MARK WAHLBERG In Conversation With... | TIFF 2016

hi everyone welcome my name is Teresa Skinner film director of adult learning and the programmer of the in conversation with here at TIF it is an immense honor for me to welcome you this afternoon to in conversation with Mark Wahlberg yeah just a few reminders you know the drill we ask that you please put your phones on silent we really mean it please put your phones on silent taking photos or recording video is not allowed at any point during the event but we encourage you to tweet using the TIF hashtag TIF 16 during the audience QA wait for the microphone so that he can hear your question we can hear your question question not a comment this afternoon's in conversation with event is part of an ongoing series brought to you by Tiff's adult learning team our initiatives provide audiences with a platform and opportunities to watch talk and learn about classic and contemporary cinema through in-depth onstage conversations among other things out of learning offerings include master classes and in conversation with events with highly respected artists filmmakers subject experts who inspire a deeper understanding of cinema and culture outside the festival these events take place at our year-round home TIFF Bell Lightbox where you're sitting right now it is now my distinct pleasure to introduce your host an award-winning host interviewer an entertainment expert Dave Karger has made over a hundred and sixty live appearances on NBC's Today Show and is a regular contributor to E and Access Hollywood formerly a senior writer and Entertainment Weekly and chief correspondent at Fandango he now serves a special correspondent for IMDB you are in good hands please welcome Dave to the stage thanks Teresa and thanks so much everybody a tip I'm so happy to be here this is my 15th time at TIFF and this is such a gorgeous room and I'm thrilled to be around you know it's thinking about Mark Wahlberg and I feel like for any of us who go into entertainment the dream is to become relatively successful at something whether it's writing or singing or production design but our guest today has had not one not two but three phenomenal careers as a platinum-selling musical artist as one of the most sought-after box office stars working today and as a prolific mega producer of television and film and just listen to this as a recording artist he received Grammy and American Music Award nominations as an actor he's had an Oscar nomination and two Golden Globe nominations and as a producer he's had an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and seven Emmy nominations I really do believe that thanks to a combination of incredible work ethic and phenomenal talent his is a career that has broken all the rules and defied all expectations he's back at TIFF for the fourth time with the world premiere of the riveting new Peterburg drama department and gentleman please welcome Mark Wahlberg hello how's it going good it's a beautiful space beautiful room um so basically Mark Wahlberg this is your life because we're gonna do a little bit of a trip down memory lane and talk about ten or so projects in your film and TV career and see what you remember and of course I have to start with Renaissance man in 1994 because I feel like that was the first time that someone gave you a shot to show what you can do as an actor do you feel like Penny Marshall who directed that movie was one of the earliest biggest supporters of that transition for you and who else were the people who really gave you the encouragement to do that she was definitely the most influential I grew up loving movies uh that was my dad a nice favorite thing to do spend time together he would take me from a very early age to see very unappropriate movies from my age first movie I ever saw in the theater was hard times with Charles Bronson James Coburn directed by Walter Hill what was that rated I think you know what there wasn't really any language but just bare knuckle fighting and I obviously I couldn't get the images out of my head but you know my dad would sneak sneak in you know six-pack of Schlitz and he bring me some some cookies and from from work and and and milk and we'd sit there and watch movies and I had a couple of managers and people that were involved in my my music career that we're trying to kind of push me into the idea of being into movies and being an actor and I just had I didn't want anything to do with it I just thought no way I'm this badass rapper I'm not gonna go acting and you know not going to happen and then they would push me into going to these meetings and I met with various filmmakers the most memorable probably being Bill Duke who was directing Sister Act two and they thought well this is the perfect part for Mark Wahlberg it's the white rapper in Sister Act two so I'm not doing that um and then who did it I'm very talented young actor I don't remember his name but he was very talented and you know probably did a wonderful job but I just I just it wasn't for me and then I met a there was one other role that I was offered that I was being pushed to do which was kind of like this roller hockey bad boy they're kind of like the villain role in this movie I just like it was just not for me and then they said well would you