- We're gonna answer all your questions you have
after watching "Kate."
So if you haven't seen it,
stop watching,
and come back when you've seen it.
- This is Spoiler Alert. (laughs)
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- Hey, I'm Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
and I play Kate.
- I'm Miku Martineau,
and I play Ani.
- I guess the biggest spoiler-
it's so weird to talk about spoilers.
I'm so conditioned not to do it
that I'm really fighting.
So Kate,
she does die.
I think, in a movie like this,
you might expect maybe they're going to find a cure,
there's going to be a twist
and she's going to get saved.
Big spoiler is that we, you know,
stuck with the brave ending.
- Another big spoiler is
that Varrick is the one
who ordered Kate's termination,
not Kijima, my uncle.
- Yes.
- That's a huge spoiler.
- Which is the ultimate-
- Betrayal. - Betrayal, yes.
- You ordered her termination.
"If she's leaving,
I will terminate her."
Your words, exactly.
- Well, he's someone very easy to connect with
and create a rapport with
'cause he's just such a funny,
kind of easy going spirit to be around.
And so that kind of happened naturally.
We had those scenes to start with,
the scenes where we're working together.
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And it was his last scene that we shot,
was the scene at the end of the movie,
when she really sort of lets out everything
that she really feels about him at this point.
- I promise you,
it is not what you think it is.
- It turns out nothing ever was.
I had been able to play Kate for awhile
before that as well.
So I had been really kind of living
with her emotional state.
So getting to that point
and realizing all this stuff that's been building to this
is because of you, (laughs) you know.
And not only for what's happened in Kate and her life,
but everything that happened with Ani.
Yes, I did this,
but also you did this.
Ani, I'm sorry.
- When she finds out
that Kate killed her father,
it's like the ultimate betrayal.
You killed my whole family.
You bitch!
- [Kate] No, please.
- It's so sad for Ani,
not only because she finds out that Kate killed her father,
but because it also like reminisces past emotions
with her family.
She's felt past betrayal
and she became really attached to you.
- For Kate, in the beginning,
she's kind of not wanting to like Ani whatsoever
because she does have this reality that she's aware of,
that she's done something very terrible to Ani,
and trying to think of her as this kid
who's a means to an end,
she's going to help me get where I want to get.
And over the course of the film,
that breaks down
and she has to kind of see that
and she has to face what she's done.
She has to kind of atone for that in some way.
- It's also very heartbreaking to watch
when I was watching like the movie for the first time.
It's like,
ugh, this girl doesn't know what happened to her father,
and the truth, and everything.
- And you know it's gonna come.
- And she's becoming so attached.
- Right.
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She truly has nothing to lose.
I mean, yeah,
in all action scenes and all action movies,
you could kind of say that,
but in this case it just felt so true.
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She really had this goal of what she wanted to achieve
and just did not care if she died
because she was dying anyway.
It was really fun
to get to go that far with it
and be that raw
because she only has one goal,
and then that's it,
then life is over.
So I think (laughs) that propels you forward
in a huge, huge way.
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(shoots gun)
One of the great things about, you know, the action scenes,
even though I'm progressively getting sicker
and closer to death,
is those shots (laughs) of those drugs
that I get to keep shooting into my leg,
just for like one last bit of energy.
Where she is at that point,
just absolutely giving no fucks whatsoever. (laughs)
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- That was one of my favorite shots in the movie,
when you walk into the building
with the cigarette and the glasses
and people are like blazing guns behind you.
'Cause I wasn't there when you filmed that.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- So I was like seeing it for the first time,
and I was like,
"Oh my God."
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- Cedric always joked that he was annoyed
that we didn't have very many outtakes,
but there was one,
like the first take that we did of that,
I didn't really know all the guns
were going to go off behind me,
like for real.
And I had the cigarette and the sunglasses
and I went "Ah!" (laughs)
like that
and I just tried to play it off
and I just like kept walking.
I was like,
"Yeah, yeah, I knew that was going to happen." (laughs)
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- It was cool.
You even had like a bloody eye contact,
which was really cool.
How long were you in the makeup chair?
- By that point,
it was like close to three hours in the makeup chair.
Yeah, yeah.
It was pretty intense, yeah.
- But I loved it.
I felt like I looked better
the more of that stuff I had.
(both laughing)
- Bravo, Kate.
(clapping hands)
Never doubted you.
- After the betrayal,
she's absolutely heartbroken,
and then she's kind of abandoned again.
And then Varrick takes her under her wing
and Ani realizes that Varrick is not a good person either.
- Your girl had to die.
That was always the deal, Varrick-san.
- Kate comes to rescue her
and I feel like she recognizes that.
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(guns firing)
Since Ani got to know you,
she knows that it's real,
and she feels sympathy for you
because you never got to have that normal life.
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At the very end,
it's almost like a forgiveness,
like I see past the built hard exterior that you put on.
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It's okay.
That I found peace with it
'cause Kate's life has never been peaceful.
It's been very chaotic since she was younger,
and I think I wanted to give you one last moment of peace.
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- As far as I know,
that's the only version that I ever read
or was ever aware of.
I mean, the only change, I think,
is that little line, the "It's okay."
We didn't shoot that,
that was added later.
It feels like that was something that was added
as just a way to kind of show
that everything was going to be okay,
(laughs) you know?
For the audience
to maybe feel a little bit better about the circumstances.
- [Miku] Yeah.
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I feel like if you watched
and watched again,
knowing Woody's character was bad,
people would be like,
"Don't get in the car, Ani!
Don't get in the car with him!"
- My hope is also
that you just are enjoying the journey of this film so much
that the sort of twists,
or how it ends,
doesn't necessarily really matter
in terms of your enjoyment of the film.
Because just being on the ride
for wherever it goes
is so much fun
and such a adrenaline rush.
- So suspenseful, yeah.
- [Mary And Miku] Check out "Kate" now streaming on Netflix.
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