"Here we are, doing the Kick-Ass 2 DVD commentary." "We should probably introduce ourselves." "I'm Jeff Wadlow, the writer and director of the film." "I'm Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and I played The Motherfucker." "I'm Chloë Grace Moretz, and I play Hit Girl." "Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kick-Ass." "I need a third name I've decided." "Yeah, we need a hyphen, too." "I don't have a hyphen." "We can just put the dash in between the "Wad" and the "Low."" "That's true." "There we go." "It could be Wad..." " Wad-Low." " Wad-Low..." "So you know what I was thinking about this morning is, this might be the fifth time we've all been in the room together." " Yeah." " It's true, right?" "Right?" "'Cause, Chloë, you were skyped in for Comic-Con in the table-read." "And spoiler alert, you guys are only in one scene together, all three of you, in this whole movie." " Yeah, we are." " Yeah." "Thanks, Jeff." "Yeah, I know." "Who wrote this piece of shit?" "There will be copious swearing, but no singing to my understanding." " Unless it's original." " Unless we want to make up our own song." "Yeah, unless it's original, has to be an original song." "So this scene is a nice callback to the first film, and actually something that I pitched Matthew, very early on." " Matthew Vaughn?" " Yeah, Matthew Vaughn, producer, writer and director of the first film." "Was it weird to shoot this scene, Chloë, given that you did it the first time with Nic?" "It was weird being on the other side of the gun, that's for sure." " Shooting it this time." " Yeah." "Yeah, it was interesting being able to be the one that talks about the handgun, bullet and stuff..." "I love this moment here." "Did you guys just see that feather that Aaron blew over there?" " CGI." " That was a great moment." "That's an example of a moment totally not planned." " It just happened." " It's a CGI feather." "And Aaron Taylor-Johnson made it one of my favorite moments in the movie." "Were you nervous getting shot at, Aaron?" "No, that was good fun." "It is actually quite nerve-racking when someone's pointing a gun at you." "And then you're like, "So, those blanks, is that gonna hit me or something?"" "But it was amazing." "They put little squibs in the coat that I was wearing, and it blows out at the same time, so it looks awesome." " Is that a Pink Pony bag she's wearing?" " Nice backpack." "Morris Chestnut making his first appearance." "Yeah." "Claudia Lee showing up as Brooke." " Clark Duke." " Clark Duke." "Excited to have Clark back." "I met with Clark before we started making the movie, and the first thing he said to me was, "Thank you." "I finally get to be a superhero."" " He was so pumped." " Thank God." "Oh, there I am, baby." " There you are." " You've changed so much." "When I watch the first film, I feel you were 11, but you look kind of like you're nine." "And in this film you were 15, and you look like you're about 19." "Yeah." "Completely." "I looked 15 in the first movie and still look 15." "You still look 15." " Chris, you'll get carded when you're 45." " Absolutely." "Chris looked 12 in the first movie, and then he grew a beard..." " There's Dave again." "...and he looks 13." " Thirteen." " You look 13." "It amazed me, Aaron, how you just looked like Dave again so immediately, 'cause when I met you, I was like," ""Oh, this guy's not a teenager anymore." "He's a man." "He's got a family."" "And then you did the hair and put on the glasses," " and, boom, you're Dave again." " Yeah." " Yeah." " Nice answer, Aaron." " I know." " Yeah." "I transformed back into that spotty, adolescent high-school kid, yeah." " It was good fun, though." " Should we talk about that we couldn't get Evan Peters back, who was fantastic in the movie." "That shot we just saw, that three-shot of you guys on the couch is one of the most complicated special-effects shots in the movie, because we couldn't get Augustus, who is playing Evan's role in this film," "and Clark on the set with Aaron the same day." "So, Aaron, do you remember that?" "We shot multiple passes of those guys sitting on the couch 'cause Augustus and Clark weren't in the room together." "That's exactly right." "Yeah, yeah." "I just saw, Chloë, your brother getting the producer credit." " Trevor..." " T. Duke." " Nice shout-out." " T. Duke Moretz." "Well earned, he was on set every day" " when you were working, doing his thing." " Killing it." "Always doin' it." " Yeah, Adam, Tarquin and David." " Good guys." " Matthew Vaughn." " Mr. Vaughn." "Back in the game with the suit." " Hey." "Jeff Wide-load." " I wrote that." " Wadlow." " Wadlow..." " Is it Wadlow or Wadlow?" " It's Wide-load." "This is quite funny because this was actually a reshoot." "Wide load." "This is months, months after." "What I am wearing there is a wig." "Yeah, me, too." "You're wearing a wig and I'm wearing a wig, how fun is that?" "I have, practically, different color hair." "No." "But it's great 'cause I wouldn't even tell." "See that underneath, right there, is my hair color." " Those are really fake bangs, aren't they?" " That brown underneath there." "Totally fake bangs." "And also, this is the clip of "Robin wishes he was me."" "That's what they use in the trailer so much." " And I was like, "Wow."" " That was a reshoot scene?" " Yeah, no, 'cause..." " This is a reshoot scene, dude." "I rewrote that scene outside the school because, initially, Aaron came up to Chloë and said, "I want to start a team."" "And there was some confusion when we showed the movie to audiences." "They're like, "A team?" "But it's just the two of them."" "So I actually explained, "A team like Batman and Robin."" " Yeah, Batman and Robin, that's it." " He came up with that Robin line." " Spell it out for people." " See, and that is not a wig." "I did, which ended up being something to use." " This scene is not a wig." " Not a wig, and not a wig on me either." "And you would never know." "Wig, no wig, wig, no, real hair, so..." "This is where I trained for three months, MMA, boxing, jujitsu." "Chloë flew in off another movie a week before, and just kicked the shit out of me, all over the room." "And threw me all around." "Watch this..." "What's funny about that is if you actually pause it," " you can see that there's no contact at all..." " Of course." "... with your man parts." "I was scared to get too close." "Goddamn!" "That's amazing!" "I think you should do a special feature on all movies, Aaron, where you just say where there's a wig and there's not a wig." "I keep getting asked." "Even when I had real hair, it was like," ""So, dude, is that a wig?"" "I'd be like, "No, that's my hair, man."" "And they'd be like, "Oh, that sucks."" "So, it's funny, 'cause when we did reshoots, there's a couple of scenes I'm gonna point out the "wig" moments." " "Wig, no wig."" " Why not all the wig moments?" "No." "No wigs, no wigs, I'll point out the next "wig" moment." "Here's another moment that was an accident, your glasses getting fogged up." " They got all steamed up." " And Chloë totally breaks character." " You almost look right at us 'cause you..." " I did." "...were laughing so hard at Aaron." " Yeah." "I'm bad with that." "Yes." "Yes, I did, Christopher." "How amazing was this house?" "I love this." "Just watch what she's putting in her blender." "She cracks in a raw egg, some vitamins, and then she goes straight over to the cocktail bar, and just..." " Pours..." "Yeah." "...pours in vodka." " I love it." " Yeah, she was fantastic." " Breakfast of champions." " I love that she came back" " and was able to do it, man." " Yeah." " She's so good." " She had to." "Yeah." "No, I couldn't imagine anyone else doing it." "The best is that line in the first movie, where he's like, "I gotta do business."" " "Do what you gotta do." - "Do what you gotta do."" ""Do what you gotta do." And that's it." "Then she..." " John Leguizamo." " So good that we got him." "It's such a great introduction for his character, too." " I'm a huge Johnny Legs fan." " Later." "I'm a huge fan of John's legs." "Look at those clavicles." "I wrote this 'cause I have a weird fear of tanning beds." " Really?" " After this, you mean?" "No, I wrote this 'cause I have a weird fear of tanning beds." "You're putting yourself, basically, in a microwave oven." " Yeah." " Yeah." "I can't believe people do that." "Sorry to all of you." "Same as baking in the sun." "You're basting yourself with that oil they put on you and you just cook." " Yeah." " Yeah." "The needle, nice little payoff from the first film, for a scene that didn't make it into the first film." " Nunchakus." " Aaron with some facial hair." "Right?" "That little chin hair there?" " Dave is growing up." " Dave is an adult." "This is another scene that I had a lot of fun writing, because I was able to deal with some things from the first film that I thought was weird, that nobody talked about." "Like, Kick-Ass is the first superhero, but he really wasn't." " It really was Big Daddy and Hit Girl." " Big Daddy." "I agree." "I think it was a really nice touch, that." "And the other thing that I wanted to get into, and it actually ends up being one of the funnier moments in the movie, 'cause I've seen it with audiences and people always laugh, is the fact that Big Daddy was insane." " Of course." " He's just fucking nuts." "Crazy, yeah." "Total psychopath." " And nobody talked about that either." " That's right, he was insane." "But I love it, the way Aaron delivers that line." "Everyone laughs when I've seen this." "That was perfect timing, Jeff." "He literally said the line immediately when you were done talking