i basically flunked off the high school hockey team than ever studied and uh...
thank idea 'cause record company expected
the route here with the young hollywood network at the tribeca film festival
and today i sat down with denis leary and filmmakers compliment breanna
sanchez to talk about their brand new documentary
so dennis used played a firefighter or rescue me yes you started in the leary
firefighter foundation and now you've produced
this really incredible film about
the experience of being a firefighter
uh... colbern
tell me about your all
personal connection to the world of firefighting
uh... over more my connection goes back uh...
growing up my cousin jerry
wanted to be a firefighter where he grew up uh... a lot of the guys in my
neighborhood
uh... one of the firefighters when we graduate from high school
uh... that's with those guys became
spotted by thirty guys from my neighborhood became
firefighters and uh...
i was kinda surrounded by the men uh... and grew up with there when you when you
have a firefighter in your family or
a good friend it's firefighter the guys that they work within the crew that
their assigned to
become
party your life in the next thing you know there were
you know fixing your mother's porch in
to come into your ah...
barbecues and
and in terms of this movie
uh...
you know uh... i really i i i hesitate to take any credit for this uh... you
know it's
time and brad came to the conservator business partner nynex said we
have an idea and we have some footage would like to show you guys
and they had already started shooting they were uh... their connection to the
detroit
fire department in this particular group of guys
the footage that they showed us was absolutely stunning
all
as a guide and shot
uh... so many episodes wrestling with fake fires in it
i could already tell that the access that they had and the footage that
existed already was extraordinary never mind what they're about to get and we
literally i mean jim and i would just an audience with this setback and kept on
looking at
their footage and seeing what they were doing in the so i can't say enough but
these two people and and everything that u cn screen is a result of of of their
work bc in this film the daily challenges of these fibers have to deal
with
but in making the film you actually all faced some challenges yourselves you at
the building and flooding they said
yet read it i think within
both within the fire department and you know
financing community we
to trailer in two thousand nine
we set out to
you know all the allah broadcast used to watch and everybody came back to the
same thing love the trailer two very compelling story about
nobody wants to see something about firefighters and we didn't agree with it
so we've down a new way to get a movie made
i think at this point um... burn is the largest itenary to be funded
intelligent charitable donations individuals ed really shows is that
the audience is there any anyone see this thing
dash
goes around
walking all around him
para
history
trailed
firefighters elastically take care by the city government
an elastic within care by the state and the federal government you know it
doesn't matter where you live it's a matter of public safety and i'm telling
you you're city government is not taking care of your firefighters it's because
they never go on strike answer makes common sense why they cut these guys
budgets that on purpose is undeterred firefighters but its peak cc zip
all of our national responders are experiencing right now i mean there is
in a city in this country that
is experiencing budget cuts and we always think that our first responders
are taken care of
um... their basic needs are met and they're not i mean i'd we're about to
the plan we needed a basic health team you know by write those every single
urban fire department you can
point a finger at needs money and needs
uh... equipment and needs training facilities and needs updated uh...
equipment so that's the clarion calls the hind
this movie you know the last ones to be funded the first ones to respond true
everywhere you go
being surrounded by so many firefighters growing up did you ever have to consider
becoming a firefighter yourself
no i was in the com
gara coverage and saying this i was a moron
i'd play did not uh... pay attention school when i was
a growing up i thought i was going to be a of professional hockey player
anybody that's played hockey with me knows what it would have to loom attic
dream that was a field really i actually thought that's what i was going to do
any and i i have basically flunked off the high school hockey team
than ever studied
and uh... thank idea 'cause record company
it's because i'm not telling you kids that the study and is saying
it worked out okay for me by player
a series of coincidences brought uh... no i never did and i a m i was way too
selfish and um...
uh...
check-in to ever consider being a firefighter sagas you're next big
projects coming out is spider man
just like i had never but we will skyways and that's what i want nothing
to try to do so many police campaign
what was it like can be part of such an iconic franchise
uh... you know hits best summed up in the words
uh... we're we're still fresh in the movie we have tried just
was on the
set on wednesday so we're almost done
it's bill blass it really has i don't know
you know how people are gonna respond i think in the growth of this is fantastic
aspire men emma stone does not need to be
uh... called great you know uh... coming out of my mouth she's already proven how
great she is
it's a great casts uh...
we've got a great uh...
great plot and uh...
so uh... were all very excited about