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today on larry king now denzel washington and mark wahlberg the stars of two guns on working together for the first time let's swing for the fences for to the end and i thought this was the perfect opportunity with the perfect actor opening up about faith family and forging who are garbage i was a garbage man i worked in the back of a truck twenty two square blocks that's hard nothing that we do in the movies and i was on the end of the two guns director dishes on making the film mark was very clever in the way he approached these first of all he was very humble towards that self and then he started getting out and it's all ahead on larry king now. i've said many things about this film two guns and i will say it again this is one
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of the most fun times you will ever have in a movie theater the movie is hysterically funny and action packed and it stars or denzel washington or mark wahlberg and how they get to to you to get. sheer luck i have been attacked for a while and i knew the movie really lived and died on the other guy in the chemistry between the two so you were in yeah and you know there was variations of the script and and we just said you know let's swing for the fences us offer to save you know thank you for a miracle happens and we got in the movie responded to the material. obey it what do we describe read it i laughed. i gave it to my barber cherry. let's hear you laugh and i was like ok i have a barber well he ate you know my hair i still call it a barber he's not my barber but you know we worked together over the years but. you
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know i was coming off of oh i may have been shooting flight great was a thank you which was a obviously a heavier kind of thing and i wanted to do something on the i wanted to add some fun you know to do something different and. and i thought this was the perfect opportunity with the perfect actor to take that take that ride with so it worked right away yeah it will really have we we've known each other but before that you know shooting obviously in and. you know it was easy wasn't any you know it's one of those things were either works or it doesn't and i think if you've known each other for thirty years they will kind of come across awkward and weird on film but you know just completely professional you know i've been able to asked and sell for a lot of advice both person personally and professionally he's got four kids and a marriage church going guy and you know he's had a wonderful career that i've admired for a long time and and just kind of clicked you know and once he realized you know that we were in good hands we could try whatever we wanted and look you know risk
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looking ridiculous and we'd still be safe and then he was just like he just completely open up to the idea that you'd work with the director before yes you had not you know and i interviewed him in the seventy's lou today the first little boy he would keep coming up to me justin zell to do this and let you go ask you really all the time i said dude i'm done you go between i do said he was moved to do sense that by the way because you're so you know you're such a major movie but i don't think that way you know i'm not going to walk i'm a major movie star he's a regular guy that's going to read to doesn't know that tell. i purposely didn't tell him because he likes to try because we were very familiar with one another we work together so each of us to like give me crap all the time so that's why i wouldn't tell him that he's a regular guy make a figure now from self you need walk on eggshells for a little while but you know he's so easy even if it was something that he didn't
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think would work he'd say denzel you might try and if you like i don't think they'll work as soon as a carol he tries and he tries it always will if it doesn't work you know get it out i think it's going to be a big hit. grevious is of use to this what were you what about this movie is just you know i always go with my gut i responded to the material it reminded me of butch cassidy and the sundance kid who didn't matter what they were doing well. what was happening around them was really about the two guys you know remember broadcasting son is clearly being chased by something that never really appear right so why was this guy who are those who are like there's always up to us you know to earn one another's respect and that was the relationship that was it was that was the movie you know or whatever the backdrop was in the setting was and also happen to have a great story and some kind of really interesting plot points and twists that you know made it a nice combination of drama action comedy about the cast and james holmes
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and bill paxon all those guys paul and fred where they all came to the table because they all had great parts to play you know they did this is a new group which is going to be. you know almost i always think back to you know with obviously the signature rule the miami vice but. not that i was intimidated but you know once you think of you know he's serious guy so it was great to have fun in like snap a towel hit him in the head wanted to piss on his hands you know. ok he's a good guy you know he i think he had fun. and you agreed to be hung upside down for two days that directly told him what was that like i'm never been fun and you know it was it was because we need the first scene we did with every we had him tied up right so we're giving him all kinds of crap was slapping him in the face on the phone all these insults at him and then a month later where tied up upside down and he's getting to give it back to us he
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thoroughly enjoyed it it was well this was the one day but he kept acting like he was forgetting his lines about as long as possible what is it like to hang upside down it's good for his spine really but not rushes to hit the blood rushes and is a huge bull i think we knew it was going to be funny it was it wasn't fun but it was going to be funny was it hard to believe you make. is so much action so much movement. you know what physical. difficult a time when you're in louisiana in the middle of the summer you know in some kind of uncomfortable situations in new mexico but not that bad i mean the minute it's over only thing i remember it was all the great times we had and that we had a real shot to do something interesting and entertaining. and making transformers right now as hard movie to make that's harder because or so we think well the schedule the action you know i'm being wearing a harness every day being off the side of a building. and i turn around and he's not there. you're doing a movie
