MASTERS OF THE AIR PODCAST
Prepare to be whisked away on an epic tale of valor as "Masters of the Air" takes flight on Apple TV Plus. In this spellbinding series, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks honor the unsung heroes of World War II's 100th Bomb Group, with Austin Butler and Anthony Boyle leading an outstanding ensemble cast. Each episode is a poignant reminder of the sacrifices made for freedom, meticulously crafted to ensure historical accuracy. The series transcends the war genre, celebrating the spirit and courage of the airmen whose stories are immortalized through the power of storytelling.
Witness how the casting of "Masters of the Air" goes beyond mere acting, delving into the profound respect and honor actors feel in portraying these larger-than-life figures. Austin Butler and Callum Turner, alongside our guests Barry Keoghan, Anthony Boyle, and Nate Mann, share their experiences of forming deep bonds on set, capturing the essence of the brave men they represent. The dedication to authenticity shines through, with Spielberg and Hanks once again proving their prowess in bringing significant historical narratives to the forefront, ensuring these heroes will never be forgotten.
As the curtains rise on the "Masters of the Air" premiere, the excitement is palpable. Executive producer John Orloff, joined by a star-studded cast, shares the incredible journey of turning true war stories into a cinematic masterpiece. We explore the intricate blend of action, romance, comedy, and personal drama that enriches the series, paying homage to the real people behind the characters. To our global audience, we extend heartfelt thanks and invite you to contribute to our ongoing conversation about films and TV shows that showcase the indomitable human spirit.
MASTERS OF THE AIR PODCAST
Prepare to be whisked away on an epic tale of valor as "Masters of the Air" takes flight on Apple TV Plus. In this spellbinding series, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks honor the unsung heroes of World War II's 100th Bomb Group, with Austin Butler and Anthony Boyle leading an outstanding ensemble cast. Each episode is a poignant reminder of the sacrifices made for freedom, meticulously crafted to ensure historical accuracy. The series transcends the war genre, celebrating the spirit and courage of the airmen whose stories are immortalized through the power of storytelling.
Witness how the casting of "Masters of the Air" goes beyond mere acting, delving into the profound respect and honor actors feel in portraying these larger-than-life figures. Austin Butler and Callum Turner, alongside our guests Barry Keoghan, Anthony Boyle, and Nate Mann, share their experiences of forming deep bonds on set, capturing the essence of the brave men they represent. The dedication to authenticity shines through, with Spielberg and Hanks once again proving their prowess in bringing significant historical narratives to the forefront, ensuring these heroes will never be forgotten.
As the curtains rise on the "Masters of the Air" premiere, the excitement is palpable. Executive producer John Orloff, joined by a star-studded cast, shares the incredible journey of turning true war stories into a cinematic masterpiece. We explore the intricate blend of action, romance, comedy, and personal drama that enriches the series, paying homage to the real people behind the characters. To our global audience, we extend heartfelt thanks and invite you to contribute to our ongoing conversation about films and TV shows that showcase the indomitable human spirit.
Because we now have the Cinema Judge. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the Cinema Judge. I hope my voice finds you well Now approaching the bench. Today we have the incredible Apple TV Plus show Masters of the Year. It stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, anthony Boyle and, honestly, a slew of other actors. It's incredible. The cast that they put together for this series, or limited series, whatever you want to call it is incredible. But here's the storyline for Masters of the Year and, by the way, this is produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who did band Brothers in the Pacific During World War II, airmen risked their lives for the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss and triumph. Every scene that's in this movie actually happened to real people. They scoured everywhere for all kinds of information books, autobiographies, interviews…. Here's the trailer.
Speaker 2:So you're happy.
Speaker 3:My girl was right and too hard to find. I'll miss you every second.
Speaker 4:Major Egan, you were the first pilot assigned to the 100th.
Speaker 3:Me and Buck Clever. You are in charge of 35 planes and 350 air crewmen. Don't you die on me before I get over there.
Speaker 5:Something big is brewing.