be interested in meeting Penny Marshall her and Danny DeVito doing this movie I said is that the woman from Laverne and Shirley and they said yes and I said I'll go to the meeting I don't want to be in the movie but I grew up watching them and so I just wanted to meet penny so I went and we kind of I she had seen me at the a PLA thing when I was broke I ran down the runway for Calvin Klein in my underwear and she was like who's that guy that's that so she brought me in for the meeting and we uh we kind of talked and you know I kind of mean I really just could identify with her she's from the Bronx she's a neighborhood girl um we just kind of spoke the same language so she said how come you don't want to be an actor and I said I just I'm not an actor I'm a rapper she goes you act like a rapper you are an actor I said I said well I said okay so then she goes just go out and take these sides go out and try to learn the lines as best you can and come in and you know do an audition for me so I was like well I don't have anything else to do for a couple of hours I said why not so I went out and that day ended up reading for like five different roles and I just had such a blast I spent a couple of hours with her and Danny and I didn't want to leave and so then I was like wow this is kind of fun and it wasn't like any of the other experiences that I had and so then I I went and I I got a call saying penny wants you to screen tests but you'll have to fly herself out to LA and I said absolutely so then I went and screen tested and it was it was a weird type of audition process because it was very much like auditioning for a TV show she likes she's all about chemistry so she had four or five guys in the room for each part and then would kind of alternate you from one role to the other so you were like right there competing with the other guys for the part but you know I just got I was like I left that experience really hoping I was gonna get the part and then of course while I was out there I got into a fight it was in the newspaper all this stuff started happening and penny called me the next day it was like what are you doing uh but you know what she stood up for me and she believed in me and when I got the call I remember being in New Jersey I remember the room that I was in to my managers house who always used to call me Brando and I just thought he was joking around you know but doc dick Scott God rest his soul he would obviously you gotta be like Brando boy don't worry that's a dick I got five thousand dollars at the bank I said I'm broke you told me not to do any more records I said what am I gonna do but he then then I got the call at his house that I got the part and I was ecstatic and then from that experience on I remember every day wanting to go to the set regardless of I was shooting or not because I wanted to watch what everybody did both in front of and behind the camera that's a great lesson that you can listen to people who believe in you even if you don't believe in yourself I think that's a really interesting story that I never knew about them so I literally from that point on when I got the part I kind of panicked a little bit and I was like all right I just got to go now and watch all the movies that I watch with my dad so I would just watch the McQueen he's John Garfield Robert Ryan Edward G Robinson you know those are the guys that I grew up watching and then I just I just kind of winged it from that point on but yeah that was uh was pretty incredible and now you're in movies that people will watch to learn about films and that's a great segue because I want to talk about Boogie Nights which I feel like was such an incredible turning point and before I ask you about it we have a clip from your performance so let's take a look at Boogie Nights really said oh god I hope they don't show that sing cuz that's like the most memorable line from the movie but yeah there you go all the reason to show it well I mean it is it does break my heart to see Philip Seymour Hoffman over your right shoulder but I mean between him and john c reilly and Julianne Moore Burt Reynolds I can only imagine what was going through your mind I mean you had done lead roles you had done fear already with Reese Witherspoon but I don't know what that must have been going through your head when you stepped on to that set for the first time that must have been scary no I mean I was people always ask you know I've worked with you know I've been very fortunate to work with a lot of talented people I met have worked with with Robert Duvall who was like reminds me so much of my dad I've worked with Jimmy Caan Jack Nicholson Denzel I mean I've worked with so many great actors John Malkovich and Deepwater Horizon I start working with Anthony Hopkins uh Thursday in England and I just people always like are you intimidated like no you work with these guys they make you look good you know it's like and I've always felt like you know if you want to be good you got to be surrounded by other talented people and for me no I mean anything after jail is not scared no it's just not scary it's exciting and you know I I actually I kind of got thrown thrust into it anyway because with Paul Thomas Anderson and I met it reluctantly because I just I read 35 pages the script