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a lawsuit is on isn't what it's doing i was twenty i would foot as a group mount vernon new york i work for the sanitation department i was a garbage man you were a garbage i was a garbage man i worked the back of a truck twenty two square blocks that's hard. to do in movies and this is nothing that we do in the movies and i want to deliver a united parcel service trucks you're right that was hard yeah yeah this is a joke. and they basically say why do you spend so much time preparing everything because it's a bunch of other guys out there that would want my job and i'm not going to do anything to mess it up that's right you know you say something if you say that i'm here because you say what are you saying let me say i think you're playing are you want to be playing i've been a chip for ten months but after this i think maybe you're playing me. i got you know you know i did the corny i was twitching decor yeah i wanted to it
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yeah i was a wink that's my move. when you do the boss. working with anton food again who. directed the training day and we have a good time up there in this way the bad guy again not like that i would not know this is a regular guy works it like k.-mart would be want to call home depot and it's a take off of the old t.v. series the equalizer but it's really not like it other than that in name selection of roles which is interesting you know i just did the turn down the thing you're a grad. you know it no i don't have the one role where and i don't really have the one role i've actually i have dodged more bullets i passed on more dealings that were tempting especially for the money but does mobiles and i have you know things that i was glad you didn't take yes. michael clayton that was a georgia woods yeah i didn't i didn't trust him to be honest with i didn't trust
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working with the director had directed before i was wrong and seven the movie seven the part that brad pitt play they asked me first and i just thought this is so dark and i sort of movie. oh tried. but you know would just say god bless them you know it was good for him and that was successful steve a movie for one of my friends that is to be a question that ted said yes. he just are these i just saw it like the other night i was watching in the buzz that feisty was great ted was bad there was no he was the daily you were you were fighting nothing and that was him back and the moon in a fight he said. he was talking about the fight scene and for me the fight scene i didn't want to shoot and the scene where i'm singing i didn't want to do but little by his ego you know i don't like to say i'll sing in the shower but the fight scene
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was one of those things where there's you know fifty people standing around crewmembers and i've got to like take to get him and i can tell the guy stand employment has now smacked him in the ass with an antenna and i was like there's no way this is going to be in the movie we shot of for like two days and it's one of the most talked about scenes so i could you mention arise all those names yes oh yeah great you read a lot because i was not real close i says he read now what his head was moving around i said the names are girls how do you do that you know what i usually start out by reading the script out loud twice a day for say like eight to ten weeks out from the start of production but that was the hardest thing to ever memorize because there's no nothing to connect it to and i was thinking do i take a picture and put it with each name and then i can visualize that or it was just this thing where i just had to keep reading it and reading it reading it and it's actually kind of drilled in my head i can't get all of it now but smith ruby taylor tara lowering shadow porn industry to reveal itself and i just had this rhythm about it and it was one of remember what i did yesterday in this scene but the
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scene wasn't set up that way it was set up where it was like i'd say one name he said then i see another i said this can be ten minutes long and it's never going to work so i suggested to seth i said why don't we just do it like we have this game that we play most and around smoke and that i'll like to do something else rattle off as fast as i can like a game show and when i hit the name you hit the buzzer because i think that's the only way it can work so he said sure let's do it and we did it we did a couple to he's a genius so i've never done a sequel even though i'm due. the next transformers movies i wasn't in the other ones before but with him you know make lead to yeah a comes from episodic television and the idea that he has for the second movie is fantastic and i think the first one was his first feature was a real learning closer to him to do a we're going on the road now that me and you were made up of sure with all the cursing is that it was a big lot of wood what about a little what about the scene where he goes for the job well you see how it is and i haven't seen
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a movie on beginning to end oh you guys you know i came in twice now two nights in a row i'm going on the fight you got us in we lost a piece of gear you stable that you back on you know you've got to see the beginning when i make them go get a job and he says this stuff to this guy oh in the grocery store it is the sickest things they did as sick as ever seen and then he says the most horrible thing you can say to a person and the guy gives him the job was nobody ever talked about your hard then he gets caught having sex with her own the fresh produce and he gives him a promotion it's the manager i mean in saying we'll be right back with denzel and more of the right after the. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.
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a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and they are continuing to follow the breaking news in. alexander's family cry tears of snow white and great things out there that there had to be added red dark and a court of law is around online there's a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. totally about what was that hard to that it was such a interesting. we you know it was great to stop the madness and john. begins and i have the writer and we sat down for weeks leading up to the production and just worked on the material and and.