about it." "That was amazing." "I was actually rehearsing my commentary before you guys got here," " so I can make this stuff happen." " Yeah." "I love that set." "Russell De Rozario was a production designer for the first film." "And for the safe house for the sequel we wanted to do something that was evocative of the first film, but also sort of expanded on the world of Big Daddy and Hit Girl, and I like that, 'cause that was sort of your training safe house." " Absolutely." " I love this scene." "I love this scene forjust Chloë's performance ofjust..." "Being a kid?" "I love that, 'cause it just goes from playing the bullshit into, "Okay, no bullshit," but give you more bullshit." "Yeah, I do it." "I'm crying now bullshit." "This is like, "Okay, fuck it."" "Here I go." "Ready?" "So now you wanna tell me where you really were today?" " The timing not as strong." " No." "There." "There." "There you go." "Bullshit." " Morris." " Damn." "I love how he flexes his jaw there." "Is that an acting choice or is that just Morris?" " Yeah, I was like, "Morris, flex yourjaw."" " Yeah." "And flex." "And, Morris, will you flex yourjaw right now?" "Oh, it happened." "I gotta say, my hat's off to Morris, because he came in here, and he was taking over this role, and he came in with such ease and authority." "And I felt like he just stepped into Marcus so beautifully, and personified what it meant to be a guardian for Mindy in such a special way." "We get that he needs to lay down the law, but you also get that he really loves her and wants to take care of her." "And I'm a big fan of his." "This is genius." "Oh, I'm looking through my mom's..." " This is the beginning." " This is the beginning of The Motherfucker." "It begins." "You really wanted to show my chest, Jeff." "You liked the deep "V"s." " Clavicles." " Clavicles." " Collar bones." " Deep Keira Knightley clavicles right there." "She was my inspiration for my clavicles." "I studied her." "I want to put you in a Victorian outfit, in a Victorian dress." " You can dress me." "You can do my wardrobe." " God!" "Look at those, they're so deep." "I'm freaking out over them." "Chloë, don't look." "Chloë, don't look." "This is immature, inappropriate stuff." "This is not suitable for your eyes." "Aaron knows all about it, though." " Chris, we know..." " Aaron's like, "Oh, those are mine."" "That's genius, his look." "Then he's like," " "Oh, I'll take it."" " He looks at him like..." "I don't even know what these might be." "I just took those off set with me." "That was not a character choice." "No one's ever seen them again." "I did wish he had those as a weapon, though." "At some point, pulled them out and started whipping me with them." " That'd be funny." " Just the anal beads come out like, "Whoa!"" "Choking you with them or something, jamming them down." " Right?" " No, it's too much." "I like this little moment here we're setting up, that there's a little chemistry between you two." " Getting changed behind a dumpster." " Look at this." "Great." "Aaron, your clavicles are not as appealing as mine." " Not as Keira Knightley-esque." " Yeah." "Sorry." "Boring!" "I should've had hair like Austin Powers." "We're in Toronto outside there, and then we're in London here." " We shot those scenes two months apart." " And cut to London." "Is that a wig, Aaron?" " Wig?" "No wig?" "Wig?" "No wig?" " No wig." "At first it was a wig?" "No, it was "no wig" the whole time." "So we're in Denmark Street in London here, and this alley was totally disgusting." "We spent like, what, four days here?" "And remember the double-decker red buses that kept going behind everyone?" "Yeah, I kept freaking out." "I'd be, like, "It's another UK bus."" "And then someone was like," ""The sightseeing buses in Manhattan are double-decker red buses."" "And I was like..." " Aaron's such a bad-ass in this scene." " Yeah." "The whole point of this scene was to show that Dave can fight now." " Absolutely." " And then he gets his ass kicked." "It's a beautiful introduction to Hit Girl as well," " that I'm hoping crowds will applaud." " Will respond to." "Yeah." "I like how he did, at the end of this fight sequence, started to talk about Saudi Arabia..." "How you do the," ""I'm gonna go Saudi Arabia on your ass and cut your hand off."" "That's a line read you threw at me five seconds before we were done shooting for that day." " Yeah, that was the final take of it." " Yeah." "Yeah." "The whole point of this was to show the difference in the fight styles from the first film and this one, this is going to be a little more grounded." "And then we get the big Hit Girl introduction." " So good." " And you were crouching down" " while we did that, right?" " Yeah." "I was just hiding behind them." " She's back." " Yep." "There's gotta be some applause here, right, audiences?" " Oh, yeah, people go nuts." " Yeah." " People go nuts." " I think so." "I'm gonna just go to screenings and be the one person booing." "And this is all Chloë with the nunchakus, for the most part." " For the most part, except for that." "T." " Yeah, that was T." " T was fantastic." " Me." "Me." "Me." " You should talk about T a little bit." " I will." "Especially, the entire van sequence she did while actually driving." "Yeah." "Come on, man." "Come on." "Tom Knight playing our Hood." "He did a great job, I thought." " Yeah, he was great." " Great job." "And I love this." "This is just a reminder ofjust how psychotic Hit Girl is." " It's like this weird..." " Crazy ass." ""You better be good or I'm gonna cut off your hand."" "And I'm gonna cut off your hand." "Like you said, her dad was psychotic." "So, obviously, she's gonna be as well." "She learned that whole comic book, like everything's..." "It's like a Barbie video." "By the way, that was me saying, "Stop." "Get your hands in the air."" " Really?" "No." " Yeah." " That's my one thing in the..." "That's me." " "Stop." "Get your hands in the air."" " We did that in reshoots." " In cameo." " Who did that?" "Is that T?" " No." "We shot that in New York." "We did our aerials in New York and we had another double." " There are probably five Hit Girl doubles." " You just had someone run." "Yeah, we just hired a girl." " That fall right there was T." " Yeah." "This took a while, to find exactly the timing of this." "Yeah." "It was tough, 'cause there were a lot of pieces going on with T landing the jump and you standing up." "This was the first day in the suit." "That's why it looks so fresh." " The first day back?" " It's the first day ever in that suit." " And the purple wig." " Really?" "Your first scene?" "Nice." "First scene." " I like your performance here, Chloë." " Oh, this is great." "How did the suit change from this film to the first film?" " I mean, in your opinion." " A lot." "What were the things that changed the most?" "The color." "It became shiny instead ofjust more of a matte purple." "It now has shoulder pads." "I also have the cool Tomb Raider leg straps, which I thought were rad." "Yeah, the slung holsters." "And the boots were super sleek, and it changed the entire look of the bottom of it." "And the utility belt." "You got the Ducati because you, after the first movie, said you wanted a Ducati." "Requested it." "It was like, "Hey, wouldn't this be cool if it got a Ducati?"" " And then they got the Ducati." " And then it's just in there." " It happened." " That is literally why it happened." "So sick." "So sick." " You got power, Chloë..." " Remember this shot?" " Yeah." "That's a Texas Switch." " That is one shot." "So we basically had the stunt driver pull up in the motorcycle while Chloë waited in the garage," " and then ran out and threw the helmet." " And just ran out." "You got my soup?" " This is our nice little Ferris Bueller homage." " Yeah." "People seem to always get it, which I'm very happy about." " I was crazy jetlagged in the scene." " Ferris Bueller and Kick-Ass are very similar." "Well, the "nap-nap" is a direct quote from Ferris Bueller." "Nap-nap." "Yeah." " Oh, girl." "You gotta hide that blood, girl." " Yes." "He's seen the blood, girl." " Busted." " The bitch got caught." "This scene, so hot on that set with those lights." " I was falling asleep under those lights." " It was brutal." " It was horrible." "It was..." " Absolutely brutal." "And look, I couldn't even bend my legs in the suit." " I had to sit there like that." " Yeah, they looked fake." "I couldn't bend over, I was like this..." "Oh, I can't bend my legs." "I can't bend my torso." "This damn leather." "But Morris just kills this speech." "I mean, it really..." "Look how sweaty we are." "Is this the moment you're not Hit Girl anymore?" "Yeah, this is where she decides." "And Morris makes it work, because everyone who read the script at first was like," ""I don't believe Mindy would ever give up being Hit Girl."" "And I think the way he delivers this speech and the way you guys connect..." " He's endearing." "...in a very real way." "It's really moving." "I love this scene." "And I think it really sets up the whole next act for Chloë, and where she goes in herjourney." "I think it's really moving." "If this scene didn't work, I don't think your story would work." " The whole movie would fall apart." " I agree." "Yeah." "It's really moving." " It makes it work." " Yeah, definitely." "And also, obviously, calling back to her relationship with Big Daddy." "There were rumors that Nic Cage is gonna be in the movie." "Actually, I wrote some flashback scenes for him." "Oh, I wish those had happened." "Those were great scenes." "Ultimately, he didn't do it." "But that's why we use the suit." " The suit