to say can you say so the highly anticipated mini series Masters of the Air takes flight this Friday. So it chronicles the story of the U.S. 8th Air Force One 100th bomb group. >> Take a look. >> The 8 that we sending up the largest their Oman ever assembled in the history of mankind. Straight into first territory. complete and total their superiority. As the mission. My last pretty face >> OK, joining us from the cast this morning are actors Anthony Boyle and they man to good to see both of you. Welcome. Thanks very much. This is Look at the same Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary gets men behind this show, right? They also produce band of brothers. They are well known in this kind of universe. When you hear names like that to get cast in the show like that will cause your head immediately. Got a she's issue with Steven Spielberg. it's a good feeling. You know, it's good to open with a in a bar. Yeah. Haha. It's great. You know, when we first we first got cost. I just couldn't believe it. I was so throws, you know, to I'd seen bond. The brothers. I seen the Pacific everything. Steven Spielberg funding Paul my So that be a part of the 3rd continuation of the story was just. >> A real pinch me moment. yeah, why you? Yeah. I mean, I also watch band of brothers as a kid. We have the DVD. Yeah. Has that the first TV show I watch its entirety as a kid and the west of civic state. Up on Friday nights when came out when I heard that this is coming out of could be the air could never boxed DVD was in the katyn look agree. I mean, just looking at that clip from from the series. >> So intense. Tell me a little bit about what went into making this series, especially since so many people, especially those who were involved are so passionate about this topic are mean from are the top being student, Tom. They care so much about about this world, about the stand about, you know, about this place. And I mean, right down to the details, right? I mean, we in replica cop. It's we were all the all the costumes designed to be as accurate as possible. We spent hours and hours. You know, we played at place. navigator. I play a pilot who really tried to figure out, you know how everything worked, how these cages worked have the switches were were shooting scenes his life like as possible. Can we get a plan now the EU it may be in He looked pretty good when his friend. Yeah, but it's it's not just about war. 2, 2 and life and the air. It's really taking you on this. A personal journey to of your lives on the ground. I saw that there's some some women involved. It's impossible love stories to talk to us a little about the evolution over the course of episode slashing what's so good about it is I think it starts off. action-packed bring joy into these like amazing spectacle as a physical, big Hollywood >> And then you really get huge because on to make the interpersonal aspects these people's lives, you know, the mental toll, we're equal defense. What was on the for these people and the Israeli side. What are your personal stories in the show telling personal stories you know, we'll play real people in the in the series, you know, Real men. I mean, the series is based on a book by Donald Miller for the same name and I cover Obert. Rosenthal grew up in and became a lawyer. >> Enlisted right after Pearl and sauce to, you spend months and months training gunners, you know, as a pilot the states before he ever saw action and we need him in the series, not quite halfway through. is quite know what he's in for. And some of his some of his first you know, extremely devastating. yeah, I play Harry Crosby whose not only following the Nazis, but he's battling sickness, which you there's going it. >> When we first meet him and he was just an absolute joy to He seems saw video from the music 70 before it started to do the research on them. And even at that that's that's like a change like beauty let's take a one there in his eyes. And I thought love to have the opportunity to spend the year with this guy that. Took the Yeah. By the way, what was that was that the Blue Angels here? got to do the trick. Here. We some of major north of years ago. They're this is a We did. You get that taken up in INS? It's sort >> oh, yeah. So for so for the boot camp right to Hunt and I'm a size. Just understanding the linguistics and then how all the tools work in an actual flight. What is some of the things you to go through physically to kind of prepare? I mean, there a legendary military adviser cackled day-time who worked Saving Private Ryan others in the Pacific. he took us our first couple days. He spent, you know, we were all in uniform calling each other by our our care and he took us through marching sequences from trying figure out, you know, the rank and file of what life is like for these guys on the base. And, you know, when we first started out, it was pretty clunky and we couldn't quite get it right by the end of it. He was just trying to get us into a rhythm right to to to see, you know what, just for us to feel what it's like to be union, right? Because when they're up in the air, you know that there. That's what they're doing relying on one through every mission. Also like a normal rehearsal processes. Your set time for the coffee talking about your character and field. I would come into mix and get down giving I get up the courts. He says, Chris, the great intense Rosa processor like I've never been. >> I've never been involved in anything like Get lost in the whole thing. And I call it almost seemed real to you as much as possible. I think that's what we're trying to Trend just like, you know, according to the park character Nunes, you know, we would get our uniforms every day. You know, it was just we were trying to march ourselves and that life as much possible. Yeah, I think it pays off. When you see the show, it really does. It really looks So know, when go to morning, are you in his years yelling at him to drop into
