Good. How are you? I'm good.
Good to see you.
I know I was going to say, hey, we.
Oh, we go way back. But don't worry about it.
If you don't know the film, don't worry about it.
We don't talk about it. Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
After all, I didn't think you guys could talk.
It was like, push the rock into the ocean.
Yeah.
And somehow done it again. Must be.
But after Rogue, did you think we could do it?
Of course.
Okay, I just want to back it up a bit
and we always get every time we finish the film, it's like.
I mean, we ask ourselves, what's the next step?
Can we beat that?
You see Tom Cruise falling off a helicopter and then sitting down.
But Tom and McQ [Christopher McQuarrie, directror] always just.
They never give up. Can we go higher? Yeah.
And they always do. They're never satisfied, really.
And they always know they can push it.
Yeah, I was.
I was wondered off to see I was at Fossil
Fuels nine when I went to space out Tom and McQ with it, with feeling.
But they didn't really go to space, did they.
We if we did it we would really nice the next.
That's the next big thing.
Yeah. The space probe is there. I think so.
But I don't know.
I want to talk to you about about the eyepatch,
about how much fun that was, because I know that is quite cool, isn't it?
Do you know what? I wanted to become a gif.
I just want this. Yeah.
And if it wasn't, I'm. It's going to be now. One, two, three.
The way you got it.
Got it. Kind of gets knocked back to you. Get go out the glasses.
You think that the reason for the eyepatch is a cool one?
It is not.
Alas, you can't win.
It's because I can't fucking wink.
He lined up the shot.
I took it.
I was ready, I was breathing.
And he goes, Now close your eyes.
And I went
and he went to close the one.
Okay, other the shot other.
I go through the eye.
Can we get an eye patch?
Anyone? There's nothing more to it than that.
But I have said circumstances.
Beautiful things are born.
It's like that's mission all the way.
You can't give me everything we do.
We hit an obstacle.
We pivot. And the pivot always makes it better.
Makes this was.
I took the pivots. This is.
This must this is in the last film.
You obviously went a long,
long time in the shooting in terms of time breaking this thing.
What was the. I covered with this.
It did break this thing for saying something anything
that sounds like nothing.
We haven't everything.
Is it now good for you guys. Now just talk about it
because it was supposed to be out, you know, two years ago,
this was
all those movies that kind of helped the industry get back on its feet.
This is very precise about.
Yeah, we wrote the rulebook on how to make a movie,
how to make a movie during a pandemic.
Tom Cruise has made us have hazmat tests and masks and things.
No, he did it.
You know, there was a lot of things that came from it.
I mean, it was a horrible time for everyone.
And yeah, I don't want to talk about it in any joyous way.
One thing that was phenomenal was the security that they shaped.
For us to be able to shoot that did set the ripple effect for people to see.
It works.
And I think for us, something for me was arrive
Venice after it had not been touched by people.
The water was so clear, it was so beautiful.
We had space.
It was just a completely different environment.
Yet in a mission setting it was very confusing.
We always need a bit of pressure on the outside to make it work on the inside.
There's always a mission impossible going along side our mission impossible, right?
Yeah.
So that helped, I think.
And that's the thing.
McQ is the guy that will see a crisis and he'll turn it into an opportunity.
I always I always think of Homer Simpson
in that episode of the war and see an opportunity crisis unity on
Yeah.
Got did it love it love at first shoot I know people talk about franchise fatigue
and that's what it sounds like but this seems to be the franchise.
It just keeps getting better and better.
Why do you think the series is so popular?
Why do you think this is kind of set aside from I have a theory about this.
Can I take this one? I think yours is going to be
so much better than mine to go.
I what I believe is
we have
this this this franchise has two lives.
It started out as the franchise that always had an eclectic
had an eclectic mix of directors.
DePalma, Wu, Abrams, Bird, McQuarrie
As soon as McQuarrie came on board on Ghost Protocol, Tom
and McHugh formed their little kind of,
you know, crazy sort of bond that they have and creative partnership.
And then there was this second wave and to Rebecca Ferguson,
where they just really drilled down on the character, on the continuity of it.
McQ has a beautiful understanding of the entire thing.
And so then you have this kind of ever increasing
sort of stakes and passion and excitement that comes from McQ and .
Tom's sort of insane sort of creative romance.
What do you think?
I don't agree. So what I feel,
I mean, I don't really know how to add.
And I also love the hand.
I stopped listening for a while because your hand doesn't continue to go.
I've just been in Italy.
It's been like this.
I have this continuity.
I have to say quickly before the guys come back with this.
I mean, no, I just the first thing I thought I had,
I've had the same haircut for three years on a mission does toss.
Yeah. And I was like, I am changing my hair for the press.
So yeah, when I saw Amy on makeup design as she went,
I can see the balance of the sun.
I lobbed it off and bleached it.
Yeah, I looked it up at he loved it off and bleach.
It was mine.
He did most of the bleached it.
Yes, guys, as always. But I still do. Thanks.
Nice to see and thank you so much.