'Greenland' Interviews With Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin

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Interview with Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin

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00:00I'm gonna hit you guys with a hard-hitting one

00:01right off the bat.

00:03Do you know if bunkers like the ones featured

00:06in the movie actually exist?

00:08Yes. Yes.

00:09Do they really?

00:10Can you tell me about them or no?

00:12Or is it like a lockdown secret?

00:13The fragment has hit central Florida.

00:16Oh my God.

00:18Wait, are some more pieces gonna hit?

00:20Come on, let's go.

00:21But the sky's on fire.

00:26We watched it as a family last night

00:28and my wife woke me up this morning

00:29still thinking about it.

00:30She came out of the shower early and was like,

00:32yeah, but what about this part?

00:34And because I think that I wanna emphasize

00:36it relies heavily on the kindness of strangers.

00:39Like there's nothing really special

00:41that your guys' characters are equipped to do.

00:43You just keep going forward

00:45but you rely heavily on the kindness of strangers.

00:47And I'm wondering if that's something that appealed to you

00:49when taking on the story.

00:50Yeah, I love that part of the story.

00:53But it's also the kindness of strangers

00:55and the danger of strangers

00:56because you see beautiful people doing terrible things

01:01but for the right reasons.

01:03But a lot of the time there is just such heart

01:06and humanity in there by the people that pass.

01:08And by the way, that's the world that we live in.

01:10There's a lot of darkness out there

01:11but there's a lot of light and we can't forget that.

01:14And I think that's why despite the fact

01:16that this movie pummels you, it's intense, it's a ride

01:20but at the same time, it fills you with hope.

01:23Even at the end as it all goes through

01:26you're kind of left with the feeling

01:27that maybe we're only moving on to something greater

01:30and wiser now and more connected

01:32and appreciating what is important in life.

01:36These events, just like the pandemic,

01:37always in some ways allow us to tap

01:41into a greater consciousness and remind us who we are

01:44and what's important, which is connectivity

01:46and love and tribe.

01:48Marina, I'm really curious when you take on a part

01:50like this because it is devastating scene

01:53after devastating scene emotionally.

01:56If there's any hesitation that you're gonna take this on

01:58because you're gonna have to live in this headspace

01:59for months at a time and live in this-

02:01Yeah, I definitely had to gear up to it.

02:03I was a little terrified.

02:05I have a work motto that says,

02:07if I am scared to do it, then I should do it.

02:12And this was definitely a movie that scared me

02:14because of the emotional commitment

02:15and the physical commitment.

02:18It's really these two characters,

02:20the whole movie, in different peril at different times

02:23and then also together.

02:26So, you know, I would have to rise to the occasion,

02:28but I really enjoy a challenge.

02:31We're scared.

02:32We'll find him.

02:33It's okay.

02:34Clark's largest fragment will hit in less than 24 hours.

02:39I'm wondering if there was something really humanizing

02:40about giving the threat a name, like Clark.

02:44Every time I heard it,

02:44it sort of brought me back into the story.

02:46Yeah, I think that most of the time,

02:51extraterrestrial things are given more of a number

02:54or some kind of a classification

02:56that doesn't feel emotional.

02:58But right now there's a hurricane called Sally.

03:01I mean, talk about a lovely name

03:03that is just going to wreck the Gulf region right now.

03:06And I like the idea of what it conveys

03:11that it is more of an emotional attachment to something

03:15because we've given it a personal name

03:18of what that event's going to be.

03:19You know, to me, it was always two monsters in the movie.

03:21It was not only Clark, but it was humanity itself.

03:24Will we turn on each other?

03:26And are we capable of heinous things

03:27when it's life or death?

03:28Or will we do right by each other?

03:30And there's so many scenes in this film

03:31because you guys rely on practical effects

03:33as often as you can in this,

03:35where you guys in the middle of huge crowd scenes,

03:38and I can't help but think, like,

03:40how hard that's going to be to do in the immediate future.

03:43Have you thought about obstacles like that

03:45in terms of telling a story of this size,

03:47the types of precautions we're going to have to take on?

03:49I don't know how we do that before there's a vaccine.

03:53I don't see how that's possible.

03:55I think smaller movies, certainly,

03:57and I think that's what we're going to see a lot of

03:59in the coming months as things reopen.

04:02Or, obviously, if you're in a country

04:04where there aren't many cases,

04:05then that's definitely something that you can do.

04:08They're going to be harder to put together,

04:09but we're going to figure it out.

04:10I'm in the middle of leaving on the next film

04:14that Gerard Butler and I are going to do.

04:15We're going to go three in a row together,

04:17and there's some scenes with massive crowds in it,

04:20and you just realize that we all have to make

04:24lemonade out of lemons,

04:25and we all have to figure out clever ways to do things,

04:27and we finished Greenland during the pandemic.

04:31I mean, this movie was filmed, cut, screened, tested,

04:35locked before there was ever anything called COVID,

04:37and what we thought was hypothetical

04:39suddenly becoming much more of a reality.

04:41It was a very surreal experience to be on a mixed stage

04:44and then suddenly be in the middle of the pandemic.

04:46In fact, we got shut down from the California state

04:51because of it, and you suddenly realize

04:53the more different parallels with it.

04:55But you also, I was really moved by a team of people,

05:00and I'm talking about 300, between visual effects

05:02and editors and colorists and mixers.

05:05We all went to our couches, just like we are right now,

05:08and we finished the movie remotely.

05:10So I love the fact that we can all get it done,

05:12and we'll get it done moving forward.

05:14Just get up and rethink things,

05:15and I think there's something

05:17a really favorite producer of mine said is,

05:19I think things like this will end up knocking the rust off

05:22of antiquated ways that we used to do things

05:25and finding better ways to do it.

05:26Yeah, that's good,

05:27because this was a great return to practical also.

05:29You know, it was great to see you immerse yourself

05:31in sets like this.

05:32Two days.

05:33They got it all wrong.

05:34There's a ton of fragments.

05:35Planet killers.

05:36Space agencies are predicting an extinction-level event.

05:41All right, get up.

05:41We're just trying to get to safety.

05:45Do you know if bunkers like the ones

05:47featured in the movie actually exist?

05:49Yes.

05:50Do they really?

05:51Can you tell me about them or no?

05:52Or is it like a lockdown secret?

05:54No, there's nuclear concrete bunkers dug into the ground,

05:58and I think I heard that they can have been forgotten about,

06:00and a lot of them had been covered in ice,

06:02but that had receded again.

06:05But they're there.

06:06In Greenland, right?

06:07In Greenland, yeah.

06:08Yeah.

06:09Yeah.

06:10I want to go find one.

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