- Hi, I'm Naomi Watts and I play Sam Bloom.
- Hi, I'm Andrew Lincoln and I play Cameron Bloom.
- And this is Shot by Shot for Penguin Bloom.
It is about a story about a family that, you know
that have been traumatized by a freak accident.
And, you know, they bring this, this damaged bird
into their house and, you know, through saving the bird,
they save their own lives.
You know, that's the story.
- I'm on the floor and I can, I see penguin.
I'm in a bad mood at this particular moment.
And I, but I see penguin looking
like something's going to happen.
Like he's trying to tell me something.
We sort of have this locking of eyes and then off he,
he goes off the bottom of the bed and flies out of the room
and I'm thinking, gosh, I wonder where he's going.
Is it happening?
And I'm stuck here on the floor.
And I hear the kids lighting up with excitement
and screaming, penguin, penguin, he's flying, he's flying.
And I hear them having that celebratory moment together
and feeling bad about the state I'm in.
But then in comes my beautiful husband, Andrew Lincoln.
I'm okay, it's fine.
- I just basically come in, put my back out a couple
of times and then, and then, and then leave the scene.
- And he scoops me up and says, you're not missing it.
And it was just one of those beautiful, beautiful moments
that we knew the audience would be just celebrating with us.
- It was a real release.
- The bird doing this sort of breaks the seal of like,
yes, we can be happy.
We can all be synchronized.
- This was the moment that sort of galvanized Sam
I think in order to sort of live again.
She saw this creature that had been rehabilitated
and the sort of energy and watching this animal continue
to fight day after day in order to fly.
Look, I'm going to break some hearts here.
There was more than one bird.
There was several, there were several birds.
Jerry was number, numero uno.
He came with a backstory.
He was very well prepared
- He was the best!
- But then actually he failed to deliver a lot
and Naomi you will back me up on this
and then one take Wendell appears
and she was absolutely lethal.
(laughs)
One take Wendell was the bird that, you know
that surely should get all when the Oscars happen
and she gets the golden goose or whatever it is.
And she came through wander without a shadow of a doubt.
Didn't do, she knew her lines.
She was very good on improv.
She was lethal actually.
Hollywood's was everything you thought he would be.
He never showed up.
(laughs)
He was the skittish one, swoop was the stunt obviously
but largely I would say, yeah, Jerry was supposedly the man
but you know, he had a few.
Yeah, he had a few dodgy days.
- He got moody.
If he didn't get enough worms, he would, you know,
just not pull a trick.
- Well, I mean, basically what we're talking about is
that they were driven by hunger, basically by food.
Like most actors I've worked with.
So you know it wasn't, it wasn't an unusual experience,
was it?
- Yeah, we got, we got cozy pretty quickly.
The first day was the old time ice breaker for me.
I was supposed to have had several days training,
getting comfy with birds, but I wasn't able to do that
because there were so many other things to do.
So on the first day, I just remember the bird being
in my lap and I was like, okay, this is a little bit weird.
I was mostly freaked out by the worms I'll say
because yeah, I mean like who wouldn't be?
They're wriggly.
They don't like dead worms, by the way.
They've gotta be alive.
And so yeah,
they had to sort of plant the worms in all kinds of weird
places so the bird would come get close.
And I just was nervous that my eyes were going
to get picked out.
Anyway, the bird went up on my head where the worms were,
where the bird was supposed to be.
He's picking at my head and and then he's been there
and it's so comfy, so relaxed,
having a good old time with the worms.
He decides to take one, you know right there on my head
and I feel this warm sensation.
And I promise you, it was my first day
and everyone's eyes started popping
and I'm trying to stay in the scene.
And then it just sort of this warm sensation trickles
down the center of my face.
I'm like, Oh my God, what I do?
And I'm laughing and going literally,
and it goes into my mouth, right there into my mouth.
Oh, and as Glenndon says that could have gone two ways.
You could have like laughed or stormed off the set crying.
The magpie repaired so much.
The penguin, the beautiful healing of that bird
created the beginnings of her healing.
Thanks.
Thanks for watching our Shot by Shot.
- And don't forget to watch Penguin Bloom on Netflix.