ComingSoon Senior Editor Brandon Schreur spoke to Lou Diamond Phillips and James C. Clayton concerning the new motion film Get Quick. Clayton mentioned directing the movie, which is a sequel to 2022’s Bullet Proof, and casting Phillips as The Cowboy, whereas Phillips touched on performing alongside Clayton and attending to play a charismatic villain.
“When his accomplice in crime is kidnapped after pulling off an enormous cash heist, a infamous skilled thief tracks the abductors into the territory of a cruel drug lord, pursued by soiled cops, low-level cronies, and the crime syndicate’s deadliest hitman, a gun-loving and coldly charming sociopath often called The Cowboy,” the synopsis for Get Quick reads. “However with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and a number of lives at stake, how lengthy will loyalty amongst thieves really final when the bullets begin flying?”
Get Quick releases digitally on November 15, 2024.
Brandon Schreur: James, I’m questioning should you can simply inform me a little bit bit about the place the thought for Get Quick got here from. I do know it was a sequel to Bullet Proof from a 12 months or two in the past, which you had been concerned with in directing, co-writing, and all the things. At what level throughout the course of of constructing Bullet Proof did you have got this concept for a sequel?
James C. Clayton: It occurred within the enhancing room of Bullet Proof. Bullet Proof was my directorial debut and, , whenever you’re doing one thing for the primary time, you have got some apprehension about whether or not or not it’s going to work out, be any good, and should you’ll even have the acumen to proceed to do it. After we began placing the edit collectively, I noticed, ‘Oh, okay, I feel I even have one thing.’ Greater than that, I really suppose I may be a director, I would be capable to direct.
It was the start of 2022, January 2022, I began engaged on the script already figuring out that the primary one was going to be nicely obtained, that I used to be proud of the movie, and that we had been going to subsequently shoot Get Quick in 2023.
Certain. That feels like a course of, however one factor I beloved concerning the film is the way it begins. You possibly can instantly soar proper in, whether or not you’ve seen the primary one or not — it’s simply instantly ‘Growth growth growth’ and we’re going. I assumed that was actually cool and I used to be instantly locked in.
Clayton: Oh, that’s nice, and that was a hundred percent intentional. As a lot as there’s a unbroken story or characters, it wanted to face alone as a lot in it of itself as nicely, for individuals who in all probability haven’t seen the primary one. And we wished to tug the viewers in straight away, in a really quick means, after which simply not allow them to go.
Certain. I feel you pull it off nice. Lou, speak to me a little bit bit about how you bought concerned with this undertaking. Had been you a fan of Bullet Proof, or had you seen it earlier than? What sort of stood out to you and made you need to be part of this.
Phillips: Um, I misplaced a wager. So, yeah, I sort of needed to present up [laughs].
No, I had not seen Bullet Proof, I had not seen Bullet Proof. The script for Get Quick got here to me with the provide and a beautiful letter, as I recall, James.
Clayton: That’s proper.
Phillips: A unbelievable letter which touched me quite a bit, bro. As a result of we’d labored collectively earlier than. The script, such as you mentioned, it’s proof optimistic that he didn’t make this up as he went. The script promised quite a bit. Motion, tempo, humor, and enjoyable, all of it. And James delivered, he actually, actually delivered. I beloved the script, to start with, as a result of it was as quick as a learn as it’s enjoyable to observe. Then the character was simply, I don’t know, man. It simply tickled me. It simply gave the impression to be such a enjoyable and artistic technique to go. At this level in my profession, I’m all the time on the lookout for one thing I haven’t completed earlier than, but additionally one thing that I’m going to have enjoyable with. This definitely checked all these bins.
No, positively. That was one thing I used to be going to ask you, too, James. Lou is enjoying such a novel character on this. You watch him and there’s no person else who can do it fairly like that. Had been you pondering of Lou whenever you had been scripting this half or whenever you had been engaged on the screenplay?
Clayton: Yeah, I completely was. I feel it touches on a few of the questions we answered a little bit bit earlier within the day; The Cowboy is charismatic and he’s a killer, however to make a personality like that work, you want anyone who is just not solely an amazing expertise, who is famous — and I don’t use these phrases calmly with Lou — however you additionally want somebody who’s respectable. Lou mentioned we’d labored beforehand; I used to be mainly a director’s assistant many, many moons in the past once I was in my early 20s on a movie that Lou was starring in. Lou was so type to me. His nickname for me was Shadow as a result of I used to be all the time sort of round and doing these issues.
It all the time caught with me as a result of, once I was a child, I grew up watching Lou Diamond Phillips. I do know everybody did, however I’ve vivid recollections of watching Lou Diamon Phillips motion pictures over and again and again. So once I obtained to satisfy him — and, , you’ve obtained to watch out about assembly your heroes — and he was such an unbelievable individual, to me it was a no brainer for him to play The Cowboy. As a result of he isn’t solely an excellent expertise, he’s as respectable and pretty much as good of an individual to match that expertise as nicely. And I’m not saying that to butter him up, that’s the reality.
Certain. And Lou, I beloved your character in right here. You’re so entertaining to observe since you’re a killer and also you’re terrifying whenever you need to be, however you’re additionally a pleasant man and it looks like you may simply give somebody a hug and all the things can be okay.