Speaker 2:The eighth to be sent in up the largest air armada ever assembled in the history of mankind.
Speaker 6:Straight into Hitler's territory.
Speaker 3:Incomplete the total air superiority. That's the mission. What?
Speaker 6:You might be the last pretty face I ever see.
Speaker 8:Who's gonna?
Speaker 3:go. What's the move we lead our boys through? All then we do Day in, day out. Let's do a guide on it.
Speaker 9:We need you to fight the monsters, the things these people are capable of.
Speaker 3:They gotta come in Trust me.
Speaker 10:Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces of the sky.
Speaker 11:Are we Tastigy men or what Sir? Yes, sir.
Speaker 6:Be with them, traversing the air and darkening storms for sunshine fair I think we may be done.
Speaker 11:We are gonna sit here and take you.
Speaker 7:We're gonna stick with our mission. As long as we can fly, we won't go without a fight.
Speaker 3:When you look at it, you don't pay attention to what's really going on. It's kind of beautiful. We came from every corner of the country with a common purpose To bring the war to Hitler's doorstep. These daylight missions are so sad.
Speaker 13:They're much neater.
Speaker 3:They lead our boys through.
Speaker 13:We're getting through this, even if the odds are starting to contest us.
Speaker 3:First time in the sawmill boys, let's rack them up and knock them down.
Speaker 1:Now I have to tell you and this is 100% straight from the heart this is amazing, incredible, stunning, emotionally wrecking. It's so well made. Just every episode is shot like a film. They don't skimp on anything. The special effects, the dialogue, the actors, everything in this series, for me personally, exceeds all my expectations. I had an idea that it was going to be exceptional, but this is exceptional on steroids. It is so moving. Let me tell you one other thing too.
Speaker 1:This isn't just your typical war movie. This isn't just a movie glamorizing war or making these people look like superheroes in any way. They don't need to do that, because the acts alone, the acts that they performed up in that plane, those acts are sheer heroism. There's no other way to put it. The guts, the bravery, the tenacity of these men I can't even imagine being in that position. You have to see this TV show. As of this recording, this is just four episodes in. When I'm recording this right now, and I just can't wait for each one to come out every week. There's going to be nine total, and this is just number four. Like I said, as of this recording, this is far, far more than just a war movie, and I'm not saying war movies are bad, but there's a lot of viewers who don't like that much tension, anxiety or violence. This you watch it out of respect in honor of all those who did it, because there's no way I'm just speaking for myself.
Speaker 1:I would have crumbled like a box of cards. I've been that character in Saving Private Ryan. The guy was huddled on the stairwell as that German walked up the stairs shaking like a leaf. That would have been me. I'm not even going to pretend or even try to pretend. Yeah, so I'd be this hero. Not a chance. What these men did up there. I can't. We can't think them enough, just as humans. It blows me away and you'll hear later on in some of these interviews.
Speaker 1:Every scene in here, like I said earlier, are acts and scenes that happened to somebody. They did they scoured everywhere. They took years to put this together and just I think it took over two years just even to shoot. That says a lot. That's how much care and detail they put into this show and this is what I'm going to do this episode. They gave me a lot of red carpet interviews. There's not any interviews where they set them down privately, so you can hear a lot of noise, but I didn't care.
Speaker 1:I this this movie neat, or a show I keep saying movie. Sorry about that. This has to be shared with people and I realized not everybody has Apple TV Plus. So when it happens, when they put it out on DVD, blu-ray, on-demand somewhere else, whatever it is, mark this down. You must watch Masters of the Air. It is wow, it's no other way to put it. I've talked to everybody I've talked to who might not always watch these kind of movies. They're like I can't wait for it to come out. So up first we're going to hear from executive producer Tom Hanks and he talks about so many things and I'm just going to let it go. Here's Tom Hanks.
