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I'm doing good this has to be an
interesting time for you because I know
you've been promoting the movie in New
York you here in LA you're about to do
your first comic-con
what's this last week been like for you
or what's this what's what are you in
the middle of these I've done them
before
so basically out the routine is becoming
else nothing but your jet-lagged when
you are doing press the chances are the
journalist is as well most people are
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not on their own time zone you know
obviously fly to New York and you do a
cha-cha they they're on their times but
the junket people are under the same
pressures you are and are getting by on
caffeine and whatever else and so
basically the rest of the world you know
they may or may not realize is that
everything that is being said about
films generally is being said about
people who are strung out on caffeine
the wrong time so it's like you know
what's interesting is that I do a lot of
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set visits now I have been for the last
few years and I've learned that when
you're on set there's just a random fact
that learned when you on set you are
talking about the movie you're think
you're making and when you're doing the
junket you're talking about the movie
that it actually is there's a huge
difference I will resist any you can't
always win this battle but I always
resist and talking about a film when I'm
in the middle of it it's it's often
called for and demanded and asked over
that I hate to do it and it's partly
because I know I'm not going to make any
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sense even less than I normally do give
in the middle of it you don't quite know
what's working what's not working you
may not even have a coherent way to
express what you're trying to do at that
point
Bernie you know it's a very strange
nebulous craft acting you you're giving
yourself over to somebody else it's
words and you're pretending to be
somebody else and you know I'm used to
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that but it's I find it in
East helpful time to step out and start
to try to get an overview of what I'm
doing I'm in the middle but the other
thing is that and a lot of people don't
acknowledge this there's such an in the
final edit the final screenwriting
moment is the editing room so like you
could be also delivering the performance
a few different ways and you don't know
don't know what's coming out in the wash
exactly and you don't even before it
gets as far as the can let alone the
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editing room what you do what you intend
when someone says action what actually
comes out isn't necessarily an exact
science either I mean it's if you have
if you have any spontaneity and if the
person opposite you have said its
functionality and if there's anything
real going on there little accidents
that occur you know it isn't you have to
leave room for a bit of the random
you're open to things and so it doesn't
happen according to to programming you
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know and so you're you're open to yours
you have a plan for things you've
learned a lot it is written most of the
time but the way it's applied I think
you you within the structure you want
some freedom and so and then on top of
that you're just going to be edited and
there's gonna be music cue which gives
it a different tone than the one you
might have expected etc etc so it
another very compelling reason to wait
until it's done before you talk about it
is that I can look up there on the
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screen and I can tell you that
everything that's up there is what I
intended to do if I give away my
intentions beforehand then I get busted
on you know mission not accomplished 90%
I know K Christian bill doesn't like the
new interviews on onset but he'll
promote the movie when he's he will do
interviews actually on dark night he did
he talked to us on a day he wasn't
filming but days he is filming he
doesn't like to depress I think it makes
perfect sense I didn't is anything
precious on your application I just mean
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it's I just I think it's its
practicality totally I told I don't mean
whatever an actor needs to do to be in
the moment
I think that they should be allowed to
do in this you know so it's not just
about being in the moment because what
I'm talking about here it's not just
about reacting the work it's actually
about making any sense tool I was
comparing two different things
but let me jump into why I get to talk
to each day which is where my favorite
filmmakers Woody Allen and I mean I love
his work and he's such he's an amazing
filmmaker when you first found out when
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he how did you get involved in this
project it he call you did you hear
through the grapevine grapevine first
and he doesn't as far as I know call
anybody I've just been at the first
conference with the other actors hearing
and their stories about how they got
approached and I hear tales of 3-minute
meetings
yeah I've heard 15-second meetings yeah
no he doesn't like to drag these things
out at all and it's a doesn't he doesn't
audition people I don't think he doesn't
have them read he works with the help of
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an exceptional casting director Juliette
Taylor who's very for many years now I
think as has an extraordinary instinct
and and I think that they collaborate in
finding the best people but never the
encounter with Woody Allen is it seems
to me as he'll tell you he would like
you to be in his film and that's about
it and I was sent the script I was I was
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in Italy I have a home and I a sentence
good had to be driven to me by hand and
hand it to me and that person didn't had
to wait while I read it and I'm not the
quickest reader in the world so if there
was a better sense of pressure even
though that person was trying to apply
any pressure you won't feel judged on
how slow going this was and I was very
compelled I mean I was slightly daunted
I it came as a big surprise to me with
the iron withers if you'd ask me at any
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time in my career since even before it
started as a teenager who who the
directors you must want to work with in
your life if they've ever been three you
would have been on the list and
so after all these years to suddenly
hear that you know I was up was
wonderful and attentive see this script
was every time and under the words
Stanley was this huge amount of ink and
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I never had so much to say in anything
in my life and some of it is monologue
something I'm some it's it's not a
dialogue have you seen some of these are
soliloquy literally alone in a row where
for those few minutes who you are on
carrying the film and so it was a one
aimed at one felt honored lattice fee to
get to be entrusted with that but very
nervous well I know that what he doesn't
like to do rehearsal and I know it's a
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he likes to shoot ninety five is that
you know he it's a very tight ship what
was it like to work in that we didn't
get that a lot of the things I'd heard
about how would he works proved not to
be true some did with is the fact he
doesn't matters we proved to be true but
we'd also heard he doesn't direct that
was not true he was a very engaged
meticulous and very verbal director and
got right in and getting or lastly sure
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he doesn't chat and he doesn't socialize
with me anyway he may shoot some of his
stuff I was told not to expect him to be
funny he's very shy he probably won't be
out there cracking jokes but he was very
funny you know just in the course of
giving you direction and those he was
