Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke and David Leitch are loving their film "The Fall Guy" and you can feel it in their interviews. We sat down with them to discuss their favorite bits from the movie and behind-the-scenes stories, and we got the scoop behind the film’s big ending cameo (note the spoiler warning at the end of the video). Plus, David Leitch tells us why Aaron Taylor-Johnson should play James Bond…and why he should direct it.
00:20By the end of it, it felt like a big inside joke
00:24that the audience is in on.
00:26And that was the intention,
00:28that you were kidnapped into this madcap world of making a movie
00:33and that you weren't excluded from all of the inside jokes.
00:37Well, because it's also like,
00:39I think we felt like everybody's already a filmmaker anyway.
00:43Everyone in the audience makes their own content.
00:46Everyone knows what's up.
00:48There's no need to pretend anymore.
00:51It's not like we just acknowledge that we all know how movies are made.
00:55Yes, that there is no illusion actually.
00:57People are all filmmakers and so it's just,
01:00I'm glad you said that because that's sort of how we wanted to approach it.
01:03Just like, these aren't really inside jokes.
01:05I mean, we're all in on the joke.
01:06To set an action film within the world of the people who make them,
01:10you know, is just sort of like, yeah, of course,
01:12like they're capable of doing it because they are the ones that do it.
01:16So it's just sort of kind of, it was such a, I mean, it just, just, just even that.
01:21And then of course, like the opportunity to acknowledge some performers
01:25and just what they contribute.
01:26And it's just, you know, they, they, they risk more than anyone on a film set
01:30and they get no, none of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic. You know, it feels like the movies that brought you to the theater in the first place as a kid.
01:38It's like all those big action epics, right?
01:41Yeah.
01:42Where, you know, for me, one of the hallmarks is when the landscape is its own character
01:46and we're setting it against Sydney, Australia, the opera house.
01:50Yeah. Insane.
01:51The bridge. I mean, the bridge section in itself was making real time news while Ryan was shooting it.
01:59I mean, that's just cool, isn't it?
02:01At the same time, you're making this love letter to Hollywood.
02:03Were you also airing some grievances?
02:06Um, there are a few little like jabs in there about, um, you know, obviously not being recognized,
02:13not being an award, the Academy Award for stunts. I mean, they're tongue in cheek.
02:18I mean, I think that that's something that we're all working towards in a real positive way.
02:21And the Academy has been so supportive, you know, in the last couple of years
02:25that it feels like there's a really clear path and could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because, you know, Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make this a love letter
02:37to not just, um, stunt crews and the people that make movies,
02:42but people that love big popcorn movies. And so we did think a lot every day of like,
02:47what would the audience want? Yeah.
02:49Would they like to laugh here? Would they like to cry here?
02:53Can we make them feel all these different emotions and get away with it?
02:56Because that's the type of movie I like to go to the theater and see and like really go on a journey.
03:00So we were every day, we thought about the audience. We really did.
03:03And it was sort of like, how do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really appreciate it?
03:09Uh, I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan.
03:14This is insane, man. Uh huh.
03:18I think we all need that. I think we all need one of those ride or dies.
03:22That's like, okay, I'll do it. I got your back.
03:25Was that immediate?
03:26Uh, it was very immediate for me because I've always been such a big admirer of Ryan, you know, my, my entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37And you know, what do you want? What do you want?
03:39What do you want?
03:40So getting this opportunity, then seeing him on set the first day, I led with compliments.
03:45I was like, you're so good looking, man.
03:48Is that what you said?
03:49I did, I did.
03:50And that was his response.
03:51He's like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Stop it. Stop it, man. Get out of here. Get out of here.
03:55What do you want to do in this scene, man?
03:57And I think, you know, that kind of just like fun playfulness also translates on screen because you feel comfortable.
04:04You feel comfortable risking.
04:06Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gail had to be a just, self-serving a-hole.
