- Hi, I'm Caleb McLaughlin.
- And I'm Jharrel Jerome.
- And today we're gonna take you through a scene
from Concrete Cowboy, shot-by-shot.
- Just sit tight, alright?
- You good?
- Yeah.
- It was in Philadelphia
I'm not sure exactly where it was
but it was like this empty lot
and it was a really hot day sitting in those seats.
My butt was cooking.
I was like, ah.
(fighters grunting)
What happened was when we were rehearsing it
I didn't know who was gonna come out.
Like in the beginning I was just sitting in there like this.
Oh, it's a movie.
And then Ricky's like, nah, be scared.
(Jharrel laughs)
Like, Oh my God, this, this has happened.
I'm like, Oh yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Let's do it.
- Every actor just on set,
Oh, it's a movie.
- Oh it's a movie.
(Jharrel giggles)
(tense dramatic music)
(tapping on the car)
- Don't go nowhere.
(Caleb yelps)
- OG who played Jalen,
he is also native to Philly and he's from that area
so he knew exactly what he was doing to intimidate us.
It's so incredible how he was able to act
but it's like, he wasn't acting.
- Filming with him like when he looks at you
you really feel like you bout to get done.
(suspenseful music)
- Get the fuck out the way man.
- One of the gentlemen that worked
on set that helped with the writing process
experienced that whole trunk scene.
Like it was his like actual life.
- And I got to talk with him on set a lot
but the fact that that's what his past was, is crazy.
(sirens blaring)
(people shouting)
- It was all shot handheld.
The cameraman had time to move left, right
and get, and kind of get out of the way.
It just felt so immersive.
(sirens blaring)
(body slamming)
- Yo, you remember that?
- I now understand the use of stunt doubles for sure.
Because a lot of people don't see it, you know?
It's edited so well and it's, it's hidden so well
that you can't tell that wasn't me coming out the trunk.
(Jharrel wincing)
- Yo Smush! Yo, yo!
Get up man!
Let's go!
- We had to pretend like I was just on the floor
and you had to pick me up
and then we have to just book it and run.
- That's true.
- I think we ran for like six hours that day.
- Really? It was six hours?
- Yeah, I think my spleen told me it was six hours, yeah
(Caleb laughs)
- I hadn't done sports since seventeen
and it hit me hard.
Hit me hard.
(rustling)
(grunting)
- Method man like,
he was running like Superman.
I was scared at one point I was like, nah.
Like we kept doing it a few times
but he kept the same energy, perfect form.
And he's like, huh!
Huh!
He was making sounds.
I was like, dang.
(intense music)
(panting)
- Even the camera crew, they had to go crazy.
- Yeah, that's true.
- They were on a trolley.
We had to run as fast as a trolley.
- Yeah, that was fun though not gonna hold you.
I had a blast.
(intense music)
(yelling)
- The end of the chase scene,
I had been so tired that I'm pretty sure
they use those takes in the film.
I just wanted to make sure if Smush had just
gone through that pain, that, that pain stays.
I'm saying this because it wasn't hard to do that,
cause I was in so much pain, bro.
- I know I feel you.
(grunting)
- This was an abandoned tunnel in Philly.
We had to put on hard hats just to come into the tunnel
- Yeah.
- cause of things falling possibly.
So we all had to wear hard hats until we shot.
We took it off and then ran into the scene.
The spot was cool.
(wincing in pain)
- What's crazy about this
people should know, in this scene in the tunnel
was the first scene we ever shot.
- I feel like it was a good opening part
for us because it's just, like it was so intense.
- It forced us to really have to jump
into Smush and Cole immediately.
- We taking this shit, okay?
- Smush
- I remember watching you do this
cause the camera was right in your face
and I was behind it giving you your eye line.
- Yeah and I liked the energy you were giving me
cause like you wasn't like half doing the lines
like you were like, come on man,
like, you know, it really helped a lot.
- I wanted to make sure I pushed you there.
- Yeah.
- The same way you did for me.
- What you gonna do C?
Tell me bout it.
- Leading up to this moment really tests like
how far Cole will go for Smush.
- This is really the first time we see them lash out
on each other too.
We're screaming at each other,
but it's really just fear and love happening in this scene.
It's like, yo, I love you, I got you,
but I'm too scared, I can't do this.
- Yeah.
- And all I know is I gotta get the bag.
I gotta get the gold.
- Exactly.
- Them stables, they expired, bro.
Everyone who's supposed to take care of me
left me on in them corners, man.
You with me or not, bro?
- I didn't really know about Fletcher street
and urban Cowboys or concrete Cowboys, right.
So I think that whole experience just learning about that
was just something new for me, yeah.
- And there was a lot of people
on set who came from the stables.
And so just meeting them helped tap into that I feel like.
Cole!
- Make sure you guys check out Concrete Cowboy now
streaming on Netflix.
(playful upbeat music)