funny but the nine-to-five thing I'd
heard that and I was very much that's
very optimistic time is liking it but
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they were said to do with the lighting
and to do with the way darius country
shoots all the hair out of the
photography it's the the famous Magic
Hour but the delight that they were
looking for is at its best at in morning
and then you have to wait until after
four o'clock pretty I it's best again
and so no you there was a hole in the
middle of the day where you waited for
the light to come but once that light
showed up you realized why it was worth
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it I mean that's the our post-production
trickery because seeing that that's
that's the light that he found at the
moments that he found really when even
in a good mood because he was in France
also away from me you know what I mean
like when when people go on location
they can be either in a foul mood or a
great mood oh he was in a good mood
yeah again I am nothing to compare it to
but I others did and there were people
that knew what it was like to be around
buddy when he was less optimistic about
the film he was making and he's you know
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he will tell you how he feels about
things if you ask him I mean I didn't
usually they're on a I'm a reserved
Englishman and he's a rather shy New
York intellectual and that you know
didn't exactly catch fire in terms of
the ease of chatting but he was um I
haven't heard it through secondhand
someone said I just heard what he's
saying he's very happy with cement and
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that sort of thing so Vidia no I think
he was he was he definitely seemed in
good spirits from what I could
understand but no I think I think South
of France I think it's a little into
long way with him he likes the city Oh
100% yeah 100%
I definitely want to jump into before I
run out of time with you one of the
things I'm so looking forward to because
I've seen footage from the movie is
Kingsman I saw at CinemaCon they showed
this great great action scene in the
restaurant and the first thing I thought
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of when I watched the footage was you
had seen Liam Neeson kickin ass and
takin and said I can do that too
no I would never have pursued to say
that - although his thrilling Singley
missin doing all that stuff you know
particularly speaking as a fellow
traveler in his age and you're not Liam
Neeson's it but you know what I mean ya
know I do know what you mean it since it
you don't expect that someone's getting
that call to arms when when you're my
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age and we take you when you have no
history of athleticism whatsoever quite
a country really and Matthew Vaughn has
a very very interesting way of messing
with people's expectations and
presumptions you know he he likes to
take someone who has a certain who's
identified with something and then just
subvert the image and in the way I think
what he was doing with me was the flip
side of what he did with Robert De Niro
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and Stardust which was you know the
menacing pirate king and he said he
found out he's a crossdresser and that's
the last thing you'd expect Robert De
Niro to be doing and in my case you know
my recent history of romantic comedies
and you know the date movies no last
week you've done romantic comedies and
so here I'm reminded of this and then
just to turn it and say well you don't
expect him to be a killing machine is
the last person on earth you would
expect and that was the point but in
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order to to sell it he wanted me to do
the stunts he you know he's anyone who
jerk up to a stunt guy but he said no
and we met a year before we started
shooting in young I didn't know if he's
happy to his script writing yet but he
wanted to know if I was interested but
soon he could proceed with me in mind
and also for me to have a chance to get
in training and his question to me was
oh are you prepared to do it because you
might hate me by the end of this but I
really want you to to learn a whole new
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craft hit her so it was three hours a
day every day for six months with with
this team of ten guys Jackie Chan's
trainer the you know six times Olympic
or six times Thai boxing world champion
Olympic gymnastic gold medalist and then
me basically I mean I've done I used to
I box every morning with my own trainer
and get exercise just to try to maintain
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who fight against gravity as I grew
older but is nothing on this scale and
even when I when I was shooting the
magic in the moonlight the trainer was
there every morning they sent trainer to
France and so I'd have to get up and do
an hour and a half every morning for
thanks for said I'm gonna tell you
though it shows because the footage
looked incredible
like that stuff in the restaurant
sequence with the guys and the umbrella
and I think people at comic-con
speaking of Comic Con because you're
going this weekend I think they're going
to lose their minds because I don't
think they were prepared a lot of them
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haven't seen everything or and I'm sure
they're going to show a nice sizzle reel
but is it this is one of these things
where I'm sure Matthew and 20th Century
Fox were thinking franchise potential
which is maybe something you've never
even contemplated not really and I do
think this there are thoughts that this
story will go on yes absolutely it's
something that you're excited to keep on
training every day know I have very
mixed feelings about it you know I did
the first month of that training was
agony and huge doubts in my mind about
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whether I was I was over you know felt
less than a meter with these guys but
then I just started to love it
I felt like I've been wasting years not
doing stuff like this but the trouble is
there isn't much stuff like this you can
learn to fight it's not really a fight
this is choreographed stuff it's it's
more like a dance but it's not really a
dance either the every month you're
learning moves in there but they have to
be right into the camera yeah they have
to be in coordination with other
people's nerves and then the camera has
to be part of the move - there's another
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much longer fight sequence which is
being kept up Matthew Vaughn's sleeve
where it's all single angle stuff so
it's it's mostly full body and it
doesn't intercut and it's all it's me
therefore I don't know how many minutes
it lasts but they're an awful lot people
fighting each other it's just one
cameraman and of course he has to be
part of the choreography as well and you
know I it would it had a lot at times
but when it was over I I missed it you
know I had two more months on the film
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and just acting okay for going back to
pointing my suited people I have to wrap
it you but except to ask you know what
you're doing
a year are you doing I read about this
movie genius it sounds pretty cool I'm
doing that yeah it's um that's about
relationship between editor endorser and
the editor a very great editor and also
just man and nurtured literature and
associative a Thomas Wolfe Fitzgerald
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Hemingway and his about his relationship
with Thomas Wolfe who will be played by
Jude Law and it's directed by Michael
Grandage
yeah I saw Swiss I thought about it
looks great I got a rap with you but I
will tell you that I think comic-con is
going to roll the footage have you seen
a rough cut of it or not at all so you
stole yeah I get it
all right cool let me hit the stop there
thank you so much and
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