- Vibe wise on a set like this.
- We were across the street from a bar.
- Yes. - Yeah, an actual
working, functioning bar. - An actual bar.
- Not a good idea.
- So it was a lot of fun shooting it.
- I am here with the cast and the writer/director
of Wounds, Midnight movie here at Sundance.
Good to see all of you, how're you guys doing?
- Thank for having us.
- Hi, Josh. - Hey.
- (laughs) Hi, Armie.
Babak, let's start with you, man, this is your baby.
Give me a sense of what this is all about.
Nobody's seen this movie except for,
I know Armie, Zazie, you've seen it?
- [Zazie] I saw it.
- Psychological horror is the genre
we're talking about, what is this?
- Yeah, it's like a slow burn eerie film.
I wouldn't say that it's a straight genre,
it's more like a psychological horror, yeah.
That's a perfect way of describing it.
- Is this your, for Armie and Zazie,
is this your speed of horror?
Is this your vibe and what resonate with you about this one?
- Yeah, we were just talking about,
I really enjoy Arthouse Horror, thriller films.
They're really hard to do right
and so I have a lot of respect when they are.
And I also just find them massively entertaining.
And I guess I don't really get that scared.
So I enjoy them but what drew me to the script
was I like the psychological exploration
which to me is about male ego, American ego, I suppose.
And I've liked exploring that.
Enter the male ego, Mr Armie Hammer.
- I get scared shitless in horror movies
and I don't like watching them for that reason specifically.
So the real draw for this movie
for me was working with Babek.
I saw Under The Shadow, his first film
and it scared me so badly I had to literally get up
and walk around a few times during the movie.
But it was the same kind of slow burn,
not like a lot of jump scares - Right.
- And more just like this-- - The general dread of it?
- The dread and eeriness and (groans)
and that's really what our film,
that's the milieu of our film.
So it seemed like a logical fit
that he would be the perfect person to direct this.
We had a few Skype sessions and we discussed
our mutual love for beer and we were like,
let's go make a movie and drink some beer.
- Sold.
You play a bartender in New Orleans.
Did you think you were signing on
for a cocktail reboot at first?
Is that all you were told yet?
- No, wait till you see this,
this is not like cocktail at all.
But yeah, he's a bar tender in New Orleans
who is really kind of frawl, in terms of purposes,
just like an empty vessel.
He wakes up and plays video games all day
and just puttses around and do any productive thing,
goes and works at a dead end job at this run down bar
in New Orleans and doesn't take anything in life seriously.
He doesn't appreciate anything he has.
And one day he's at the bar
and there's a big fight that breaks out
and these people leave a cellphone behind.
And he, under the (mumbles) of trying to figure out
who's phone it is, looks through the cellphone.
And essentially what he finds and what he discovers
on the cellphone drastically alters
the trajectory of his life.
- Is there a lesson to be learned here
about dealing with loss of property?
Do we--
- Yeah, don't look in strangers' cellphones.
(laughing)
You might find something really weird.
- That's the major take away of this movie, we think.
Zazie, how do you enter the picture in this one?
- I am the best friend, bar regular / flirty eyes friend.
(laughing) - Flirty eyes friend.
- Great way to describe it.
- So that's my contribution.
- So vibe wise on a set like this,
it sounds like the finished product is atmospheric,
full dread, etc, is that also premiered,
the day to day going?
- Yeah, what was the vibe on set, guys?
(laughing)
- Babak?
- It was--
- We were across the street from a bar.
- Yes. - Yeah.
An actual, functioning bar. - An actual bar.
- Not a good idea.
- So it was a lot of fun shooting it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Let's put it that way.
- We had--
(laughing)
- New Orleans was also an amazing place
and Algiers Point specifically.
But there was a dive bar right across the street and --
- It ruined the set and opened.
- Yeah, everyone had an open tab at the bar
but that's the thing, you would go over
and put your credit card down and at lunch and be like,
oh, let's go grab a couple of beers,
we're playing alcoholics, let's just go for it.
You go over and have a couple of beers
and then throughout the day you might have a few more drinks
then you buy drinks for guys in the crew
and everybody's having a good New Orleans time.
At the end of the day of leaving your tab open
for six hours, you go over there and you cash out
and they're like, "that'll be $67 and you're like, what?