basically..." " I love that." "... comes to represent Big Daddy." "It's iconic." "It's his image." " It's like God just looming over the movie." " And his spirit." "Yeah." " It's spectral." "It's like his ghost watching her." " Totally." "And I actually think it probably works even better 'cause it's a little bit more ominous, a little bit more open-ended." "And not in your face at all." "Yeah, you don't really understand necessarily what the nature of their relationship is now." "This is a completely British high school." " Oh, yeah, this is in London." " It drove me nuts." "And it drove you crazy because it said things like "lift,"" "and stuff like that." "All the exit signs around by doors are all wrong." "They're all British rather than American." "And look at those doors." "Yeah." " They did a great job." " We don't have those fire doors like that." "They did a great job doing everything they could to make it look like an American school." "Our art department was fantastic, but we did keep catching little things." "I don't think people would even notice." " They'll never know." " Oh, no, no." "Just 'cause we were there, it's the only reason we noticed, but in the movie, you're watching the scene hopefully." "And how psyched are these kids?" "These are kids that all go to this school." "I'm like, "Hey, we're gonna come shoot Kick-Ass there," " "and you're gonna be in the movie."" " So cool." "They were fantastic." "We're really grateful to them." "And the first one hit so hard in England." "They all knew it so well." "It was really cool." "Lyndsy." "We get to say goodbye to Katie in this scene." "She needed to be in this." "I'm glad that you put her in this." " I'm so happy she's in it." " Yeah." "She's fantastic." "Yeah." "No, I was adamant." "'Cause it's interesting, I saw the first film just as a fan." "And I loved Lyndsy in the first film." "And even though she wasn't a big part of the second story," "I wanted to have a scene where we finished their relationship." "You have to." "You have to." "And I like it in kind of a trite, trivial manner." "It's not like this grand finish to a big love story." "It's just like, "You're a jerk." " "I'm sorry."" " High school." " Total high school." " It's like, "Whoa," ""you're sleeping with a 14-year-old."" "Yeah, exactly." "But what's funny is, Aaron, the two of you had chemistry even in that one scene." "In a weird way, I was thinking, "Maybe I should write some new scenes,"" "so that we can see what happens with Katie and Dave." "One of my more embarrassing moments on film, right here." "And I don't know why you didn't keep with that whole look." "Why did it transform?" "That was the one." "For me, that was like, "Damn."" "This is more evil and sadistic than the actual Motherfucker outfit." " Yeah." " Yeah, why did it change?" "We wanted to get a little more comic book-y with it." "Yeah, you wanted to get a little more, actually, scary and intimidating." "I don't know." "That is pretty..." "I like the mask." "That mask is crazy." " I like that "V," that deep "V."" " I'm a little upset that my breasts don't fill out the bra." " Those clavicles hit it, though." " I'm flat-chested." " I knew the clavicles were gonna come back." " The clavicles hit it with that cape." "Everyone laughs their ass off when that scene comes up." " They better." " It's so funny." "And then Dave back in the suit, finally." " This is one of the first days." " Yeah." " It's good." " It was so exciting to see you back in that Kick-Ass suit." "That's when I knew we were really making the movie, when you were in the green suit." "That's funny." " Donald Faison making his big entrance." " So good." "I love Dr. Gravity in this." "For one of the added superheroes to this movie," "I think he's awesome." "His costume as well." "I was so jealous, 'cause it was so incredibly awesome." "Yeah." "It's really close to the comic book." "With the costumes, whenever we were working on them," " I would talk to Sam, the designer..." " Sammy." "... and we'd say, "Look, are we gonna do exactly what's in the comics?"" "Sometimes I would say, "I want to do exactly what's in the comic book."" "She would say, "It's not physically possible,"" "'cause you can do things in a comic that you can't do in real life." "But this was one of the costumes where we, early on, said," ""Let's create a costume that looks exactly like the comic."" "We added the insignia on the chest, which I think is a cool look." "But everything, like the Zero-G Device," "Russell designed that based on the way it was drawn in the comic, and I think it's pretty damn close." "I didn't wanna freak you out by bringing it up too soon." "This was a scene that when people say," ""What was one of your favorite scenes working on?"" "It was one of my most enjoyable ones, and the fight scene that's gonna come up." "Yeah." "In many ways, this movie is about the three of you splitting up and creating new partnerships and new dynamics with other characters." "And just like your relationship here with Chris, with Javier." "Yeah, I'm really glad that you wrote and got John in this, because, obviously, Aaron has Dr. Gravity and Hit Girl, and I have really only him to bounce off of." " Yeah." " It's very needed." "But this was like an imitation almost, or a mirroring of the first one, when we had the Dip 'n Sip fight outside, one of the first Kick-Ass fights." "And it felt really kind of raw." "There's some of the same camera equipment we used on the first one for that." "Yeah, I know." "It's the first-person camera, which I used a lot in Never Back Down," "I know you guys used in the first Kick-Ass." "I wanted to reference the Dip 'n Sip fight by the movement here." "Yeah." "So you know that they built this camera inside kind of a foam ball." "And literally, someone would hold it up and you'd punch it, and then you'd let it fall on the floor." "So when you get those shots where everyone's getting knocked over, but then the world is kind of going backwards, it's from that camera." "We shot that whole fight in four hours." " Yeah, before the sun came up." " Yeah." "But it was awesome." "I really had an amazing time." "Also, it's nice and raw." "And you have to really improvise some of the fight sequences and you make it up on the day." "It's great." "There's the suit." "The big reveal, the suit." "It must be cool for John Romita, Jr." "To see what he drew come to life in the movie." "That must be really, really, really cool." "Not just designs of costumes, but there's actual frames" " that we're referencing." " That you guys did." " Yeah, exact frames from the comic book." " That's so cool." "That must be rad." "Remember you couldn't move your legs in the Hit Girl suit?" "That's exactly how I feel in this suit." " You can't move." " My arm, trying to get it up." "It's like, "Get it higher."" " Just try not to rip the suit." " It's impossible." " It's so hard." " It's impossible." "People love this scene." "You're so funny in it, Chris." "It's funny 'cause my character thinks he's such a tough bad-ass, and no one buys it." " It's like, "Oh, he's just a wimp."" " Total dork." "Yeah, just a dork in a suit." "And I had this huge creative conflict with the producers during post, because they're like, "Chris can't be funny." "He's the bad guy."" " And I was like, "Don't you understand that..." " That's what it is." ""...he wants to be the bad guy so badly." "That's why he's a good bad guy."" " It's okay for us to laugh." " Lf you play it seriously, the humor comes from that." "That's when he first feels the power." "Yeah." "And I love how excited you are here." "Oh, yeah." "I love your punch in this." " And when I punch the roof." " Yeah, that's my favorite." "This is another example of a scene we basically got two takes at." "Everyone thinks this is a big movie and we had more money and more resources." "But we actually had a smaller budget than the first film, and we had two shots at doing this." "We drove around the block twice, and I was like," ""Okay, we got two takes." "Let's make it work."" " And you're amazing in it." " That suit is so crazy to wear." "But that's where you get the best stuff, to be honest, when you do have those two takes." "Because when you do 50 takes of something, you lose the entire spontaneity." "You lose the spontaneity of a scene." "Try and use the dad." ""Your dad would want you here."" "Yeah." "And I like this scene, too because it's just another cross with Mindy and Dave, and finding opportunities to have you guys intersect" " was the challenge." " Together." "Because you're on these different paths, but we care about you as a pair so much." " So it's nice to even do it via texting." " Did you see that mike clip?" " No." " That was a pack." "That was a pack." " When you got up?" "Yeah." " That was a mike pack clip on the back." " Did you see that?" " Jeff, how could you let that slide?" "No, it actually got flagged." "It got flagged by the QC people," " but I didn't have another take." " It's a good take." "And I was like, "No one's really going to notice."" " Thank you, Chloë." "Now everyone will notice." " Oh, I'm sorry." "It's going to be on a YouTube clip now." "Worst moments!" "I glad we got the mirror shot in here, too, because that was something we were supposed to do in your bedroom, it got cut for time reasons." " I'm so happy we fit that in." " And actually, Eddie Hamilton, the editor, was like, "Just do it in the living room," ""'cause it's so important," he insisted." "It happened last minute." "I remember." "We changed the day of." "We were like, "Then you're gonna come to the mirror."" " I was like, "Why are we going to the mirror?"" " Yep." "And