Marcus Luttrell on Having a Movie Made About His Story

the jurogan experience what is it like to have a movie about one of the worst experiences of your life yes thank you for asking it like that yeah no one ever has it was it's an honor to do that to to be a part of that and um it's funny because people like hey they made a movie in the books and it was great i was like man about me getting my ass whipped as a fighter and a warrior those are usually the stories you don't want out right so i'm in the lost column i carry a lot of weight 19 promises i never forget it so i walk around i always remind myself i can run into somebody who knows or loved one of them or one of their family members so i'll always carry myself a certain way i have to that was a deal i made to get me off the mountain people asked me who my heroes are everybody who had to come fetch me out of hell i was in there pretty deep and um the way that lined out it's a great story if you want to hear i mean the whole process i would love to hear it it's funny on the way up here i was like man how's this interview gonna go and i was watching dope uh joe dirt last night i was like let's do it like that you want to start from beginning bra tell you some stuff you can't believe that you said let's start it off with whiskey yeah as soon as you said that i'm like this is gonna go great it is yeah i only drink whiskey with my friends and you know the reason we say that is because the things that come out when you drink whiskey yeah so i've been looking forward to this we've been friends for a while i thought we should have a good time with it 100 yeah you know i watched the movie again last night i watched yesterday just to prepare myself and uh i haven't seen it i never watched it all the way through i know the director's cut you know not yeah no yeah so it was um i can imagine it was something to back it up to the book and how that all happened or you back it up to the military wherever you want to start we can go all different directions with it but i was in i was in hospital so when i got back i was in the hospital for a while and then they i went back into the teams and started doing another workup for deployment and then in between that i was getting called to the to the boss's house i've always been watched over on high ground that was a blessing because so many of our guys died and we had a fallen angel when we have a fallen angel you all always hear about it like normally if seals die or something it's on the bottom of the ticker or only the family members here but we had a fallen angel which means we have an aircraft going down and um i didn't know about it actually when i when the mission started because everyone who knew about our operation was on the helicopter that's why i was out there for so long and um i remember i was in i just got out of hospital i was doing physical therapy at the team and they called me up and they said hey we're going to d we're going to declassify part of this operation and we're going to put it out into a book and i was like okay i didn't know what that meant well then they pulled me back up to the to the to the headsheds where the we had this big meeting and they brought they assigned to me the i mean i was privileged enough to have the best lawyers the best writers like i interviewed with everybody until i found a fit like i got to travel around like when patrick and i met he came out to the house my mother fell in love with him so that's how he we knew he was gonna and i had to live with him so i would actually wake up on sunday or monday morning and go into work do a work up fixing to deploy and then on fridays i'd have to fly to cape cod and i would sit with patrick and tell him the story and then sunday night i'd fly back patrick is the guy you wrote patrick robinson yeah he's the guy you wrote he was yeah because my name wasn't in the book it wasn't supposed to be anything like that i was still operational and then i deployed back to iraq in 0607 i ripped jocko out i know you met him love jocko great guy and he loves you man he was he was my bo one of my bosses he got so excited when he when he heard you were coming on he texted me and we went back and forth hey something i call him he's just what you see is what you get he's ever noticed his face looks like it could perfectly fit in a spartan helmet yes oh yeah like he's always i mean he's when it comes to leadership break glass that's in case of war we have those guys yes they're real i know you've met some of them yeah we need those guys they exist they're terrifying they i'm so happy they're real yeah they're real yeah and jocko is my he's he's the archetype yeah yeah he was there's a reason why he's over chris and michael and mark have you noticed in the seal teams all of our medal of honor guys named michael you ever noticed that no yeah yeah those are called mark angels they always get the medal of honor you get a mark and michael running together and seal team something bad it's going to go down so you always joke about that but when the book came out i was in iraq i remember the lawyers and everybody would they would write me emails and like please don't die and i was like well i'm trying not to thanks jesus christ so i got hurt in iraq again and when i got back they positioned me out of the seal teams and then they kind of rewrote that part put my name in it my job was to go around and tell you about your boys and what they did and how hard they fought and they died and that was the greatest job it was the hardest job i ever had to do because i remember when they pulled me offline as an operator and the hammer was sitting there telling me like son you're going to do more for the seal teams than you ever did in combat and that was i thought that was