Say More: Jai Courtney on 'Dangerous Animals' and how his career led here

I'm no expert on Jaws. I probably should have watched Jaws a few times more, not to make dangerous animals, but to do the press for dangerous animals

Because everyone wants to talk about Jaws a little bit. America, one, obsessed with Jaws, two, it's the 50th anniversary

I know it is. Yeah, well aware. Right, you're like, no, it's getting brought up to me every day

It's so great. I should really watch it. Ahoy! Welcome to Mashable Say More, a podcast where your favorite artists from film and TV and the internet talk about their careers, their latest projects, and their online obsessions

We're your hosts. I'm Mark Stetson, Senior Creative Producer at Mashable. And I'm Christy Puchko, Mashable's entertainment editor. And I'm so excited about today's episode because we got to dive in with Jai Courtney about his new movie, Dangerous Animals

This is the one where there's a serial killer who uses sharks as his weapon of choice, right

Yeah, from Sean Burns, the filmmaker behind The Loved Ones and Devil's Candy, comes a fresh and bloody vision of ocean terror

Jai Courtney stars as Tucker, a captain who makes his living taking tourists out in a shark cage

to see the incredible underwater predators of Gold Coast, Australia. But his passion is feeding those sharks with prey of his own

Sounds like good old-fashioned summer fun to me. And you can find Christy's review of Dangerous Animals on Mashable.com

along with reviews of the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake and Materialists

Celine Song's much-anticipated follow-up from Past Lives. Given how good Past Lives is, that might be reason enough for you to see the movie

but if you need to be wooed, it's a romantic comedy about a love triangle that has three sides

our people the internet is obsessed over. We're talking Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, and the Pedro Pascal

Just the Pedro Pascal was what wooed me immediately. So I'm sold

And be sure to look out for Christy's interviews with the cast out of the materialist's junket

But Christy, what about those of us looking for something just from the comfort of our own couch

Sure. Well, we have our weekly new to streaming column, which highlights the best and worst of what's recently debuted on Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, and so on

And, you know, it'll stop you from having to endlessly scroll to figure out what to watch. And are there any Jai Courtney films currently streaming

There are a bunch. I watched a bunch to prepare for this interview, but I'm going to recommend to you guys at home Suicide Squad, which is on HBO Max

and Buffaloed, which is on Peacock, and Free on Tubi. they kind of pave a good path for you to understand how we got to Jai and Dangerous Animals

Well, okay. Well, while I add those to my personal watch list, you should watch Mashable's interview with Jai Courtney

Enjoy. Very excited to have you here today, Jai. I saw Dangerous Animals twice already

Twice already? Already. I'm excited about it. I've only seen it three times. That's impressive

Well, I want to talk a bit about, like, what I thought was so exciting about this is

I love a serial killer movie. I love a shark movie. But I like that this movie, while the sharks are scary, they are not the villain

They are not the villain. So can you tell us about Tucker? Tucker is the villain, definitely, unquestionably

I think, yeah, it's sort of a unique take in that sharks aren't, they've always been kind of, they are a threat, obviously

but they're more like deployed as a threat by Tucker to sort of fulfill his sick desires

and this twisted philosophy that he has that he is somehow part of this ecosystem

and is at one with the shark and, you know, is kind of an apex predator himself

But I think we've been used to sort of seeing them as the indiscriminate killers in shark films

And it's just like a little bend on that theme. There's a line from Tucker early on that it's, you know

he says to one of the characters that it's not the shark's fault. And I think that's something we all kind of know

But yeah, I mean, weirdly there's like, there's almost like a loose underlying conservation thing going on

with Tucker as well. I mean, he really believes in his crusade. There's actually, there's some stuff that didn't make the final cut

where we expanded on his passion for them as creatures and the cruelty that they endure

and how many sharks are killed every year due to the fishing industries and all this stuff

And it kind of springs the argument about who really are the dangerous animals

But I guess I didn't deliver that monologue too well because it got trimmed out

I think the story makes that expression anyway and like you know Jaws is like one of my favorite movies ever but like when I watch it with

people I'm always saying like the shark is not the villain it's the mayor who's like we need to keep

the beaches open that seems to be the argument I'm no expert on Jaws I probably should have watched

Jaws a few times more not to make dangerous animals but to do the press for dangerous animals

because everyone wants to talk about Jaws a little bit America one obsessed with Jaws two it's the