we got it." " This is sick." "I love this." " Yeah." "Donald is so much fun when he's with you, Aaron." "You guys have such great chemistry." "I'd love to do a buddy movie about the two of you." " Jim Carrey." " Jimmy!" " And the dog." " The dog." "The dog kills it." "I love the mask on the dog." "That was a lot of work, designing a mask that would stay on that dog." " I'm sure." " How was it directing Jim Carrey?" " He's such a big movie star." " It was exciting." "It was exciting for me to be directing him." "I'm sure it was just as exciting for you guys to be working with him." "He's as big as it gets." "There's Claudia Lee." "This scene, watch, you'll see her hair doesn't match at all, because I love that line." "It was the only take we got of that." "Yeah, I was gonna say..." "Yeah, it switches." "'Cause that was an improv, remember?" "Not so much of an improv." "Something like, we were like, "Wouldn't it be funny?"" " And I threw that line at her." " Ella." " Ella Purnell." " Tanya Fear." " Fear..." " This scene..." " Playing Dolce and Harlow." "...makes me feel uncomfortable." "The best is when you walk into her room and she has herself leaning over her bed." "Yeah, it's so weird." "That always gets a laugh." "Yeah, this set is so amazing, what Russell did." "The best line in this scene is when Ella just goes," ""Oh, my God, right?" "I'm soaked."" " No." "No." " It gets the response..." " The response in the theater is amazing." " It's so grody." "It makes me uncomfortable also." "It's so uncomfortable." " On set, we all felt so disgusting." " Yeah." "The challenge was to write three girls who were more foul-mouthed." " Did you film that video, Jeff?" " Did you film that?" "No, I went to the set." "A really talented director shot it, and I visited the set, and sort of told him what I needed for the film." "He did the close-ups of the abs and the water and stuff." " Exactly, I was like, "I need more water."" " This is different." "So, this is Union J, but before, it was someone else?" "No, we were talking about some different bands." "Jeff's like, "No, no, it was always Union J."" "Look, there's a lot of corporate politics involved with this stuff," " and you have to be willing to figure it out." " I love it." "Chris came up to me the other day, he's like, "Hey, do you like Union J?"" "And I was like, "I don't even know who they are."" "He's like, "Dude, they're in the movie!"" "I'm like, "That's good."" " They're a very talented group of musicians." " Handsome young boys." "Handsome young men." "By the way, even before it was the otherband, it was Twilight," "I had you guys watching a clip from Twilight in the script, initially." "In the script, it was Twilight." "It was Twilight, then it became The Wanted, and then it's just been updated by Union J." "'Cause the idea of this scene was that Dave is so influenced by comic books that he wants to go and do this thing." "I wanted to show that young women are just as influenced by pop culture, and it affects them just as strongly." "That was the idea, at least." "Same as comic books affect young boys, it's that Union J to young girls." "You played that scene so beautifully, when we were pushing in on you, Chloë." "It was so weird to shoot that, though." "And then you did the close-ups of my hands." "So creepy." " Jeff, stop making her feel weird on set." " I felt so disgusted." "You're making me feel very strange." " It's Kick-Ass, we got to push it, right?" " Yeah." " I love them, they're great." " Yes, they're great." "Monica Dolan and Steven Mackintosh playing Remembering Tommy." "In the comic book, they're wearing armor, and they look like Amazons..." "She looks like an Amazon, he looks like a medieval knight." "But I watched this documentary called Superheroes, which I showed Aaron, about real-life superheroes, not comic book fans." "I've seen that, it's amazing." "So, there's a lot of actual homages to that documentary here in this film because I thought it was just an interesting idea to ground the movie by referencing these people who really do this thing." "So, I wanted their costumes to feel a little bit more real, and based on some of these characters from this documentary." "Insect Man is inspired by a really amazing guy named Z." "Because some of the things he says echo what Z said in the documentary." "I've been bullied my whole life for being gay..." " Robert Emms." " Robert Emms." "I love him, he was the funniest guy." " Yeah, he was super sweet." " Such a nice guy." "Aaron, do you have mikes in your forehead?" "Yeah, can you see the two, on the lines, that's where they put the mikes." " I can tell, I was like, "Are those mikes?"" " Two mike wires." "Well, I believe we have to talk about Simon "Purple" Hayes, who did the sound, just won the Academy Award for Les Mis." " Only the best for Kick-Ass." " Only the best for Kick-Ass." "Best sound man in the business." "I had no ADR to do when he was doing sound in London." "I didn't have crazy amounts of it either." "For all your London scenes, or Toronto?" "Toronto was different, all my ADRs were Toronto." "For London, I didn't really have any." "That's because it wasn't Purple Hayes, just so you're aware." " Purple only works in London, yeah." " That guy was great." "I love this scene because we're ripping the lid off the "origin story" scene." "I guess it's more like Clark's story, he's setting up this very cliché Batman setup, and you bust him on it." "Especially coming after Lindy Booth as Night Bitch, and Robert Emms as Insect Man, and Monica and Steven as Remembering Tommy, telling these very sad stories and then having Clark..." " Just break it down." " Yeah." "Have this totally bullshit story." "Just ruin it." "So stupid." "Did his mask have structure in it to make his face look that way, too?" " Exactly." " It was worked around the prosthetics." " It was part of the prosthetics." " Okay." "I love the dog, you just hear him whimper." "He's so good in this movie." "That's such a fun scene, you know, it's just great to hang out with the team, and spend time with them." "What's funny is I got a hard time about shooting that big scene in the kitchen, but I wanted to save the reveal of the headquarters for after, but it's interesting, you know, when we shot on this set," "we probably spent 70% of our time on that set in that little kitchen area and not nearly as much time in the more impressive part, but we wanted to set up this reveal." " "Hell, yeah!" So stupid." " I love your enthusiasm there, Aaron." "He's so excited." "I think you got to just embrace the fact that I'm in a gimp mask, and so, I always like being a bit of an idiot and pushing the boundaries." "I know, you want it to be exciting." "It's like, "Oh, my God, I'm on a team."" "You've got to be silly and make fun of yourself, 'cause we're all in costumes." "And you're all joining teams," "I mean, basically, you're joining this group of mean girls, that's sort of the story we're telling, you're all defining yourselves through these different groups that you're joining." "The way most high school kids do." "I love how he's wearing the costume underneath that." "I miss Hit Girl." "Now, did you wear a shirt like that, or did you wear the whole suit?" "I wore the whole suit." " No!" " Yeah." "That must've been uncomfortable." " It's the real thing, man." " Augustus Prew." "Aaron is very much a Method actor, if he's supposed to be wearing the suit, he's wearing the suit." " Great line delivery there." " That was so good." " "Watch me end your life."" " He's intense." "Is he actually intense in real life, too?" "No, he's a great actor, a very nice guy, the goth kid, that's a moment straight out of the comic book." "I think I wrote a different line there, but the idea that he gets bumped by one of your followers." " Oh, my God, I love that!" " Chuck Liddell." "Chuck Liddell." "Did he know that I was gonna call him "Chuck-little-dick-Liddell"?" "Had he read the script?" "I sent him the script, I assume he read it." "He was cool." "That belt above John's shoulder there, that's actually his championship belt." "'Cause we had a fake one and he brought the real one to London, and we hung it up." "That's sick." "I love this scene." "It's so funny." " With Dan Kaluuya." " Dan Kaluuya is great, man, I love that kid." "We hung out a bunch in Toronto." "During the table-read, Chris, when you read this scene," " I was laughing so hard." " He was really nice." "You were, you couldn't read the direction." "He's just so great in that." " That looks like that hurt." " Yeah." "I love that Chuck Liddell did this, I wrote this script." " It was so nice of him, yeah." " And I wrote Chuck Liddell in it, 'cause I kept looking for ways to show how rich you were, and that you could do anything with your money." "I wrote this script, and everyone involved in the production was like," ""You'll never get Chuck Liddell," ""you're gonna have to get someone who's up-and-coming." ""It's not gonna happen."" "And then Chuck Liddell said yes." "We have a mutual friend." "We've hung out a few times." "He was a big fan of the first movie." "He's a really good guy, and a good sport." "'Cause we shot this scene in London, he came all the way to London, just to shoot this scene." "The most famous guys, I guess, are Chuck Liddell and..." "Where's Chuck Liddell, he's not WWE, he's genuine..." "He's UFC, man." "That's genuine fighting?" "That's genuine like beat the shit out of each other." "That's where they're bleeding and their ears are like..." " He's retired now, though, right?" " He's retired." "'Cause I've watched all those guys fight on TV, and they get really, really messed