it's godzilla and then there was nobody puts the reigns on kong
and then there was kong bows to no one
how cool is it being in a godzilla versus kong film it's um yeah it's it feels i mean just the
the title alone is sort of uh iconic regardless of what you're gonna do or do in it so it's sort of
you know when when when that comes up it's pretty thrilling cool is gold is right cool
is the right word you know it's just a you know a fortune when these type of projects come to your
life you know when they put such a beautiful character like simmons in my hands this is
just a gift uh not only because it's one of these franchises that are so beautiful and so successful
and it's you know a genre that i always wanted to explore and the type of film
you know that i wanted to be a part of at some point in my life but also what i found in the
character and everybody around this project you know to me is about the human experience
i mean it's a really cool thing to be a part of um there's so much hype around
this film and there's so many different um fan theories uh with alluding to what could happen
um have you read any crazy theories that you think would actually be quite cool no i haven't i wish i
had now though i really want to know what they are um i haven't i'll go look though now that
you've given me that hot tip how difficult has it been to keep so tight-lipped about the ending
yeah well it is it is difficult you know because uh but it's it's like any other film
like in any other film you know you try not to spoil uh you know the uh
the end because of obvious reasons you know uh i enjoy very much reading the script
and if someone has spoiled the end then it would it wouldn't have been cool for me and then i knew
everything about shooting the film but still you know we didn't know how everything will develop
and then watching the film that's another big surprise because you never know how it's going
to put it be how it's going to be put together and uh so i think we should let people find that
out because it's a beautiful surprise that's why people hate spoilers because you you want to be
surprised but it's difficult you know especially in a film like this on the upside sometimes you
know you don't really know how these things are going to pan out so before i'd seen it i didn't
necessarily know like it was like so you know i was i felt i felt it was easier then when i was
in the dark but now i've seen it it's harder to keep keep stunned who are the people in
your life that have been asking what happens i've got a friend who's a big big godzilla fan
and he he has been asking i i just keep telling him i don't know i like because i i didn't
understand a lot of what was going on i just sort of feign complete ignorance that's usually been my
tactic and you're still like getting bombarded with texts like tell me yeah that's not gonna
happen i always tell them have you seen rocky okay rocky and apollo you see that's what this is and
no one knows when they're fighting no one knew who will who will win right so think about that
just wait hold on be patient and your patience will be paid off how cool was it to say it's
godzilla because there's a lot of comments in the trailer and people are like that gave me chills
yeah i it's funny you know there were there were three lines of mine that uh
that were all sort of so um so silly as to be great and i was so excited that i got them
and we all had a bit of a a joke on set about which one was going to make the trailer you
know it was it's godzilla and then there was nobody puts the reigns on kong and then there was
kong bows to no one was the other one and there was a lot of debate about which one would make the
trailer and i'm i'm pretty uh chuffed to say that all three actually made the trailer so you did it
i feel like i i feel that i've reached the pinnacle of my career basically yeah godzilla
and kong are obviously such iconic characters who would you say is your um spirit titan animal
any monster that exists who's my spirit titan hi that's great i love that uh it it should be calm
yeah definitely calm i can relate to that you know he's emotional exactly he's got heart
yeah honestly i was welling up during the film just looking at him he really gets you
i know you and my mother-in-law my mother-in-law's got like a genuine crush on him
she probably isn't alone there i bet there's nothing
now that you've said that i can kind of see it yeah there you go see i've i don't know
you've started something now although a lot of there's a lot of uh theories that they say that
we come from lizards right well nah actually we look more like kong right uh but but he he's
he he has feelings and you can see his feelings through his eyes that's probably why i um that's
my my spiritual animal when i interviewed alexander skarsgard he told me that he loves
a few drinks did you manage to have a few drinks on set with him oh yeah we both love a few drinks
so you know that was definitely that so bit of partying like to see is he a good dancer
i'm trying to remember his dancing techniques if i've ever seen him dance i have seen him dance
he he holds it together you know he holds it together for an extremely tall gentleman
yeah i'm an actor you know so yeah we love drinks um
yeah we drink what you know the the the the the crucial part here and that's why i love drunk have
you seen drunk with max mikkelsen i haven't i have to add it to myself oh my god you have to see that
the right amount of alcohol is good for your system everything is goes wrong when you
exaggerate you know so don't overdo anything but yeah a good whiskey oh my goodness you can even
feel the decompression you know when you get a shot of whiskey you hear in your system going
it's automatic whiskey's always the drink that i wish i liked i feel like it's very
cool if you're a whiskey drinker you you haven't given yourself a good chance so
just be patient just like like the end of godzilla hong kong be patient and you will like it if it's
right you know scottish the real thing a small little taste here and there put a
couple of ice cubes there so you can the flavor can boom explode and then you're oh my goodness
then you give us a call and let us know how happy you were okay there a go and channel you
and in the film gia has um a toy kong do you have anything from your childhood that you still have
today that like comforts you i i do i don't use it anymore my daughter uses it i've got a little
teddy bear that i had when i was a baby um that i called bisky because he looked like a biscuit
i don't think he did look like a biscuit but anyway he was called biscuity my daughter now
has it and loves it so you know that's cute that you passed it down to her oh that's really sweet
maybe you could get her a toy kong i think she'd probably love that she's quite into the idea of
kong she's never really seen it but she'd you know never seen him or anything to do with it but she
the idea of a giant you know ape she's very into i don't get attached to you know
uh material things very easily only my guitars you know that's that's the only thing that i'm
really attached to and by the way i will recover a guitar that i bought my first guitar when i when
i was 17 i bought that in spain and i passed it over to my niece and she just told me that she's
not into it so i will recover that that will be the oldest object that i have you know that i will
have when i have it obviously godzilla and kong they're not there as you're filming um what are
you hearing as you're filming those scenes like is the director making weird noises what is going on
i don't know i wish i wish i i you know all i can say is that you have to imagine
a lot that's that's the key that's a key element in any actor imagination but especially in this
type of films you know this type of genre these type of films you have to imagine many
many things that you don't see so you know that's that's one of the fun parts of it and that's why
you want to see the results so much because you want to see how that was put together it can
range from a light on a wall like someone's got a flashlight and they're just like moving it or
to the directors like growling um which happened a lot and i was never very good
with that as a as a as a command because i just start giggling i'm very easy to giggle
and it's i think like that was not good for me um or sometimes it can be you know a picture
some sort of picture or like you know someone holding a laptop screen up with a picture
um also not great uh generally your imagination is the easiest but you've got to just make sure
that you get the eye line right otherwise you know you can ruin everything by looking
too low when actually you're meant to be looking up here so did you break a few times then with
adam's growls did i all the time i broke i mean i was a disaster this there's a scene in the in the
alexander and i had a you know like uh the the the sort of ships that we're in are called the
heaves and you know we found it we weren't ever sure whether we were about to say heavy or heave
and he ended up going quite a lot as if you're sort of like trying to push something up the hill
um and he would say it to me under his breath all the time at crucial moments like when i'm
having to act g-force in a close-up um which is a very difficult thing to do mind you and i would i
would giggle every time he said that word uh so that was problematic for me yeah not ideal
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