50th anniversary. I know it is. Well aware. Right. You're like, no, it's getting brought up

to me every day now. It's going right. I should really watch it. I hear it's

great. Yeah. But the mare is the villain. I mean, it's just because

it's truly because it's like, yeah, the shark is being a shark. It's doing

what it does. So it's this idea of I'm very afraid of sharks

in an ocean scenario. The first time I ever went snorking, I

literally could hear the Jaws theme in my head, which is not conducive. And we were in Maine. That's not a thing

They don't have sharks in Maine. If they do, I don't want to know. No one emailed me. I'm sure they have sharks in Maine

I don't even know. I'm fine where I'm at. But, like, it freaked me out so bad

And it's, like, what's funny is, like, my thing is basically, like, if I ever get eaten by a shark, that's all me

I was in the wrong part of town. I had no business being there

But I think it's so cool that, like, he has this obsession with sharks, and then it gets gnarled into something in a very Sean Byrne way

that is, like, more obsessive. and there's some interesting rituals within the film

but what I thought was interesting is the film doesn't ever kind of sit down and be like, this is Tucker's whole deal, this is his whole ritual

this is what it does. It's like we get flashes of it. And it made me feel a little bit like we're one of the captives on the boat

that we're only getting this in the snippets, you know? Yeah. And I'm curious if, was there more of that in the script

or was that something that was intended to be mysterious? No, I think it delivered as intended

um you know we learn a little bit about tucker here and there we we rare we we get like a few

glimpses of him without another character in frame it's not many um but most of his uh most

of what we learn about him is in kind of communication with someone else um and uh yeah

i think it you know it does just that it's like we kind of wonder what's going on and then you sort

of uh you see snippets of it and you know maybe like halfway through the film we get a moment

where he's sort of celebrating one of his uh it's like a wrap party for his own like

snuff film honestly that's kind of what he's making um and he's like dancing on his own and

this was like the only time we really get to like you know pull the curtain back entirely

uh but you know there's never like a deep understanding there's just clues uh and i had

to develop a bit of that with sean to get to build some more kind of empathy for him and figure out

who he was and like where this trauma is like stuck for him and you know what's his kind of wound

um and so we did you know we we developed that together um but yeah you don't you don't learn a

whole lot it was fun though you know it's touched on early in the film there's a scene where he says

uh he's talking about an attack that he was a victim of as a as a young kid um and he says you

know i was i guess i spent a lot of time on my own or something like this and that was kind of like

enough because you get to sort of if you grab a hold of that as an audience member or someone

listening to it you get to kind of develop whatever that means for yourself and the same went for me

So I sort of, I played on that in my own mind and had all this stuff that connected him

He's basically got mummy issues. And all that kind of feeds into what becomes this really kind of sick obsession and his connection to the shark and the world in which he feels he you know part of this sort of predatory pyramid

Yeah. And part of what's so fun to watch you particularly in this role is the way you're able to kind of switch to the two faces of Tucker, because he's able to do this very jovial, very charismatic, you know, tour guide vibe

and it's all very jolly. And then it's like, literally in the opening sequence

we watch him turn like that and become a creature of violence. And I'm curious for you, like, what is it like putting those sides together

and finding those moments to turn? I think it's so much fun

It's like when you get to really explore, like, light and shade with a character

it's always just like, you know, things get juicier. You get to, like, chomp on more

and um it's funny because working in this genre too it has its own style like you get to get away

with things being a little more like wink to the audience there's moments where the film really

doesn't take itself seriously uh and of course like you know the horror in loose terms like has

its own kind of cliches which we allow ourselves to play into at times um so it's you know it it's

just playful as an actor you get to kind of dance with all that um material and see what works

you know there's a line that's like people are no strangers to it because it's been through a lot of

our um promo material but when he kind of turns almost to camera and says welcome aboard and it's

like it's so like it just goes ding like this and like if you get to try and nail that as an actor

it's just a lot of fun particularly when it springs straight out of a moment where we've just seen him

like you know slash a guy's throat right it was really fun to watch this in theaters and like

you like the title card because of dangerous animals and like i'm in like a press screening

with like four other people and like literally i'm there just like god i'm like i want to go

see this the crowd because it was like such a it's so good with an audience i gotta say i mean

i watched it at home for the first time my wife did not want to go to bed next to me

