Argylle Director Matthew Vaughn Interview

“Argylle” director Matthew Vaughn describes what audiences love about spy movies and talks about it in this interview. Check it out.

Transcript

00:00 I literally try and make movies as if I was watching them.

00:03 I mean, I love escape, I love escapism, I love blockbusters.

00:09 I also feel every now and then I get blockbuster or franchise fatigue because I don't make

00:15 in the same movie again and again and again.

00:18 So I'd say what I like to do is take all the ingredients that we all know and we all love

00:24 and turn it into a different type of cake.

00:27 Everybody loves a secret.

00:30 Everybody loves, you know, spies are, they still have this weird sort of glamorous mystery,

00:37 their mystique of what is, you know, who is a spy, what do spies do.

00:42 So I think people are attracted to it because I think, as I said, everybody loves a secret

00:49 and wants to know a secret and sometimes even keep one.

00:55 That's about a incredibly talented writer who does a lot of research into the world

01:01 of espionage and her research turns out to be better than what Langley could do with

01:06 all their thousands of researchers.

01:08 And so she inadvertently writes about a spy plot so dangerous that it had to be put under

01:17 wraps quickly.

01:19 So she got thrust into a spy world but the world she wrote about was more influenced

01:24 by directors like me where it was a little bit heightened and full of glamour and then

01:30 she suddenly meets the real spies and there's no glamour, it's not heightened, it's actually

01:33 quite real.

01:36 Sam is quite loose and loves improv and is, you know, given a second he'll start dancing

01:43 on cue or not even on cue and you've got Bryce who's very methodical and practical and disciplined.

01:51 That's what's interesting, putting two opposites to and therefore the cliche opposites attract.

01:56 The movie wouldn't be the movie without the two, they make this film.

02:01 We meet her promoting her latest book and then you'd imagine a woman with that much

02:07 success would live this glamorous, big, fun lifestyle but it turns out that her idea of

02:14 a date and a good night out is actually a good night in with her cat and writing.

02:20 So I think when we meet her her whole life is about research, researching spies, writing

02:26 the novels and playing with her cat.

02:32 Chip the cat is a family member and I said he's going to come work with me for the next

02:37 three months and he, I mean it was bizarre driving to work every day with a cat in the

02:43 car and the cat lived in my trailer with me so I'm now more of, you know, he won me over.

02:49 He was great in the movie, he's fun and he's sweet and gets, you know, and starts to steal