OUR FIRST GUEST SAN INCREDIBLY TALENTED ACTOR
YOU KNOW FROM BALL ARES, BLACK KLANSMAN AND THE NUMBER ONE
MOVIE IN THE WORLD TENET, PLEASE WELCOME THE TALENTED MR. JOHN
DAVID WASHINGTON IS HERE ON THE SHOW, THERE IS HE, HOW ARE YOU,
JOHN, ARE YOU GOOD?
>> I'M REALLY GOOD, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, THANK YOU, THANK
YOU.
>> James: CONGRATS ON EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN
YOUR LIFE SINCE YOU WERE LAST ON THE SHOW.
I FEEL LIKE IT HAS JUST BEEN GROWING AND GROWING, IT IS
INCREDIBLE.
OBVIOUSLY NOW LOCKDOWN HAPPENED.
AND YOU SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF LOCKDOWN LIVING BACK IN YOUR
PARENTSES, RIGHT, YOU WENT BACK HOME?
>> AFFIRMATIVE, YES.
I WAS BACK HOME LIVING IN MY OLD ROOM, ACTUALLY, JAMES.
IT WAS QUITE AN EXPERIENCE BEING BACK HOME LIVING IN THAT ROOM.
>> James: WHETHER WAS IT LIKE STAYING BACK IN YOUR OLD
BEDROOM?
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SLEPT IN IT.
>> IT'S BEEN, I MEAN, A LONG TIME.
ON HOLIDAYS WHEN I GO SEE THEMK I WILL GET BACK AND FORTH IN
THERE, BUT THIS WAS DEFINITELY THE LONGEST SINCE I LEFT HOME
FOR COLLEGE.
BUT IT WAS NICE.
I GOT ALL MY OLD ACTING THINGS ARE THERE, POSTERS AND MOST
PRIZED POSSESSION.
MY-- JORDANS-- SIGNED BY MICHAEL JORDAN.
>> James: WHEN DID YOU GET JORDANS SIGNED BY JORDAN.
>> I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
I THINK IT WAS 97Y.
I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
WE BEAT OUR ARCHRIVALS.
AND HARVARD WEST LAKE, MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM AND THEN
I GET TO GO TO A LAKERS GAME THE NIGHT AFTER, I THINK IT WAS THE
NIGHT AFTER, SAME NIGHT, SAME DAY.
AND I WAS WEARING THE JORDANS WE BEAT THE SCHOOL IN, TO THE GAME
AFTERWARDS, MY DAD TOOK ME DOWN AFTER THE GAME.
AND WE GOT JORDAN TO SIGN MY SHOES WHILE I WAS WEARING
THEMMENT AND I NEVER WORE THEM SINCE, I RETIRED THEM OBVIOUSLY,
BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID I WIN THE GAME, I GOT THEM SIGNED BY
JORDAN SO LIKE ICE CUBE SAID TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY, THAT-- .
>> James: I HAVE ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN MORE JEALOUS OF YOU.
>> WELL PLEASE, CARRY ON WITH YOUR JEL OSY BECAUSE IT WAS A
GREAT DAY, ONE OF THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.
AND THEY ARE STILL THERE IN THE ROOM.
>> James: STILL GOT TO SEE THEM.
>> YEAH.
>> James: NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR NEW MOVIE TENET, IT'S THE
BIGGEST MOVIE TO BE RELEASED IN THEATERS SINCE THE PANDEMIC
STARTED, NUMBER ONE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
NOW IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A STUPID THING TO ASK YOU, BECAUSE I KNOW
THAT ALMOST NOTHING YOU CAN SAY, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE
MOVIE?
>> WELL, JAMES T IS A GLOBE-TROTTING SPY THRILLER THAT
DIFFERENT GEN RES, SPY TRILLER, ACTION PACKED, GOT THE BOURNE
ELEMENT, REALLY IT IS ALL NOLANNIZED.
A NOLAN GENRE, IT IS SO INNOVATIVE.
IT IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND MNT TO BE SEEN
IN THE THEATERS,IX MAX IF YOU CAN.
SOMETHING LIKE WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
>> James: IN THE MOVIE YOU ARE SORT OF A CROSS BETWEEN LIKE
JASON BOURNE, JAMES BOND, SORT OF FIGURE WHICH MADE ME REALLY
EXCITED FOR THE DAY WHICH I THINK WILL COME WHEN CLIS TOFER
NOLAN DIRECTS A BOND MOVIE.