Sure. Well, bravo to you. Thank you. Nailed it. Smashed it out of the park

But then we saw it with an audience first in Cannes, which was unbelievable

and then last week in Los Angeles. And just like the energy of this film

A, the sound design plays a huge role in, like, the way the cuts work together

the sort of the jump scares that will come. You know, having a ton of atmosphere is one thing

but then when you're sharing in that with an audience around you as well, I just think that energy gets really palpable

And for a film like this, you know, people are screaming, they're cheering, you know, they're laughing

It's like, I heard they had a scream in Austin the other night and people are like yelling from the crowd, like getting on board

It's good. And I think that's what a film like this is designed to inspire

So hopefully, you know, people feel like they need to get out and see it

and go and do that with an audience around them. Yeah, I want to circle back to the dance you mentioned

because you used it metaphorically, but there's literally a dance scene. And watching it, I was so fascinated

because Tucker is so intense in this dance that in my mind, I'm like, this is a ritual

And he's listening to It's Evie Part 1 by Steve Wright. Is it Part 1 or Part 2

I think it's Part 1. Is it? Yeah, you might be right. I used shazam. I think there's three parts

Oh, you did. You shazammed it. Okay, I'll take your word for it then. But I'm curious for you, like, what is there

Is there a meaning to that song that you applied to it? Was that the song on set

Did that get down to the post? It was the song on set. Now, Sean is very attached to some of the needle drops in the movie

and they were written in. I'm not sure if, like, all of them made it

I'm sure our producers had ideas around where budget was allocated when it comes to that sort of thing

And I'm sure there were battles lost and won by both of those parties

in the edit. but Evie was always the song in the script and it's just like an old 70s jam

that all Australians know but I don't know if it had I had no idea if it had any global reach

but yeah, the dance was designed to be a celebration a private moment that Tucker has on his own

you know, we don't like spell it out but he's probably drinking

and he's just celebrating this film that he's made a kill um that he's put on tape and sean just wanted it to feel like i don't know like just

like a pride we didn't really he didn't prescribe anything he was like whatever that kind of means

to you and i was terrified because i have never danced on camera um we weren't choreographing

anything which was probably for the best because it didn't need to feel that way but i just knew i

had to like send it hard for it to feel i didn't want to do it 10 times i didn't want it to be

something where we were chasing like yeah like and like pretending we were choreographing something

all of a sudden like late in the piece um so I just got drunk and then did it you know uh privately

without anyone else's knowledge so um you know you've got to be professional these days and I

wasn't performing any stunts kept everyone safe and uh we did it two times me and my the DP

Shelly Farthingdor, he got in there hand-held and just went for it

I remember Sean saying, man, it's like you really seem like you've wasted

And I was like... I'm a very good actor. Three years of drama school, baby

I love that. But I mean, what I thought was so striking about it is there's so much energy in there

It's so raw, but it also feels really intimate. It feels kind of alarming to be that close to him in this moment

because it feels like something's going on in him and we maybe can't figure out what that is yet

Yeah. So it's just really haunting. And there's also an energy in him that took me back to Captain Boomerang

which I feel like, and maybe that's from my perspective, so correct me if you don't agree

but I felt like that was a turning point in your career where you got to start playing these kind of weirder characters

Yeah. What was that like for you? I think you're right. I think you're probably right

And I think that's been something that I'm learning now to like really uh like cultivate more of and and sort of celebrate and i'm not you know i spoke

about this with someone earlier today i'm really like careful with my quotes because you know you

say anything that like means one thing and it's not like i'm running away from like leading men

or anything it's just that i think that the roles that have been working in the last kind of 10

years have been ones where I've been able to like stretch a little further and I don't know if actors

ever feel like we define ourselves as anything because I think we all have this like ambition

that you can take on whatever and like if something pushes you further out of your comfort zone it's

probably a good thing but you know if as early as I was ever developing some kind of ambition around

this as like an art form I always thought I was like a character actor I was always like a bigger

performer um and i don't know that that means you aren't something else or are but definitely the

roles i'm having more fun with these days are less like straight um and whether that's like a little

bit more comedic uh or whatever i you know i i'm i hope that i get to keep changing that up but um

but yeah i think boomerang offered me something that was new at the time and all of a sudden it