Speaker 7:I will say that our friends at Apple TV Plus understood how big this thing was. When you're talking with somebody who understands how big it needs to be, I don't want to say the floodgates are open, but they understand that it's a juggernaut and it takes a huge amount of people, it takes a lot of time and it takes a special type of collaboration. There is an aspect of irisimilitude and authenticity that I think helps it become the document that it can be and that it's going to live forever on. Apple TV Plus is only a plus that it is not just based on truth, but we literally cherry pick individual specific moments exactly as they are, and it comes down to, I think, for the audience, where that's just an added bonus for them to think I didn't know that, not just as far as individual moments, but they didn't know how hard and tactile a process that it was.
Speaker 1:And he's not lying. When you watch this, I mean, obviously we can't put ourselves in truly how it felt, but this incredible project, it's the next best thing to being on that plane. It makes you feel like you're right there with them. And I'm just so impressed that Tom Hanks has done this yet again. He did Band of Brothers, the Pacific, his passion, his admiration for all these men and women who put so much on the line during World War II, and they're documenting it. They're putting it out there for the future to know. Don't forget, this was beyond any of our expectations and look what these individuals did and his care and concern is.
Speaker 1:I salute him because it'd be so easy just to slap together a movie and go hurrah, hurrah. That's not what they do on this. They show you blood, sweat, tears, the frustration, you name it. It's just flat out incredible. I don't even know what else to say, but anytime you see Tom Hanks, steven Spielberg and you're involved in any kind of World War II project, you know it's going to be the real deal Coming up. Next, we're going to hear from one of the writers and executive producer, john Orloff. Here he is.
Speaker 14:So it's been a long journey and we're all incredibly excited to finally have it finished, because it's been a bit of work getting it here. It is enormous, which is one of the reasons it took so long to make. It was such an enormous undertaking. Quite frankly, I don't think anything has ever been attempted like this in history, and people are going to see things that you have not seen, that no human eyes have seen in 85 years. I hope that audiences walk away from this show understanding exactly how harrowing, terrifying and difficult it was to fly on these missions and how many young men never returned. It's pretty brutal to have been a member of the Eighth Air Force. If you were a member of the Eighth Air Force, your chances of coming home whole were one in four, which is pretty dark.
Speaker 1:Wrap your head around that One in four. You're going up there going. I'm pretty much a sitting duck, but you go up time and time again, not knowing it's just wow, the guts of these guys, amazing. Now coming up next, we're going to have another executive producer, gary Goldsman. Here he is.
Speaker 10:Oh my God, it's the whole reason we do it is to make it as true and authentic as we can. We talk to all their family, we read every book, every article, every memoir and we're all inclusive of every expert on the subject and we really felt like we connected with some really great stories out of the research. The most relevant thing in the story is let's not let this happen again. I worry that history gets lost every year a little bit more and more, and now we do a representation of a part of the story of World War II and these boys, 19, 20 years old, went across the pond, flew planes and fought for what they thought was saving the world from the loss of freedom and the loss of democracy. Oh, my God, we lucked out. Lucy Bevin is just a great casting director out of London and she was really helpful in leading us to this batch of actors that we couldn't be luckier. They all were working actors, but who knew we had all these movie stars in this show, right?
Speaker 1:And this show has so many young, up-and-coming actors not even up-and-coming, but already established You're just like, wow, you're in this, you're in this, oh man. So that's when you know the quality of this kind of show, who shows up to make it? Because we're going to hear from one of them right now. We're going to hear from Austin Butler, and you know him. He was in the recent movie, the 2022 film, Elvis. He played Elvis himself. He was also in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That's a pretty darn good resume, if you ask me. So here he is from the red carpet.
Speaker 6:For me, it's honoring these brave men and women who gave their lives and gave their psychology and everything to protecting us and keeping us safe and fighting for an ideal of making the world a better place, and so I just feel really privileged and honored to be a small part of this. All the stories we're telling are true stories, and so there's inherently a responsibility in that to want to do them justice and to make them proud. But it's really just an honor I mean, an honor is the word that I use more than any others. We created such a bond, all of us. We had a long time. It was almost a year that we shot and it lasted to this day. That was two years ago that we finished, and some of the guys that I'm seeing right now I haven't seen them since we finished. So that bond and that love really stays.
