3/19/2023 0 Comments Tim matheson burn notice![]() ![]() I know, when I'd get calls from the editorial department when we'd do a scene where he didn't have his shirt on, they said, 'I don't know man. The guy was in amazing shape when he showed up. He was doing four hours a day of training, six weeks before we started shooting. You know, the fish stinks from the head, and Joe is number one on our call sheet, our lead guy lets say, but nobody worked harder than Joe. You can't really put any airs around those guys, so Ken, on the set, came to play and he played hard and he was right there with everybody else. There are no prima donna's and if anyone gets a little uppity, they just knock 'em down real quick. That was sort of local stuff, but these guys, they're good guys. it's on a bigger scale, what I saw, than that. And, wrestlers, I don't know if you saw Aronofsky's movie or not. I went to a couple of those WWE events and they're professional athletes, you know. Tim Matheson: Oh, it was great, because Ken, Mr. You have some of the new school and some of the old school, so how did that whole dynamic play out? You have some veterans and some newer guys like Mr. Yeah, you had a really diverse cast here with Joe (Mangienello), Keith David, Channon Roe, Yancey Arias and Mr. Nobody would say, 'I'm not coming out of the trailer,' or anything like that (Laughs). We had a bunch of good guys that really cared and worked really hard and we had fun, but there were no prima donna's. Kennedy, and Channon Roe and all our guys. We had guys that are so dedicated, our actors Mangienello and Ken Anderson, Mr. They were committed, they wanted to do it and, at the same time they were doing boot camp, they were training and doing the fights that had been choreographed in advance, for all the sequences, so that by the time we got to day one, all the fights had been choreographed and were being rehearsed constantly. Then they'd come back to the hotel and they'd go to the gym and they'd work out more. That's pretty amazing that you only had a week for that, because everything looked very realistic, the way the whole unit worked. It helped shape the reality of that, and then fit the dialogue around that. We had a real Navy Seal named Jeffrey Reeves with us and Tom Minter was our military advisor, a former Marine, so that was good. The guys went through - we only had a week for them - but we gave them a hell week, a week of boot camp and military training and guns and how to fire the weapons, how to march and how a squad works. That's the way we approached it, and hopefully, to that extent, it works because we wanted it to be real and true. ![]() So, unless we get that, the other thing doesn't work either, so we've got to get that. Again, it's that thematic thing, I think it's closer in number one than in number two, but it was that aspect of the movie that I talked about so much, because if you don't care about the men and humanize them and their plight and what they're doing, then I don't care how much money you've got for explosions and stuff, it's just boring, it's stupid. Here was this single man who stood up to that. When I talked to them, I said the thing I loved about the first Behind Enemy Lines movie that John Moore did, was the film was about, certainly it was about the military and all that, but it was about justice in a world where people didn't seem to care, or were overrun by people who didn't care about justice. I think that all sort worked into my favor. If you're going to do a military movie, you've got to do it right. I'm not a gung-ho kind of guy, but I do honor our military. The kicker too, the bonus for them was I was a former Marine, so I knew the military. Kennedy - this is his first real acting thing too. They liked that I was an actor and working with Mr. They liked the way I shot, the way I approach the work. There were a couple of things that were sort of in my favor. You should meet him.' He gave me the script and I looked at it and went in and talked to them about it. ![]() I had such a good experience with that show and working with the guys down in Flordia that when Jeff was offered to produce this movie, he said, 'Well, I've got the guy you could use. I had worked on Burn Notice, the USA series, with Jeff Freilich, who's an old friend of mine and a producer. So when did you first learn of Tobias' (Iaconis) script and the possibility of you directing it? ![]()
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