was like oh yeah that kind of makes a lot more sense um and so yeah i mean i guess there's i

don't know if there's like similarity in them i think you know the the kind of low thing to grab

out is that they're both australian and kind of have a have a kind of um a quality to them that

feels somewhat familiar but but uh i think it's just me allowing myself to have fun as well yeah

well i wonder because you've done so many like big franchises including suicide squad but i'm

thinking like Terminator and Jack Reacher and Die Hard What was that one A Good Day to Die Hard And I wondering if when you presented with something like that does that feel like it like there a very because it this franchise

because there's this expectation about how it needs to speak to fans and the requirements they're in, does that feel like you have to play

within a specific confine versus playing something like Boomerang or Tucker? Well, they've all been unique experiences and it come at times

you know, Die Hard now is like 12 years ago or something. And at the time, it's like a no-brainer move for me

You know, I audition. I get to test with Bruce. I win the job

It's like my, I don't know, third movie. I'm on a plane in a heartbeat, fully all in

Sure. You don't, you know, I'm not worrying about the pressure. You sort of, you're maybe taking a little bit of that on

but it's all about like, man, you know, you're just like facing forward and like looking up

and, you know, making the most of it. I think what happens or at least what I learned you know I was involved in two kind of 80s action

franchises in a fifth installment which is pretty like it's hard to get people to want to feel the

same way they did when you're relying on nostalgia and like the language that something created for

someone at a certain time in their life you kind of you like buy all that passion in but then you

open yourself up for all this scrutiny um by trying to tell them that you're still willing

to like have a go at it you know this many years down the track so i think that does like create

probably a pressure i don't know that in either of those we really felt that making those movies

but it is understandable why like i don't think anyone says terminated genesis is their favorite

terminator movie and that's all right you know what i mean it's like that would be pretty it'd

be pretty remarkable but man am i proud to be part of that stuff absolutely yeah well i mean i think

that that's certainly part of it like the thing is as a like as a film critic i also think that

sometimes these sequels and stuff are actually great but people's attachment to the original

property is overblown because it's a thing that we saw when we were kids and kids have terrible

tastes like not that these things aren't good but it's like by the time you're a grown-up like

they're amazing they're also original at the time right and so they stamp you know you put a stamp

on something and it goes like life changed for me at that moment and like yeah i mean you go back

and look at uh like the first terminator like it's it's like awesome because it's terminator yeah

but like there's been a lot a lot of films we made that are better movies right you know what i mean

But like, you're going to give James Cameron notes? Like, no, it's rad

You just let it have its space. And that's why it's risky to keep hammering ideas out because, you know, it's like a car

It's like a car from the 70s that they try and build a new shape for in 2025

You know what I mean? It's not really going to be like a Ford Bronco anymore, is it

Right. Right. And it's like, the thing is, it's like, even, even if it can be something great, it's necessarily, the audiences are like, they still want the thing it originally was

That's it. So there's like a pushback regardless. It's true. That has to feel really good

But, you know, he's actually, I'll still show up for another one

Yeah. Well, I mean, very famously, George Clooney, like, he's got asked a lot about his Batman movie, which a lot of people don't care for

And he was like, I got asked to be Batman. You go and do it. You just go and be Batman

Right. Like, for instance, this will never happen. But if somebody called me tomorrow and said, Christy, can you be the next Batman

I don't care that my online life would be over because everyone would hate that

Of course I want to be Batman. Just go and do Batman. Yeah. There's certain phone calls you don't, you know, you have to answer

That's what's been so interesting watching your career because, like, you've done all these big things and you've taken on all these huge properties

And then it's like, I don't know, it's funny because it's like, I think that you've done some incredible things within those spaces

And I think that's really challenging. But it was like, I watched you in, like, Buffaloed

And I was like, this is fun. And it just felt like you got to kind of be liberated from it

And I think in part because Buffalo is original. And I'd never seen anything quite like that before

I think it's an interesting thing. You sort of, I don't know, there's never a choice one way or the other, really

Maybe there's an illusion that in Hollywood things are really calculated. And for some people's careers it can appear like there must have been this through-line vision

and like I swear to god if an actor talks like that it's because they got really lucky

and maybe maybe their thing was executing itself and it's like great now I can speak about it as

though it was all by design there's a time in everyone's career where you'll take

anything that comes in you know what I mean I mean I think about the jobs I've lost

over the years that I thought I wanted at the time because it was the right moment to want that and

