thought were going to be dead shots,
Speaker 2: because you know, and this is just I'm giving it
Speaker 2: up to the effects team for this, because yeah, I'd
Speaker 2: be filming the windshield and normally there's like the c
Speaker 2: stand in the camera and all that stuff there, and
Speaker 2: then the VFX team wiped it all out, and my
Speaker 2: camera phone footage is so like in there so much,
Speaker 2: and I was just so blown away by the final product.
Speaker 2: And then also seeing Isaac's style be added to a
Speaker 2: big blockbuster summer movie, Like he knows how to pull
Speaker 2: in your heart strings seamlessly, and his shot selection is incredible,
Speaker 2: and also just the way he takes those beats and
Speaker 2: moments where they don't feel stretched, they feel like a
Speaker 2: like you said, like you are there and invested in this,
Speaker 2: And it's just such a talented artist And I hope
Speaker 2: it showcases to big studios to trust directors like Isaac
Speaker 2: to be at the helm of these big movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it brings like a hat and a
Speaker 1: humanity to them. I was going to say, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you're coming at this as actors from a place
Speaker 1: of character, but did that feel like that was something
Speaker 1: you had to get used to to balance bringing this
Speaker 1: kind of hat and humanity in the face of these
Speaker 1: giant tornadoes or was that something that just felt normal.
Speaker 4: I would say I felt normal just because also on
Speaker 4: the flip side, it's just like tornadoes here here, you know,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So like, I think it
Speaker 4: was very easy to stay grounded because we're on location
Speaker 4: and we're dealing with all these extra things, but we
Speaker 4: aren't actually like witnessing all these major tornadoes while we're
Speaker 4: doing it, so like you stay intimate, and then they
Speaker 4: add all the extra big stuff and then you're.
Speaker 3: Like, ah, but it was it was always fascinating to
Speaker 3: walk in on set what set deck had done overnight
Speaker 3: or whatever. Walk and we're looking at completely wrecked houses
Speaker 3: and stuff thrown all over the place, and you can
Speaker 3: really you know really and they based out off of,
Speaker 3: you know, actual photos of scenes that happened after tornadoes,
Speaker 3: and so it really does hit you where you're like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is what people woke up to one day. We're
Speaker 3: like here's the refrigerator. They're missing their dog, you know,
Speaker 3: like where's my kid? These kind of things that it
Speaker 3: really does add this like the severity of it, and
Speaker 3: it's not just it's not just oh it's a lot
Speaker 3: of property damage. There's literally like people's lives are lost, ruined,
Speaker 3: and devastated because of this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One thing I bought up earlier too, is that there's
Speaker 2: one of the towns where we were in a neighborhood
Speaker 2: and there's buildings that were messed up, and I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: the prop team they all killed Setek and the neighbors
Speaker 2: are like, no, that's just like torn up buildings that
Speaker 2: I just haven't been able to get fixed yet. And they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: real tornado actually hit here and that's real damage. Then
Speaker 2: you guys added to it, and I was like what Yeah,
Speaker 2: So it just makes you really feel we're doing something
Speaker 2: more important than this summer movie.
Speaker 1: And we're going to take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. We're back, Yeah, I mean talking about that,
Speaker 1: there's a moment that felt so lead to me. But
Speaker 1: it was like, after all of the damage, the first
Speaker 1: thing we see is like a woman and she's picking
Speaker 1: up like a handmade mug and it's like the thing
Speaker 1: she wants to save. So I really felt like there's
Speaker 1: those moments in there where you feel the human cost,
Speaker 1: which obviously also plays a part as the movie goes along.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, something I love about the film is
Speaker 1: you guys are introduced in one way, let's say, and
Speaker 1: as the movie changes, you don't change any of your behavior,
Speaker 1: but the perception that we get of your characters changes
Speaker 1: with the movie. What was that like to approach knowing
Speaker 1: that you would be presented in a certain light and
Speaker 1: kind of knowing the truth of your characters as you
Speaker 1: went along.
Speaker 3: It's like it's more of Daisy's journey. You know, she's
Speaker 3: seeing Okay or Kate, I guess kind of has this
Speaker 3: like weird, icky feeling about going home and maybe even
Speaker 3: kind of has this prejudice of the people around her
Speaker 3: or where she grew up. And then it's like kind
Speaker 3: of realizing, oh, no, home is where people, where the
Speaker 3: heart is, and where people are like taking care of
Speaker 3: their own community. So I think I love that it
Speaker 3: played in her kind of reappreciating where she came from
Speaker 3: in her journey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely one of the coolest parts of the movie.
Speaker 1: So when you're approaching a film like this, like obviously
Speaker 1: it's a job, right, how does it feel to kind
Speaker 1: of be at that coming to the end of this
Speaker 1: job and knowing that it's about to be out there
Speaker 1: and this kind of intimate thing, those hours spent in
Speaker 1: the truck when it was just you guys building these
Speaker 1: relationships is about to be out there and people are
Speaker 1: seeing it.
Speaker 4: It's exciting because I feel really proud of it. And
Speaker 4: like we said, like I think what the Isaac's done
Speaker 4: is something incredible and I can't wait for him to
Speaker 4: get his flowers for that as well, and so like
Speaker 4: if anything not really is like usually i'd be like,
Speaker 4: we are they going to think? And with this it's
Speaker 4: just like have fun. Like I think, I think it's
Speaker 4: ultimately gonna just it's gonna be great to have it
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 3: Finally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's been a part of our
Speaker 2: lives for so long and now I'm ready for it
Speaker 2: to be out there. I'm excited and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I wish I was out there like right now.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 2: But yeah, also with Isaac, I know I won't act
Speaker 2: like this was an easy shoot, like it's an easy
Speaker 2: shoot for him. This is a big deal and yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a massive thing to take on. And like
Speaker 2: he said, he said, facing this big type of movie,
Speaker 2: big tent pole movie after a film like Minati is
Speaker 2: almost like chasing a tornado and facing one and how
Speaker 2: are you going to operate within it? And yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it being out there would be amazing in him
Speaker 2: to receive his flowers for that as well. And I
Speaker 2: just hope, like I said before, I help other filmmakers
Speaker 2: like Isaac get these opportunities because I feel like he
Speaker 2: knocked it out the park and just trust these filmmakers.
Speaker 3: It's cool because I'm like, literally just not even worried,
Speaker 3: you know, like I haven't seen the finished product, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, no, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's wonderful. Thank you all so much.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. It was just the joy to
Speaker 1: talk to you and congress on the movie.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely thank you so much.
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