up." "Yeah, no, he's the real deal." " They actually beat each other up?" " He's the real deal." "And Chris told him he had a little dick, and didn't get punched in the face." " Did he laugh about it, at least?" " He punched me off camera." "He's a good sport." "He was a good sport." "This scene, remember, we shot this in London, and we could not find a single gym that had a normal basketball court floor." "We had to have this floor laid." " Because all the markings in the UK..." " The basketball court." "But even this, we usually have windows in our gyms." " This is so funny." " This song is ridiculous." "So, the choreographer brought this song in," " and it was so ridiculous." " So inappropriate." "Did she do all that dance, or did she have a double?" "She did it, but the double is a lot of pieces." "Claudia learned the whole dance, and she learned it in one day." "But for the splits, or the big drop, she uses a double." "That's her, that's her double." " All the butts are probably a double." " Yeah, all the back sides are double." "It's just amazing, though, because you wouldn't know." " Just to perfect it." " She could do the whole dance." "The whole thing put together is brilliant, it's so funny." " It's perfect." " It's got that music video kind of vibe, we even took out all the sound design so you don't even hear the footfalls or the drops, the way you would in real life, 'cause we wanted it to feel like a heightened music video." " Smart." " Slick." "Go." " This is great." " This was a really hard sequence, because I had two hours before I had to learn this?" " Yeah." " And I couldn't." "I was like..." "It was hard because we had to shoot it in pieces, 'cause we had you, Chloë, but in two different costumes, right?" "'Cause you had to wear the Hit Girl costume, and the civilian clothes." "Then we had two different doubles, we had the gymnast double, in your civilian clothes, and we had T in the Hit Girl." "See, a lot of this is T, because I didn't have any time." "That's T." "But also, some of that stuff is just hard to do," " like cartwheel flips." " Only 'cause she's going back, double flips." "It's also that her suit was twice the size of mine, the way she was kicking it." "But those flips and stuff." "Oh, that was another gymnast, too." "I really like this song." " That's sick." " Danko Jones." "When this came out in the trailer, everyone was like, "What's up with the ninjas?"" "The big reason it's ninjas is, that's our whole stunt team, and we couldn't afford to bring in more stuntmen, so we had our stunt team, who are already in the movie everywhere," "just put on ninja outfits so that we could shoot this scene." "Ninjas are cool, I like ninjas." " Ninjas are hip." " I think it's fun." "I think, if you're imagining who you're going to beat up, it's funny." "Also, it's in her mind, 'cause it's supposed to be heightened." "We also see all these scary guys." "It's kind of funny to see people in ninja suits." "'Cause she's a kid." " Yeah, and that's what she imagines." " It's that through-line of herjust being 15." "So much of your performance, Aaron, comes through in the voiceover." "I know it was challenging for you, 'cause we recorded it three different times." "But that was the same thing that happened on the first film, right?" " The voiceover is great." " Yeah, the voiceover is crazy." "Once you change one bit of it and go," ""Actually, it would have been better if he said this sentence,"" "then you have to go back and redo the whole movie, because your voice is slightly changed, just by an octave, in pitch." " People always laugh at this moment." " It's so sick." "I love how you covered your hands there, Aaron, that's not even something we talked about, but it showed up in that shot when we were over Jim's head, and I just laughed my ass off when I was looking at it." "I just added, yeah." "Yeah, it just adds another level and it makes the point." "Just puts us in your mindset." "That's an improv." " That's all improv, that's really great." " To shoot the training stuff," "I set up the cameras and I said, "Just start doing some stuff."" "And I had Jim lead you guys through some calisthenics." "This creed, Jim wrote this, you know." "I didn't write this creed." "He wrote it and he e-mailed it to me, he's like, "Is there a place to put this in the movie?"" "I was like, "I've got the perfect place."" "It's so much fun hanging out with the full team." "In a weird way, I wish we could have had more scenes and more sequences, where we're just spending time with Justice Forever." "Maybe we should do a TV show." "Would you be up for that, Aaron?" "Just like an episodic TV show, Justice Forever?" "We should've done a special piece for SNL, just in time when they're coming out, it would've been awesome." "That's a great idea, let's get them on the phone, make it happen." "So, we shot that scene at 4:00 a.m." "Remember, it was raining, and we weren't even supposed to be in that location?" " Night Bitch." " Night Bitch and Kick-Ass." " Night Bitch wearing a bikini." " Does anybody smell a romance?" "Bathroom." "Different studio toilets that were built." "Let's talk about Russell, and how he designed these toilets." "They didn't look like American toilets until I was like, "Russell!"" "And then he got them perfectly." "Yeah, they are American now." "That's the boys' toilet, as you see there's urinals there." "This was actually one of the very first scenes we ever shot, at the beginning of the movie." "Yeah, 'cause we were in Toronto to shoot exteriors." "And it was a beautiful, long one-taker shot with a Steadicam." "Wow." "And we're actually back in the school from the first film." "Such a hard shot to get to." "It's weird, because, at this point, when it does that, it feels like that could've been a cut point." "But it's not, so I just want you to know." " It could've been." " I was sweating!" "And then this bit, the sun got in my eyes." "Yeah, but you just played it, it's perfect." "I was like, "Ow."" "Oh, my eyes!" "But I quite like that, it's like Jeff said, I played it, 'cause that's what Dave's like." "There's no room for vanity when you're playing Dave, it's about whacky hair, cuts on your face, spots..." "Sun in your eyes." "... and being honest, being very honest with yourself." "What?" "You know I'm right." "Well, I like this scene because it is about being honest with yourself," " and who you are." " I love this." "Because he's calling you out, he's calling Mindy out saying," ""What you're doing right now, that's not honest, that's not who you really are."" "And you try to prove him wrong." "I'm so glad you guys were up for that big, long shot." "Because the movie, at times, can get really cutty, but it's nice to just take a moment and let it play in real time, so you can feel the reality of these people in this space." "It's brave and bold." "And it's making decisions like that that make it more interesting." "So, we had this whole subplot about your dad working out that got cut out of the movie, the setup for it, so it's sort of random that we just cut to him here doing his exercises." "That was very weird." "But it was Garrett's idea, you know, Garrett lost 30, 40 pounds." "I didn't think it was his idea, I thought it was more about when it gets to the point of him being framed for being Kick-Ass that he needed to look like he could fit in the suit." "Exactly, 'cause, originally, Garrett was a little bit heftier, when we started playing the movie, we had this plot twist coming up where he's got to be mistaken for Kick-Ass." "So, I said to him, "Dude, you gotta look like you can get in the suit."" "And, to Garrett's credit, he was like, "I'm in."" "And he worked with this trainer from LA, named Kenny Trotter." "And he lost 30, 40 pounds." "He said it changed his life." "I wonder if he kept it up." " I don't know." " Yeah, he has." "I talked to him recently." "Good for him." "Yeah, he's very healthy, and taking care of himself." "He's such a nice guy and a fantastic actor." "Again, this is an example of piecing it all together, 'cause we're on a sound stage in London." " That was green screen." " That's one of my favorite shots, there." "Oh, you like this shot of the Colonel coming out." "Yeah, that's something I came up with in the moment," "I was like, "We need a cool trailer shot of the Colonel."" "Oh, thinking about the trailer while shooting the movie?" "And that's what was used in the trailer." "That's okay." "That line about The Book of Mormon tickets that Lindy delivers there always gets a huge laugh." "And that was actually a buddy of mine, Matt Portnoy, came up with that line." " It's so true." " And it's so much fun." "'Cause, again, it just puts us back in the real world." "It's like, "Yeah, if I had tickets to The Book of Mormon," ""I probably would skip the little brawl they're about to have."" "It was so cold that night." "Aaron, I remember you were shivering nonstop." "Was this Toronto or London?" " This is Toronto." " Toronto was really cold when we shot there." "Yeah, but poor Lindy, Aaron, you were freezing in that wetsuit," " and Lindy's got no clothes on." " And Lindy's not wearing anything." ""Jehovah's Witness!"" "This is so genius." "This is Benedict Wong, playing Mr. Kim." "His commitment to this scene was just unbelievable." "The way he really goes for it in the fight scene, and the scene with the dog coming up." "Was that your idea to do the comic book writing for this?" "Yeah, it was, we were gonna subtitle it, and we were talking about different ideas, and I think someone else pitched putting it in a box, like the "Meanwhile" and stuff, and I was like, "No, it should be