and we're always looking for that line I think you know that any couldn't do all
the stuff you wanted to do it at certain points you also have to impose story on
it and he also had to take this woman on this journey and you could have done
very long and very funny movie just about those experiences or just a camera
on can tell another story is that it's it's not a sec but I don't always a
challenge a bunch done anything for you to know was there a difference you
played real people before obviously yeah everybody knows this was a little bit
different you're playing a real person a vision of the person but that you're
interacting with who is about an experience that is still unfolding so
how did that impact your performance i mean i i i wanted to make sure we got
things as right as we could but it's true it's not really up a biopic I
didn't I didn't listen to tapes of Kim's voice and and we didn't like you know
match your hair color and stuff we didn't shoot me Lord of the Rings style
so that I could look like 10 kinda what he had done with different not
appreciably be absolutely that person but the same way the u.p the book you
have to adapt and try to find them
personal you believe it to be careful about getting from the details that you
shot obviously not in Afghanistan he shot a new mexico but you have military
personnel onset hoping you had some Afghan
advisers tell me about getting a few details but yeah there was one of the
reasons I knew robert was the only person I trusted you to adopt the book
and I knew he would be the most diligent person about trying to get all that
stuff right cuz its business its military Afghan culture as all these
things and put our best efforts are definitely be days where they want
anything above that we are having our first wardrobe fitting for the movie
which greatest of all time zones khaki jacket black jacket headscarf but I just
follow the road trying my best and whatever I was very nervous is like it
should they pressed on the vessels ok we'll get there just am just trying to
have fun working Robert for your picture and then all the things that problem I
was being driven by the time Kim came to set well into the future
obvious targets never was definitely a big list along with the big camera while
I was still happy right now because he didn't run well let's go back and shoot
this
and so intimate like we had a guy named Stagg who is our Air Force adviser who
was immediately like you know if you ask just how would I ask this guy who came
in ranked like things right just double checking with how he would say it is
this where I would fit in the Jeep you know I'm just just trying to dot every I
where we can have you ever had that kind of experience making machine before no I
don't think so not to the level where everyone's so like they lived in the
directors to John I'm glad the directors would sometimes they let you guys want
improvise and I can't improvise too much because I don't know what I'm talking
about like i cant leg I know what they learned
running for president like I've got what they told me go wide of that we analyze
too much john told me the way they like to see a movie as they committed to
shoot the scene as scripted if the funny thing to be funny but they also asked
everyone to do it
a dramatic version if it's a funny and vice versa
which is not typical for most people and 10 tell me how that would go against
young girl I definitely would you different versions and and and you don't
have one kind of where you could stray from the script is a lot of times just
did you lose the actors up and then when you go back to the script version for
the next take take care of the little mark live but yeah I think they had in
it and then it's a bit like sometimes you get later in the building moving ok
we don't want a joke here is you can't cut around things and that's that's the
director's job to really find and finish the tone of the movie
tony is very hard to pull up that kind of combination of of comedy and drama
and sensitivities were you watching with them you do come in the edit room at any
point we would watch cut morning I would watch cuts and shared with Robert
certainly what the directors have a window of time to execute with their
their directors cut which no one can bother them in Union rule and then once
they showed us their directors cut and then we communicate with them we gave
notice I never set foot in the edit room that's their domain and Ken Thomas
different from television film the director's medium but they were very
collaborative with us so much of it was talking about how we need to get the
movie to a reasonable time what will go and what will stay and eat you get past
this sort of phantom limbs for lack of a better term is a terrible timing of
things you miss that were you know that were once their way back he would get on
32 bit and tell me a little bit about your working relationship although I
feel like we're getting attention this is much more rancorous us is that we
live before that I mean we really need for nineteen years I think twentieth you
and I are going to Aruba
the Magi love us I was pretty soon we can update live programming and he know
the answers that I live in a very positive place and you're kind of on
your own day today as a writer to make a little alliances and it's all very Game
of Thrones
Lawrence its back there looking diabolique but doing unpaid your kind of
guarantee that ten minutes every week changers the town of what you're doing
is you're a group of power went well three riders and Jimmy
associate producer and little and we want when we want our jobs to be the one
that got mr O'Donnell accomplish the same thing at the same goal and that was
for the first time we've worked closely together and some combination of that
worked I think punishment and approval and now it all that much but when we
first worked together and then Robert
way to work on the show friends and then what I years later I was ready when the
pilot of 30 rock and asked to come back and help for a few weeks like 11 years
you know each other's voices very well like I just have to know her well as but
yeah I'm not yet broken through as an actor but
people are getting your dick cavett biopic the right has not returned my
calls
yeah that's where we say I work ethic and yeah it's nice to meet those people
what I want to watch another clip this is when you guys just arrived in this
country just arrived
security guys
oh i mean people I know I wouldn't I'm not even Nick
that would never happen to your good he can huh you could help Nick 1000
I didn't have made the observations as we all know it like you know you go to
Afghanistan and you're like Kabul cute your mission pretty you know if you know
you just wear anything they're like you know burlap sack and in with it you know
because there are so few western women over there compared to the amount of
Western men over there although you know its kinda like Alaska you know the odds
are good but the goods are odd