And they're like, "yeah," okay another round
for everybody, let's just do this.
(laughing)
- So it's a miracle this film was actually finished
is what I'm taking away from it
considering the alcohol consumption.
- I don't remember if it was, was it?
- You were sure at edge.
- Yeah, I was, I'm a serious film-maker.
(laughing)
- You obviously have a history here at Sundance.
Have you guys both been to Sundance before?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Excellent, excellent.
So what's, do you an only in Sundance kind of memory,
something that can only occur in this unique environment?
What sticks out to you and your lustrous career here?
- I remember last year doing all this press
and I had these shoes on and snowing.
I was like, this is just a fucking nightmare.
So that's very Sundance to me.
That's total Sundance.
For you Armie, would think, two years ago.
Obviously, call me by your name.
- I don't know, Sundance is always a place
where you can come and run into a bunch of people
and then if you stay in one place,
like two minutes too long, you see a whole nother herd
of people coming in and it really is like the,
it pops the bubble for your second,
where you're like, "wait, I thought
"this was just about us doing this thing."
You're like, "oh, no, this is like a factory."
That's what I think of Sundance.
- Well, it is also and it is that confluence
of different actors, filmmakers and other com celebrities
from all stripes that just converge
for three to four days, like wait, that --
- And they all think this is their Sundance,
which is very funny, you know.
- What can we expect out of Joker?
This is something compared to Taxi Driver or a Combat Movie?
- I can't say anything.
Its gritty and dark, Gothem. (laughing)
- Can we expect something interesting from Joaquin?
He's never delivered an uninteresting performance.
- Yeah, yeah, he's interesting.
On camera, off camera, I mean,
I haven't seen a cut or anything.
- But the script was good, I assume?
- The script was great, we rewrote
the whole thing while we were shooting it.
Literally, we would go in to Todd's trailer
and write the scene for the night and then do it.
- Man, the writer, that script
is gonna be so (mumbles) if you say that.
- He was there too, he was helping out.
- There you go.
- During hair and make up, we'd memorize those lines
and then do them and then we'd re-shoot that
three later so (laughing)
we had to do everything then because Joaquin had lost
so much weight, we couldn't do re-shoots later on.
So we were figuring it out.
But Todd's quick at getting stuff done
so we always had extra time, it was just great.
- I'm exc, so how'd you, Joaquin, De Niro?
Come on. - Yeah.
- It's gonna be epic.
- It's a good cast.
- What are you, what are you up to now, Mr Hammer?
What are you shooting next?
- I got a busy year, I got a few projects coming up
which I'm really happy and thankful about.
I'm gonna go shoot a project in Monterol,
I'm gonna shoot a couple projects in London.
I got another one I'm trying to fit in.
- Can you tell me what they are
beyond where they're shooting?
I mean, I wanna know where you are at all times.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, just as long as I'm close to you.
We're doing Rebecca.
She's an adaptation of Hitchcock's Rebecca.
And then we're also gonna do Death on The Nile
with Sir Cambrena, which is really exciting.
The other one I'm getting a head shake.
- No, fair enough, okay, Star Wars episode 12,
you used to do, it's amazing.
(laughing)
And I assume no news on the future of Domino,
do we know when we gonna see the Domino pop up next?
- No, I think they're writing scripts but I don't know.
It's actually, people often think,
"actors know more than we do", I have no idea.
- So we don't know if it's X Force
or Dead Pool 2 or what it is?
- I'm assuming, I think it's X Force,
that's what they wanna do.
Drew Goddard is lined up to direct it.
I met him, he's lovely, he's wonderful.
But he was doing Bad Times at the El Royale
and so he had to finish that up before
they really dove into the X Force situation.
So I'm assuming, I think that they're
writing stuff, I don't really know.
- He's very tall so apparently you're only working
with massively tall human beings, right now.
- Yeah. - How tall is he?
- He's high, like six, four, five.
- Really?
Alright, mm. (laughing)
- Fight to the Death: Drew Goddard and Armie Hammer.
- Drew, if you're watching, challenge accepted.
- You tell him it was a bad time at the El Royale last time.
- Are you in Sundance 'cause I'm coming for you.