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no no no this is from Miela L from Facebook
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From Miela L on...
Can we recast? Can we recast?
Hello and welcome to Moviefone I'm Charlize Theron this is David Leitch
and we're here to talk about our new movie Atomic Blonde does it sound
better when I whisper it? Atomic Blonde. Atomic Blonde, we'll answer a few
questions that you guys sent in and then we will do a few unscripted questions and I'll start
from Kelvin D on Facebook you set the bar pretty high for action
in John wick did you feel pressure to one-up yourself in this movie
ah there's always pressure to do better right to reinvent
stop being so f*cking diplomatic and give us the answer we want to hear
yes yes to do things you have not done
you want to try you want to go for it you want to shoot for the stars and um you know
plus we were worried because I was not Keanu Reeves and I was just
the older white lady and not
we were not worried at all
that's really what you were concerned about
we had a great actress who could pull it off
I almost started masturbating myself
from Sean T on Facebook who would win in a fight Lorraine or Furiosa?
ooh sh*t that would be an amazing fight to watch don't you think?
yeah I'd love to choreograph it
that would be incredible because they have different yeah I mean one has got
one arm missing and so God that would be brutal we would make millions if we could actually do that
We can figure it out
I don't know
we can just do like a viral video of it
I don't know because I think they both have one thing in common and that is
they just they just don't want to lose and I think sometimes that makes for
great fighters and I do think both those characters have come from circumstances
where they just will not take no for they won't be the ones not walking out
of the building so that I think they might just cripple each other until both
of them just bled out on the floor to be
could be
all right so Unscripted here we go what's your shoe size David I've always wanted to know
it is uh ten and a half, ten and a half
No, I I think that there was a part of
me that I never asked you this because
because I just automatically from the moment that you walked in and I just thought
of you as like a director who's directed his entire life and you have but you
started off your career in stunts and I wanted to know did you know from the
moment that you started in this business just even doing that that you wanted to
direct or did that come later for you?
it came later actually it was sort of an
evolution of working in the business and you know sort of spending a couple
decades on set and like just loving the process and loving telling stories and
the more I got into shooting fight scenes and action sequences and telling
those those stories I started to want to expand and sort of tell the
whole thing and just the opportunities that sort of laid out in front of me to
mentor under great people yeah and yeah I don't know it just sort of evolved
mm-hmm yeah I love it I love it
oh and scripted to me
ah
my shoe size sometimes a nine and a half and sometimes a ten depending on how much I'm drinking
thank you all right I didn't I've always wanted to know that I
I've never asked you this about Lorraine's character but did you do
anything outside of the action to prepare for her as a person like sort of
and what is your process in terms of I mean I got to see it in front you know yeah
front of the lens but I never
well you because you were location you
were on location when I was training and I was also I would train in the mornings
till the late afternoon and then I would on my way home I would stop off and do
dialect for...
right
...two hours and so I was kind of living in this physical and then
verbal world of just trying to find her body and her sound
I I don't know I was working with somebody great on the kind of what I
wanted to base her accent on and I created this very strange fascination
obsession yeah just complete crush on Charlotte Rampling
I was listening to a lot of Charlotte Rampling just talking and I
just fell in love with her voice and that not that we did that or that I try
to mimic that or anything like that but I when I imagine what Lorraine would
sound like especially in the interrogation stuff there was something
about Charlotte I was just always so in control and yet like intimidating yet so
feminine and so deep and so like brutal yet sexy yet I mean it was just
conflicting sounds in her voice and so yeah I was crushing on you Charlotte for
a long time there still still am think you're amazing
from this is from Jenna M Riverside California hi Jenna who came up with
that awesome stairwell fight?
ah that is my stunt team and Sam Hargrave and Greg
and Daniel and Monique they you know I put the challenge out there to them to
like let's find a place and a set-piece where we can do this elaborate like
one-shot sequence and I had been scouting a lot of locations and I took some
pictures and I sent him that and that was sort of the challenge put forth to
them and they delivered
yeah I mean we have to say you work with some of the
best people when it comes to that and so much of this movie is because of that
team really yeah really great
from Meila L on Facebook what's more fun to play badass heroines or villains?
you know I don't I don't know because I feel like they're all kind of the same you know
they're all conflicted in, in a same way and it just kind of it comes out and
I think people I think women in general are just as conflicted as men and so
whether you're you know a hero or whether
you're a villain I think one part of that element maybe just overtook the
other one but I think there's a mixture of all of that in both of those
characters or you know I've never played a just a bad person that didn't kind of
come up from something that was empathetic or something where you could
kind of understand where the turn happened or you know where Ravenna in
Snow White and the Huntsman is a complete psychopath but at some point
you kind of look at that story and you realize well of course she's a
psychopath her mother told her that she'd only you know her only power was
beauty and so of course she'd turn into a psychopath if you believed that was
what it was and then you know that the heroes sometimes for me I try to find
the flaws more than I did the kind of heroic-ness of them because there's
nothing worse than watching a hero trying to be a hero and I think real
heroes are people who are flawed and conflicted and f*cked up and sometimes make
terrible mistakes and it's what they do afterwards and it's kind of where their
their sincerity and their heart is in in in some of those moments that I think
then makes them a hero but I think some of the greatest heroes in cinema are
probably most, some of the most f*cked up people that you'll ever come into contact with and I
think that's the beauty of humanity bad isn't just that and good isn't just
good we're a little bit of everything
all right I get to do and Unscripted to you so was there
anything in this film stunt wise that you really really really
really wish you could have done but unfortunately didn't get to do?
surprisingly no and I think with the resources that we had available to us
you'd think like there was some big spectacle step missing or whatever but
everything was so based on her character that I think that the action arcs
incredibly well and services Lorraine's arc in a you know, perfectly and so
if you asked me..
if I gave you ten thousand ten million dollars more you just pocket it
I would, I would I would I would
so the thing with the two ponies, and the clown? You really didn't want to do that?
naw I didn't want to do that I was just trying to get money from the studio
okay its your turn Unscripted
well I'm going to ask you something similar
so did you are there any sort of scenes that you wish you could have done over
maybe that's a loaded question I guess
no I wish I can do anything
all of it over I wish I can go back 22 years ago and we redo my first movie but
what? but look at where you are why would you want to do that?
no but I think that's part of the creative process and I don't think anybody any artist really ever feels
fully I think the job of somebody who creates is to always kind of see where
it could have been more or you know I think when you get to that place you're
like oh my god that's exactly how that's perfect
that's probably when you should stop being creative you know because I think
creativity if it stops like that then it's not creativity anymore so yeah I I
mean I'm not..
but not regret, but not like regrets because
no not regrets at all and I don't have a, I'm not I've never been other than the first very very first movie that I saw
myself in like my own voice like made me cringe like when I heard it's like
when you hear your voice on a voice machine for the first time on you're
just like is that how I f*cking sound like that was cringeworthy for me
and then you kind of get over it and I think as a producer I had to be able to
remove so it's not that I'm hung up on oh my god I'm so terrible it's more just
God if I I would add this and that doesn't necessarily make it better
might have make it worse but that process is always running in my head
well thank you Charlize
oh you're so welcome
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July 28th
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