And it's like, yeah, I don't really live in a space where I regret stuff or hang on to it

But man, like some of those pilots that I was devastated I missed out on in 2009

like could have really changed the shape of like where things went in not the best way

So I don't know. You just kind of play it as it comes

And if you're lucky enough to like keep some, to like keep building on who you are and like the kind of characters you get to take on and hopefully the work keeps getting better

That's awesome. But, you know, I can't sit here and be like, I was involved with all this franchise and then I, you know, changed gears and targeted all this indie stuff

And then I've, you know, I'm making a comeback now into the mainstream

it's a very nice way to like a journalistic way to like look at things but it's not the truth

you know you're just hammering it out trying to stay fulfilled trying to like put food on the

table and um hopefully growing as a performer each time and and trying to stay proud of your work

you know if anything has like strengthened i think it's my um like instinct around like what

to work on there's things i'd never like trash a film i've been a part of but there's stuff i've

done that i'm like all right if i get that kind of chance again i i could have seen the ingredients

that maybe it's going to be what you know you hope it wouldn't but then they say that and like even

dangerous animals like we're sitting here i'm proud as punch for the movie it was not like

without risk for me like i read it and i was like you gotta hope this thing turns out as good as it

did there's a you know it could have been a cringy shark horror uh you know you just don't know you

just really don't and you hope that the people you're working with all mean what they say

and you're only just taking a chance at each other you know should we all just do that you

date for five seconds and you go all right cool let's get married and create cinematic history

and it's either gonna get swept under and never see the light of day or you know maybe it like

chugs its way through the indie distribution kind of maze and like gets out on a streamer at some

point or maybe you go wide because you got a really cool movie and you know everyone's

gonna get out and you know have fun this summer yeah that must be frustrating from your perspective

because you put so much into the production process and then it's like it's out of your

hands which of those pads it goes down 100 is and that's why things can be really heartbreaking

sometimes because you you pour like blood sweat and tears into something that you're really

passionate about um and it just isn't necessarily like speaking to the appetite of that festival it

got into right you know and like buyers aren't you know that kind of hot for this kind of thing

it just goes like and then you end up with like a a day and date vod deal which is awesome that it

like gets somewhere but it's like no one's talking about it right you know might be your best work

and everyone's best work i mean it's a miracle films get finished any like if you've been part

of the process it really like there a lot that goes into this years of development um the money that it takes to raise to get it done uh they don just like make themselves and so i think it like a huge achievement even when even when things don

turn out as good as you hoped you know you to get it over the line and get it out is is massive in

itself um but yeah i think you know i i've just gotten realer about that it's why it's like we

hear people talk about things from a perspective where it all seems very you know precise and it's

like well this is clearly the plot that lives the chart that you've made the journey that you mapped

out and it's like yeah it's not I mean it's it's it you know it might feel that way and that's

awesome but um I don't know if there's always going to be a few bumps right I think from as

an entertainment journalist like we do have to create a narrative to try to kind of explain to

audiences like this is what it looks like but I think there's also an awareness especially the

more actors I talk to, the more it's like, we are just trying to get jobs. Yeah, totally

And like, you know, it's like if somebody tried to map out all this stuff I've written as an entertainment journalist over the years, like, no, there's not, there's not a plan. There's a

things are happening and I need to work. Yeah, it is. And just, and you know, hopefully you're

staying like true to a voice that you have and, uh, you know, you stay inspired about what it is

you're doing. You know, that to me is like something that I just, if I'm lucky enough to

keep doing this it's like you know my only condition for myself is that I'm hopefully

working on things I want to be a part of yeah well speaking to that what was your introduction

to Sean Byrne had you seen his other films before you got the script yeah I'd seen his stuff I saw

Loved Ones like eons ago when it came out um I don't think I read for it but I remember it being

like it was like when I first came out of drama school it was like one of the ones that like mates

were up for um and then i watched the devil's candy in preparation to meet sean and uh i think

he has a really cool you know touch on things and um understands horror really well i love

that he's always woven music into his stuff in a really kind of strong intentional way um

yeah i don't know i mean i feel like this i was listening to him speak the other night and

someone kind of saying to him about it being like a like it like this was a sort of he'd been waiting

to tell this story and it's like I don't think he feels that way either it was like yeah it was the

right one that came along and and he was the right guy for it and you know it's it's awesome I mean