like a little arrow to the mouths."" "I think it's fun." "I haven't seen that before in a movie." " Breaking ground." " Breaking ground." "I'm sure Scott Pilgrim did it, they did everything first." "I love that movie." "Scott Pilgrim had all that weird comics that they put in." "So, this actor, his name is King, and he was about the same height as Jim, and Jim was like, "He's got to be bigger." So, we put him on three apple boxes." " Really?" " So, he towered over Jim more." "I love Jim's commitment, "He's got to be bigger."" " Oh, dude." " It makes sense." "Yeah, he was like, "We have to sell that we're scared in the moment" ""before the Colonel hits him for the first time."" "Sorry, sir." "Eisenhower, at the ready." "Jim, he'd just come up with such amazing ideas, like this line coming up here that's in all the trailers." " The line reads were sick." " Right here." "That was an improv, not in the script, he just came up with that on the set, and it's such an iconic moment now for that character." "So, to do this shot here, we actually put a hydraulic ram under the table." " So good." " Is that what happened?" "And that's a direct reference to the comic, that exact frame is in the comic book, and it's so memorable, I wanted to do it in the film." "This fight was so hard to shoot, 'cause there were so many people." "Yeah, and it's like you do choreography for everyone, but the camera is not pointing at everyone all the time, so I came up with this concept that the camera is in the middle of the room," "and it's spinning around catching different moments of the fight." "So we didn't have to do choreography for characters when we weren't looking at them." "That's really smart." "Saves time, too." "Yeah, it also makes you feel like you're in the middle of the fight with them." "It must be really great getting the comic book 'cause it's almost like someone has already storyboarded the movie, in a way." "It's a weird mixed blessing, because you get iconic images, like the one of the table, but then there's other things in the comic book that you just can't do in real life, or you can't get away with," "and you have to figure out ways to bridge the gap." "I mean, that's a challenge of a movie like this, the adaptation process." "It's very rude." "Come on." "That ax handle in the mouth, that's a direct reference to the comic book, too." "It's not actually an ax handle, though, in the comic." "I think it's a pool cue or something like that." "Oh, so what he's using is an ax handle?" "Yeah, that's an ax handle, that was an idea I had, I said he should have this ax handle, and Russell designed it." "That's our dog, Senna." ""There's a dog on your balls."" "That was a hard thing to do, it's like, "How do you shoot this?"" ""How do you train a dog to clomp down on someone's balls?"" "So, actually, there's a trainer wearing the outfit, and you have a dog toy and you get the dog all excited." "And then you put the dog toy into this special pouch sewn on the pants, and it's like a big game, you're like, "Come on, Senna."" "Like, you make it into a game and everyone is miming..." "Senna, that's a beautiful name." "When you see the dog in the wide shot, everyone is miming, no one's actually speaking, 'cause you don't want to scare the dog." "So, everyone is miming there right now." "Poor dog's just sitting there on that guy's balls." "Yeah, but it's like a big game to the dog." "Poor dog?" "Poor Benedict Wong." " He has a dog on his balls, dude." " He's doing all right." " He's got a good role in this movie." " He's great in the film, I'm so grateful to him." "I mean, he just went for it, in the fight, he was throwing himself across the table." "I love Jim's intensity there." "This music cue here, I have to say, Matt Margeson, our composer, wrote this cue and it's one of my favorite cues in the movie, 'cause it's just so heroic and emotional, and I love this connection that Lindy has with this actress here," "you get why they're superheroes, like, they're actually making the world a better place in this moment." "I think you can just feel it there." "We're selling it, it's not a joke." "You need those heart-felt moments in there." "Yeah, then the connection you have here with her, Aaron," " I'm in it." " Yeah." "Like they're actually making the world a better place." "Very tidy." "Very tidy." "Team back together in the van, feeling good." "So, who's driving the van?" "So, the idea is that Insect Man is driving the van." "'Cause he's not back here, I did think about this." "I always wondered that in the movie." "I was like, "Well, who's driving?"" "Well, an important plot point there, that the gun has no bullets in it, because the Colonel is anti-firearms." "I always liked that." "This is a fun transition back to Chris." " Javier!" " What happened?" "We're back, this is your favorite scene, Chris, right?" "I remember these naked women really wanted to take a picture with John and myself, but they wanted to be naked in the picture, but they wanted to take a picture with us, and John's got a wife and I've got a girlfriend," "and I was like, "We cannot be taking pictures with your big boobies."" "And they were very nice." "The whole point of that scene was, again, to show the excess in Chris' life." " And how far..." " And how far..." "That you can just pay money for dirty hookers." "That one girl was so tanned." "Oh, my God." "...Big Tony doesn't know how to lay low, so he's in." " I don't remember a Big Tony." "Is he huge?" " He's ironic." " The makeup artist, Fae Hammond..." " I love this." "... actually told me that those girls showed up like that." " It's like a little Joe Pesci." "It's like genius." " Makeup done, everything done." "Well, this was fun for me, you know." "In the comic book, the bad guys aren't really fleshed out at all, they're just a gang, so, I got to create names and personas for these characters." "Johnny Romita did that art, right?" "So, I came up with The Tumor and Genghis Carnage, and John drew them." "Yeah, it's so good to have his art in the movie." "He had art in the first one as well, so, it's a good callback." "It's like a dream come true for me to think of a character and have John design it and draw it." "He's one of the best." "And here's the introduction to Mother Russia." "Mother Russia." "It has a different look than the comic book, we went more for an Ivan Drago, Brigitte Nielsen kind of vibe." " Dolph Lundgren." " Yeah." "But I love the costume, too, it's so iconic, in my opinion, it has a very comic book-y vibe." "Even though it's a different look than what's actually in the comic book." "That robe was pretty ridiculous." " I love that robe." " You love that robe?" "Do you still have it?" "No, I don't, I wish." "The logo is so cool." "Russell designed the logo." "And this is an important moment here, too, because we're setting up that he's the only thing keeping your feet on the ground." "Yeah, I have no father, no mother, this is the only family that I have left." "I love how you sell the joke." " That always gets a laugh." " I like working with that guy." "Yeah, but you guys were so much fun together, too." "Again, it's all about these pairs, you know, Kick-Ass and Gravity," "Chris and Javier." " Mindy and..." " Mindy alone." "Mindy alone, in many ways, but Mindy-Marcus." "Mindy-Marcus is really the central dynamic for your story." "And Mindy and Dave." "Yeah, well, it's about bringing them back together." "I love this, he just reverses the color scheme." "He just has no creativity, he just doesn't know what to do." "That was an idea I pitched Sammy, 'cause, in the comic book, he has more of a gimp look, but you own that look in this movie, Chris." "Right, yeah, you can't do it again." "'Cause, in the comic book, he does this thing "Ass Kicker,"" "he wants his name to be just like Kick-Ass." "I was like, "His costume should be similar to Kick-Ass' too."" "It's almost exact." "Except it's like a leotard instead of a wetsuit." "He looks like a gymnast." "This bit about "frog-eye" was all Clark Duke." "He came up with that on the set." "I figured, it sounds like a Clark joke." " He's so good at improvising." " He's brilliant at improvisation." "That's straight out of the comic book." "Mark Millar, he's so funny." "I know this is why you guys aren't texting me back..." "And this is actually a different bedroom, for those of you who've noticed, than the bedroom Dave had in the first movie." " They moved." " No, we tried to get the original house, but they'd changed the front, so it didn't even look like the house anymore." "So, I was like, "Well, we just have to say that they moved."" "So, anyone wondering, Dave and his dad have moved." "... I really wanted on the team was Mindy, but she was too busy trying not to be a superhero." "How did you find Augustus Prew for this, just auditions?" "Yeah, you know, Evan Peters played the role in the first film, and, you know, Evan was in my last movie, he's the only actor that I've worked with before, he was in Never Back Down." "And he was shooting American Horror Story, so he wasn't available." "So, Augustus came in and read for me, and he's so fantastic." "It's a small world, he's a buddy of mine from ways back." "We have a mutual friend, and you've worked with him before, too, Aaron." "He just stepped into it and made it his own, my hat's off to him, because that's not an easy thing to do, and I thought he did a great job." " I love this scene." " One of the first nights in Toronto." "Yeah, we have so much hope for Mindy that this might work out," " that she might have a normal life." " Totally." "And I think we actually, for a moment, think maybe she