Eiza, It's so easy for films like this to be so action
orientated and they sort of disregard the need for character development.
But I find every character in there so well fleshed out.
and multi-layered.
How important was it for you that that was the case going into going into this?
Oh, absolutely.
I think more than anything, it's sort of the process dictates
that.
And I, I wasn't, I wasn't like presented with the movie
as there's this Michael Bay movie and it's an action movie.
That wasn't the way that it came to my life,
the way that it came to
my life was my agent called me and she said, I have a script for you.
And I said, Who's directing? She said, Don't ask me anything.
And it was really funny.
Of course, you understand right?
She was I just read it and I was like, Oh, God.
And she's like, Just read it.
And I did.
And, you know, the first few pages we can just doing these things
and we start getting introduced to this character.
And I remember waiting for like, when is she going to fall in love with the guy?
When is she going to fall in love with the guy who has to be coming?
And it was like, never coming. And.
And then it was like getting better and better and better and better.
And I was like, wow, this is awesome.
And then she's like, Michael Bay's going to do.
It was like, Michael Bay's going to do this
And then I had a meeting with him.
And what really inspired me is like,
I just didn't really have an idea of Michael Bay in general.
And I had been presented with this incredible person who was like,
very his conviction of really bringing characters.
He's like, that's all he talked about.
I was expecting him to talk about like explosions and cars and stuff like that.
And all he talked about was characters, characters, characters,
what we can bring to the character, what an actor can bring to the character.
And then I was like, Oh, wow, this guy cares.
And so, yeah, that was sort of how it presented.
And I was just so lucky that I got to play her as one of my favourite characters.
Yeah, I think Michael Bay gets a bad rap because he's got, he's,
he's, I think, be such an underrated craft.
What he does, putting a film together like this, the technical mind you need to
visualise is what you want and put it into practise is really hard.
I mean,
how was it working with him and seeing him in, in his element on, on a movie set?
Jake [Gyllenhaal] said that actually the other day and it was a real, like a really honest,
you know, point of view.
And what Michael Bay's an auteur and like people use the word auteur for
you know, high end cinema.
But Action also has auteurs.
And he's an auteur of action.
And not anyone, not just anyone can make movies the way Michael Bay makes them.
It's like it takes a lot.
There's so many things, so many pieces.
And he you know what I really admire about Michael
and what I experience within working with him is
Michael has been doing this for longer than I probably have been alive.
But also, if we really look back and history of his movies,
Michael has been one of the few directors
that has supported diversity from the scratch.
Before there was a conversation about it, he was four, became super highly aware.
He's just been doing it his entire life from every movie you watch.
I mean, no one was putting leading black men the way that he did on Bad
Boys, where he did it, you know, and he set the tone for diversity.
If you look back and every movie he's done, he has Latinos,
black community, Like, he runs the gamut.
And so I, I felt like, as you're right, he gets a bad rap.
And my personal experience was good.
You know, he's a strong personality and I'm a strong personality.
We're all strong personalities.
But I think that ultimately,
he really respects people that come in with a point of view
with a clear conviction of what they want and someone that wants to collaborate.
He likes to collaborate and fine and play around.
And I think he got really lucky because everyone in this cast is quite like that.
You know, Jake is the most willing to play and Yahya [Abdul Mateen II] as well.
And, you know, our supporting cast is one of the best supporting cast
I've gotten to work with.
You know, you're working with Garret Dillahunt is a beast, I think,
and everyone did such a good job in the roles
as my final question is because I think in the early scenes
in particular, you were so incredibly comforting as a paramedic.
I really believed
you've been doing that job for years and that you'd seen you'd seen.
Oh, was that kind of thanks to the script or did you take it upon yourself
to really research that profession
and give you that authority and calmness that you need, I suppose.
And speaking to the victims of accidents, I did.
I did feel like I had to prepare a lot.
You know, I'm clueless.
Like before this movie, I was clueless.
I didn't know anything about, you know, the medical industry.
I mean, my mom is a dentist, but like a fake dentist.
She retired before I was even four.
And so she would hate to hear that, but it's true.
And so I was like, I can't you know, the setup of this movie
is Cam is the best of what she does in all L.A.
So I was like, oh, wow.
That's I mean, quite surreal.
Obviously, there's no way that I would be the best to be honest.
But I felt like, yeah, I can do this.
I can take on to this and and try my best.
And preparing is part of that.
And in general, as an actor, you have to prepare for your roles as much as possible
because I just truly believe that when you have sort of a very, very clear
understanding of your character and who they are and their natural,
you know, day to day, whether that's an EMT or a bank robber,
whatever you're playing,
those things have to become such a second nature for use of
by the time that you get to set, everything comes across
with conviction and you can really focus on conveying emotion.
And so, yeah, in the process was incredible.
I mean, I was working intimately with EMT surgeons, nurses,
firefighters that were educating me step by step, how things go,
the surgery, how it would work, the words what would you actually say, etc.
I was like going to medical school.
Well, but it was fantastic in the movie.
Thank you so much your time today and good luck with the release.