Toni Collette and Naomi Ackie on Bong Joon Ho's filmmaking process in 'Mickey 17'

What is the first thought when Bong approaches you and says

I want you in my movie? I screamed and cried. Yeah. I think I was in shock

I was like, huh? Me? Are you sure? You didn't make him a mistake

Oh, please. Seriously, yeah. I was like, wow. I mean, yeah. It was quite surreal

It's really, I feel so freaking fortunate, honestly. I still pinch myself because I just adore his films

And now that I know him, I adore him. Mm-hmm. And it's always nice when you get to meet someone

you admire and I don't lay you down. Yeah! Yeah! No, Tony

He exceeds any expectations. He's just beautiful. Vicki! It's not looking very good for you

Yeah, no. I'm sure you're used to it by now, but what's it feel like to die

Tony, you've said that working with Bong, you kind of are making the movie in moments

Can you tell me a little bit about that experience? Yeah, I mean, he's ultra prepared and he's a very prepared and he's a very much

already edited the movie in his mind and on paper. So he's able to share with everyone exactly what the film will be

And every day you would get exactly what we're shooting. And he would shoot the storyboard

So you shoot incremental moments rather than entire scenes. And there's an editor on set who stitches it together as you're going

So by the end of the day, you can watch the scene. And you could be doing a big scene, but he'll just get the moments because he knows that's all he wants it for

I found it weird at first, but honestly, I could do it. the rest of my life. It was a brilliant way to make it. Because it's so focused and you can just

perfect like really focusing on it and get it right Every time I died they just printed me out again That when everything changed

I remember reading it and thinking, oh, there are so many ways you could go here, but I had the luxury of starting after that already shot for several weeks

So Mark and I came in and we had lunch with Bong

and then he said, I'm going to show you what we shot. And he pressed play. And so it wasn't even like he was describing it

We could absolutely see how the genre morphs. And it was so, A, exciting, like, oh my God

and then B, how intimidating. I'm gonna be a part of that

Can I do that? But it was a total luxury to be able to literally watch

what you'd already done. That's crazy. That is crazy. Star Wars and the end of the effing world

where I'd seen the stuff, like, you kind of know what they're looking for, like what the tone is

This one, I don't know, because the tones are so different, but like, that's an actual life

I actually find myself more drawn to materials that are genre bending

because in the same day, you could have a horrific moment and a hilarious moment

and an intimate moment. And that, to me, reflects real life. So I agree

I agree. Yeah. Mickey Barnes. Fighting right to the end. My great gift to mankind

Are you afraid to die? This time I wasn't scared. We're afraid