and I was like this could be really great or this could be really bad and it's just the guy who just wants to kind of exploit me because of the underwear stuff and show girls just come out and it was like I don't know but then I met with him and Philip Seymour Hoffman and john c reilly had come to the meeting and so it was supposed to be a general meeting then of course it's like let's just read the script and then it turned into an audition so I had literally auditioned cold right there and he offered me the part that day but no I was I was always just excited the opportunity to work with talented people I love three kings that's one of my favorite movies that you did and that's the first of three movies that you made with David or Russell do you remember meeting him for the first time because he is a true character yes I do actually and he always talks about it um so I'm not too long ago he always talks about it because I was in the middle of doing the yards with Jane gray and you know Faye Dunaway and Joaquin Phoenix Alan Burstyn Jimmy Caan Charlize Theron and and I was so into that character and I was getting a little too method back then I was like writing poetry before we were having this meeting and and he was actually really pushing for Spike Jonze which he had never acted before in the studio was a little against that they wanted another name in that part so I was actually reading with spike that day to kind of help him get the part and and David just kept talking about how weird I was being and I was just mumbling and and he basically thought I was trying to do like a Jimmy Caan imitation but yeah that was our first meeting and we really hit it off when on so you worked with him two times later I Heart Huckabees and the fighter when in the process of three kings did you kind of have it in your mind that this was a guy you wanted to work with again is it when you're on the set with him and you're seeing how he works or is it after you've seen the finished product uh no right away I mean I just loved the fact that he was he was so fearless and he allowed me to feel extremely comfortable um you know it's one of those things where coming from and I've had this experience quite a few times with other guys who've come from a musical background you know you always worried about looking cool right and so if you're doing something where you kind of come across as weak or vulnerable it's a lot more difficult and so I would always and David anytime you work with a writer director obviously they're very specific I mean I'll work with James gray and he'll give me 50 line readings for one word and that's it an ADR session that's not on the set will be sitting there doing ADR number like the line is I'm just saying Joaquin's characters names I said Willie and like Willie so say Willie he was Willie yeah go Willie Willie and I'm like we'll do this for two out I'm like so I just tell me how you want to do it so David was so funny and so open he would act out all the scenes and all they all up all the parts for everybody which I just loved so then I would make him do all kinds of crazy stuff knowing I had to cry over over spikes body you know David show me how you show me do it again do it one more time for me he was just continued to do it so I I committed right away even after all that other stuff had happened I just you know I knew he was the guy that I wanted to work with I loved it so after three kings it was this it was a very busy time for you between perfect storm and Italian Job planet of the apes but then around that same period the early 2000s you could have just had your single focus be your acting career but it was around that time that you were developing entourage as well what was behind the decision to kind of start that second career track at that time well we always wanted to myself and my producing partner slash manager Steve Levinson we always wanted to produce and develop our own material I always felt like you know okay there's this great movie and you know it's out to Brad Pitt right now but soon as Brad Pitt passes they're gonna come to you you know so I was like ops constantly waiting for somebody else to pass on something here to get my hands on it so I was like I don't want to do this you know so we we wanted to be in the television business but we really wanted to be producing film so uh as we started work with our Emmanuel was the inspiration for Ari Gold we you know he basically had come from television so he was extremely helpful in getting us into the TV business so that was our way into producing and as we started producing in television obviously you have a lot less time and a lot less money and it was kind of as the DVD business was declining so we just started to apply the television producing approach to the films that we were making and we became successful but we literally just wanted to develop our own material and didn't want to wait for everybody else to pass until we got our hands on something okay cool we got to talk about the departed one of my absolute favorite performance of your I just loved the character's name Dignam let's show let's show a clip this is a great great moment the guy playing the federal agent who walked in after that's my brother Bob that was the most fun having him yeah he