Phillips: Proper?!
Was that enjoyable, to have the ability to play somebody like that?
Phillips: Sure. It’s fascinating, it begins within the writing. Too many individuals, they play unhealthy guys who’re snarlers. Particularly in motion movies, that tends to get actually one-note or actually boring. To not solely come at one thing sideways however to have it really within the script — when he apologizes to somebody earlier than he has to kill them. This can be a man who’s taking a look at it from, ‘Properly, I gotta do that, it’s what I do, and I made a decision to take this job.’ All of that, it simply added this beautiful sort of wryness to it. You must decide to that in order that it doesn’t come off as a cartoon. Even dressing that means; you actually must carry a dedication. I used to say this in comedy on a regular basis, you’ve obtained to decide to the bit. When you consider it, then the viewers will consider it. So with a personality like this, who’s a lot larger than life and so quirky, it’s a must to make him an actual human being for him to be, primary, entertaining, but additionally a risk. There’s that good stability between the 2.
Certain. And I’m certain that’s in all probability a tough stability to search out straight down the center of not going too far into both camp however, man, I used to be having enjoyable, I used to be having a ton of enjoyable watching you. I feel you probably did it. I need to ask each of you concerning the motion scenes on this film as a result of they appear nice. I used to be sort of blown away and stunned by how cool and thrilling they’re, and by how wrapped up I obtained in all the things. It seems to be like you have got an enormous funds, despite the fact that I do know you in all probability didn’t, and it simply seems to be so actual. I’m curious what your expertise filming these scenes was like. Had been there any stunts you had been doing yourselves?
Phillips: Fortuitously, for me, it wasn’t as bodily demanding as some roles I’ve had. I’ve completed some movies through the years that banged me up fairly good. This one didn’t require an entire lot of that, it sort of performed into my wheelhouse with a few of that stuff. As a result of I don’t bounce the best way I used to, I’ll let you know that proper now. What I’ll say is that, initially, James is a younger man and never everybody who’s as bodily as James is pretty much as good of an actor. I imply, he introduced each, which was actually, actually spectacular.
Past that, he had a help workers that’s world-class. I obtained to say, the blokes from Peacemaker, they got here up with some tools to shoot this movie that I’d by no means seen earlier than. One in all them was a segway that had a Steadicam and a crane arm. I used to be like, ‘The place the hell did you get that?’ And the man was like, ‘We made it.’ So we’re coping with a tremendous quantity of innovation and ingenuity. They introduced this all to bear for James’ movie. And it exhibits. It completely exhibits. The quantity of preparation, the quantity of know-how and ingenuity, pays off as a result of he did this, as you mentioned, with a finite funds and never an enormous schedule. This isn’t a Marvel film the place you’ve obtained two months to shoot two minutes. They needed to blow and go each single day and that was extremely spectacular.
Clayton: I’ve to echo what Lou mentioned. I imply, they had been super to have the ability to do these scenes, however there’s no means we may’ve pulled them off with out having the blessing of such an amazing stunt crew. And the technicians, who’re at a world-class degree to have the ability to do it. Thanks for mentioning Peacemaker, Lou — Peacemaker was one of many co-production firms on this movie, Peacemaker Filmworks. It’s owned by Ryan Ennis and Chris Wiseman. There are such a lot of individuals who I may point out who’re a part of this group; Michelle Yardley, as nicely, and Brad [Mcgregor]. These persons are world-class. They’ve labored on all these super, big-budget movies like Ghostbusters, RoboCop, and Sonic the Hedgehog. They believed, they had been on Bullet Proof and so they believed in Get Quick. They got here to help this imaginative and prescient and that’s why the movie seems to be pretty much as good because it does. It was an amazing collaborative effort.
Undoubtedly. Like I mentioned, I simply suppose it seems to be nice and I used to be so into it. I’m virtually out of time with you guys right here however Lou, I wished to ask you fast, I’m certain this isn’t the primary time you’ve heard this or are going to listen to this as we speak, however you’re enjoying a modern-day cowboy on this film. Clearly, you had been within the Younger Weapons motion pictures. Which, big fan, I grew up watching these with my dad so, hats off, I like them. I used to be simply sort of curious should you seen any similarities between your characters, given that you simply’re cowboys in each. Had been there any similarities in engaged on Younger Weapons and Get Quick or was this a very totally different expertise for you?
Phillips: , each film is a very totally different expertise. This character has little or no to do with Younger Weapons. I used to be inducted into the Cowboy Corridor of Fame and, in my acceptance speech, I mentioned, ‘Yeah, nicely, , I normally play the Indian.’ It’s all the time enjoyable to vary that up and play the cowboy, which I’ve completed earlier than.
It’s like with all of the police lieutenants I’ve performed, I’m all the time on the lookout for one thing that’s a little bit totally different and for me, so to talk, hold my hat on and provides the viewers one thing new. My spouse, she all the time says, ‘Everybody thinks you all the time put on cowboy boots and flannel shirts,’ however I’m really a author, as nicely. This e book, my e book, The Tinderbox: Underground Motion comes out on November nineteenth. It’s a sequel to the primary e book, The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira, which was a best-seller and really well-received. These are popping out and can be found on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Due to Lou Diamon Phillips and James C. Clayton for taking the time to speak about Get Quick.
