- This movie is so fantastic,
and you're nominated for SAG Award, Golden Globe,
and I'm positive you will be nominated,
if not win the Academy Award, so congratulations.
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much.
- And that's saying a lot 'cause there's some
great performances out there. - There sure are.
- Some other people, not to give no disrespect...
- Amazing performances. - To the other performances.
But the whole movie, it's-- and Alejandro,
who directed "Birdman," I mean, you saw that scene just now
where, I mean, how that was even shot,
I don't know how he shot that sequence
where you're in these rapids.
- I don't know how he did a lot of the stuff in this movie.
It's one of the most interesting films
I've ever been a part of because we really
submerged ourselves in nature, in the natural world,
in the elements, and we spent-- we spent nine months there.
And ever day was very unique because
we rehearsed all day long, and then we had this
hour and a half where we had to capture everything
in natural light.
But it was quite possibly the most, you know,
difficult professional undertaking that I've ever had,
and I-I think I can say the same for everyone
that was involved in the movie.
It was just a very rough shoot,
but the end result is something that is very captivating.
You really feel like you're immersed in this world.
There's very little CGI.
Everything that you see in the movie is pretty realistic.
- The bear, I'm assuming that's CGI,
but it does not look like it, and it's so real,
but when you say natural light, that's another thing
I don't think people understand.
I mean, movies--you're sitting around waiting in a trailer
for them to change angles and everyone's lit.
And the director only wanted to shoot natural light,
so you only had that one hour a day to shoot.
- There was, like, a "Saturday Night Live" episode
every single day, but nothing was funny.
It was like live theater.
We'd prepare, and there was this constant tension
to pull off what we had to pull off in this hour and a half.
- And did you--I mean, were there, like,
if you're rehearsing all day for that one shot,
were there days where then you had to redo that shot
'cause it didn't work out?
- We went months and months and months over.
Plus we had--because we were shooting in natural conditions,
we had, you know, freak weather systems.
- Wow.