tortured me as a kid so was that a fun set because the movie really had both streams like a really serious but also funny what was it like when you were doing it nobody had fun when I was around because I was very much that guy and I was I was that he's hilarious yeah but what it it it comes across as hilarious but it wasn't fun during the time like Marty would be like oh you're really into this you know he'd be taking this Napo side he'd hear me yelling and screaming outside but um it's funny because I was actually shooting four brothers in in Toronto and then they called me and and they were like you know Marty wants to talk to you and and I was like okay so Marty goes hey I'm really excited that you're doing this you decided to play the part of Dingle because I was going to play another part in the movie and stuff happen with the studio so it didn't work out so I said I'm not playing the party thing I'm and it was just silence and he was like what do you mean I guess I'm not doing I don't care and I hung up the phone and of course Ari calls me sends the plane says please go sit down and see Marty so then I went and and then we started talking about he said you know what I know this is your world you can do and say whatever you want and he goes and I think you'll have a lot of fun really going after all these guys so I said I thought about I said do I want to give Matt leave a lot of jack I said yeah I want to do it Wow so I said okay and then I did it and then it was I was going to do invincible at the time and there was obviously a lot of people and out of schedules so I told Marty you know they have said they had five weeks for me and then I was going to be done and then they had one Scene left to shoot with when I come in and I go to shoot Matt Damon and Marty said he wasn't ready to shoot it creatively I was way talking about I said the sets right there walking I pulled a gun I shoot him I walk out the door no I need to be emotionally ready I said oh so I'm I'm the one getting around here with a schedule so I said well I'm going I'm going to Philadelphia to shoot a movie and I put the hair extensions and took 8 hours so that I should come back to shoot the scene he's like your hair's different I goes yeah I goes but it's in the script that I have on a shower cap from the hospital he goes yeah I don't wanna do that either I goes this took eight hours I'm not taking it out so of course he fires his day it became this whole thing so we had to shoot it with it and then and then we shot it with with with the hat and then he comes back after he goes we're gonna have to do this again I go sorry I'll be back at 3 months I gotta go make another movie so I went shot invincible and then sure enough they were done has me come back rebuilds the whole set but now Matt's not available so I go into my trailer there's the Hat and I'm like oh God so we're gonna shoot the scene without the Hat and then just put it on at the end so it matches the other shot ok I said whatever you want Marty I said I'm back so then we shot that and then of course it was a bit of an issue but then we laughed about it and then I then I I got the call cuz we wanted Marty to do Boardwalk Empire he was shooting a shutter island' at the time and I was in Boston so they wanted me to go to the set to talk to Marty about directing the pilot for Boardwalk Empire and producing this series with us and then they said oh by the way we want Marty to do a pretty large cameo in Entourage playing himself getting uh you know hiring Vince to play in the Great Gatsby that's a lot of asks yes one meeting yes so I went and we're sitting down in the basement of this dungeon and you know he was like you were a bit of a pain in the ass on the departed I said I was Marty I'm sorry I was you know I was the character I was like I was really the you know was I was that guy I goes but you love working with HBO I said they'll leave you alone let you do whatever you want they're not gonna cut your movie in half and tell you to figure it out I think you really like working with them because why I like the script I like Terry a lot yeah I want to do it I go by the way we need one other favor and he kind of looked at me and I said you know we need you two to do the finale for the season entourage you know playing yourself calling Vince give him a job and he goes you got a lot of balls but then he goes you know what it could be fun he liked the show and and that was it and then Leo kissed and made up and then he won the Oscar for Best Director finally well overdue right and you got an Oscar nomination hello let's not forget that which is unbelievable what was it like to wake up and realize however that you were the only person from the cast to get an Oscar nomination for that movie uh I was a bit too I was a bit surprised I mean I was a bit surprised at all of it I was surprised that I got nominated and that others didn't but you know who's one of those things where you know it just it just kind of happened I want to talk about the fighter which you produced and starred in and I'm totally name-dropping here but I was chatting with Amy Adams last night and I was telling her that I was gonna be doing this with you and she said well he was the glue on that set he kept the entire thing together and