Austin Butler and Callum Turner Star In Spielberg’s Spectacular New War Story | This Morning

stars and masters of the year and spin to win Austin B in not in that order H join us now guys so good to have you with us it really is thank thanks for having us so I we saw it there it's obviously about the American Air Force and the second world war coming over here and and uh and then you know for the storming Fortress Europe but tell us from your description what Master of the air is about uh I mean it really is about the 100th Bomb Group who who flew over Germany Nazi Germany at that at that time and um yeah they they We we played two of the pilots that a lot of the young guys looked up to and um yeah how do you describe it just like that yeah just like that just like but this is the thing we love Band of Brothers and so this is banded Brothers the Pacific this is the next in that in that uh it's about the people that saved the world you know these guys really uh changed the the direction of the war and without them we wouldn't be doing what we're doing now so to honor them and and and play them and um tell their story is is is a beautiful thing oh yeah to do it on such an epic level as well Steven Spielberg you can just tell because it has that movie feel to a series um and I heard that you guys did like a proper boot camp to get in the zone for this didn't you yeah like in the wind the rain the cold yeah sunshine you do like press UPS like drills and stuff yeah we did the sit-ups and push-ups and runs and all that we be you sort of live with each other in the same kind of compound kind of thing or how did that work yeah because of Co we weren't all right at that time but we we would spend all day there cuz I grew up watching like you know platoon was a big show when I was I was a kid and then I I was in band like I got into banded brothers and few my mates that were actors at the time auditioned for Band of Brothers the name that keeps coming back is Dale D who's this guy who was in platoon he was a real life Soldier and then he went on to be a military advisor and you mentioned him in my notes I mean he's a force of nature isn't he I was quite Star Struck by to be honest yeah cuz Captain Dale die he he'd led the the boot camps for Saving Private Ryan platoon banded Brothers he's the guy that uh Tropic Thunder is based off of really yeah so that kind of gives you an idea of what we did for our trainer yeah and he is and the thing is he's not a bad actor either's he's has like bit parts and all these movies and things have been in his and is really good you mentioned it Callum there's a there's a h a kind of Duty to there responsibility I think as actors to get these stories right because obviously you know you played many parts and you you know you relatively young careers but there's something about about playing like soldiers and them and like this that you don't want to get wrong correct yeah I mean look these guys what they did was for us and uh there is always a level of responsibility and when you're taking on a real person you know you've got to honor their legacy yeah and um you know I'm so grateful to them for what they did you got a family connection to the service my Grandad was in the war yeah he was 16 years old he came came home and he was one of 13 and he gave my my great-grandmother a piece of paper to sign and said this for a school trip but it wasn't no it was to join the Army he went at 16 yeah we must have been in so much trouble with her yeah I think so so it's just so amazing to like you say you're both portraying real life people buck and Bucky uh becoming back best mates and um there's loads of scenes obviously of you two together going through a lot early on what would it like in when you're actually in the cockpit of those planes there's so much happening and obviously what were you almost surrounded by screens or was it green screen yeah yeah in in the past you you may do this with just green screen but we had this technology where there these High defition screens in in a horseshoe shape and we're in a gimbal that's 50 ft in the air so you're suspended so you're suspended and and you're able to see fighter pilots flying by you and Flack in the air and really yeah kind of incredible so was matched with the old school way doing things so they built the barracks they built the the officers mess I think they built like 81 buildings the place was so big they had to give us a map and they said this is where that is that's what this is and then we had the the uh Runway too which was just gigantic the scale is like Steven Spielberg says this is the biggest production he's ever worked on That's So would they literally pump the sound and everything so when you're ducking would it give you real reaction oh yeah yeah yeah well you're on the gimbal so it's in sync with what you see so if the plane is hit by flag you're hit by flag wow seriously truly so did you get the opportunity to go up in an old aircraft as well like did they do that for you not to film just to experience it no that's a shame but it sounds like you but we were up there for like 7 hours at times and we were joke that