I'm thrilled to have gotten to work with him he's a very um prepared director you know we would we

would get into it some days because you know he's very like attached to his storyboards he really

sees the movie um and sometimes i wanted to be a little like freestyle with it but we we loved you

know and respected each other every minute and uh i'm you know i'm really proud of what he's able to

to achieve with this yeah i mean having seen all his films like there's a there's a current through

all of them really gnarly and as as vicious as the villain in them is there's still an understanding

of why they're doing what they're doing which i like because it's emotionally troubling because

because I'm not rooting for them, but I'm not fully rooting against them either

And considering the things they do, that's a weird space to be in morally

and that's kind of why I like it, because it just feels like you're getting sucked into the spin of all of that

That's what you want, I think. I mean, for me, characters who are kind of morally a mess are really only interesting

if you can kind of buy into that somewhere as well. i don't know we don't have to like feel like tucker's justified but i want it i want it i

want to get some kind of clue or at least be asking myself man what happened to this dude

in order for it to get this bad and then on top of that particularly in a film like this that

that allows you to i want people to have fun with it you know and and they don't have to leave you

know uh feeling like they're on tucker's team but um you know definitely while while they're in the

film i want them to feel like conflicted somewhat because he's a good time he that's the thing i was

watching it and as it's going on and like fights are getting more and more intense i was like i want him to live because i want a sequel like i was just having so much fun watching everything

you're doing in this it's so exciting it's very physical it's very like it's loud it's like up and

down and in and out and i just was gifted with a with a good story and a and a character that i was

you know could take a swing at with that i you know when i first went back to sean after reading

it i was like i want him to feel like this guy you've sat next to on the bus or who's driving

the taxi or who's you got stuck next to at the bar like i feel like i've met this dude

it's just that the thing that's really going on in his private world isn't something we're aware of

but I want him to feel like, you know, if you, if you lay it over with this, like

he's our bad guy who's like doing all these bad things and he's just like awful

It just doesn't feel real. Right. Um, and it, you know, he wanted to kind of play into some of those cliches that this is what people fear out there

on the road. And, and in, you know, if you're a backpacker going to Australia and Wolf Creek did

that so well it's like dude it'll stop people from crossing crossing the country yeah oh wolf

creek that man i watched a bunch of friends on how to like walk home i hate all of you that's not

a good idea oh oh man yeah like australian horror man it's like next level i mean that's this is

next level yeah it's up there for sure it's good it's a good fun it's a good fun you know slash

them up pick okay i think that's our time is there anything else you want to tell our audience about

dangerous animals go see it in the wild with your friends that's the way it's designed to be enjoyed

watching jack courtney in that interview he's so charismatic and he's he's also just so candid

about what the life actually is like as a working actor and it was fascinating to hear him speak so

candidly about that. Yeah, I think there's a misconception that once someone is, you know, a movie star, once you know their name, that, you know, they get to like chart a course. And it was

really interesting to him to talk with him about what it's actually like and to kind of shatter

that illusion a bit. It's a job and you're going to get what you are offered and you're going to

make your choices from there. And I think it was interesting about how he talked about some of

those choices and without ever having to like talk down on any of the things he's done. But just such

a fun conversation to have with somebody that felt, you know, enlightening and like personal

Watching Dangerous Animals, I was very much like, how do we get here from like, when Hollywood was

kind of like, he's going to be this action hero. And I think that Hollywood was trying to put him

into a box. And I just think he's more interesting than that box allows for

100%. And like, this movie, it's just really, he's really fun in this movie. And he's

frightening. And like, that was really exciting to experience. Yeah, absolutely. And what is also wonderful to experience is what we have coming up next week

where we're going to keep those summer scary vibes going with 28 years later director Danny Boyle

one of my favorite directors. The new film, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer

picks up 28 years after the rage virus rips across the UK, turning millions into mindless

bitey brawlers known as the infected. Danny came by and talked about what inspired the sequel

how it kicks off its own trilogy, and we also got to talk about my personal favorite film

and his incredibly diverse filmography. Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, 127 Hours

There's so many options. Tune in next week and you'll find out. Fair enough

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