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Armie hammer kid drawing4/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I think that just pragmatically speaking you will walk into this film and it will make you feel something the entire time. What do you hope people take away from the film? I think that it’s important to realise that we, and I say we as Americans, use the term terror attack for anything that’s done to us, but then you also see just exactly why these people were motivated in the first place and in their mind, what were the terror attacks committed on them. It’s not a two-dimensional portrait of a faceless evil with a gun or a bomb. You see them struggling to do this as well. You obviously see the emotional toll that is taken on the hostages or the people who are involved in the attack, but you also, for the first time that I can really think, you see the emotional toll that it takes on the actual gunman committing the crime and the atrocities. You see how these kids got here into this situation. You see kids who were, for lack of a better word, tricked into this, told that their families would be getting money for this, told that maybe a surgery would be performed if they went and did jihad. In most films that I can think of where a terror attack happens the terrorists are nameless, faceless agents of evil. How do you think that Hotel Mumbai contributes to the conversation that we are having about dealing with terrorism? The film is obviously timely, unfortunately for terrible reasons. There was a lot of source material to go back and pull from. We were given the opportunity of time at the beginning of the film, which you don’t always get. We read the firsthand accounts of what happened. We had an extensive rehearsal period where we read all the transcripts. There was a sense of accountability, really. We had so much footage from the news and had the telephone call. Anthony attacked this film with an almost investigative journalist nature and did so much research. In some cases, the people who went through it will see this film, so you don’t want to do anything but show, hopefully, the reality of what the situation was. In this situation, it’s people who have gone through an incredibly traumatic and harrowing attack. The thing about playing real people is you always do feel a sense of responsibility. It was almost double the responsibility to try to get this right. ![]() He’s an amalgamation of, I believe, two people who were both in the attacks. Just thinking how I would react in the same situation made it a little bit easier, but also made it really emotionally taxing. ![]() Shooting these scenes where – I don’t want to give anything away – but there are a lot of tough decisions that my character has to make throughout the film. It made it easy to draw on my own emotion and how I would feel if I was in that situation. Is this your first time playing a father onscreen since you’ve had kids? It’s a position that no parent should ever be put into. He’s a man who’s in love with his wife and has a child and is put in a very difficult situation where he has to choose between staying with his wife to try to keep her safe or going to try to protect his child. It just makes the movie feel very visceral and it feels like a first-person perspective of what going through that situation might feel like.Ĭan you speak about how you related to the character that you play in the film? The element of horror in this film, it’s not jump-scares, it’s not anything where it’s a quiet moment and somebody goes, “Ha!” It’s the tension that just continues to build and continue to build. I haven’t made a movie where I had to deal with too many spiders, so that’s good. Okay, let’s finish this.” After seeing his short film and reading the script, I thought he has to be the one to direct this. I had to pause it at one point and get up and walk around my room and be like, “Okay, it’s just a movie. ![]() It’s a 15-minute film and I’ve never felt more stressed out in my entire life. I also watched his short film The Palace. I knew of the attacks, but I felt like I’m inside of them. Do you mind telling us how you came to be cast in Hotel Mumbai?Īnthony Maras (Director) sent my agent the script. ![]()
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