I mean, I played my first game with this cast on set.
Like, I could flip through the books and I played like similar video games.
But I think you don't need that much to get in.
Like it's mostly for actors. It's a game of make believe.
Like it's it's an improv game.
You think of the wildest, craziest,
most magical thing you could do in any given moment,
and you hand it off to your friends and your friends.
And Michelle Rodriguez and and things get wild really quickly
if she passes it off to Chris Pine.
Hey, so we're seeing sharp and fast that it just
it rolls really naturally into just making each other laugh.
And I played it once, but that was that was what I got from how you play the game,
what great for me.
I used to play as a teenager Good three years of it.
When I was a teen in Jersey City,
we were more rule breakers like not follow the rules.
Like we would mix it up and actually create,
you know, character sheets using superheroes
and and,
you know, we'd be like Marvel and DC Daddy.
And so, you know, I'm not sure that that counts, but, you know, really cool.
I hadn't played in like 20 years.
I know that, that, that, you know, Vin Diesel, my best friend
is a dungeon master, but we never played,
you know, we just made a bunch of car movies together.
And so when when John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein approached me with the script,
I fell in love because I love the fact
that they approached it in a way of like, what would it be
like to have the most amazing adventure playing this game
and go inside the head of every individual as they're undergoing that adventure
and hold that suspension of disbelief through the entire
from the beginning of the story to the end of the story.
And I was like, That's, yeah,
you know how you make a D and D movie because there's just so much history.
You got 50 years of history.
You've got hundreds
of thousands of humans around the world spending hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of hours playing this game over the course of 50 years.
You got to pay respect to that. You can't just say, Oh,
we can make some money off this brand and make a movie.
You have to really care, you know?
And I felt that John and Jonathan do.
So hopefully they did justice to it all.
That definitely comes across and it definitely looks like
everyone had a real great time filming this as well.
It's not what it felt like. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
It was super playful.
It's one of the most imaginative spaces I've worked in,
just being able to walk on set and kind of see what everyone else brings.
You feel safer with the innocence, you know, I feel like they put their kid
hat on and stopped the adults
thinking patterns of usual, I guess.
Right? All going on? Yeah.
You know, it's not it's not kind of it's not self-aware as much as as most scripts
that you would see out there, you know, which I think makes us care more.
I think that's why it also gives it that eighties vibe.
Yeah, because eighties was super brilliant, playful and innocent.
I think for me, like, you know, if I came back to the excuse
my language, the back to the future vibe, the, you know, Neverending Story
vibe, you know, that that kind of playfulness, that sign in is,
you know, just a soupçon of Monty Python thrown in now as well, Of course.
Yeah. Yeah, they are witty.
And Michelle, at this point,
I think there's probably nothing that you couldn't fight onscreen.
Well, that's really I love watching that.
How did you find the physical preparation for Holga?
I think is the most that I've ever had to do.
I'm not a big fan of discipline, you know.
I usually try to weasel by as much as I can, but it's tough,
you know, because I had to gain a good 15lbs of muscle before going on set.
So that's three months of preparation before going to Northern Ireland.
Then once I get there, I have to maintain that that 15lbs of of weight and muscle.
So that's working out five times a week.
It was a lot.
And then that's,
that's not including the choreography three months of prep on that.
So yeah, I mean I gave it all to you guys.
I hope, I hope it's good.
I appreciate it.
It doesn't my focus is. Oh, they're amazing.
Thank you.
Well, you also have an amazing sword fight scene.
Thank you. Very. What was that?
So it was like a similar didn't put on 15lbs of muscle.
And if that's Michelle, let her have it.
I was built for dexterity,
you know, That was good outside as far as where I was going.
But same thing, just like hours and hours and hours in the stunt and hours
and hours and hours of guy just getting fast enough to do it as well.
So you go and take off to take in the armor in the cave.
You got to have a certain level of fitness.
And they made me sweat for I felt like I earned it.
But it's really gratifying and like seeing it in the movie, it feels
it has weight to these things.
Like it feels like you're bringing more to the stakes.
It feels like you're really in the world with this character.
These you can see them.
You were so annoyingly perfect.
It was just like, like this is like, what the hell?
And you did not just do that.
Did he just do that?
You guys, you're in fight competition. Look at it.
You're taking the fight crazy.
No, we're just like, What the heck is yours?
The knight in shining armor thing was so funny
because when you in great character a lot just watching them.