kind of an insult i was like wait what do you mean right i was like do i need to work out harder do i need to he's like no this is what you need to do so i did that and i traveled around and i told you guys and then the movie hollywood came calling so i got stationed to live there they actually sat me down and introduced me to all the directors and we had to find the fit and then once pete and i linked up for the first time rest is kind of i mean peter bird yeah peterburg god damn he nailed it man i know you haven't seen it because you've seen the director's cut yeah yeah but uh he he [ __ ] nailed it that guy's a hell of a director he you know it just there was no [ __ ] in that movie you know there's a certain amount of [ __ ] and i don't know if there's any [ __ ] in terms of like the reality of the experience versus the the film version of it but there was no uh no gloss to that film so the way we i'll talk about when i met pete for the first time so i got pulled up to la to interview all of my i was traveling around um just getting to meet all of everybody oliver stone i sat down in front of him i mean they went through me through the guy i had had lunch yeah i was it was pretty cool i remember meeting him because i wanted to he was a veteran right yeah and um i love that guy the lawyer that i got assigned to he was great alan schwartz is his name and and for those have you ever seen spaceballs yes okay the schwartz in spaceballs yeah it's named after him so he's mel brooks's attorney this this is this is real that's crazy this is crazy that's one of the coolest things why i got to meet him and i was like wait a minute you're the schwartz he's like yo so i i got like a sign to him and then my literary agent was this guy named ed victor he's since passed but he was great because he was a british guy tall skinny and he would wear the sweaters with tied around his neck and the white and black wingtips dressed to the nines had that that awesome accent and he would tell me he's like marcus darling i'm the seal in this world just in this environment just let me take care of this what are you saying how dare he yeah and i just kind of like roger that because if you're the resident expert or something i'll always drop in right beside you so i was traveling around and i'd been in la for a couple days and i was supposed to get back to the base and they were like wait there's one more guy wants to meet you his name is peter berg and i didn't register in my head i couldn't put the name to he's been around forever he's like he's down on the set uh filming a movie called hancock or will smith and i was supposed to get on my plane but we went late and missed my flights like just go down there and see him i was like all right so we dropped down there and he's he's sitting in his chair and then uh there's a train scene so there's this huge train and will standing i got to meet him it was pretty cool and pete walks up peterburg he's like hey let's take a walk i like all right and we sat down on this park bench overlooking the water he's like this is what i think of this this is what i want to do and he kind of shot me straight he's like before i say anything else i want to show you a movie that i just filmed and i want you to watch it so i got to go to the theater and watch this movie and then the next day it was his attention to detail he like focused on the stuff that you would normally miss which makes it kind of realistic i was like okay cheers i was like no this if you screw this up if you do anything to dishonor any of my friends i'll kill you he didn't know what to do about that and i mean look on his face because i shook his hand and i had his head and i was like okay here's the deal it's yours if you want it if you screw it up i'll have to you know no no yeah nothing personal for real and um right when that happened i mean he took it we we made him go to all of our tree he got the door was open for him because it was an assignment most of everything else the books and the movies and everything they were shut down except for this one so when the navy's got your back and you know the seal teams man that's how that works so we sent him overseas he had to go live with i mean that guy went through some stuff he came back early and didn't tell me about it because some of the stuff he saw and i was like hey it's real right it's real and he's like that's all i needed to see to change how i feel i was like okay well let's do this man and then it started oh so he went overseas and experienced what did he experience he they they embedded him with a seal platoon oh jeez he got to see them guys and how they it's a really cool story i'll let him tell it because of what he got to see and what he got to do and some of the guys called me from the deployment they were like hey we put pete through the ringer i was like good because of what he was stepping into and um i mean to this day we're still best buddies i talked to his son yesterday okay he kind of comes over and we do like he teaches my kids some things and i teach his kids some things and it's just uh everywhere i i go i was always taught to make a friend over money right because those are the that's the best cash you can have as a friend and um getting to live with him and experience that hollywood lifestyle was was amazing i remember showing up at his house the first day i was like man why does this place look so familiar he's like oj's house is right he lives in brentwood he's like oj's house is right there i was like oh yeah okay and then it just got crazy from there first time he took me out i mean those these are great stories catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience

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Published: Wed Mar 24 2021