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just did a lot of research and. you know it wasn't hard to make it was it was it was great material to begin with it's a new thing with obviously one of the great directors of the rocks and you like the character. you have to like the character you can't you can't you know you taught i was taught in school that you have to love who you are you planning you know you can't judge who you are not the person if you're playing a character that doesn't like himself maybe that's because you're pretty but but now you've got to like the character but this movie we got a few minutes left is good is good it's got to do very well only when you do you guys but good on your movies he said i know this is going to do well i think you can feel good about something when you make it to the takes a lot to make a good movie a lot goes into it you know you got to have great material great cast great people both in front of them but i know you don't really have to be and then everything else has to you know you have to be a little of the movie god as well but i certainly think we made
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a great movie people responding to it in a way that you know you can tell the difference between people trying to be polite and people being you know and there's asked about the movie so we hope it's as well i do everything in my power to get out there people and it makes a lot easier for me because my job is to make a living wrote the movie and what i feel good about it and i feel you know it's a lot easier to do this and did oh. good that they know me now i don't go there and you know i've been i've been around too long you know but but now that you know with the tracking and all that you get a sense of where where you're going to be box office wise anyway but what i haven't done and i remember when i was doing the looping work you know i had seen the movie five or six times but i sat and watched it by myself you know like on you've got to see it with an audience so i still haven't seen it with an audience you know i've seen it would want to use and they rule and they yeah that's what i've been here and so that's what i got to do it is what you believe is it's the trailer doesn't
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tell you much it's a comedy. right it's a comedy action good talent it is a comedy that some kind of were as good as they turn good on good luck and thank you for hard to say mike thank you brother seeing you again thank you larry meeting you finally yeah i know you finally get a person that's number one elf done so well walking the streets denzel washington and mark wahlberg the film is to guns if you like to guns take it pulls you passed away. and watch this scene from two guns you kidnap a drug kingpin that's correct poppy crack go and you tied him up in my garage sorry for your. lot of us what you know yeah sure please help yourself to anything take whatever you want it's just a yogurt it is area where you suppose but it plays. what do you two like exploiting
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a girl for the watching larry king now in our special guest is paul the star cormac or the director of two guns what led you to this film well when i was doing the post on contraband mark and sat you know until one g.'s with this script you know what i'm doing and so i took it out and i kind of locked the tone of it and always been a fan of movies like bus cars in the sundance kid in movies that don't take them to the insulter seriously i thought you know this is a good opportunity to do something like that in a show a little you know different grains and different tone that i've been doing is you see it more comically so i saw i saw the opportunity of playing comedy with actors on lost and not necessarily our comics so after reading and i you know almost was to start talking as marc and producer say no that's trying to get danson to do this with us because people haven't seen him in line in a movie that much. i love like i always remember i'm like midnight run when the neighbor did his first kind of comic thing and i just i love it when a when
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a serious actor shows a little some don't do it well know it all for the love of the ticket that's a risky you know so i was i was excited to get you know not a straight up comedian than a serious acted to this and find a lot of tone in it and warburg of course is adaptable to it and yet it has become you know i'm known for is a coming talent no did you think you would become this big. well i remember when i saw him first i saw him in boogie nights as. i kind of blown away by his performance there's something very real about him and and i liked him since then of course you know there was all the movies more that i could see than that i maybe as time went by i didn't see him necessarily and then working with him i'd really understand it he's a very shrewd not three spot guy in the you you are is enormously famous and i saw you called the steven spielberg of ice and you're one of the awards that i saw them gives with what they call their watch. are there. yet or was was contraband your
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first american film it was the first studio movie i've done smaller in this language films but only a bit outside the system you know very small films and but this was my first studio with the finest film and whether it was it different for you not really you know bigger budgets yeah bigger budget you know bigger egos a little bit about it but in the book because they as i say the head is the same size in the frame as and i think after so it's pretty much the same job you know as a little bit more politics but i have been very lucky with it with the with my experience say oh here i haven't you know i don't have anything to complain about regarding you know i get to do what i want to do and the movies and you know i'm not compromised do you have a lot to do with the full cast casting a tax them in almost. that i mean now that's something i really like i like to go to those guys that i like from films i've seen in the past and and people who maybe have done indie films and not necessarily old would be the most obvious choice for
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coming in a studio film and passed and haven't done anything like base nothing i have no other facts for the first ten minutes you don't recognize you know it's fantastic and i mean he actually showed up when when when that in a costume. in that he really i mean i'm very close to what ended up being actually you know he was so ready to do this and i was like yeah that's i'm ready to take the test you were an actor i guess i am an actor i mean i still do sometimes but i had the directors kind of taken over when you direct stars and i don't know man you direct bigger star than beds or washington often enough i don't think i've met him and you know many of the directors in charge yeah the film was the directors media is it's hard. to boss around someone who's so internationally famous it is yes of course i mean it's a yeast thing that. and damn it this is there's a washington i'm going to tell him not you know he socks or. dollars there and. i
