Callan Mulavey & Jack O'Connell

0:09Excuse you. Yeah! So what have you seen? I know ADR, you've probably seen some stuff as a post-degree in screen, so what were your impressions when you've seen what it's supposed to look like? Yeah, we saw a little bit with playback on the day and I've seen the finished product in it. Okay. Yeah, blew my mind for, you know, particularly from seeing what it was on the day to what once all the bells and whistles have put in and post-production gets stuck into it, it's incredible. What blew you away the most? Well, it made me last you, Jack.

0:55I mean, visually it's pretty groundbreaking, right? And I think the cinematography that, personally, I really like the way the pace kind of like instantly slows down. And then what you have is this real high definition, slow motion footage of people getting mangled by Greeks. So in particular, I enjoyed that much, but I guess the old thing is pretty phenomenal to watch considering our reference points, and I was there wearing quite little. A lot of green in our memories, so I'll have to picture it, and then all of a sudden we're on the seat. Exactly. Like we are right now on this. Yeah. Yeah. There's a scene where you go into battle wearing the helmet, and as soon as you get into battle, you take off the helmet. It seems counterintuitive. Yeah. No, at the time, just wasn't keen on the helmet, and we were under the pump and trying to

1:48figure out a way to take it off because my feelings were, all I've got is a helmet and a knife, and I'm going to take one of those things off that helps defend my head. So we were going back and forth, and everyone was trying to put their two cents in, and then I just sort of went, bugger, I just got a commit, and it's ripping it off kind of, come on! And so hopefully it worked. Did you two do any prep work to play Father Son? Did you take him out? No, we just, I mean, through the course of preparing for the film and learning our fight sequences and training in the gym, we spent probably five weeks together before we shot, so we certainly bonded over that. You've said of this, your first Hollywood movie, it was eye opening. What do you mean by that?

2:33What was so eye opening? I find that interesting. I mean, there's a vast difference in budget. Okay. So I guess that would then include, you know, I've attracted, I guess, a different category of experts, I'd say, in terms of everyone's jobs and a lot of artwork involved. So I find it pretty outstanding seeing not only everyone's work ethic, but the results that they were able to achieve. Under a pretty fortuitous budget, but not the sort of time scale that I guess you perhaps expect for this level of artistic license. I guess that was very eye opening, yeah, compared to what I guess I was more accustomed to.

3:19Which is, which would be what? Low budget British cinema. Right. Very high. In general, yeah. We do some call five questions, five quick questions, one word answers. Scripter. Scripter. What's the type of question? Where'd each? Do you want to split it up? No, give me each. We'll see what happens. Scripter improv. Script. Improv. Leninger McCartney. Leninger. Leninger. Lening. Hitchcock or Kubrick? Hitchcock. Hitchcock. Brando or Olivier? Brando. Brando. In one word, 300 rise of an empire. Epic. That's what he was said. I just want to say happy. I want to say happy.

4:05You can say happy. That's true. Hey, your father's son. So you have the same way as two. Two, two, go. Shabby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Happy.