will." "Yeah." "Unfortunately, that's not the case." "Unfortunately, for her, she's gonna get "date ditched."" ""Date ditched!" This scene was different in the script." " Is that a real thing or did you make that up?" " I made that up." " It's like, "Date ditch!" - "Date ditch!"" "I was like, "What is that?"" " Originally, I called it the "bitch ditch."" " You did." "My good friends Chad and Dara Creasey worked on the script a little bit for me." " Oh, they're so good." " Yeah, they're fantastic writers." "So while we were prepping, I needed just a little bit of help, so they came on for a week" " and they changed it to "date ditch."" " Brought in some great jokes." "Yeah, a lot of the jokes are theirs." "A lot of really, really good Hit Girl jokes, because they were a bit more female-centric." "Well, they wrote that script, Aaron  Sara, that is really fantastic." " It's on the Black List." " Great script." "So, originally in the script, once she gets date ditched she breaks their arms." "Yeah." "Originally, there was a scene where it was gonna be some guys who were gonna," " beat her up or something darker." " I liked that." "I thought it was so funny." "And she sticks a 40-ounce up one guy's ass, and it's like, "Whoa." "What?"" "But it was so Hit Girl." "I remember that, really." "It was a little intense." " It was intense." " I know what it is." "It was because Claudia's character starts a rumor that I..." " That she's easy." " That she's easy." "And the guys were like, "We're gonna make the biggest fantasy..."" " Which is just a little too intense." " It was dark." "I thought it would be more interesting to tell a story that had emotional stakes and not physical stakes." "This is good." "'Cause the action at the end of the movie has physical stakes, so I thought it would be nice to have some heightened emotional stakes here and really break Mindy's heart." "It's also such a beautiful scene because you have those headlights coming through and stuff." "It's so pretty in the dark woods." "Yeah, it's got a great look." "Tim Maurice-Jones was our DP." "Pat Sweeney was our gaffer." "I thought they did an amazing job throughout the film, but this is a particularly beautiful scene." " And Claudia's great in this scene." " Yeah, she is." "Claudia's amazing, because she looks like that." "I've seen that whole face and look and everything in tons of those..." " But she's not like that in real life at all." " No, she's not." "She's a really nice girl." "Which is funny, because she plays the whole bitch, Barbie doll, whatever that high school thing is, so incredibly well." "And we saw so many girls for that role and Claudia just crushed it." "And you're great in this scene, too, Chloë." "This moment right here is probably my favorite Mindy moment in the whole movie." " Just this extended push-in." " We added that." " Yeah." " It wasn't even meant to happen." "We've never seen Hit Girl like that before that." " Sad and vulnerable." " Vulnerability." "But again, that's why it was important to get away from the fight and come up with a scene that had emotional stakes." "That was the whole point about Hit Girl in the second movie, you saw in the first movie all about Hit Girl, you never saw Mindy." "You never really understood who Mindy was." "That was really the main point about this character in the second film, to show who the girl is behind the mask, you know." "Yeah." "Yeah." "And you did it so well in that moment." " And this is a wig." " And this is a reshoot." " Wig." "Wig." " Wig." "Wiggy." "Here we are with another episode of Wig, No Wig." "My hair is fake, his hair is fake." " And that shirt is amazing." " This shirt always gets a laugh." " 'Cause everyone understands it." " It always gets a laugh." "Or, I thought it could also be, "I am not a reboot."" " Like "I'm not a robot"?" "Yeah." " Yes." "I am not a reboot." "I have a version of that shirt." "And someone asked me, "Why do you have a shirt on that says, 'I hate robots'?"" " I was like, "'Cause it doesn't."" " Just read the shirt." "Some people, they just don't look, they scan." "This is a good scene, though." "Well, 'cause it solidifies the connection between you two." "And I think it sets up that there is some real chemistry between you." "There's something there." "That you could be developing a crush on Dave." "You know, Dave sincerely cares about you." " It's an intimate scene." " Yeah." "They're so close." "And she's showing, for the first time, emotion to him, 'cause the whole time she just tries to be super cocky." "Well, you're vulnerable." "And you do that so well it just lets everyone in." "We see that you're not just this super tough, badass that can kill anyone with their finger." " She's a kid." " Yeah, she's vulnerable." "She has no dad, she has no family." "Dave's the only thing that links her to her past, and understands, truly understands." "And, Aaron, you're so, I just think, tender and sensitive in this scene and just supported her, in a way." "So what should I do?" "Cut their tongues out?" " No!" "Definitely not." " I'm fucking with you." "Just beat them at their own game." "I thought you guys were fantastic in this scene." "This really solidifies the connection." "And, I think, shooting that scene as a pickup worked really well, because we understood your relationship so perfectly and we understood what that scene needed to be." "I like that you kept the theme of the purple, though." " Hit Girl's purple." " This is such a good scene." "This scene is outrageous." "This is largely based on a special feature I watched on the Minority Report DVD." "'Cause they have these things called sick sticks that are based on a real technology that one day they think they'll be able to use for crowd control where you can make people nauseous." "And that will be a way to disperse a mob." "And I thought, "Wow." 'Cause I was racking my brain, how can Hit Girl get back at these mean girls, in a way..." " Without killing them." " Yeah." "That's not too violent, but it's still just and over-the-top at the same time." "And this seemed pretty appropriate." "Was the purple dress meant for a Hit Girl kind of callback?" "Yeah, absolutely." "We took a long time trying to figure out exactly what outfit to wear." "Because you didn't want her walking in in her costume, but at the same time you wanted to show that she is Hit Girl." "It doesn't matter what she is wearing, she will always be Hit Girl." "That's who Mindy is." "Claudia is so great in this." "It's so intense, "That hole you call a mouth." The way she delivers that, it's just like, "Oh, my God." "I hate this character so much right now."" "And I love how you don't even break." "You just hold her in your gaze like, "You have no idea what's coming."" "Yeah." "And The Nutcracker suite is playing here." "That was Eddie Hamilton's idea, our editor." "And I love it, because it creates this sense of playfulness, but also because we know it so well, you know it's going somewhere" " and you're along for the ride." " You know something's gonna happen." " I love that it actually says "sic" on it." " Yeah." "And I love those extending batons and I was like, "Can we build that into the sic stick?"" "'Cause that moment when you flick your wrist, it's on." "This scene grosses me out." "On the day it was sickening." " Everyone was such a pro." " Everyone was like..." "'Cause it was not pleasant to shoot." "So they have rigs in their mouths, hoses, that we then painted out afterwards." "And that kid actually got puke on him." "And all this is one take." "We couldn't do multiple takes 'cause we didn't have time to clean it up." "And to everyone I was just like, "Please, please, please keep it together."" "And there used to be a slip." "She used to walk away from the table and fall on her butt." "It was just too broad." "It was just too much like a banana peel." "No, Jeff." "Why?" " Why?" "Why the poo?" " Why the butt?" "Why the butt?" "The ultimate humiliation." "She had to suffer for her viciousness." " With a puddle of poo-poo." " It's justice." " Justice in the form of diarrhea." " It's so gross." "Poo-poo pool." "Sick." "But it's amazing that we can go from a scene like that to this scene." "And I think, Aaron, you and Garrett just make it work." "Like, I believe in it." " I believe in this relationship." " It was a difficult scene, because it was trying to get that right tone that was not too harsh and to the point, but then also something that felt that it needed to be a big enough fight" "that takes it to the next jump, the next level emotionally." "But it was quite difficult, 'cause it was that kind of teenage tantrum with your parents." "And it was an odd one to go do, in a way." "Do you know what I mean?" "Yeah." "But I thought you nailed it." "Because you don't want to come across as petulant or a brat, but at the same time, you have to be legitimately upset that your father was going through your stuff and doesn't trust you and doesn't believe that you're an adult now." "Yeah." "But which is quite ironic, 'cause it's not him being an adult, it's him being really pathetic and stupid." "Yeah, 'cause he ultimately is sort of petulant." "Yeah, he's being the complete opposite." "This is how you are when you grow up." " It's like, "Well, stop acting immature then."" " Yeah." "Because he's got a foot in each world." "He's still a kid, but he's trying to be a man." "Just the kid." "Chris, just be cool and you'll be fine." "This was a great location." "This is an actual prison outside of Toronto." " Yeah, it was fantastic." " It is working?" "No, no, it's closed down." "I'd neverseen Game of Thrones, which I was really happy