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i but i've given myself the promise that if i think something is not right or something i can do better i will go up to the actor even if it's that said i'll tell him you know you know i think you know they have a cake or you know there's something that you know and understand i will do that it's not always easy but you know most actors. you know as it goes because the time goes by they like it you know they respected you know they they feel that you're doing it because you you are you know you're doing a job and it might be a little difficult in the moment but you know later on you know the you get the respect some of the things how did you direct the scene. with the bowls. where the funny thing that wasn't in the script oh no it wasn't in the script so ice came up with this idea that because the bull in the beginning was in this thread but the bill used this block at so so i came up there let's hang them up on
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the feed and release the ball instead of having a little and i think that was like supposed to waterboard them or something you know i was that was in a thousand times in so many movies so let's do something different and the producer mark potter was a great guy and you know i was like by if you if you're going to ask as it were hanging on his feet for two days you can do it but i won't do it you know as i'm not anything i'm upside down to hang out i downey and you see this new englanders that is a terrific film and and first of all i want to not because i know him on he's that all right i'll tell it you know and then i went to denzel on and i was going to say but he took it really well in the i you know he's like he was he also tests you you know why do you want to do this you know i you know and then you go through the process and in the end the alto way you know you may have a hangover so i don't know the how to hang upside down for two days. you know and the great thing about that is that of course some of the bullet has to be you know we can you can reasonable arms over that and then some of the you know the kill.
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and you got to make them feel safe but but isn't creates also an atmosphere you know having someone hang upside down like that you know he's acting you know is affected by a lot of giving or was the difference of a direct pinch them point in making live big scene the big action the blow up of the bank to intimate scenes. i've been i went into this i started directing theater i went into this to direct actors and create characters and scenes you know situations that's why i like the humor to come out of the situation not just be funny stake a war in oh so. i mean but on the other hand i enjoy doing to little bit of x. and in iowa millionaire got to do that in theaters this or do things go wrong. up and down a freezing plant in iceland you know it was a mistake you know we lost the fire into it but it was a damned one anyway so did they let you on that base yeah they let me on the base i was there in new orleans a naval base the shocking thing is that maybe doesn't come out very well in this
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movie. nama. the surprise they gave approval yet it is you know when he's when you say it i mean i didn't really hunted up part of it but it is it is and we i mean it's there are lots of cases like this anyway all of which i mean i don't necessarily tend to you know diminish their work but at the same time you know we know stories about things that i got to do more films in america absolutely yeah i'm now getting ready to shoot a film called at rest for a working title which is about the ninety six. accident that happened on everest so we get cast that are really i will very close to where it's already out of the talks we just brought in and taken in holland and jason clarke and john hawkes they are issued on mount everest we've seen them in the italian the elements which i came from yesterday so it's got in there for you have some life yeah it's remained
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it is that sense to regret so as you see the when you see the final thing of two guns are you totally happy yeah i am i'm really happy because i you know that would of course you work with the producer and the studio but there were never any any any and they love the movie from for this on the first cut basically so i was actually me asking them to get a little more to change things that wasn't them asking me to change things was a per hour i will tell you i don't know if i'm like to see films before eight because i was curious as the audience but i saw this and it is a one you're feel so proud of this source's it combines both action and humor and the play off each other. did that chemistry work right away it was yeah i have to say my mark was very clever in the way he approached these first of all he was very humble towards them so you know he gave them a little bit their status you know but and then he started getting out and you know throwing things because because mike is incredibly improviser and he's very good at
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it and a lot of we improvise a lot we did yeah i loved doing that and i also got my theatre background you know out first i'll make sure i have everything from the script but then let's try something different i love it basically from in my book when he said the more you prepare. before you go to set the more freedom you'll feel on the set to do whatever you come to mind because not only not trying to just figure out how how can i get through this day is what i got to get how it so so now we can play and and then downsize thought it you know coming back at it when it started getting really interesting and they liked each other you could see that and that's probably also luck you know i can't take all credit for the us partly luck you can have two guys who hate each other and you can just you can't do anything with it but then it's all about you know finding the right tone the balance you know off off keeping its you know grounded but funny you know let me handle weapons well oh yeah and then all that stuff and we don't do that and i was like pleasurable those are my
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pleasure thanks to my guests about desire for marker and of course denzel washington and mark wahlberg go see two guns it's out in theaters friday august second see you will not be disappointed and remember you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next up. wealthy british style. time to rise from. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds
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