Michael B. Jordan is back for the action-packed thriller, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse,” so of course Cinemablend’s Events Editor Eric Eisenberg had to dig into all the details with the star of the Amazon Prime release. Joining Jordan are co-stars Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lauren London and Director Stefano Sollima. Find out what the cast thinks about "Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse" being followed by "Rainbow Six" and a possible "Jack Ryan" crossover and more!
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00:20 Obviously this is a movie that is filled with a ton of awesome action sequences,
00:24 but I wanted to specifically ask you about the underwater scenes because
00:27 there's just some stuff there that you cannot fake. I'm hoping you can talk about those days
00:31 and also just how long can you hold your breath now?
00:33 Uh now or then? Back then I was pretty good. I mean maybe right under three minutes.
00:43 Maybe you know right at that. Can't remember the exact number but we definitely spent a lot
00:48 of time training just to prepare me to be able to you know just deal with the stress.
00:55 You know when you're when you're physically exerting yourself you know underwater and you
00:59 know you're you're swimming and going through obstacles and you know you gotta perform mental
01:04 tasks you know underwater. You start to use up your oxygen fairly quickly rather than you know
01:09 maybe you know sitting still and holding your breath you can hold it for a lot longer. Thank
01:14 God my you know my stunt team and my trainers and everybody felt comfortable enough to put me in
01:19 those positions to be able to do it so it was a lot of fun. To speak about the collaborations uh
01:24 you also have Michael B. Jordan who is not only the star of this film but also a producer. What
01:28 was it like working with him and just how much influence did he specifically have on the John
01:31 Kelly character? Oh it was a really really cool from the beginning because uh when I in the
01:38 beginning I pitched my vision on the on the movie I told him I want to make a movie that is hugely
01:47 entertaining but at the same time uh humanistic meaning that I want to make a movie where you
01:55 recognize the human being that is doing the action more than the action itself. So I asked
02:02 him uh I would love to have you playing all the action on your own without any double and
02:14 stunts and he was enthusiastic and the fact that he was also at the same time producer was a huge
02:23 help because it was like to have an ally split it in two because you have not just your actor
02:31 your star that is playing is building uh with you but you are you have the producer that is a sort
02:39 of shield. You're getting ready to make your directorial debut you're a producer on this film
02:44 I'm curious just kind of if you're looking at the production process differently and how you're just
02:49 processing all that information going into Creed 3. I mean I think I'm looking at everything
02:54 differently now that I'm directing I think from uh you know from top to bottom I think producing is
03:00 something I've naturally always done but I guess it's more now in an official capacity um you know
03:07 and when you have when you're looked to for the answer for almost everything as a director on a
03:14 project you have to have an opinion on everything I think it thrusts you further into the producing
03:19 on another level so I mean I guess to answer your question is like yeah I'm way more you know hands
03:24 on this project than I have with anything else. Initially Stefano our director like his initial
03:30 note to me was like I just never want to know what you're thinking I never want to know what
03:34 you want I never want to know um what your intentions are so um that was always something
03:40 that was in the back of my in the back of my mind I always just wanted to make sure that I was a good
03:44 adversary to John that um that we had good tension between us throughout the movie and um you know
03:52 and not necessarily playing as a bad guy he's just someone that you he's a enigma right he's
03:57 someone you can never quite figure out and that presented a challenge um but it was one that I
04:03 felt made it worthwhile doing. This is an intense role for multiple reasons like when you were
04:09 preparing what what was kind of involved with your research and your training? Yeah you know
04:13 obviously I worked out with a trainer just in order to keep up with cardiovascularly we were
04:18 going to be going through filming this but also you know we were working with some military guys
04:24 on set to make sure that we were moving and talking and and being in combat the way that
04:32 was meant to be the most accurate and then I also spent time before I got to Germany just
04:41 seeking out and having conversations with men who had done for a job what Karen Brea does.
04:49 I'm curious just how early in the process you got to meet with Michael B. Jordan and just had the
04:54 opportunity to discuss the relationship that exists between uh John and Pam? I actually uh
05:00 knew Michael before we filmed and Michael is actually what he called me personally and um
05:08 invited me to do the role. We just spoke briefly well intensely kind of just about grief and
05:16 you know uh how ready was I to even do this role and if this was something that I wanted to
05:22 contribute to and um what it would take to do the role and what I was comfortable with what I wasn't
05:29 he connected me to uh Navy SEAL's wife and I got to speak to her personally
05:36 about what that experience was like being the wife of a Navy SEAL. Was this the first time
05:41 like was working on this movie the first time that you had seen Michael B. Jordan since working on
05:45 Fantastic Four? I think I'd seen him maybe socially a couple times in between um but uh
05:51 you know certainly between that movie and this movie uh a lot has happened in his life and he's
05:56 become like a global uh like a stratospheric movie star so um you know through through great choices
06:05 and and great work of course but um a lot can change between you know a person from that point
06:12 and this point so I was always kind of like a little trepidatious to be like god I hope he's
06:16 still chill I hope he's still like a good guy he still like cares about it who cares what he's
06:21 doing and um what I discovered was that this is a man who has doubled down on his dedication and
06:27 his commitment and um he's really a man who raises uh uh up people around him and he's he's a man who
06:35 does it with his own identity and um um he's an inspiration to me I gotta say like you know he's
06:41 doing things that I want to do like he's he's making he's directing films like I really look
06:46 to him as an inspiration and um you know if he called tomorrow and said I've got something else
06:51 for you I would jump because he's a great person to work for and to be in a scene with and he's
06:57 just an overall great guy so very proud to know. What would you say was the most challenging
07:02 sequence to put together because also I mean you're dealing with two separate water sequences
07:06 which are just like that's gotta be hell. Probably I would say the plane crash because
07:13 I mean since we wanted to be so close to the to the character to John Kelly and
07:20 the idea was to build the entire action uh trying not to change too much point of view
07:31 and trying to be sticked on John Kelly's point of view and this of course in the plane crash
07:37 that starts from uh in the air and ends up underwater was uh kind of crazy for definition
07:46 so we built and almost everything you see in the movie is done practically so we had an
07:58 unreal physical airplane and then we we have this big long uh track tracking shot from when he's
08:08 seated and when he gets the water when the airplane splits in two and then he decides to go
08:14 and to emerge himself and start swimming in the fuselage that's sinking so this this sequence was
08:24 absolutely crazy to shoot. To also speak about the future I mean this film ends with a post-credit
08:29 scene and I promise to say this until after the film is out uh but it teases uh the future Rainbow
08:34 6 and I'm just curious what kind of conversations you've been having about that and also now that
08:38 Amazon's involved if Jack Ryan could potentially be a part of that whole universe? I mean I think
08:43 you're thinking in the right direction I haven't necessarily had those those conversations just
08:48 yet you know I think you know really just working on trying to get this movie out you know this uh
08:52 April 30th release we're really really excited about it and and um and hopefully in the future
08:58 you know yeah Rainbow 6 is something that to look forward to but uh the when the where the how and
09:03 the who uh is something that uh has yet to be determined but I'm excited about the potential
09:08 you know? Yeah I mean I'm keeping my fingers crossed because man I had a ton of fun with this
09:12 so and I definitely I'm glad thank you man thank you so much very cool. Has it occurred to you that
09:19 perhaps John Kelly has done something we can't?
09:22 Some situations warrant thinking outside the box.
09:28 Give me a name. You were supposed to be dead. Give me a name.
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