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hello welcome to what the flick alonso
rally christy lemire and white house
down co-star Ben mankiewicz who was not
here last week we talked about white
house down and Christy not seen white
house down last week so we talked about
white house down again yeah so um first
of all I just want to say what an honor
was to work with Jamie Foxx and Channing
Tatum I really guys are great J Fox see
tats uh but they uh uh so what's crazy
is that I've gotta mention this to you
uh I've been on TV for ten years and yet
you see yourself in a summer blockbuster
movie even in the tiny small reporters
role that I have and there's this week I
got eight hundred and sixty one dollars
for it right sag scale and there's this
weird thrill that use I feel like should
not be there but I'm like are you like
Joaquin Phoenix Nicole Kidman we can't
watch yourself in ruins the craft if I
get self-conscious did after watching
myself I mean there was a lot of this uh
yeah yep Tony yeah I wanna see my face
that was it I was mean it was a dismal
part that I was basically in a
television on-screen moments where their
screen is you with the pencil on me so
and and they they uh you know I enjoy
working with roland emmerich and uh was
even there that day he directed okay
black people I mean full-on like leaning
over the desk once you say this say it
this way say a little more dramatically
he was he was making it happen but you
were second unit I don't have to I don't
have to totally would have assumed that
but there he was totally directing that
and then like they had just written the
script and he had very little interest
in that uh so he would ask us to sort of
change stuff and say stuff a little
differently and uh you know he's big
liberal so I could sort of pipe up that
that part of it was really picking he
was onto that but they used a lot of
what I did and it was a was great I was
there with the Lauren Sanchez and the
Brooke Anderson and the guy who I was
with uh next to me in one of those
scenes where we're talking about how the
United States has become a rogue nuclear
nation I don't know and I I loved the
movie and it was I mean it was not it
wasn't like a die-hard
take off it was like it was the
second-best I are back tired she was
identical to die or was it not I mean
there was no it kinda hits the beats
yeah hit like seven or eight of the
beats again and again and again but you
know die hard was great and this was
well done they changed enough of it
moved it to enough of a different
location that it uh that it felt under
the coast and it's more fun than Olympus
has fallen I think I mean I which I
which is also movie that I had a good
time everything this one's even more
sort of exhilaratingly ridiculous yeah
this Olympus is fallen didn't feel as
much fun to me it didn't feel you know
like Olympus has fallen had that moment
where uh the was the president's kid or
Gerard Butler's kid and others knows the
president is here so in this movie in
this movie in White House down into the
agency kid in the in in Olympus Falls
the presence get the movies are
identical and what how slow down does
not have Melissa Leo being dragged by
her hair recycle agent Apple I know much
less hokey yeah it didn't and so uh but
there was the flag-waving whimper both
but but they were but like in what is it
fallen like there's they set up that
they kid something's gonna happen with
the kid and then like after 41 minutes
of Olympus Oliver kid gets out and it
doesn't we don't refer back to that so
there were some odd things with Olympus
has fallen this time it mattered I think
that we had these stars they're just
really they're good they're good they're
movie stars and Tatum Jamie Foxx your
movie stars and they carry the moon
you mentioned the thing with a kid this
is the one problem I have the White
House down is it I don't know that I
would have reacted this way if I weren't
a parent but I feel like they put the
little girl Joey King the little loving
year-old daughter into way more peril
than they need to I think this is a way
to indicate these guys are bad and that
they're ruthless without putting a gun
to her head repeatedly and roughing her
up that felt to me needless it made me a
little queasy they did to Bonnie Bedelia
it so they had to do it
here let me go to the girls to hold
around she becomes an eventual hero in
this thing but it's like that maybe that
belt Cotuit is to me and me it's a
little maybe but at the same time I
think they they really go out of the way
to establish her as a really interesting
character like think of how sort of
mewling and whiny and helpless that kid
could have been
whereas here she is using you know her
tech savvy to like send footage out into
the world and you know she's busting the
president's balls with hard questions
like she was really interesting and
fully formed so when when they do refer
up it didn't feel like like she was
complete victim you know she deserve
that though I know the reason why you
feel the way you did is because what
Alonso said I don't know I could have
articulated until he did is the
character because she's a character
she's a fully interesting character
she's got she's mad at your dad for
totally uh credible and believable
reasons but yet you know and then and
then the sending that being this problem
solver in the situation so that made it
okay that's probably why can bother me
when you describe that I thought I
wonder why that didn't get to me I
allegedly have a daughter now so
eighteen eight nine ten years in a body
right now I had fun at this too it is uh
it it knows what it is does what needs
to do in a big fun way and did so poorly
you know it get bomb you know they
literally said me may twenty four
million bucks over the first weekend I
never know I have no sense now what
constitutes bombing or not the headline
said Bob right and it may twenty four
million so obviously finished fourth I
think it was it's the most expensive
Sony movie of the summer it's um it's a
big budget or than after earth I when I
read I read it's their biggest but it's
their biggest budget but also didn't
open so hot um so you know uh but I
think it's fun I guess
do people just something people don't
want to see the idea of the White House
being taken over my tears or people feel
they are Olympus vaulted okay maybe they
saw that and think they're covered in
they moved these movies apartment and
the second one always feels derivative
of the first but this one is I think it
was I think one of the one of the most
sort of I mean it's dom dom dom but it's
one of the fun work most fun films of
the summer it was totally achieved what
the cop would set out to do and it
achieved it well I would give it a seven
and a half I liked it would I think I
give it like a seven I fun you gave it
some later door member you did you check
out the you map there last weekend yeah
and they liked it so uh and and we also
like to at the star there I we were
hoping for sequels there be more you I
uh
I care I carried those guys I took up I
took up I took a photo during credits
under my name I was like maybe really -
yeah that you name no but it looks like
is they just list the two people on on
the other guys names like John Hans
tester
they just legit under reporters it just
list them all I'm in column one he's in
comm to so it looks like I played some
guy named John you're gay European porn
name totally yeah