and I really appreciated that she could tell that's what you really wanted to be on that set was that important to you was that a role that you saw yourself filling as the star and the producer absolutely yeah I mean the movie um the movie was something that I wanted to do for a long time and it continued to to just kind of fall apart Darren Aronofsky was directing at one point Brad Pitt was going to play the role of dick Eklund and then his schedule wasn't working out that Matt Damon was attached to play dick Eklund and that wasn't working out and then we lost our own offski and then it was like you know it was a it was a full-blown big studio movie at the time and then I was just determined to get it made I had already trained for probably two years at that point and you know I promised me you were going to get it made and so we were then kind of meeting other directors we met uh Andrew Dominik we met Walter Salles we met a lot of people and then David O'Russell would continue to call me and it was it was at a time where you know he is you know had the situation with nailed and so as I continued to try to convince every and everybody said over my dead body and not a chance in hell and everything else under the Sun he just kept calling me and every time I talked to him he had great ideas and and I got in Christian Christian and a Christian daughter my daughter went to the same school and I saw him and the other in the playground and I said you know what I saw him in a couple of movies and I think he'd make a great dick Eklund so I went up to him and then you know I had to go to the studio basically had to get the movie out of the studio and get relativity to finance the movie um and it wasn't until I got Christian to finally sit down with David then he liked David and then we got everybody else to kind of reluctantly say okay I had to go I actually went to the Paramount and I had been writing notes about how I was going to convince then head of the studio to UM to hire David and I basically said you know and he was very influential in my my entire career and introduced me to David introduced me to tall Paul Paul Thomas Anderson and various other filmmakers James Gray so I went with this whole thing about you responsible for you know for my career my success and you have to trust me one more time and probably in the meeting for about an hour and he looks at me he goes what is this about because I thought you wanted to star in this this like weird romantic comedy called swingles I said no I want you to allow me to go make the fighter and hire David O'Russell to be the director and he just looked at me he goes do whatever you want Wow and I was like fantastic so of course we were able to then go and make the movie but we had you know obviously a lot less money a lot less time but I think that's how the movie should have been made yeah so let's look at a clip from it this is a great scene from the fighter now because I'm such a I'm such an Oscar nerd I know that there's only been eight movies ever that have won Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress and this is one of them because of Christian Bale and Melissa Leo as an actor and a producer on the film what was it like to witness those two performances uh you know I I knew that those two parts were extremely special you know and you know Alice who I got to know well and Dicky you I obviously spent a lot of time with they were very very charismatic and colorful people and I remember talking to Melissa and saying Melissa I had seen her in frozen river sure and you know it was one of those things were I made them hire Sheila Jaffe to cast the movie and you know David and I you know because we had such a great relationship and I was always working with him but for him and I was always there to service his vision and this kind of the relationship was different you know because I was the driving force behind the movie so I was telling him who I wanted and what I wanted and that was not it was awkward um but I love Melissa Leo and frozen river and I just thought she could do it she felt like she was a little old I think she probably wanted to play Charlene uh and I understand but um I just thought she would be so great it was such a great part um and it was obviously I was just extremely proud that both of them were were recognized and acknowledged in that way Christian you know obviously had done so many great performances and hadn't even been acknowledged by the Academy so it was nice okay so guess what's next Ted dying to know probably the best of all the films but well if you think about it first reaction when you heard talking teddy bear no way absolutely not it's such a hard movie to pitch you know so it's like they tell me okay now listen it's good this is gonna sound crazy but this guy and this talking teddy bear stop no way and then but it was it literally was like my reaction to Boogie Nights it was like one of those things where they say you got to read the script and not only heard it from my people and cuz when I hear from Ari I'm like okay well Ari represents Seth MacFarlane - makes a lot of money in television so yeah he'll me for Seth MacFarlane alright and put me in satin ovie alright I get it Michael Bay represents Petey represents Marc he represents everybody