the great thing about having uncharted as source material that to base the film upon
is that the tone was so well established the the humor the relationship um it was all there was a
template that we could follow but then of course when you're making a film and not a video game
we have to make it our own and so the ways that tom brought so much personality to nathan drake
a young nathan drake this is a true kind of hero's journey where you pluck a kid out of obscurity not
unlike luke skywalker on a distant planet who then gets to go fight on this galactic scale
nathan drake is this kind of obscure bartender who has a connection to this this mystery
but also he's just kind of living in obscurity and then uh you know sully approaches him with
this opportunity to not only find the treasure but possibly find his brother
a lot of credit goes to tom holland who is willing to put his body on the line
to achieve the the things a lot of times you just hand it over to the stunt double and you
know you never see their faces and it's it just you can felt tell that it's fake
but i love seeing the actors faces in the middle of all this action
and instead of shooting it close where you're kind of hiding what they're doing i like to shoot
it wide so you can see that it's really them and they're really in that place and they're
really doing their thing and while we didn't actually hang him out of the back of a plane he
you know he took hard falls he was tumbling rolling slamming hanging on for dear life on the
back of one of those robotic arms that was tossing those boxes around it was really um a tribute to
his athleticism and his commitment to always you know giving 150 percent towards every sequence
the neat thing about um working with tom was that he's such an avid fan of the games in
like a real way it's not just lip service like he's played every one of them he knows them
backwards and forwards and so he had a level of commitment to the character into the franchise
that even exceeded my own just because he was such an avid fan i was familiar with the games but but
not on the same level and so i think when he took this role upon himself you know you you can see
the transform transformation he went through to go from peter parker to nathan drake like physically
he was so you know big and jacked and he really trained a ton before we even got to set and then
once we were there he just um every day gave his all uh he's endlessly creative he he's willing to
be as collaborative as you could ever hope for and he just holds himself to a really high standard
which is why i think he's so good at what he does in the casting of this film when you have two such
compelling actors as mark and tom at the center of it it was really important to me that they have a
worthy adversary and so in casting a spanish you know the son of a dynasty who is both you know
really um educated smart worldly charismatic but also menacing and dark and dangerous
the only person i ever could think about for that part was antonio banderas somebody who
can do the most dramatic roles but also bring humor and and interest to every part he's played
and i just knew that with mark and tom we had to have somebody that felt like an equal as far
as a villain and uh and and i was just beyond uh thrilled that antonio agreed to be a part of
the film he is so distinguished as a person he's so experienced he's a gentleman and he brings so
much weight dramatic weight to the screen that um you know i'm just thrilled with his performance
the great thing for this movie is that the video game set the bar so high with the action that
we felt like we had to deliver on that same scale which is a lot easier said than done but
i'm really proud of the way that the action the film turned out um the the sequence where nate's
falling out of the plane is one of the most iconic from the video game franchise and it's a
you know a tough tough target to hit but due to the creativity of my stunt coordinator and
second unit director scott rogers as well as you know the writers who came up with it and everyone
else that was a collaborator on the film um we we really you know pushed ourselves to try and meet
the level that that the video games had set it's rare to find actors that are multi-talented uh
quite like tom holland here uh our man spider-man right now um he's just blowing the box office
right off the top right now with uh with no way home so it's really cool to see him right back
uh out there um on a different type of film having seen cherry if you haven't seen that on apple plus
his acting uh ability is just as staggering as his uh stunt ability so if you really like this film
and you enjoyed all of his stunts and everything it's really cool to see
actors uh really uh take it to the next level and be multi-talented like this so if you learned some
cool stuff from this behind the scenes here of uncharted let me know down in the comments
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