Hello, fellas.
How you doing?
How's it going?
Thanks for being here.
OK, so first of all, it's crazy that you're playing yourselves.
You actually lived through this.
And then you're actually doing a movie as--
it's a movie, but it happened to you.
So this was two years ago, right?
Yep.
A little over two.
OK, so explain.
You're vacationing.
You're going.
You've known each other all your lives.
Right.
So you're on vacation.
And what happens?
Well, we were going from Amsterdam to Paris.
And we got on the train.
I was on, like, the window seat.
Spencer was on the aisle seat.
Anthony was opposite on the other aisle.
And they passed out.
Just, I was up texting some friends back home.
And then I hear, like, a gunshot and breaking glass.
And I didn't really know what to think of it because we're
on a train in Europe.
So I just put my head up and was like, what was that?
Then a train employee comes running away
from the noise at a full sprint.
And that wakes Spencer up.
And we both looked back to see what he's running from.
And there's a guy with an AK-47 and no shirt.
So we both ducked down behind the seats,
just in total shock and disbelief.
And I just tapped Spencer on the shoulder.
And I say, go.
And before I know it, he's gone.
So you told him to go.
[LAUGHING]
Yeah, well, I--
He's a great friend.
He had the aisles--
I had the exits.
--for the record.
And it was a combat seat.
But, yeah, I was just like, you go first, and hopefully,
take all the lead.
Then maybe I'll think about it.
That's right.
And I was just the shield.
Right.
But I saw that he either jammed the gun,
or something wasn't up because he hadn't started shooting yet.
And so I kind of took a leap of faith at him
and ran right at him.
Luckily, he pointed and fired at me.
But it was a bad primer in the bullet.
And anyone doesn't know what a primer
is, it's what ignites the gun powder to actually make
the bullet fly.
And so I ran into him, tackled him.
We wrestled for a little bit.
And Alek came down.
Anthony came down to help me out.
We kind of laid the smack down on him a little bit.
Yes, but in the meantime, wasn't he-- he
had a box cutter or something.
And he was kind of slashing at you.
So he took out a box cutter and cut the back of my neck
a few times.
He almost cut my left thumb off.
It severed the tendon and nerve.
He tried to shoot me with the handgun as well.
Luckily, that had no ammunition in it.
And I was able to get him off me and then eventually
choke him unconscious.
OK, so you're still in your seat.
And so you--
[LAUGHING]
Pretty much.
And you're still texting.
You wouldn't believe what's happening now.
[LAUGHING]
The selfie.
You guys.
So what were other people--
I mean, probably, you didn't notice other people
on the train at the time, because you were just
focused on that.
But, I mean, was it just the three of you doing this?
There were some people involved prior to that.
There was two men waiting outside the bathroom, Mark
Moogalian and Damien.
And Mark actually played himself in the movie as well,
and his wife and another passenger
Chris Norman, who helped tie up the terrorist afterwards.
And without them, I mean, Mark took the bullet for us.
And we wouldn't have been able to be in the position we were--
So he got shot.
--if it wasn't for his action.
Yeah, it was basically, him getting shot
was what alerted us to something being wrong.
And who was the one holding the fingers over--
Yeah.
So I was a medic in the Air Force.
And so as the guy went unconscious, Alek and Anthony
yelled out, hey, this guy's been hit.
And first thing I see is him standing in the aisle,
collapsing, spurting blood out of his neck.
And then so I said, I'm a medic.
I crawled over to him and took my shirt off.
I was going to use that as a--
to hold pressure with.
And then I just stuck my hand in his neck.
I found his artery, and I pinched it off.
So you saved his life.
Yes, ma'am.
[APPLAUSE]
So besides getting to act in a Clint Eastwood film,
which is a pretty big perk, what other perks have you had
since you've all of a sudden--
you're heroes.
So what happens now for you all in your life?
Since the journey, it's been, like, such a whirlwind.
But as, like, different things have came out,
we've got to meet, like, just cool people that we've always
admired, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kobe Bryant,
Barack Obama-- like, just multiple people that we've--
You start with Arnold and end with Obama.
Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
And then Obama.
No, no--
We got to have a--
No particular order was there.
We got to have a private meeting in the Oval Office
with President Obama.
I got invited back to his last State of the Union.
Got to sit in Michelle Obama's box.
So we've got to do some awesome stuff.
But, I mean, everything's great, and the movie's great,
and everything like that.
But nothing's better than what we did that day.
So that's something we can always take with us--
Yeah, it was amazing.
--forever.
And the fact that they made a movie out of it, which
is incredible, and you must have thought when they're
making a movie, you must have had ideas
in your head of who was going to-- who
did you want to play you?
Zac Efron.
Uh-huh.
[LAUGHING]
And who did you want to play you?
Denzel Washington.
But that--
[LAUGHING]
Uh-huh, all right.
And--
And mine was Michael B. Jordan.
All right.
You're a little off with your--
Hey.
Have you looked in the mirror lately? 'Cause you--
It would be a challenging role for him.
Yeah.
All right, the 15:17 to Paris comes out
in theaters on February 9.