[gunshot]
[Jones] It's a chase movie.
Kicked off by a drug deal gone bad.
[Ethan Coen] It's a book that producer Scott Rudin had brought to us,
thinking we might have an affinity for it, and we did.
Just at a basic level, liking it as a book.
It seems kind of tailor-made to be made into a movie.
The Javier Bardem character chasing the Josh Brolin character,
with Tommy Lee Jones, the sheriff character, kind of bringing up the tail.
[gunfire]
I did this movie last year, man.
And I changed, completely, my physicality and everything.
I changed the whole face, everything. I did an amazing transformation.
- [man] You did? - I put a lot of weight on purpose.
I ate a lot. I drank a lot of beer. I stopped smoking.
- Very professional. - [man] And that was only for the role?
No. That was because I felt like shit.
[woman] Stand by for rehearsal please.
Things that Joel and Ethan do...
Well, they're laughing uproariously after every take.
You know, laughing so hard at stuff that they wrote.
I think my agent told me about the part
and that the Coen brothers would call me, which they did.
And, you know, we had a great talk.
They were really, really cool. Yeah.
We really came together, as a family.
I mean I'm not including Joel and Ethan here,
but we came together as... kind of like Hanoi Hilton, a bit.
Um...
We survived together.
I mean, look, don't get me wrong. They are so much fun to work with.
They're great. They're geniuses. Everybody knows that.
Which our crew and cast were, at least we were told this,
that we were the dim bulbs surrounding the master light.
It was good because it broke down our egos,
and we were able to work in an environment of humility.
Least that's what we thought in the beginning.
There was a moment where I asked for the salt,
because we were having lunch.
And, I don't know what I said, something I guess they didn't like.
And they twisted my arm.
They thought it was kind of a joke,
but I saw Ethan's look... very, kind of aggressive.
Which surprises me. And then, uh...
I mean, I let it go. I didn't think about it too much.
- But after that, how do you call this? - Your wrist.
My wrist hurt a lot. And I thought, what happened? Why that violence?
He's seen the same things I've seen and it certainly made an impression on me.
You seem positive about the experience.
It was great experience. I can't say enough about it.
- I really did enjoy it. - [man] Yeah.
Do you want us to fix your mike?
- No, is this all right? - I think it's OK.
- If it makes you comfortable. - Yeah, it's fine.
I wanted to make sure ifs fine with you.
- We want to be sure you're comfortable. - No, I'm comfortable.
I wanted to make sure the sound is good.
[man] We don't want to make you defensive or anything.
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
I thought he was a terrific actor.
As a person, I don't really understand anything he says.
He has a strong accent.
- [man 1] We talking about the scene? - [man 2] Talk about the scene...
Yeah, my objective is a great mansion in Beverly Hills, you know?
- [man] What the fuck did you just say? - That's my objective.
If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
- But your mother's dead. - Well, then I'll tell her myself.
I got a bad feeling, Llewellyn.
[man] Kelly has such a wonderful, kind of adorable vulnerability.
When the camera turns on, she's this pretty tough west-Texas gal.
I'm very impressed with her talent.
[Harrelson] We went for drinks one night,
and uh, we had... that was...
some things just change the way you look at life.
I'm... l feel like I'm coming off a little bit, uh... strange.
- [man] No, not at all. - I'm open-minded to, you know...
alternative medicine of course, but I kind of...
I eschew Western medicine... I've been a little bit...
He's just a guy who happened to find my money.
[indistinct]
He's just such a delight. He truly is the nicest man on the planet.
Josh and I got along like a house afire.
I really did enjoy working with him.
I mean, I do think that he and I shared some things during that...
the filming of this movie that
maybe most people shouldn't know about.
But we certainly bonded.
And, uh... both of us had our eyes opened.
That's the guy that actually looked after me. That guy took care of me.
That's what I'm in it for. That's who I'm looking for.
And the Coens were obviously not them.
- What section is this? - [man] This is...
But, look... I've never seen a section of the Coen's...
I've never seen a making of because people don't want to talk about you.
- This is for you? - Yeah...
OK, so... I mean, I don't want... Can you please switch off?
- OK, the light is still on. - No, I turned the light off.
- Now. - It's off.
OK, then. Man, I don't... I don't want to talk about this.
[man] On that movie, it was really hot. It was kind of like the end of summer.
There was a lot of flies around.
I remember they were really attracted to Ethan's desk.
- Just how dangerous is he? - Compared to what?
Woody's fun because he came on the set, he was very nice,
he was truly nice guy to talk to, and very funny.
Very professional. I think he's an amazing actor,
but once, we were doing the scene and
he read one idea that I thought was brilliant.
And they ask him, the Coens, to go to a place, to a room...
I don't know what happened.
But the way this man, Woody, came out of that room, sweating...
And I said, "What happened?"
And he said, [whispering] "I gotta go. I gotta get out of here."
I never seen something like this in a Coens movie.
Why? People don't want to talk about that.
There're many things here I don't want to talk publicly.
I told you before, have some respect.
Once they gave me some dailies to watch at my house of what I did, and
between takes they would put their own faces looking at you, from the TV
saying what you saw is something you cannot share with anybody.
They were looking at you straight in the eye, and telling you,
"Did you like it? Did you like it? It sucks."
"It sucks."