that I've worked with so I'm getting yeah I get all the time right so but but I hear now from other people that the script is really funny so I read the script and 30 pages in you're like again you like this could be the greatest thing ever or this could be really bad but you kind of forgot that it was a teddy bear and you just thought what a great buddy comedy so I went and met with Seth and then I saw the the test and I liked it you know and I believed in it and believed in Seth and so it was one of those things where I find myself now driving to the Oscars were going for the fighter and I'm trying to pitch my wife my next job and I'm telling her and it's just a hard pitch you know it's just I don't care who you are it's a hard pitch so I'm telling her and I'm really enthusiastic and our he's there and he's smiling and she's just like you're an idiot he's like just just enjoy this moment you know because the last time you go to the AA skit is by the way the last time I've been to the Opera but um but I just felt like knew could be cool and I remember the first time I saw a rough cut of the movie I took my wife and she likes to laugh but she won't laugh things are funny and just by her reaction I knew the movie was an absolute home run Wow is there another thing that you've ever done that people will stop you on the street and want to quote more often than Ted that yeah no I mean it's it's pretty up there you know Entourage actually not a lot you know be surprised how many times people say hug it out hug it out hey that's that's that's a pretty good one you have four kids roughly elementary school-aged when will they be allowed to see Ted oh I know it's unfair there are double standards in life especially with boys and girls I'd show the boys tomorrow my daughter's 18 but I actually I showed them cuz they were obsessed with it because you know it was obviously very well marketed so we'd be driving to school and they'd see the billboard with me and the teddy bear and like dad we got to be able to see this movie Joe and a teddy bear I'll get it what could be so bad about that right so I showed them the fight with me and Ted in the hotel room with no sound and that was a bad idea because then they became obsessed with wanting to see the movie and my wife was just not having it so it'll be a long time until they can see the Tom Brady scene in the in the sequel yeah that's just what I'm saying one of my other favorite movies of yours that I also want to show clip of is lone survivor which is the first one that you made with Pete Berg let's take a look at a scene from that as an audience your mind just goes to such insane places when you see that film I can only imagine what you what it was like for you to film that and the places that you had to go to bring Marcus's story to the screen yeah well it was the first is certainly in the proudest moments in my career and first time I'd ever experienced making a movie that was no longer about the individual experience as an actor or producer it was about it was about them and it was about telling a story and honoring those heroes and you know Marcus was right then it was it was it was tough because I made four movies in a row that year never with more than like a two-week break but with like a 40 50 pound differential between each movie um I had done broken city with Russell Crowe and then I went right into the painting game with with Dwayne Johnson and I did two guns with Denzel and then I went right into this movie and I was tired and I was I was kind of beat up and then I got there and I sat with Marcus and I sat with axes family deets family and Murph's family at dinner beforehand and we started shield training and I realized because there's no room for complaining or you know half-assing it we got to really step up and every time I got a little tired or was a little beat up I'd look and there was Marcus right beside us you know climbing up the mountain hiking you know toting gear up the mountain lights and helping with crew and camera and I was like this is this is special and it was a it was an honor to be a part of that and those are the kind of guys I don't care what your resume is as an actor you got to earn their respect and to be to be welcomed into the seal community in that way and you know you talked about people coming up to you're quoting a movie nothing more powerful than a Navy SEAL coming up to you at an event I random or a store or something coming up and shaking your hand or giving you his coin that he had to earn going through SEAL training and thanking you that special and you know that was that was an experience that you know if you're fortunate enough to have that kind of thing once in a lifetime it's pretty amazing was it your hope and plan to reteam with Peter Berg as soon as you did because now you've just made two movies together both of which we'll talk about right now every chance I get why go to war with that man every chance I get it's funny too because he's also represented by re man okay and and re was always like hey telling you man you and Pete I was like I don't know and I know Pete felt the same way we both reluctant for whatever reason and I don't think it just come down to you know him being in New York Giants fan of me being a New England Patriots