Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt and The Cast Of ‘The Fall Guy’ Are Just Having Too Much Fun
Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke and David Leitch are loving their film "The Fall Guy" and you can feel it in their interviews. We sat down with them to discuss their favorite bits from the movie and behind-the-scenes stories, and we got the scoop behind the film’s big ending cameo (note the spoiler warning at the end of the video). Plus, David Leitch tells us why Aaron Taylor-Johnson should play James Bond…and why he should direct it.
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00:00I love this movie so much.
00:01So do I.
00:02So does he.
00:03Yes.
00:04Ooh.
00:05F***ing love it.
00:06Ooh.
00:07It's a perfect movie.
00:08What?
00:09I was not expecting that.
00:10Even I love you, Cavalier.
00:11I was bracing myself for impact.
00:12I was.
00:13I was bracing for impact.
00:14I was like, the hit's coming.
00:15Okay.
00:16Maniac.
00:17It sounds crazy.
00:18By the end of it, it felt like a big inside joke that the audience is like, in on.
00:26And that was the intention, that you were kidnapped into this madcap world of making
00:32a movie and that you weren't excluded from all of the inside jokes.
00:37Well, because it's also like, I think we felt like everybody's already a filmmaker anyway.
00:43Everyone in the audience makes their own content.
00:47Everyone knows what's up.
00:48There's no need to pretend anymore.
00:51It's not like, we'll just acknowledge that we all know how movies are made.
00:56People are all filmmakers, and so it's just, I'm glad you said that, because that's sort
01:01of how we wanted to approach it, just like, these aren't really inside jokes.
01:05I mean, we're all in on the joke.
01:06To set an action film within the world of the people who make them, you know, is just
01:11sort of like, yeah, of course, they're capable of doing it because they are the ones that
01:15do it.
01:16So it just sort of kind of, it was such a, I mean, just even that.
01:21And then of course, like the opportunity to acknowledge stunt performers and just what
01:25they contribute.
01:26And it's just, you know, they risk more than anyone on a film set and they get no, none
01:31of the credit.
01:32It feels so nostalgic.
01:34You know, it feels like the movies that brought you to the theater in the first place as a
01:38kid.
01:39It's like all those big action epics, right, where, you know, for me, one of the hallmarks
01:44is when the landscape is its own character and we're setting it against Sydney, Australia,
01:49the opera house.
01:50Yeah.
01:52The bridge.
01:53I mean, the bridge section in itself was making real time news while Ryan was shooting it.
01:59I mean, that's just cool, isn't it?
02:01At the same time you're making this love letter to Hollywood, were you also airing some grievances?
02:07There are a few little like jabs in there about, you know, obviously not being recognized,
02:13not being an award, the Academy Award for stunts.
02:16I mean, they're tongue in cheek.
02:18I mean, I think that that's something that we're all working towards in a real positive
02:21way and the Academy's been so supportive, you know, in the last couple of years that
02:25it feels like there's a really clear path and it could happen soon.
02:31I'm glad you said that because, you know, Ryan and I and Kelly really wanted to make
02:36this a love letter to not just stunt crews and the people that make movies, but people
02:42that love big popcorn movies.
02:44And so we did think a lot every day of like, what would the audience want?
02:49Would they like to laugh here?
02:51Would they like to cry here?
02:53Can we make them feel all these different emotions and get away with it?
02:56Because that's the type of movie I like to go to the theater and see and like really
02:59go on a journey.
03:01So we were every day we thought about the audience.
03:02We really did.
03:03And it was sort of like, how do we make this one for the popcorn crowd so they can really
03:08appreciate it?
03:09I didn't walk in expecting your bestie chemistry with Ryan.
03:15This is insane, man.
03:19I think we all need that.
03:20I think we all need one of those ride or dies that's like, OK, I'll do it.
03:24I got your back.
03:25Was that immediate?
03:26It was very immediate for me because I've always been such a big admirer of Ryan, you
03:30know, my my entire life.
03:32So I've been watching him since Young Hercules on Fox and watching all of his work.
03:37And, you know, what do you want?
03:38What do you want?
03:39What do you want?
03:40So getting this opportunity, then seeing him on set the first day, I led with compliments.
03:45I was like, you're so good looking, man.
03:49I did.
03:50I did.
03:51And that was his response.
03:52It's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:53Stop it.
03:54Stop it, man.
03:55Get out of here.