we had jet legs you know because it's it's challenging getting in and out of the gimbal so they leave you up there all day basically cuz like with with banded Brothers those guys just just about had that connection with that generation that they were still alive so they could meet them and they could still tap into it did you get you guys get Chance CU these guys are in the past now you guys get chance to meet the families or or how much did you honor us well we did at the premier I don't like to do that to be honest because then you get an idea someone else's idea of the person you're playing but we met them at the at the premier in La it was emotional know playing someone's father or someone's Uncle well that exactly that by the brother's generation like those guys that are now in their 40s and got those parts when in the 20s but also think about the people that come through there Michael F bender and Tom Hardy some incredible actors that you know graduated through that show what amazes me about the generation you're playing is that they were young men and yet they were seen as kind of the established like you know the officer class that the the the younger guys coming through we looking up to the weight of responsibility on their shoulders did you did that come across for you guys when you were reading the parts oh absolutely yeah to be in your mid 20s and to be leading a squadron and some of those guys were 16 you know it's they were so young yeah and The Bravery I mean it was the most treacherous conditions that you could possibly imagine yeah I mean the the bloody hunds were I mean extraordinary weren't they because they were based with Nori around that way and then they they had a 77% um uh you'd be shot down or end up in a p 23% of survival rate you know every time you R up so the the The Bravery what these guys had and and what they were able to do against the adversity that they were facing astonishing you can see it and you can see that obviously it was so important to get that camaraderie between you all even just as actors you obviously spent a lot of time together became good mates I saw that you did have a bit of fun on set as well with this cockpit challenge oh yeah who was the better one of the two I like talko about I'm glad you brought that up Sean okay come on on your first day as well sorry uh yeah Austin was better than me that what exactly was so is it you getting it's a it's it was a training exercise so you start on your stomach on the ground and you have to get into your seat in the cockpit as quickly as possible but you have to lift yourself up backwards is it you have to get in through the hatch yeah and you have all the gear on and it's it wasn't an easy he did it in 5.5 seconds and I did it 8.8 but we don't like to talk about that anyway to be fair mitigating circumstances K you are quite a unit though so I'm much bigger than him yeah cuz I don't imagine the pilots would have been he did it and there was no sound in the plane I did it it was like my way through and how much um how much time do we able to spend with with Tom Hanks and um and Spielberg on this because obviously like you said this this is like the the the culmination is like the end of their Trilogy I suppose you know having done banded brothers and Ryan and the Pacific and now this yeah this has been such a huge part of their life and and I mean it was so special the days you know boot camp where Tom came and gave a rousing speech for all the guys there and um yeah it's the best team in the business did you know you were doing this when you worked with him on Elvis I I knew right towards the end right towards the end because at that time I didn't know what was going to happen with Elvis so uh I was looking for my next job Tom said I've Got This World War II thing that we're working on and that's kind of how it came great what do I yeah yeah but he almost tell you on the set of Elvis like gives you the tap like you're in yeah basically that's so cool that's amazing I mean it's great as well because even the um cuz obviously you have to get into the the ax and you're you have to do it for Elvis like became a whole took over your life didn't it and now it's it's a sort of similar Southern draw that you can use again and Cal you've had to totally get into the accent right yeah I did an accent yeah yeah but it's hard no you know what we had two beautiful dialect coaches Helen Ashton and Brett Ty and when we worked like every day for hours you know at the beginning yeah is it like it's tough It's yeah you want to you know this is like you say it's a responsibility and you don't want to you know slip and um that was an important part for me and uh they looked after us that's amazing well listen guys thanks a million love you chat to win you work over there that method you only got 750 you've been not to be sniffed at you know we're all congratulator around here K we all like three grand but it can't happen all the time yeah this is how you can stream Masters the air on Apple TV plus from Friday thanks for me guys coming up next than

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Published: Mon Jan 22 2024