You know, this is your fourth time here, right?
Yes.
OK, and you know the tradition?
No.
Yeah, the tradition of the fourth time
here is we have to show shirtless photos of you.
Oh, wow.
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It's a tradition we have here.
OK.
It's only because it's the--
Funny, because I remember you doing this--
[CHEERING]
on the second and third time.
Yeah, we do it-- that's right, it's
a tradition on the first time, the second time,
and the third time as well, and the fourth time.
I see that.
Yeah.
Well as long as you got them, we're going to show them.
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Why not, you know?
It's a fair point.
Yeah, it is.
Hey, you look great, and I know you just
recently did a role where you had to lose a lot of weight.
And you're not a big guy.
How much did you lose?
I lost 30, just around 30 pounds to play--
we did the story, we just wrapped the story
of Waco, the 1993 incident.
Yeah, there's Dave Koresh right there, me as Dave Koresh.
You look just like him.
It was uncanny.
So you lost-- so you've gained the 30 pounds back?
I haven't yet.
So I'm literally eating anything and everything
in sight, which is great.
That must be hard to lose 30 pounds.
I mean, because-- and I say this all the time,
but to keep your energy up, because the sets are
long hours.
They're like sometimes 14 hour days.
At least.
To have no food, no energy, for the role
and then to work that hard.
Yeah, it sucks.
[LAUGHING]
But you took the role.
You took it.
Yeah, you know, be careful what you wish for kind of thing,
you know.
I had four months to do it, which
is a healthier way of doing it.
So it's like six pounds, seven pounds, a month, which helps.
Better than 10 or 12 or--
anything so it's like, literally I'd
get 500 calories at breakfast, and then it
would go from, like, veggies in the mid afternoon
to chicken broth after 4 o'clock.
And then you go run, and then that's what you get.
And then you have to run on top of that.
Wow.
Yeah, which is awesome.
And then you're at craft service when
you're watching everybody eat.
That's really mean.
Yeah, it is genuinely mean.
Yeah, and then after you-- so you wrapped "Waco"
and then I know you went to Africa.
Was that your first time?
I did.
No, I've been there probably like 10 times
now, or eight or nine, actually.
Where did you go?
I went to Uganda.
I worked with the African Children's Choir,
which is an organization that takes care of kids
and educates them.
And then I went with WildAid, as well,
which was an amazing experience.
And what do they do?
So they raise awareness and educate the farmers,
and raise awareness in regards to all the poaching
that's going on.
Yeah, that has to stop.
That's really important.
It really does.
And they work from the inside out.
So it's an insanely complex thing, as well.
But it was an amazing experience.
Good for you.
And then now this movie, "Only the Brave,"
which is a true story and a very amazing, amazing story.
And it's so timely because, we're
having so many fires right now.
I say it all the time, firefighters,
I love firefighters.
I think they're amazing.
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I love firefighters.
The bravery, what these guys do.
And obviously-- and you had to work, really, next to fire.
You're in those conditions.
Yeah, it was incredible.
I mean, the cast is incredible, with Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges,
Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller.
And yeah, I mean, we built a three to four
acre set with aluminum trees.
And below these aluminum trees, they're
connected to these huge propane tanks.
So they could literally start these 12 to 20 foot fires.
And, I mean, that's literally on the set, so--
It must have been incredibly hot.
It's no joke.
I mean, we would get the gel, and all that, before.
But there was a time where Brolin was doing a take
and I was behind him, like kind of just mimicking,
just talking to James Badge Dale, and they say,
if it gets too hot, just walk off.
So Brolin's on this intense scene about this fire drop
happening, and then all of a sudden,
you see me in the background be like, no, I'm out.
[LAUGHING]
Kosinski cut and he's like, Kitsch, what happened?
We just see you in the background leave.
You know, and I'm like, it's just too hot.