Speaker 6:It was an amazing experience. It was a dream come true really, because I had been such a fan of Band of Brothers and of the Pacific and just everything that Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks do, so it was a remarkable experience. I felt very honored. They're the real world superheroes. We would not have the world we have today without them. So I feel very honored that I got to be a part of this. Calum's the best. I love Calum. We had a fantastic time together.
Speaker 1:And he's brilliant in this series, but something says really kind of made me think too. We only talk about superheroes. They're absolutely superheroes. But here's my request to all those companies out there whether there be Marvel, dc and whatever company Sony who make Superhero films. They're wonderful, they're great, they're great adventures. But here's my Begging request, and I think you'd make a huge, huge impact with this within your companies.
Speaker 1:Yes, you have superheroes, but how about superheroes real life or superheroes true stories? You can have a whole separate branch of superhero movies, but with real people, real stories that we can all truly relate to. I know Superheroes are gonna relate to in their own little way. You know other little inner battles, etc. And again, I'm not saying that flippantly, but if you would have a little side thing, a little part of the studio that you make, those films of Real people, real stories that really happened. Just a thought, think about that. Just you could. You could throw out. You know they don't have to be big budget either. Do you know how to throw billions at them? Just make those simple stories under your umbrella, of whatever company you own. But blah, blah, blah Real heroes huh, just something to think about Now coming up. Next we're gonna have another great actor that's in this show, callum Turner. He's had been in war and peace Green room in the recent George Cooley directed film the boys in the boat. This guy has some chops here, he is.
Speaker 13:The story of Master of the air is about the guys that fought against the Germans, who came over and saved the world. That's Master of the air. This was like the most hostile war zone of all time. The technology was brand new and they were flying blind, and 77% of these men went down. Most people who were around at the time aren't around anymore.
Speaker 13:So it's important that we keep the memory of what happened alive and so we don't repeat the same mistakes. And you know it's an honor to represent these people. What they sacrificed for us and our ideologies and our futures. So to step into those shoes was was a real privilege of mine. Yeah, I mean, that's what's so beautiful about these guys Cleven and Egan. They really care about the guys that are looking after and they're leading. They care about what they're doing. And now important is but he gets beautiful because he likes to have a good time too and he enjoys himself.
Speaker 13:It's a lot of fun to play me in Austin in real life and bucking bucky in the show. Yeah, we all love each other. I Want him to. You know I'm someone that's fascinated by World War two and I didn't know about his story. And so important to me that it's shared with people and we can shine a light on what these guys did. We wouldn't be here without, and it was a real honor to represent. You know, there's never been a moment in my life that I haven't known who Spielberg is and Tom Hanks is, and to play in their orbit and to learn from them and grow with them, and Was it's a dream come true and and to do it With the band of brothers legacy and the Pacific legacy with Gary gets me to.
Speaker 13:It's a real honor. A cockpit, it's tight, it's like a little tin. Can you know? And it just really hits home how Crazy it was what these guys did and they would go out for eight hours and do their job and come home. That's what I love about his show. You know, you get to experience warfare up in the air and most extreme conditions ever known to mankind. We see them deal with loss and grief and the effect that these events have on their mind, body and soul.
Speaker 1:And he just totally embodies his character. I can't wait till you see it, if you haven't seen already the guy. Just he feels us natural in that role Now coming up. Next we have Barry Kogan and this guy. You might think who do?
Speaker 1:I know this guy from well, this guy's been in a lot of great stuff. He was in Dunkirk, american animals, chernobyl, which is a Amazing series. If you have never seen Chernobyl blows your mind away. It's so incredible as Chernobyl, the Green Knight, the Eternals, the Batman and I'm gonna say this movie wrong, but bear with me the banshees of Insurance Incredibly unique film. It's crazy, bizarre but wow, it is very unique. And also the recent movie salt burn. Salt burn. I tell you what, guys, if you want to see a totally Out there movie, salt burn and watching him in this after watching that it took me a second or two to switch gears because his character in salt burn Is miles away from this character. So that really shows his depth, his ability just to Morph into different characters, not just play the same thing over and over. Because you can watch salt burn and all these other films, this guy could really shift gears and it's pretty incredible. Here he is.
