Idris Elba Rebecca Ferguson on SCARY Lessons from A House of Dynamite Exclusive
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How you guys doing?
Good.
We break through the laughter in between all the seriousness.
Which we kind of have to do.
After this movie, I needed a couple of glasses of wine.
I was, I had a lot of anxiety.
It felt so freaking real.
Mmm.
Good.
So you did your job.
And you guys have clearly an admiration for one another.
So you guys were going to do a film test today.
This one's for Elvis Presley.
Have you guys met before?
I just do that to strangers in general.
I just kiss people's palate.
We hadn't met before.
Well, we had.
We did.
Very briefly.
Yes.
We lived near each other in England.
Didn't know that.
And then I saw her.
But yeah, you know, when you act, it's like a traveling circus.
You work with clowns all the time and then you move on.
But every now and again, you work with one clown.
Not calling you a clown.
No, please do.
That you just, you know, stick.
And you, because there's a trust.
There's a hope to explore different characters together again.
I'd love to look the record again.
I know.
I mean, to be honest, it was all I don't understand.
And I'm just going to say, I don't understand the standing
ovation.
I don't understand the comparison of a good film compared
to the minutes of a clapping.
Catherine was ready to leave that within two minutes.
She looked at me and said, can you go?
And I said, no, I think we're supposed to stand and it's not
how Catherine goes.
She walked out of the 30 minutes while they were still going
on, but the value of the film is nothing to do with the
milling of the amount of claps.
I find it.
I find it quite silly, especially for my kids.
I loved it.
30 minutes.
I could have done 30 minutes.
You were like, let's just stand.
Come on.
Also, I think it was mostly our team just having the clapping.
I know.
Yeah, it was us.
I can't speak for Catherine.
She does not play by her script.
You said yes before you even read the script.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, it's Catherine Bigelow, you know, you
know that she's going to make something that is well-made.
She's super observant.
She's a bucket list director for most active.
I would say.
Yeah, I was I was on it.
I didn't care what it was about.
And what personal impact did this film have on you?
It has had an enormous impact on me.
I haven't been as emotive or educated in the matter of
not just nuclear weapons and you said it so well, you said
would you throw the world the word out of nuclear war nuclear
weapons, but not really understanding the power of it and
the fact that as we've said so many times now one entity has
the possibility of pressing a button and you can a world or
you can an area a person who is the least trained.
Yeah education, you know, let's put it that way.
The world is doom and gloom, right?
That's saying that what you don't know can't hurt you.
It's not true.
What you do know, right?
You can have a further understanding and then it can help
protect us all you know saying it turns out in the house of
dynamite the person that sleeps in the house has a box of
matches when he goes to bed that ain't good.
Oh my gosh.
You're actually asking I did in Venice.
It's so funny because I'm like, yeah, I did.
I walk into my room.
I was ready.
And then all of a sudden there was a blue dress hanging in
my closet and I thought that's not my dress and then I panic
thinking cool cool person.
Hasn't got a dress.
So it became a matter of saving.
Oh man.
That's why I had to wear that suit that I made.
I did my dressing that I made.
My birthday was in September.
Thank you.
I didn't.
Yeah, man.
I didn't do much.
I was working.
I didn't do much.
My family bought me a lot of gifts and we sat around the
table and they watched me open them.
Which is good.
Yay.
Oh, you got this.
Yay.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you.