back I think it you know it's a it's a guy thing you know and and you know I was whenever we saw each other we're always a bit a big competitive size each other up a little bit and I just I really really am so grateful that for whatever reason I got an opportunity to make that move with Pete and I got to get to know Pete and that you know I can consider Pete a brother and a friend and a collaborator and you know he was an actor first he played a boxer really well yeah I asked him I I invited him over to my house I boxed for my hit the bag and everything and I tried to get him to do the fighter I said nope and I was like Shh Wow but you know what I got to make that move with Pete and you know it was it was just a very very special experience he is you know he's such a wonderful dad and you know all the things that I got to learn and know about Pete as a person impressed me more than Pete as a filmmaker and her talent and Pete is it is a force of nature when it comes to his talents and you think about you know just to think about the relationship that he has with his son Emmett and you know um just it's just uh he's a he's a very very special guy and a very special talent and to see how how much he cared and and and how you know he just kind of set the tone with everybody on lone survivor but also in deep water and in patriots day about the kind of movie they were going to make and the way we're going to handle this material and the way we were going to handle in a sensitive way in a delicate way the the people who are affected by these three three true stories all their three movies that you've made together so Deepwater Horizon is premiering tonight world premiere here at TIFF it's so well done yeah it has such an authenticity to it and the one thing that was really eye-opening to me is the kind of all of the discord between all of the players in this deepwater event you know between BP and all of the different contractors and the crew actually on the structure nobody seemed to be communicating in any productive way that's the one of the things that I'm really taking away from that that film having seen it what really struck you about the story when you learned more about it um well there's a lot of things that you know I mean everybody pretty much remembers what happened you know the Gulf of 2013 when you know the deepwater exploded and you know the environmental disaster what I didn't really realize and maybe it's just my own a lack of paying attention or research and finding out more details or looking more closely but I realize eleven people lost their lives so when I was approached about making the movie and then started I read the script and I read the New York Times piece and everything I was like wow I was like this this this story needs to be told and then of course I thought right away about Pete but uh you know it's just it's it's such a dangerous occupation and obviously they present they provide these resources that we all need and you know the world you know uses on a daily basis and I just thought it was a fascinating story and what these people were faced with and what they were able to overcome and you know Mike Williams is somebody that I can certainly identify with on a personal level you know he's he's a committed husband and father who has to leave his family to go out and provide better life for them and and you know I I do that and so and I just I thought he was extraordinary you know these are blue-collar guys that I can identify with a go out there and work with their hands and I just thought it was an extraordinary story that was also incredibly made and my understanding is that part of what what you'll all see when you watch the movies was shot in like our tank and then part was actually filmed on the Gulf itself and it's so seamless the way it all comes together it's it takes you there in an incredible way so it must have been super exciting to see it all put put together after shooting it yeah yeah I was because we were as I was in New Orleans shooting daddy's home they were constructing the rig which is one of the biggest sets ever built for film and uh you know it's right there in the middle of the parking lot at the old Six Flags in New Orleans and you know we're shooting in August basically hurricane seasons you know hundred and something degrees and then with the fire on steel with fire closures but it's crazy it was it was an amazing experience well I'm sure I speak for everybody in this room when we say congrats on everything you've achieved we look forward to Deepwater Horizon patriots day wal Berg Berg movie number four and everything else in the future and thank you so much for being with us thank you guys thank you very much thanks so much everybody have a great festival thank you thanks guys

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Rating: 4.8434162 out of 5

Keywords: International, Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter berg, Gulf of Mexico, Festival, 2016, Deepwater Horizon, 2016YEAR, Movie, Celebrity, The Fighter, Toronto, Hollywood, David O Russell, Mark Wahlberg, tiff, Conversation, British Petroleum, Actor, Film

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Length: 37min 57sec (2277 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 16 2016