Speaker 2:I was brilliant to work on. I mean getting to work on the Steven Spielberg, tom Hanks and Gary girlsman wherever he is. But it was brilliant. It was a it's an epic show and show him a big fan of band of brothers and so, yeah, it's nice, I hope it does and, you know, show an insight into, you know, into humanizing these lads and then you know that they have to step open. They're basically kids and they become men and and so, yeah, I just appreciation and respect from it and just from the curriculum in school and I learned about World War two and that and I was obviously familiar with it.
Speaker 2:But you know, as I signed on to the show was there you know, getting to learn a bit more and an insight into you know that the families and stuff like that you just grow a massive kind of appreciation and you know you have gratitude and you know you understand that you've got massive privileges as well and these lads didn't have. I was great spending time with the lads. You know there's a proper brotherhood there, so they're good lads.
Speaker 1:Coming up. Next we have just another talented individual it's just endless in this show Anthony Boyle. You've probably seen him in Tolkien, tetris, la City of Z Pillotok, just to name a few. Again, what an incredible talent. Here he is.
Speaker 12:Well, Harry Crosby is not only fighting the Nazis, he's fighting uncontrollable or sickness, which is, you know, a pretty full-on thing to be fighting. He doesn't feel like a hero. He feels a bit insecure. He feels like he's not the right man for the job. So I think he's the perfect guy to narrate the show and bring us through.
Speaker 12:It was great. The cast are unbelievable. You know, 250 actors is something I think we had on this. Each day, new people coming in, people leaving. It was a real. I was unbelievable. I felt like a big party, shouldn't it? You know, I watched it the other day in the theatre with like, there was about 300 people in this theatre and each person had a very different experience. There was people laughing, people crying, and I sat there in that theatre and I'm like God, I just can't wait for audiences at home to feel with these people. People were clapping, people were going crazy, People were clapping at the titles. It felt like you're on a roller coaster at times, you know, just getting moved around in these big air sequences that they had. It was pretty intense. The boot camp, it was a lot. It was three weeks of army people shouting at us. You know, get in the ground maggot and that sort of thing, and we had to do how are you doing?
Speaker 12:bro, good to see you man, you look great. So it was a lot of rolling around in the mud. You know all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine the dedication for all that training they have to go through? You take this role and then you go through basically a boot camp and then what they had to do there, you just think, whoa, that's pretty insane. But you know, in order to find that nuance, that character, what these men went through. You know all these kind of things. Obviously that could never even come close to what really really, really really happened, but it still gives you that little taste of what they went through all that training. So when you get there you could somewhat react like they reacted. And I want to say one more thing too.
Speaker 1:This show doesn't have it's not just all brutality or all this action in the planes. They do have a lot of great in-depth, on-the-ground stuff dealing with their personal lives, relationships between each other, relationships with women there and what consequences that has. There's a lot more depth to this than just action. In case you're like dude, all you're just talking about is the action, all these other things. There's far more to it than that. There's a lot of intimate situations that happen and what happens to some other people when they get. Maybe they survive the crash and they're out there in the wild and they have to take care of themselves or risk so much. So my point is this it isn't just sheer in the plane, only in action. There's much more to it than that.
Speaker 1:Up next we're going to hear from Nate Mann, and you maybe, if you saw the movie Licorice Pizza. If you haven't, you should. It's a great movie. He's in that. He's also in the TV show Evil and ex-husbands and he also did play Teen Ray Donovan in a TV show. Ray Donovan Little tidbit for ya, but here he is.
