1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: The Will and Woody podcast that fight sized. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: From Stranger Things got a brand new movie, Violent Knight, 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: which was out yesterday. Yes, the one and only David 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: harber On willin Woodies. 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Hey, how are you. 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: We're going really well, mate, going really well. Thanks for 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 2: coming on the show. I appreciate it. 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: Have pleasure. 9 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 3: Hey, first question for you, mates, do you enjoy getting 10 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 3: beaten up in the roles that you choose. I feel 11 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: like I just finished watching you in Stranger Things, where 12 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 3: you get taken to a Russian prison and you're effectively tortured, 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 3: and now I'm watching you as Santa Claus, and truly 14 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: Violent Knight has some of the best fight sequences I've 15 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 3: seen in the film for a really, really long time. 16 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 3: It looks like you are in pain in a lot 17 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 3: of those scenes. Is there any genuine pain? 18 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: Sure? I mean, you know I am acting in the movie, though, yes, 19 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: I but I will. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: Don't. 21 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course there's pain. I'm in my you know, 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: mid to late forties and even to you know, I 23 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: don't know, do lunge forward towards someone becomes a precarious situation? 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: On some days it is, you know, I became an 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: action star in my forties, which is, yeah, thank you audiences. 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: We couldn't have done this when I was like twenty three, 27 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: when I had knees and hips and all sorts of 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: things and even hair. But it's you know, we take 29 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: what we can, and I was exhausted. These guys, as 30 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: you say, are the best in the world at what 31 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: they do. They do all the John Wick movies and 32 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: yes Nobody and Atomic Blott, So these fight sequences are 33 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: incredibly incomplex and one of the things they like to 34 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: do is shoot actors doing this stuff. And I try 35 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: to do as much as I could, but as I say, 36 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: it's very it is very exhausting. 37 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 38 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: Can I ask David one of the things that we 39 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 2: took from the movie was the relationship with Trody, and 40 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: I wanted to tie that in with obviously your relationship 41 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: with all the kids in Stranger Things as well, and 42 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: ask you about your emotional connections with these child actors 43 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 2: and like how much you enjoy it and whether it's 44 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: like you know, something that you continue to to obviously 45 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: get something out of on screen. 46 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. 47 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: Sure, I mean, you know, the funny thing about kids 48 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: are is that they're little people, so they're hard to generalize. 49 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: As a subspech, right, but they so each individual has 50 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: their own individual spark and their own individual thing that 51 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: they bring. We were lucky on Stranger Things to cast 52 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: some of the best child actors I've ever seen. They 53 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: can be just as good as working with Denzel or 54 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: Christian Bale or whoever it's. You know, they're creating something. 55 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes they may not be quite as aware or have 56 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: as much of a process, but they're spontaneity and there 57 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: you know, their artistry is apparent. I mean, one of 58 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: the things I did used to really love about the 59 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: first season of Stranger Things before those kids were at 60 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: all famous, was it especially Finn I remember he was 61 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: really just this eleven year old, twelve year old boy, 62 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: and I remember being twelve years old. I mean, it 63 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: was terrified Harden. One of the great things about him 64 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: as an actor was he was so spontaneous and he 65 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: couldn't really control his body as you do at twelve 66 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: years old. 67 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. 68 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: So I remember he was kind of moving around all 69 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: the time in this way that was just so charming. 70 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think I'll ever be completely 71 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: unself conscious in that way where I just allow things 72 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: to move through me, and it was there is a 73 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: strange special beauty today. 74 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 2: God David Harber joining us right now. 75 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 3: Yes, and David, I want to talk about your body. Sorry, 76 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: but it's just last time we saw you with your 77 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: rig ad you were obviously the choose old hopper after 78 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 3: his time in a Russian prison and. 79 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: Then also after getting beaten by the way. 80 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: Of course, of course. 81 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: The masochist that is David, and you guys put a 82 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: scene in there where I get beaten. I wouldn't mind 83 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: a choking somewhere along the way as well. 84 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: But you guys are the ones who are focused on 85 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: the You guys are the massacre because there was also 86 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: scenes you can focus on where I was. But you 87 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: see take those beating up David. 88 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 2: Harbors and recording it's going straight. 89 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: It helps my algorithm with Netflix. 90 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 3: That's the tagline David Arber gets beaten up again. 91 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: We're in where in. 92 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 3: But let's talk about you have your other scene in 93 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 3: Violent Night where you get the rigat once again, and 94 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: it's a vastly different body to the one that we 95 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: saw in Stranger Things. I'm not saying which one I preferred, 96 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 3: you know, they both have their. 97 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 2: Stop sexualizing. 98 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: What about what you prefer either way. 99 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 3: But how was that journey going from obviously losing white 100 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 3: and then putting on white. Was that was that difficult? Yeah? 101 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: I mean, my doctor's very mad at me, but it 102 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: it's it's just a joy. It's part of one of 103 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: the joys of the job is that you get to 104 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: live in someone's skin, a different person's skin to a 105 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: certain degree. And I did find that I looked at 106 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: the world and I looked at other people very differently 107 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: when I was, you know, one ninety as opposed to 108 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: when I'm two seventy. Yeah, and I also look in 109 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: the mirror a lot differently, or don't look in the differently. 110 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: There's something that happens, you know, to you when you 111 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: change that dramatically. And as I say, like, it's a 112 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: lot more fun to put on the weight, for sure 113 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: at the beginning, because you just finish switch whatever I wanted. 114 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: Because you're shredding. You're shredding, your shredding, And the doctor 115 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: was like, hey, mate, you're good to go. You're gonna 116 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: have to eat whatever you can to get big again. 117 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 2: Did you just eat the bowl of lollipops on the 118 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 2: way out of the clinic or what was it? 119 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, for me, it's donut. So I just went 120 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: and ordered a dozen donuts and sat there religiously and 121 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: like it was homework with a fork and a night. 122 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: Oh my god, did. 123 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: Your friends believe you when you were like eighteen twenty 124 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 3: seven donuts to day and you're going, it's for a 125 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 3: movie role. It's for a movie role. Do your friends 126 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 3: believe you when you say that? 127 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: I mean they pretend to believe me. I think they 128 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: look at me a nod. They look at me. I 129 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: see behind their eyes they don't. 130 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: Oh guys, I'm playing Santa Claus. 131 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: No, sure, yeah, exactly exactly. Now you're letting the posters. 132 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: Now you get it? 133 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: Come on, Oh right, sir. Been a wonderful chat. 134 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: If you missed it, get it. 135 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 2: On the podcast, David Harbor hopp up from A Stranger 136 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 2: Things got a brand new movie, Violent Night, which is 137 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: in cinemas now. Thanks so much for joining us, but 138 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: it's been a pleasure to. 139 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: Give more of the boys on the Full Show podcast. 140 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 2: You know you want to