Hey, Patrick, how are you?
I'm good, thank you very much.
All the better for watching your fantastic, good, fun,
entertaining movie.
You've been lucky
enough to work with so many amazing filmmakers in your career so far.
What's the experience, the uniqueness of an experience with Roland Emmerich
like for you as an actor and as a, you know, upcoming film maker yourself?
Yeah.
You know, I think.
After doing two movies
with him, I feel like,
you know, you're in good hands in a massive movie like this,
you know, there's always this this moment when you're working with directors,
and if they do that, you just kind of feel like, Man, this is a massive movie.
Does this guy have the scope or the vision for it?
You know, and there's you're having faith that someone can pull it off.
And we just
that's never doubted with Roland, with anybody that works there.
That's why actors come back and work with them,
because the experience is always fun and pleasant creative.
And it's never it's not stressful, at least on our end.
And it's he know he wants to make a cool movie,
and there's something just kind of refreshing it.
Then it's like, Yeah, this is going to be fun.
We're going to a fun time. It's going to be a fun movie.
We got these big, huge set pieces
that you have no idea what they're going to look like until you see the movie.
Just go, OK, here we go.
And it's great.
Nothing is too is too big for him and I, and I appreciate that.
I love that. Yeah.
At the core of his movie,
there's always this great kind of almost family dynamic in some respects.
And John [Bradley] was just telling me about the time you and he and Halle [Berry]
spent in the little pods together and during COVID and there was boom mics
coming in the window.
So that kinda stuff that must have been a fun experience,
given that you're in such a big movie
that you get to have those intimate moments as well.
Well,
we really relished those moments because, you know, normally on a movie like this
where you're where if this were normal times
and you're all hanging out and doing all these fun stunts and crazy stuff
and getting along with the crew and chit chatting, it's a great experience. This
that time in the cockpit was
probably our most fun because it was the only time we could all just hang out.
I mean, is it the only time because what
they were so cautious about us
being in the same space, putting your mask on
between takes, if it was more than like six minutes, you had to put your mask.
I mean, it was it was like it was intense.
You know that I'm crying poor mouth.
But you know, so so when you had 20 minutes off
between a scene, usually when you go hang out
with some of the other actors we all were and are just little pods
just by ourselves, you know, and with our plexiglass shields.
And so it wasn't that, you know, for us, it's usually a very communal atmosphere.
And I mean that in not in just, oh, you didn't get to hang out, but usually
that's how relationships are built, which then the audience sees on screen.
You know what I mean?
Like, because we we don't know each other, we'd never work together.
And usually it's all those moments of, Hey, the cast will go out to dinner
before you start a show or, Oh, we'll have rehearsed, we'll have rehearsals.
We didn't have any of that.
So it was literally just show up and go to work.
So you're really gambling on chemistry.
And I think we all found friends in each other that we were able
to just have a great experience.
Yeah.
What's your reaction now
if you're in your car and Africa by Toto comes on, are you sick of there?
Are you sick of the sound of it now after
after the lyrics in the movie said, I'm a big toto fed, so I've been here.
That's for like 40 years.
And Jeff Porcaro, is one of my favorite drivers ever.
So no, I no, I'm good with it. It
was one of my favorite songs.
I was so glad it popped up in the movie Thank you Patrick so much.
Thanks so much for your time.