Alycia Debnam-Carey, Max Deacon & Nathan Kress

0:08I study storms all my life. This one is bigger than any storm that has ever been. This looked like a lot of fun to make. It was. Yeah, what was the typical question? I apologize to start with it. What was the most fun scene to shoot? Most fun scene. I think, you know what, I think with hindsight a lot of it was really fun. It was grueling. Like we were put, you know, the, one of the cool things I didn't expect going in was that they would, they kind of really allowed us to, to feel the storm practically, you know, with, I'm sure people have told you about the fans and the debris and the rain.

0:55And that, having that stuff on you really allows your performance to grow because there's not that much acting required, you know. And at the time after, after two weeks of it, sometimes, you know, sometimes we're in the same scene for like two weeks just, and it was relentless. And kind of got right to the edge of kind of misery. But as soon as you're done, you just go, wow, what an amazing thing you're allowed to do. Yeah, like you have to get to experience that you should have used. Yeah, you know, it was a, it really was the kind of a tornado simulator. Yeah. I can't wait for this to turn into a ride. Like I feel like you guys are going to reprise. Yeah, you kind of felt like a driver. The twist of the queen. Yeah. They used to be a twister ride at university. Yeah, I've done it. Yeah, this one will be better. Yeah, it was a, it wasn't as good as me. I agree. Well, you have the Oculus Rift thing, which I still, I have yet to try. I'm doing, as soon as we're done and I can crush my hair down the middle, I will be trying

1:42it. It's really cool. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. That drain pipe, let's talk about that drain pipe scene because that's what the Oculus Rift thing is. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That must have been crazy. Oh, that was like. Like stuff flying your face and I heard like that stuff hurts a lot. Yeah. Even at least when it's coming. Yeah. A leaf at 100 miles an hour is more like a little bitty bullet. Yeah. So it definitely, there was, that was probably the most physically taxing sequence to shoot. Yeah. But we're doing that for a week as well. Yeah. So by like day two in the end, yeah, by day two we were just like, oh God, we've got like another, what eight days of this. Yeah. But it was nice because almost all of the cast was there. Yeah. And there were so few sequences where everyone was truly together. So it was nice because we were able to, you know, at least keep each other company in the

2:27meantime and kind of, it sort of galvanized us I think as a group to be going through all of this together and huddling and. You also couldn't complain that much because there was always a full camera team down there. Yeah. So there's guys in the hardest guys in the world. They never complain. It's just like, it all ends and we're just like, oh my God, I can't believe they're doing this in the camera guys. They're just like, you know, you need to come in a bit quicker there. Like let's move it up, you know, they never complain. So you have to kind of keep stoic with them. We're massive cry babies. Yeah. Yeah. Talking about everyone, like everyone being together. Did you get in these things? I heard there were like extras singing along. All the extras would do sing along. It's insane. Yeah. No, you know what? Cause they put it on IMDB. Yeah. We weren't in the press notes. It's a cool thing. Yeah. So no. I mean, I guess there was definitely comradery between all of us when you were being, you know,

3:15puddled with rain. Yeah. But like the camera guys, like, you know, you were a little, I mean, as much as we were put through stuff, you're a little bit coddled. Like once it finishes everyone wraps you up and makes sure you're okay. The extras, you know, 300 of them all really went through it. Like, you know, being rained on and they didn't have wetsuits on and they were doing it for the same amount of time we were. So they were all like real troopers. And I think, you know, really they add to, they really help create the sense of urgency that the film has because, you know, when you see 300 people running and we're all amongst it, you get a sense of how the entire community is being affected by the monster. That's one of my favorite scenes, the evacuation scene from the school. Just because we, it was one of the few times where I really did forget where I was and I

4:01was really just in the middle of an evacuation. Yeah. And what was scary about that one is that it caught us all off guard because we thought the scene was going to end when we got on the buses. But it just kept going. It kept going. It's like, they're like, stuff driving. And there were stunt drivers going down the hill and running into each other and tires were blowing out and it was just, it made me, everything was seemed so out of control. But the thing is, it was completely under control because that was what they were planning on doing. But for us, we were just hanging on for dear life. And I think you can really tell when that comes across. Yeah. It's so misleading because I think sometimes it's thought of as people are saying it's a found footage film. Maybe it's a first person narrative and that's just one way of seeing the storm and feeling it more directly. So then scenes like that happened and then when you see them, it kind of really is one

4:48of the elements that really helps create the movie being such a kind of visceral thrill ride that it is. Yeah. I have to let you go. You may sound like two minutes ago. Sorry. We're talking to you. That's what happened.