Emily Blunt & Matt Damon talk Barbenheimer! Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Guys, what a film.
00:01 I was saying to Florence and Killian,
00:03 it's like a piece of art, this work.
00:06 It's definitely for me, I think,
00:07 one of Christopher Nolan's best pieces of work.
00:10 For you, do you feel like it's
00:12 one of your best pieces of work?
00:14 Best mustache for this one you've ever had.
00:17 Is that the only mustache you've ever had, or is it?
00:19 - Uh, I had one in True Grit,
00:22 but this was my real mustache.
00:27 - True Grit was a fakey?
00:28 - True Grit was a fakey.
00:29 (laughing)
00:31 - But you know what wasn't fake
00:32 was your performance in this.
00:33 You know what wasn't fake was Killian's performance.
00:35 I think we have to just talk about Killian.
00:36 - I was going to literally come to that,
00:38 'cause I-- - So mesmerizing
00:39 and extraordinary, and one of the great
00:42 screen performances of all time.
00:43 - And Chris was really clear with us,
00:45 like he needed everybody in support of that performance.
00:48 The movie really works if you come in through Oppenheimer,
00:51 through those, they--
00:52 - And his subjectivity, it was like so clear in the script
00:55 that we were there as like these colorful characters
00:57 for him to bounce off.
00:58 - Oh no, everyone in here I feel like had a proper like--
01:01 - We had some cool moments.
01:02 - Yeah, everyone had their bit to play.
01:05 Everyone was significant.
01:06 Like I don't feel like, I know you're supporting,
01:08 but almost not because you have got these significant roles.
01:12 - What's your line?
01:13 That is the most important thing.
01:14 (laughing)
01:15 - The most important thing that's ever happened
01:16 to the president.
01:18 - Oppenheimer was a genius though,
01:19 and when I was listening to it,
01:22 and you hear like he'd learned Dutch in six weeks,
01:24 and I was just like, how?
01:26 My brain can't even remember what I wore yesterday.
01:30 As actors, I'm sure you have to learn
01:31 a lot of different skills and for different roles.
01:34 What would you say is the thing that you've had to learn
01:36 the quickest, in like in the shortest amount of time?
01:39 - How long did you have to learn that equation
01:41 in Good Will Hunting?
01:42 - Well that was, that's easy, like that stuff's,
01:45 you can just, no, but I mean--
01:45 - But that's easy for you 'cause you've got that brain.
01:47 You'll look at something and you'll be able to kind of do it.
01:50 - Yeah, but I don't know what it means.
01:50 - Like that would take me forever.
01:52 - That's like learning a hieroglyphic
01:53 and just, and then forgetting it immediately after.
01:55 - I'd say learning sign language for Quiet Place
01:57 was like, I feel like I didn't have as long
01:59 as I would have liked.
02:01 And Millie, who plays our daughter in it,
02:03 who is actually deaf, she would say how cute
02:06 our sign language was, that we all signed like babies.
02:09 - Is that what she said?
02:10 - Yeah, she said you signed like babies.
02:11 - That's funny.
02:13 - Yeah, I love that.
02:14 There has been obviously so much talk
02:17 about Barbenheimer, of course.
02:19 But surely it can only be a good thing for cinema.
02:22 - We think so. - I think so, yeah, yeah.
02:23 Absolutely.
02:24 - I think it's fantastic.
02:25 Go see both, do the double bill.
02:27 - Yeah.
02:27 - What were they saying?
02:28 They said like, have your steak dinner
02:30 and then follow it up with the ice cream sundae.
02:33 It's a great way of talking about it.
02:34 - That is great.
02:35 - It's amazing for cinema and it's a wonderful weekend
02:40 and I want everyone to enjoy both movies.
02:42 - Yeah, for sure.
02:43 We need people going back to the movies too,
02:44 coming out of COVID and this is what Hollywood
02:47 should be able to do, put really good movies
02:49 that are very different in the movie theaters
02:51 on the same weekend and that's what we're supposed
02:54 to be doing.
02:54 - I love them both and I love them both.
02:56 - Oh, good. - That's great.
02:56 - Good.
02:57 - Yeah, I think everyone should go out and see it.
02:59 However, watching this, I felt not that bright
03:03 because a lot of the science stuff went over my head.
03:05 - I think it went over all of them.
03:06 - I was gonna say, how much did you understand about--
03:10 - Of the science?
03:11 - Yeah.
03:12 - No, very little of the science.
03:13 - Okay, but when I read it, I didn't find it overwhelming,
03:15 all of that.
03:16 I feel like it's almost the backdrop to this very subjective
03:20 sort of internal trauma of this guy,
03:22 of this one man who takes you through it.
03:24 - Yeah, and our job is really about the kind of the humanity
03:28 and the dynamics between the people.
03:30 - That's how we've been justifying it anyway.
03:32 - That's why we don't--
03:33 - Yeah, I hear all of us going, my job is to really just
03:37 find the human side.
03:38 We just didn't understand it, it's okay, we just don't.
03:41 - That's fine.
03:41 Your character, though, Emily, she feels like a modern woman
03:46 out of her time.
03:47 - I think she was.
03:49 - I feel like, was it even the last 20 minutes
03:51 that made you take that role?
03:52 - I was just like, wow.
03:54 - No, what made me take the role was them going,
03:56 Chris Nolan wants to meet you.
03:58 I was like, jet pack on, go.
04:00 Like, I was like, desperate to meet him.
04:02 No, I honestly, you can see from all the actors in this
04:05 that people would have shown up for a scene.
04:08 And she was an amazing character.
04:10 Super complicated and interesting.
04:12 And yeah, she does have a bit of a showdown
04:15 towards the end, which is fun.
04:17 - Amazing.
04:18 - Thank you.
04:19 - Like, genuinely.
04:19 - Thank you so much.
04:20 - I think that end part, especially for me,
04:23 I was just captivated.
04:24 - Oh, thank you.
04:25 - So, yeah, it's amazing.
04:27 I know it's long, people, but please go and see it
04:30 because it's so worth it.
04:31 It's so worth it.
04:32 Thank you so much, guys.
04:33 - Thank you so much.