6 Underground Movie Cast Interview

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Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona and Corey Hawkins discuss starring in Michael Bay’s Netflix film ‘6 Underground’ in this interview with CinemaBlend’s Cody Beck.

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00:00Now on, you're dead.

00:02It's all erased.

00:04No more criminal records, no more getting arrested just for being naked or just usual stuff, you know, being naked, getting drunk, casual stuff.

00:11So we're all gonna die.

00:13Watch me!

00:19As an audience, we don't get to know too much backstory about your characters.

00:22I'm curious as to how much backstory you all knew,

00:25and as an actor, is it easier or is it harder when that information is given to you versus when you have to fill in the gaps yourself?

00:31Oh, interesting.

00:33I don't know where to begin.

00:36Yeah, I mean, I usually have a pretty clear backstory before I show up to work,

00:42but then, you know, if you've created this backstory, then Michael Bay will just be like,

00:46No, you're an orphan! Go!

00:48You know, you're just like, wait, what?

00:50Okay, so it's all sort of thrown out the window, and that's a good thing.

00:54Sometimes it's good to sort of kill your darlings and, you know, surrender to a process you're unfamiliar with,

01:00and I think we all sort of felt like this was a process none of us were familiar with.

01:04Michael Bay has got a kind of chaotic style of filmmaking that he somehow finds a way to make it all galvanize in the edit room,

01:10but to be there is wild.

01:13I prefer to have my own, you know, because it makes it more personal.

01:18But yeah, at the end, you're there shooting, and everything goes away because, you know.

01:24You can also always have, like, your own and never really tell your director what you're really doing.

01:30That's true.

01:31But we didn't have that conversation with Michael.

01:33I mean, this is not a... I mean, it's an action-packed movie,

01:37and you will get to know every single one of the characters,

01:39and I think you'll fall in love with every single one of the characters, but it's not a drama piece.

01:43You can say, it's not designed for the Telluride Film Festival. We get it.

01:47It's an action film.

01:49It's challenging to fill in the gaps, but it's actually more fun that way.

01:55We're sort of given these outlines.

01:58In this movie, I think we were given sort of an outline, and then we could kind of help fill it in.

02:03But the great part about this film is that, like, Michael, as we were sort of saying before,

02:08like, he is trying to get back to sort of character work and, like, diving in on their storylines.

02:15And so it was kind of fun to collaborate in that way about the little details,

02:20the small things that might sort of unravel later on in subsequent sequels.

02:25And so it was cool to lay, like, little Easter eggs and things in there to, you know, see how it plays out.

02:33And I think the movie is all about, like, our evolutions also.

02:36Like, no matter what, if you see perfectly and precisely our backstory,

02:41I don't know if it's just changing a lot of things.

02:43It's just like they've been picked up from that guy, and they start the movie in a certain way,

02:48and they really end the movie totally different and totally changed.

02:51And I think that's the joy for everybody to just, like, change your arc and change your character,

02:58especially maybe us two.

03:00Like, we really change. We really go somewhere else.

03:03We're kind of like the soldiers, training and very tough and cold.

03:08And then we go to emotions.

03:10And I think we had fun to just, like, especially in the Michael Bay movie, you know, to work on, like, emotions.

03:18Bonjour.

03:19Hi. Hey.

03:20I don't know if I should ask this question directly to you or to everyone except for you,

03:24but I grew up knowing you from Waiting and Van Wilder and then Deadpool, these goofy characters.

03:29But then I've seen you in things like Amyville Whore and The Voice Isn't Buried.

03:32I'm curious, how does your real-life personality compare to those sillier characters that you play?

03:37Oh, I don't know. I mean, I always try to look for the fun in things.

03:41I make a lot of jokes, a lot of dumb jokes, a lot of fine jokes, I suppose.

03:47I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

03:50I think I'm closer to those guys than, like, the hardcore drama stuff, I guess,

03:55because, you know, life is short. It's later than you think. Enjoy yourself.

03:59We're all gonna die. May as well do it while we're alive.

04:03Watch me!

04:06Sounds fun, right?

04:07If you could add another member to your Six Underground, who would it be?

04:12And it could be anyone from Jason Bourne to an Austin Powers, everything in between.

04:15Oh, wow.

04:16What do you think would round out the team?

04:17I'd take Vanisher from X-Force. I felt like his character arc wasn't fully explored.

04:22Right.

04:23And also, who doesn't want to be hanging out with Brad Pitt, right?

04:28I would say Oscar Isaac.

04:30Nice!

04:31From Trouble Frontier.

04:33Nice.

04:34What's the name Josh Brolin did in Deadpool 2?

04:37Cable?

04:38Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that guy.

04:40Yeah, yeah. Brolin's a good guy, too.

04:41Oh, yeah, yeah.

04:42We need just to be together. We just need to have, like, another adventure all together

04:47because we had so much fun.

04:49And it's stupid because you always, as a journalist, hear that, like,

04:54we're such a good family and we're, like, so close to each other.

04:57So it doesn't, people doesn't believe us anymore.

05:00But that was really the case.

05:01It's really hard sometimes jumping on because we go, you know, usually from,

05:06hopefully from project to project to project.

05:08And you're working with new families every time.

05:10And it's not always as easy of a thing to do.

05:15And we really, like, fell in love with each other.

05:18And we had to as well. But, like, we genuinely had a great time.

05:22And, like, even on this press tour, like, being able to see each other's faces

05:25and, like, remember what we went through because this movie was such a crazy,

05:30wild ride, man.

05:32It's just amazing.

05:34You're not about to be remembered.

05:36It's about to happen, Will.

05:38Good things can erase the bad ones, right?

05:40Who the hell are you?

05:43We're no one.

05:46I knew it wasn't true at work.

05:48I mean, I wasn't sure, sure. I had a suspicion.

05:50God, this is all so fucking dangerous.

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