Speaker 9:The word I've been using the most is immersive. I mean Gary and Tom and Steven, they care so much about this world and this story and these guys, you know, right down to just every cockpit sequence, was just full on and that just made it feel really special and I hope it comes across in the finished product. Yeah, I mean I was familiar with the 8th Air Force but I wasn't super familiar with the 100th Bomb Group. You know, the bloody 100th as they call it. And I mean you know you learn about these stories, these boys, right, these young men, but they're really boys, you know, coming from all over America joining in this effort, this unprecedented effort against an unprecedented enemy, and it just stands out as this remarkable fact of history with, of course, you know, devastation, you know that it wreaked on these men's lives, but how they triumphed in the end. You know the courage. It's just, you know it's almost incomprehensible.
Speaker 9:Rosie was a group in Brooklyn, became a lawyer. Pearl Harbor happens. He enlists and he ends up spending hundreds and hundreds of hours in the cockpit training gunners. So when he finally goes to the 100th, he's super experienced behind the cockpit. Little does he know that some of his first missions are going to be some of the most harrowing of the whole, of the whole journey. So immersive I mean. We made it such a. We tried to make it really feel like we were stepping into the world of the show. We were sitting in a cockpit, you know a replica cockpit that was on a hydraulic gimbal. There's screens going around, lots of noise, there's special effects and explosions, really trying to make it kind of as exciting as possible.
Speaker 1:Now here's me begging once again to the makers of this wonderful project please, please, please, when you release it on DVD and I beg you that you do this put on the making of. We would love to see the creation of this show. You know every one of us would go out there and buy a copy. If you watch this show, you're going to buy the DVD, just like him. Just even talking about that, about all that stuff around him it's on a machine that's shaking it. You really get that immersive feel so pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, please. When you release this bad boy, put on a ton of extras, because us movie geeks like me would eat that up like glorious candy. So do it please.
Speaker 1:Now coming up next we have Rafferty Law. He was in the 2019 film Running man 2021 twist, the movie I really want to talk about that he was in. He played young Remy in the 2010 Ripple Men stars Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker. I remember that came out. I sat in the theater. I love that movie. Great concept it sets in the future. If you get up to say, if you get some kind of transplant and you can't pay the bill, well, these guys Forrest Whitaker and Jude Law. They come find you for these fancy devices and they take it out. You're like what? But it works. Trust me, it's a really good film and the ending was. I'll always remember the ending. It was really well done, it was original and cool. I'm like nicely done. So have you ever seen one to 2010 film, ripple Men? I think you'll love it. I did. But here's Rafferty Law from the red carpet.
Speaker 8:Yes, definitely. I think Sergeant Ken Lemons I mean he I was so inspired by him. I read his book, I did a lot of research on the guy and from an early, early moment I realized how lucky I was to be able to tell his story. A lot of the time mechanics and ground crews they don't always get that narrative and although he's kind of on the periphery, you see, he's almost like the audience's eyes and ears. You see what it was like for the guys at the base, what they would do in between the missions, how they were dealing with this psychological torment of a lot of people not coming back and seeing the harrowing effect that it was having on people. So to show what a 19 year old was going through at that time with so much responsibility. I felt an element of pressure but also I was in safe hands.
Speaker 8:It's such an incredible production to be a part of such a brilliant cast. So many people had each other's backs, there was that support system. So I really just I did my research and we had a brilliant boot camp with Captain Dale Dye and from there I just wanted to show the mechanics point of view. I mean Steven and Tom and Gary, they are the masters at kind of retelling these World War II stories and they do it on such a spectacular level. Even from the audition there was an excitement within me and it was something that I really, really wanted to be a part of, and once I got the role, I was quickly into boot camp and that was genuinely one of the best experiences of my life to be around such incredible actors and talent but also just such lovely guys who all had each other's backs. It was all about kind of encouraging each other and really trying to kind of understand this story, this incredible story that we're telling, and that kind of set the president from there.
Speaker 1:Okay, we have next from the red carpet. We're going to hear from Sawyer Spielberg, and he was the production assistant from Indiana Jones in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He was in the post in the movie Breathe. Here he is.