04:13I was just a bit like, you're not all that.
04:15Dead body on ice.
04:17He was so dead, Gail. He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that, that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gail's trailer.
04:25I was still so jet-lagged. I didn't know where any of my molecules were around the world.
04:29And they were so playful and encouraging to let me find her with them.
04:35And I wanted to constantly keep that barometer of the humor and her being a revolting, self-serving pig vomit.
04:45So I'm really thrilled that you saw that because that's what we all have, isn't it?
04:51There are moments.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Tom Ryder, the biggest action star on the planet, is missing.
04:58You need to bring him back.
05:00Why me?
05:01You're a stuntman. Nobody's gonna notice you. That's your job. No offense.
05:04I mean, some taken.
05:06I can't believe you cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the biggest action star in the world.
05:09Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom Ryder.
05:11And then right as the movie's about to come out, the casting stuff.
05:15Yeah, I mean, I hope that, I hope that, um, look, he would be an amazing James Bond.
05:20I'll just go on the record. Like, I've never gotten to do enough action with Aaron, which is crazy.
05:24Like, we've done Bullet Train and now we did, um, we've done The Fall Guy.
05:28And all, what I really want to do is an action movie with him because he's such an incredible athlete.
05:33Like, Aaron is awesome.
05:35Yeah.
05:36So, um, maybe we'll get that opportunity soon and I'll get to direct Bond.
05:40I don't know how it goes here.
05:41I was realizing that at some point your, your character is doubling for Aaron's and then in the reality of the set, you both have doubles.
05:50Yeah.
05:51I mean, it sounds like a, like this weird stuntman inception.
05:54Yeah.
05:55How many duplicates?
05:56He's like a Matushka doll.
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58Space Cowboys.
05:59Yeah.
06:00So much gold lemonade.
06:01One smaller after the other.
06:02Yeah, but that was just so fun because I've been on sets where we're not acknowledging that.
06:06And it's just sort of like, there's 10, there's 10, there's 10 of the same character and you know, it's just such a strange thing anyway.
06:12So to finally get to like actually work it into a film was so fun.
06:19Was it always Momoa?
06:21Um, no.
06:22What, what were the other names that were thrown around?
06:24I don't want to say, I don't want to say because I feel like it was, we were, we, I reached out to a lot of people and friends and it was really came down to, we were shooting in Australia.
06:33And it was like, it's hard to ask people to come down for a one day cameo, you know, for, but what was great with Jason and he was in New Zealand shooting his television show.
06:43And when I reached out to Jason, he's like, dude, I'll cop on a plane right now.
06:47It'd be fun.
06:48Let's, let's chew it up.
06:49And, um, he did.
06:50And it, you know, he flew in that morning.
06:53We shot all day and they flew back that night so he could shoot the next day on his, on his TV show that he was producing.
07:00So, um, he, he's a good friend and we go way back to his Conan, his first Conan movie.
07:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:06Yeah.
07:07You had a pretty sick fight scene in the trailer, right?
07:10So good.
07:11And it was kind of.
07:12The binder in the throat.
07:13Yeah.
07:14It was kind of goofy too.
07:15That was your favorite move.
07:16What?
07:17You just sold it.
07:18You gotta do just a straight action.
07:19I would love to.
07:20She's a good.
07:21I mean, I do love a fight scene.
07:22I love a fight, especially with a big alien.
07:24A movie about fight scenes where you like, yeah, I better have a fight scene.
07:28Yes.
07:29And I love the confinement of it being in the trailer.
07:32And you use the smoothie blender.
07:33Use the bullet.
07:34At some point.
07:35I wrap it around his neck.
07:36And then I hit him over the head with it.
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah.
07:40Finish it off with a pen.
07:41It's so tough.
07:42You need the pen.
07:43My favorite bit is at the end of that where you're, you're on the floor and I come in with
07:46the pen and then you're like this and then your thumb goes up, your alien thumb.
