- It's truly a gift to bring it to the world
and all the kids that are gonna be able
to experience what we went through.
- He'll be their first Aquaman, you know,
- Yeah. - like Christopher Reeve was
- Yeah. - for us for Superman,
that's exciting.
- I'm someone's Michael Keaton.
- You are, you are. - I'm fucking Michael Keaton.
- You're not my Michael Keaton.
- [Amber] No.
- No, I wish I wasn't. (laughing)
- Did you guys have the same questions I did,
going into a project like this?
Like even the basic stuff,
like am I gonna be shooting underwater?
How is this even gonna work?
Like what are those initial conversations like,
when you sign on?
- I remember I was on the phone with Zack Snyder
and a friend walked in
and just overheard only half the conversation,
which already makes it a little bit more awkward
and she was in the kitchen, I just remember her reaction,
she was standing there in the kitchen looking at me
and you know, my friends are used to a lot with me,
but she was like hearing me say,
she was like saying, she was like hearing, I'm like,
so now do I blow, so it's create a bubble to talk
- Oh, right. - or is that like,
and my friend's face is like, huh?
- Wait a second, like explain that again.
- Who are you talking to? - Yeah.
- What about for you, Patrick,
obviously you've worked with James before,
so there's trust there? - Yeah.
- But are there some basic questions,
before you get on to a project like this?
- Oh yeah, oh, sure, never any doubt,
I mean, after a handful of movies with him,
I trust him, like hey, man, whatever you want.
But I did wonder how this was going to work,
physically what were we going, I remember saying,
right, but what are we actually doing?
So where are the wires?
- Make it really simple for me.
- I know what it will look like,
I know eventually it will look like we're swimming,
- Right. - what are we doing?
You know, because it was a very, very weird dynamic,
when you're just flying around a room
in different harnesses and even without fighting,
just talking, that was strange,
the stunts are always difficult,
but literally just a page scene of dialogue,
that becomes physically demanding?
- Right. - When did that happen?
- Yeah.
- The characters' history goes back, I think 77 years,
there's a story past to Aquaman,
Jason and I have a story past with Aquaman,
that goes back a good five years,
- Five years. - five years,
let's take a look at a piece of video,
so to contextualize this,
- Let's just see how great of an actor I am.
- You were very good. - January 2014,
- I love this. - and rumors are swirling,
that you were gonna play Aquaman
and we chatted at Sundance, - God.
- and everybody, check this out.
- It's a rumor.
- Is it just a rumor though,
because-- - It's a rumor, I swear.
- The way this is, - You swore.
- I'm gonna see you as Aquaman,
I'm gonna see you as Aquaman in a cameo
and then you're gonna pop up in Justice League,
are you promising me, Jason, man to man,
- Man to man, you can punch me in the face.
- There's nothing to it?
- You can punch me in the face.
- I don't wanna punch you in the face,
'cause I know what's gonna happen afterwards,
you'll punch me harder.
- You're allowed to punch me in the face.
No, it's a flattering rumor, but--
- Okay.
- That's great. - Yes!
- That's great. - I was sworn
to secrecy, - Yes.
- by Zack, I did not wanna upset Zack,
he's like, "You are not allowed to tell anyone,"
and let me tell you, I needed to put food on the table.
When he released Unite the Seven, I was like, yeah!
Right before Christmas, we're gonna have food!
- But I love your moment, where you probably,
like either Josh, you're like, you know what?
I'm gonna say this, you can punch me in the face,
knowing if nothing else, I could take a shot.
- Yeah, punch me, then I'm like, oh, man.
- So I'm not gonna do that clearly,
but all I want is just an apology, just an apology.
- Ooh!
- I apologize for lying to you.
- [All] Aw!
- That means a lot, it's beautiful.
- I did it purposefully,
if wouldn't have asked me the question,
I never would have had to lie to you.
- Aw! - That's right.
- Have you guys ever had to lie about career stuff,
about projects that you were associated with or not
and is that a tough kind of line to walk?
- Have you? - No.
- No one's cared. - No.
No, just the ones I've done are pretty.
- Yeah, I've lied about past work,
not future work. - Yeah, exactly, exactly.
- What are you talking about? - Not me,
not me at all. - Yes, exactly.
- Another thing I love about this movie
is I don't know, for me it's less like a superhero movie,
although it is a great origin story superhero movie,
but it's kind of a fantasy, family drama,
it's this very audacious blend of different genres.
Again, were you surprised by sort of the form
this movie took?
Because I haven't seen a superhero movie like this before.
- I mean, on behalf of the resident James Wan,
- Right. - actor, I've watched him
in these different genres and different movies
to where he always leads with a family drama,
he really does, if you look at his films,
he leads with his heart
and so you know he's gonna deal with people
that are betrothed, but don't really get along,
maybe there's a budding romance, sibling rivalry,
I mean, he always puts in,
he always concentrates on the family
and the character aspect of it,
because of course if you're gonna put characters in peril,
you've got to have people that you care about,
not even like or dislike, but that you care about,
so that side of it didn't surprise me,
I knew he'd go deep into the family stuff.
- Just as important as the weighty thematics
are obviously the costumes, they can't be comfortable,
let's get that out of the way, they're not, right?
Who had the least comfortable costume
among the three of you?
- Go on. - I don't know, probably you,
- Well, these two probably. - you did,
- I mean,
- yours is pretty uncomfortable.
- Yeah, mine's pretty awful,
I'm not kidding, I'm not gonna lie.