Speaker 4:This is a massive endeavor, for sure, and I mean I heard about this project about three years ago and I went through the auditioning process and then found out in February four weeks before we got shipped off to bootcamp that I was going to be playing Lieutenant Roy Frank Lader, a real guy, a pilot, commanding officer of a B-17.
Speaker 4:And I was floored. And to be able to spend eight months in London working on a show like this was the most overwhelming exciting thing that's ever happened to me as an actor. The intimate moments, the intimate conversations that I've had with the other actors behind the scenes waiting to go up and do our scenes, or on the weekends when we travel together and bonded, and those memories I'm going to cherish for the rest of my life and I hope to know these guys for the rest of my life. I mean this is an incredible group of actors. Military history in World War II has been a big part of my family for a long time, so it was a complete honor to be a part of this and to work with such an incredible cast and team and directors and producers. And I mean these sets were incredible and it's been a dream of mine to fly and play an Air Force pilot. So it's a dream come true.
Speaker 1:Coming up. Next we're going to hear from Jonas Moore, brendan Cook, matt Gavin and Elliot Warren.
Speaker 15:I think what was amazing was being on it in such a dynamic set, watching people that I'd grown up with, that I'd sort of seen before, and learning every day watching these actors that I'd love just doing their thing, and it was an incredible learning experience as much as anything else as well.
Speaker 5:I play Second Lieutenant Alexander Jefferson. Well, he was a Tuskegee Airman that ended up being a POW, captured at war. He was a great man, a great leader. He was a brilliant artist as well, so he drew actually his entire time while he was captured. So we have this record, essentially of what the POW camps were like and what it was like to be around there, what it was like to be a Tuskegee Airman. So I think he was really, really important in that movement.
Speaker 11:It was amazing and we're led by Austin Butler and Callum Turno, who are absolute Titans, both very different, but they really were like our commanding officers. They were great. It was just such a pleasure. The bloody hundreds are the bomb squad for the American Air Force that led the fire over the bombing raids over Nazi Germany. All their planes would get battered and bruised and they'd get shot up by flak, but they'd always come home. It was just unbelievable. I think that's kind of the number one job that you want as an actor to work with legends like that and it was pretty surreal knowing that they were a part of the project. Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 1:Now coming up. Next we're going to hear from one of the writers and executive producer, john Orloff, and he sums it up by saying pretty much what he hopes you get out of this. And then we have a I'll call it a featurette. In this little featurette it's a little sizzle where they combine all these little clips from London premiere into this little package where a lot of the people introduce themselves and talk about how excited they are to be here or part of the project and at the red carpet. So that's what you're going to hear after that interview.
Speaker 1:Everybody's like hey here we are at London. I'm very excited On the TV version of this. If you want to watch that. I also have a little bit more footage that's not on here, but they're on the stage at the premiere and the whole cast is there and this guy's introducing them all. It's kind of joking back and forth. I felt it really wouldn't work on here because you really can't see them on. You can't see the mojo on stage. I do have that in the TV version of the show. It'll give that to you in a few minutes after the interview, in that little sizzle moment.
Speaker 14:I think I want people to remember that this is a true story, that these men really did these things, these really heroic things, and I don't think you need a Marvel superhero when you can have the real thing with these guys.
Speaker 6:Hey, I'm Austin Butler. I'm here at the London premiere of Masters of the Air.
Speaker 10:My name's Gary Getsman. I'm in London.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Catam Tona Barik Yogan and I'm here for Masters of the Air.
Speaker 9:Very exciting. There's a lot of faces I haven't seen in a while.
Speaker 14:I am terribly excited to be here in London, england, it feels pretty cool to be here.
Speaker 6:Callum's the best.
Speaker 2:I love Callum yeah we all love each other. It was brilliant to work on. I mean getting to work on the Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks.
Speaker 10:How would I describe it? In one word Wow intense.
Speaker 8:Spectacular.
Speaker 10:Sacrifice Brilliant.
Speaker 6:Epic.
Speaker 3:First time in the Sawmill boys, let's rack them up and knock them down.
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