03:56Get out of here.
03:57What do you want to do in this scene, man?
03:58And I think, you know, that kind of just like fun playfulness also translates on screen
04:03because you feel comfortable, you feel comfortable risking.
04:06Whereas I went for the opposite, I think, because I knew that Gail had to be a self-serving
04:12a-hole.
04:13I was just a bit like, you're not all that.
04:15Dead body on ice.
04:17He was so dead, Gail.
04:18He was super dead.
04:19It was really lovely that David and Ryan, that first scene that I shot is in Gail's
04:24trailer.
04:25I was still so jet-lagged, I didn't know where any of my molecules were around the world.
04:29And they were so playful and encouraging to let me find her with them.
04:36And I wanted to constantly keep that barometer of the humor and her being a revolting, self-serving
04:45pig vomit.
04:46So I'm really thrilled that you saw that, because that's what we all have, isn't it?
04:51There are moments.
04:52Tom Ryder, the biggest action star on the planet, is missing.
04:58You need to bring him back.
04:59Why me?
05:00You're a stuntman.
05:01Nobody's going to notice you.
05:02That's your job.
05:03No offense.
05:04I mean, some taking.
05:05I can't believe you cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the biggest action star in the world.
05:09Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom Ryder.
05:11And then right as the movie's about to come out, they're talking about casting stuff.
05:16Yeah, I mean, I hope that, look, he would be an amazing James Bond.
05:20I'll just go on the record, like, I've never gotten to do enough action with Aaron, which
05:23is crazy.
05:24Like, we've done Bullet Train, and now we've done The Fall Guy.
05:28And all what I really want to do is an action movie with him, because he's such an incredible
05:32athlete.
05:33Like, Aaron is awesome.
05:35So maybe we'll get that opportunity soon.
05:38And I'll get to direct Bond.
05:39I don't know.
05:40We'll see.
05:41I was realizing that at some point, your character is doubling for Aaron's, and then in the reality
05:48of the set, you both have doubles.
05:50I mean, it sounds like this weird stuntman inception.
05:55How many duplicates?
05:56It's like a Matushka doll.
05:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:58Just like big-faced cowboys.
05:59Yeah.
06:00So much gold lamé, Aaron.
06:01One smaller after the other.
06:02Yeah, but that was so fun, because I've been on sets where we're not acknowledging that,
06:06and it's just sort of like there's ten of the same character, and you know, it's just
06:10such a strange thing anyway, so to finally get to like actually work it into a film was
06:15so fun.
06:19Was it always Momoa?
06:20No.
06:21What were the other names that were thrown around?
06:23I don't want to say, I don't want to say because I feel like it was, we were, we, I reached
06:28out to a lot of people and friends, and it was really came down to, we were shooting
06:31in Australia.
06:33And it was like, it's hard to ask people to come down for a one-day cameo, you know, for,
06:40but what was great with Jason, and he was in New Zealand shooting his television show,
06:43and when I reached out to Jason, he's like, dude, I'll hop on a plane right now, it'd
06:47be fun, let's chew it up.
06:49And he did, and you know, he flew in that morning, we shot all day, and he flew back
06:55that night, so he could shoot the next day on his TV show that he was producing.
07:01So he's a good friend, and we go way back to his Conan, his first Conan movie.
07:05Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:07You had a pretty sick fight scene in the trailer, right?
07:10It was so good.
07:11And it was kind of-
07:12I felt the binder in the throat.
07:13Yeah, it was kind of goofy, too.
07:14That was your favorite move.
07:15What?
07:16That was your favorite move.
07:17You just sold it.
07:18You got to do just a straight action film.
07:19I would love to.
07:20She's a good-
07:21I mean, I do love a fight scene.
07:22I love a fight, especially with a big alien.
07:24A movie about fight scenes, were you like, yeah, I better have a fight scene?
07:28Yes, and I loved the confinement of it being in the trailer.
07:31I would use the smoothie blender, use the bullet, at some point the coir do choke, it's
07:36amazing.
07:38And a pen.
07:39Yeah, it's the pen.
07:40Finish it off with a pen.
07:41It's so tough.
07:42You need the pen.
07:43My favorite bit is at the end of that, where you're on the floor, and I come in with the
07:46pen, and then you're like this, and then your thumb goes up, your alien thumb.
07:50So good.
07:51One last stunt, going down in a blaze of glory.