- Yours was pretty awful too, - Yeah.
- but I feel like, she had heels on,
which is like, adds to the-- - I had heels and a corset
and a pushup bra, - Yeah.
- Come on. - Yeah, you were.
- Are there notes going into Aquaman two,
that you're gonna ask the costume designer to--
- Oh, yeah. - address?
- There's just, it's a long list.
How much time you got?
- Yeah, yeah, - It's a lot of time,
- we just wanna wear sweatpants.
- it's a lot of time. - Yeah.
- Aquaman gets his tattoos taken off.
- Yeah, exactly, exactly.
- That's right, yes.
Yeah, he's found more. - Exactly.
- Two hours of tattoos, I'd take 'em off that.
- Yeah, we would all be gone
and you could kind of still hear the music
in his makeup room with them like taking them off
and putting them on.
See ya!
- You of course, we now know of course,
that you donned the iconic costume of the comics,
which I think again, I was so heartened to see
how well you guys pulled it off,
because it's one thing to see that orange and green costume
on a comic book page, - Yeah.
- it's another to see it in real life,
- Yes. - Were you worried
about that being able to be translated onto the big screen?
- Extremely worried, extremely worried,
I saw some in the very beginning and it was--
- Like the one you were gonna wear?
- it was a definite concern.
Even when I signed on, Zack was like,
"No, no, no, we're not gonna do that,"
so I was fine for Justice League,
but then James was dead set on making it,
that was his dream.
- Did he go through different iterations,
where you just try on some things?
- You just try different techniques with it,
you know, but it just wasn't, it's amazing now,
- Yeah. - but you know,
it was a work in progress like everything,
but I definitely got experience that through James,
you know, when I first put it on, it was kind of creepy,
'cause he just sat there and watched me put it on,
but once I got it on, he really lit up
and his face was,
- You made his dream come true.
- Yeah, I was like are you gonna wait till I,
it's cool, whatever, I'm Hawaiian, I'm cool.
- Amber, having gone through this experience,
is there something that you could talk
to the Amber of two years ago and say, just so you know,
this is what you should know,
before going into something like this.
- No, if there's anything I could have prepared myself for
in this process, I mean, there's just,
you find yourself at work as an adult woman,
at least in my case
and you show up at six o'clock in the morning
and again, stand in a little box on a drain
and get hosed down, before being attached to these rigs
to be suspended 25 feet in the air
and then care passionately about this trident
and speak about it,
it's the most-- - Is that what you call Jason
or actually the trident? - She had the hardest job,
hands down, man, hands down.
- What about for you, Patrick,
obviously Watchmen was a different kind of a film,
- Yeah. - but any flashbacks to that
in the making of this one?
- No, I mean, the costumes have come a long way,
so they're a little easier to move in,
I think, gosh, if I had to go back,
I mean, really, all the trident work,
all the staff work, it does wreck you, I will say that,
doing any movement hundreds of times,
but I remember a specific day of fighting
imaginary creatures, that were coming at me.
- Remember that day?
- And you're just literally swinging at nothing,
- Yeah. - You're like huh, huh, huh!
- [Josh] This is gonna look cool right now.
- You're like, no, no, if you look up there
and hit something, we'll put it there later.
So by the end of it, you're just dead sore,
I mean, there's nothing worse than an actor complaining,
we're all very fortunate,
but it was rough. - Yeah.
- Was there a toughest day for you guys,
when you think back, Jason, is there a day
similar to what Patrick's talking about for you?
- Oh, yeah, there were some pretty rough days, but
- [Jason And Josh] It's all worth it in the end.
- Yeah. - Oh, yeah, absolutely,
I feel like kind of, I hate to compare it with childbirth,
but you know. - Yeah, don't.
- Don't. - Don't.
- Don't, dude. - You know,
why would you go through pain again?
- I mean, I'd do it again, - Sure.
- we went through some pain,
but it's nothing compared to childbirth.
- Right. - Well, that is true.
- So there's no real point of complaining,
'cause it's like we had a great time,
sure, I did not wanna be in a lot of situations.
Am I gonna do it again?
Fuck, yeah.
- So speaking of that-- - I forgot about it,
when you get a job, why would they do it again?
I mean, that much pain, why would they do it again?
- Because it's possible. - That's a comparable quality.
- Yeah.
At first I was like, oh, no.
- When they spray me down with water,
it's like giving it you, - Oh!
- I'm just like they can go through that pain,
- Yeah, we're there, - I can, then do it again.
- we're there. - Sure.
- Speaking of doing it again,
what do you wanna see in a sequel here?
- Maybe a baby?
- Oh! - Oh!
- [Amber And Jason] Aquababy.
- Aquababy.
- There's so many possibilities.
- Aquaman two: Aquababy, there you go, the title.
- Aquababy. - There's Aqualad,
lest we forget. - There is Aqualad, yeah.
- You can be their Aquababy and I'm doing Mera.
- Very cool. - Sold.
- Are you aware, this is a side note,
but just related to the Justice League experience,
some fans are obsessed with the so called Snyder cut
of Justice League, like an alternate cut.
- Yeah, yeah. - Are you--
- I'm obsessed with it too. - Are you?
- Yeah. - What's your take on that?
Like do you wanna see a different version
eventually at some point or is there a different point
or is there a different concept?
- I mean, you know, that's one thing that,
that sucks with our business,
where you just can't speak your mind, but yeah!
- Okay. - Fuck, yeah, I wanna see it.
- Okay, fair enough, we'll keep it at that.