BUT WHAT WERE THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECTS OF SHOOTING
THIS FILM.
>> IT WAS THE MONTHS PRIOR TO PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
WE HAD A PERIOD OF TRAINING, TWO A DAY, SOMETIMES THREE A DAY
TRAININGS AND LEARNING THE RULES OF INVERSION WHICH OUR MOVIE
DEALS WITH.
AND SENSE OF MOVEMENT SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, HAD TO LEARN HOW
TO WALK, FIGHT, BLOCK, ROLL, JUMP, BACKWARDS AND RIGHT WITH
WAS LEFT, LEFT WAS RIGHT, DOWN WAS UP.
SO HAVING TO LEARN THAT AND HAVING AN ATHLETIC BACKGROUND, I
FELT CONFIDENTOTHAT I COULD HANDLE IT.
BUT SOME OF THE FIGHTING MOVEMENTS, TECHNIQUES WE WERE
LEARNING HAVE NEVER BEEN DONE IN SIN HE MA SO WE WERE MAKE
D-- CINEMA SO WE WERE MAKING HISTORY IN A LOT OF WAYS.
>> I ARE SAY-- SAY YOU ARE WEARING THE CHIC TYPE SUIT, YOU
LOOK LIKE WERE YOU IN THE SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE.
DO YOU FEEL LIKE, ALL OF YOUR COSTUMES ARE SO CHUK AND SO
TAILORED, IS IT HARD TO STAY IN SHAPE WHEN YOU ARE WEARING THOSE
SHEUTS ALL THE TIME.
>> I WAS IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE, UNFORTUNATELY THERES WITH
A TIME IN ESTONIA, I WAS ON A STRICT DIET, DIETARY
RESTRICTIONS AND WITH THE FOODS I WAS EATING.
I WAS GOING CRAZY AND I NEEDED MY SNACKS.
SO THERE WAS A TIME IN ESTONIA WHERE I FOUND PAPRIKA FLAVORED
PRINGLES, SO I HAD TO DO IT, AND I STACKED THEM NEWSPAPER MY
BACKPACK AND I GET ON THE ELSEWHERE I WAS STAYING AND LOW
AND BEHOLD THERE IS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, HE CAUGHT ME WITH ALL OF
THESE PRINGLES IN MY BAG.
IT WAS VERY EMBARRASSING.
HE STARTED LAUGHING, GAVE ME A HARD TIME THE ENTIRE SHOOT.
>> HE DIDN'T REMOVE THE PRINGLES FROM YOU.
>> NO, HE DID NOT.
HE DID NOT.
CUZ I TOLD HIM, PAPRIKA, WHERE ARE YOU EVER GOING TO SEE
FLAVORED PRINGLES LIKE THIS.
>> SO MUCH HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT TENET BEING THE FIRST MOVIE BACK
IN THEATERS AND LIKE YOU SAY, IT REALLY IS THE BEST WAY TO
EXPERIENCE THE FILM.
CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST MOVIE THAT YOU SAW IN EYE THEATER THAT
HAD AN IMPACT ON YOU?
>> OH YEAH, I MEAN HUGE IMPACT WAS THE FIRST-- THAT WAS EPIC.
THAT WAS AN EVENT FOR ME.
AND I REMEMBER CUZ WE WERE AT A PREMIER.
AND SO AFTERWARDS WHEN WE WALKED OUT OF THE THEATER I REMEMBER
SEEING THE NINJA TURTLESK THEY MADE IT TO THE PREMIER.
THEY HAD THEIR COSTUMES ON AND EVERYTHING, AND THEIR WEAPONS,
SO I WANTED TO ASK THEM, SO MANY QUESTIONS LIKE A CHRISTOPHER
NOLAN FILM.
I WANTED TO ASK DONE TELLO, WHY DID YOU ORDER AN CHOFIES ON YOUR
PIZZ BLANCA HI ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THEY ORDER
PIZZA.
AND I REMEMBER DONEOTELLO WAS LIKE.
>> THAT WAS, I WASN'T EVEN LETDOWN, YOU DIDN'T EVEN FEEL
BAD ABOUT IT BECAUSE AT LEAST I GOT TO TALK A PICTURE WITH
DONNATELLO, LOOK AT THAT, FROM THE NINJA TURTLES, THE NUMBER
ONE MOVIE IN THE WORLD, CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN.
I'M SO THRILLED WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN YOUR
CAREER.