I'm called Robert, and there's a Sheehan involved as well.
Hi, my name is Justin Min.
I play Ben Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy.
This is,
- "Shot by Shot". - "Shot by Shot".
No,
Come on, please.
You cannot possess me.
Just for a few minutes.
Why? What's so damn important.
Jill.
I want to talk to her.
Jill, oh, that's the Moroccan girl with a limp, right?
Seriously? We've been over this.
I so rarely listen to you.
Klaus.
All right, fine.
But wait.
You suddenly grab me at the end,
which I didn't expect. It kind of shook me.
And I think that's the take that they use,
that like, first one where you just like suddenly grabbed me.
I almost, I almost broke.
Make it quick.
For me, it was a big thing of trying to minimize
all my sort of moves and be very,
very physically mindful, because Klaus is considerably
more flaily than Ben.
And I thought, "If I just, if I just mitigate that,
let's just get rid of all the kind of flaily, like..."
Then, and bring it right down, in terms of the physicality,
it will be noticeably different.
When we talked about it. You know,
you also said that you wanted to still bring a bit of Klaus
in there, which I thought was an interesting choice.
And I think it works well. I mean, he is Ben,
but he's Ben in your body, in Klaus's body.
And what does that really look like
and feel like?
So there, there is, you know,
bits and pieces of Klaus still in there
as Ben is inhabiting this shell.
So, yeah, I thought it was really interesting.
You were eating so many strawberries.
Yeah.
Were they good?
They were all, yeah, they were fresh.
They were, they were nice,
but like any food on set that you have to eat in a scene,
after take four, it all becomes just desperately nauseating.
Can I smell your hair?
There was lots of badgering Justin,
getting him to do all of my dialogue
when I'm Ben.
So I badgered you a few times and then sort of followed you
around set and tried to mitigate the damage
of me playing you and doing it wrong.
You're incredible too.
Want to do it?
Do what?
Have sex, the holy union of our multiple spirits.
Sure, but uh-
But what?
There's something you need to know.
Are you okay?
I was watching you very closely on the monitor
because there was that moment where you slap your face
and we wanted to match that.
So I had to make sure it was the right hand
at the right angle and yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Never been better.
Good.
You don't.
You don't know the real me.
It was also really just nice to shoot outside
for the first time in a while.
Yeah, it was, yeah.
It gets so stuffy
inside when you're in there for too long.
And I remember you, you, you just would like
sunbathe between takes and take off all your clothes.
Yeah. And there was grounds, groundskeepers,
like, giving me very, very disapproving looks.
I really liked this bit of a physical.
Oh, gosh.
If Laurel and Hardy were in the same body.
We were in an alleyway in Hamilton city.
That's an hour outside of Toronto.
There was a kind of a Jeep sort of a dune buggy style thing,
and our camera operator, Sean, was on the back.
And also, you know, so we were coordinating
with the choreography of the visual effects.
So, you know, between myself and Justin,
we had to figure out, "Okay,
with the time from the start of the alleyway,
to the end of the alleyway,
how many kinds of fights can we get in?" You know,
and make them all very different to each other.
And so, and then it was, it was a sort of figuring out what,
what sort of pace we're going at.
So the driver of the Jeep was a big part of it, too.
It was very technical in the sense that we had to like
actually mirror each other exactly.
So when you were trying to push me out of your body,
I had to act like I was being pushed out.
And then like when you turned,
I also turned and you were pushing me in the front of you.
And I, I had to act like I was coming out of you.
So it was really technical.
And our VFX team was there also just
giving us a vision of how the scene would actually look
with the VFX in place.
So it gave us a good idea of what they were going for.
And I found that really helpful.
I believe it was like,
take four or take five when we got that take.
Cause it's always the way with technical stuff.
The first few takes can be like, "Alright, you know,
that was a practice. That was a Mulligan.
Let's do that again."
Whereas, as an actor,
you're always like geared up in the most sort of prompted
and ready for the first take, you know.
It's physically exhausting.
I definitely got my cardio in for the day.
Just like, twisting and turning.
And jumping and running.
Did you actually vomit? Or was that CGI?
It was CGI.
We had our incredible hair and makeup team just pour vomit
on top of me.
There was a moment where it felt good
because it was incredibly hot outside
and the vomit was cold.
But for the vast majority, I did feel like I wanted to die.
So it left my skin quite supple after.
But I don't know if I'd do it again.
I wonder why Klaus had so much oatmealy type stuff
in his stomach.
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