about, 'cause I would have geeked out on him." " He's so..." "Yeah." " I did." "I watched it literally, like, two weeks after we wrapped filming." "I started watching it and I was like, "Holy shit."" " You freaked out?" " He is incredible and the show is amazing." "I was so glad I didn't know on the day 'cause I would have totally nerded out on him." " And he's fantastic in this scene." " He's so good, yeah." "Lain Glen." "I love how it's just a piece of fiberglass between them, but he could totally step around it." "The is the moment when Chris is just like..." "It's the game changer." "This the moment when he starts..." " This is the scene I wrote." " He turns into The Motherfucker." "Because when I was originally thinking about the movie there were questions about," ""Would you believe that Chris D'Amico, Red Mist," ""could ever go as dark as he's got to go in the back part of the movie?"" "And I thought, "Well, we need to see him change onscreen."" "Yeah, you need that moment." "And, you know, you lost your father in the first film and we're using your mother as a device to kind of answer the question," ""Why now?" "Why are we telling this story now?"" "So we needed something in the film where we could see you turn the corner." "And this is it." "And you just crushed it, man." "I think it's such an amazing, dramatic scene." "And you're known as a comedic performer, but to see this scene and see you arc it out so beautifully in such a serious manner" " is really exciting." " Thanks, guys." "Who am I gonna talk to?" "This is John's improv." "John says, "Did you drop your phone in the toilet again?"" "Like, that's happened before." "Shanked." " Shanked in the throat." " Nice commentary, Chris." " Yeah." " "Shanked."" "The saddest moment of your character's story. "Shanked."" "But look, you're telling the whole story right there." " I know." "That's the best look I've ever seen." " And so is lain, man." "And I love how you put down the phone, just like he's a new man." "Hand shaking a little bit." "This, I think, is the moment where the entire movie's momentum shifts." " Yeah." " I mean, the entire movie changes here." "Well, it's kind of been fun and games up until this point." "It's like catch up, catch up, catch up, and now it's like..." "You guys are all doing different things." "It's been like you were having fun and out there in the world." "Obviously, Mindy's been having a tough time." "But you've been doing your own thing." "And this is where The Motherfucker really takes over." "Yes, I think it's fantastic." "Such a cool logo." "I love the logos that were designed for this film." "Because the idea of teams was something that was really important to me, and I wanted each team to have its own symbol." "What's the matter, girl?" "You hear something?" "Nice." "My only day with Jim Carrey." "Were you nervous coming into it?" "Well, actually the night before he booked that cruise." "Yeah." "That's right." " For everybody." " It was like a booze cruise for the entire crew." "It was so nice of him." "It was karaoke, live band karaoke." "He's so generous." "So generous." "So I got to meet him and talk to him the night before." " Just got yourjitters out." " Got my jitters out." "And I love that he takes his mask off in this scene where he's about to die, 'cause he's finally lowering his guard." "And we get to see him as just a flawed person." "And you actually get to see how intense those prosthetics really are." " 'Cause he looks nothing like Jim Carrey." " Brilliant prosthetics." " Olga." " That's a first glimpse at Mother Russia." " In the flesh, in costume." " First glimpse of the Toxic Mega-Cunts." " Really." "All of us together." "It's a great crew." " Yeah." "The whole gang." "Sammy did a fantastic job with those costumes." "Brilliant." "Sammy's costuming in this whole movie is just amazing." "It's perfect." "I love the moment on Night Bitch's street when we see the five of you walking down together." " Yeah, yeah, we'll get there." " Yeah." "Here comes the machete." " Her abs are insane." " Everything about Olga is insane." "And that almost harkens back to the time when I stabbed Rasul through the back." "Well, that's what we're setting up, that Mother Russia is a bigger, badder, meaner version of Hit Girl." "Exactly." "She's doing the same stuff." "Here's her signature takeout." "I don't believe that anyone thinks we're actually gonna kill Jim Carrey in this scene." "No." "Unless you've read the comic, you've no idea what's coming, that we're actually gonna do it." "It's brilliant." "It shocks you." "You know, it's like a real death of someone big like that." "I was just choking him and slapping him in the scene and he just kept telling me, "Do it more." Give him more." "He was so good." "Yeah, I know, he was completely committed to this." "That blood." "That shot of him, his hands on his wound, is really good." "It shows you the reality of what these guys are doing." "And that there's consequences." "There's obviously some extreme violence in this film, but what we're saying is, if you're gonna play superhero you're gonna pay the price" " and bad stuff is gonna happen." " Exactly." "Swedlow." "That's my best friend, Max Swedlow, and Alissa Swedlow." "Really?" "Wadlow and Swedlow?" "Yeah, he's my best friend from college." "One of my best friends." " I use his name in almost all my movies." " That's nice of you." "I like using real names, 'cause it just gives it a reality." "Principal Himoff." "That's another buddy of mine." " Cool." " The Himoffs." "Was that photo taken for that, or was that just something you found?" "No, that's a photo of Lindy from her New Year's eve." " Her Facebook?" " Yeah." " Oh, my gosh, that's funny." " Kick-Ass." " True Facebook pic." " Yeah." "And you notice there was no dash on "Kick-Ass" there, which was a typo." " You're right." " Yeah." "But I was like, "Maybe someone in Justice Forever would get it wrong."" "That makes sense." "Sure, why not." "Gives it that homemade feel." "And here's something in the comic where they ask me to kill the dog, and in the comic I do kill the dog." "And we just couldn't have that." "I thought it would be funny to make a joke out of it." "It's like, "Do you want me to kill the dog?" "I'm not that evil."" ""Cut the guy's head off."" " Here's her signature..." " Here's her signature move?" "Yeah." "We do this three times in the movie." "This is the first." "So we know that when it..." "When it happens to Hit Girl, she's in trouble." "The leg-lock." "I told you, no TV." "You're grounded, remember?" "We can just feel Mindy wants to get back into it." "'Cause this was a challenge for your character, 'cause you've turned a corner at this point, but it's like you're stuck in this limbo now." "It's like, you know that you are Hit Girl, but you can't be Hit Girl because of the promise you made." "But I love that." "That was such a good moment." "The swearjar annex?" " She can't stop." " 2.0 swearjar." "Yeah, that was a fun moment to put into this scene." "And again, Morris just being so good." "It's sort of a difficult part for him to play, 'cause he just has to be this authority figure, he has to keep laying it down." "He's not Superman, you know, he is the law." "And he delivered it every take." " Just in that honest-feeling way." " I love this." "This is so cool." " There's the mirror." " So we shot that on a green screen." "Or, actually, no." "You filmed me in the suit, didn't you?" "Yeah." "No, what we did was we shot you looking to the mirror, then we shot you in the suit on a green screen and we dropped you into the mirror." "This was also an early, early scene." "Yeah, we're in Toronto here." "And it's always really strange 'cause when you step back into it, you know, the scene is a good halfway through the movie." "It's always a strange thing to start off with 'cause you want to give it that feel that you've already been..." " You know each other." " You're comfortable in your superhero outfit and this is the first time all together." "It's kind of strange." "Yeah, this was our first Justice Forever scene." "I remember feeling this sort of electricity, it's like, "Oh, my God, we've got the team together." "This is gonna work."" "And we had so many cell phone photos leak 'cause we shot all these scenes on the street and we just didn't have the security to keep people away." "The paparazzi photos, yeah." "All the shoots got out." "Nice." "This scene is so good." " I love this moment." " One of the best action scenes, yeah." "Yeah, it's one of my favorites of the whole movie." "So silly." "Look at that." "You guys are such badasses, too." "I want that to be a hip-hop crew." "My favorite is Genghis Carnage." "His outfit is sick." " Yeah, it's awesome." " Yeah, it's great." "I like Black Death's mask." "I like how everyone has an identity, but there's also a feeling that they're unified, that you can see the black and the red and it all ties together." " Sammy?" " Yeah, she did such an amazing job." "I love this." "I love how you played it off to where you can't rape her." " Well, no, 'cause in the comic book..." " He does." "Yeah." "You should talk about this, Chris." "'Cause we were trying to figure out how to deal with this scene from the comic book." " Yeah." " It's so heavy." "In the comic book he does rape..." "Was it her or was it Lyndsy Fonseca?" " No, it's actually Katie in the comic book." " Katie." "Yeah." "That is heavy." "And it just seemed too dark, you know." "A rape scene in this kind of movie just felt wrong." "You gotta remember, Mark Millar, the writer of the comic book, said, "You gotta make your movie." "Make the best movie you can." ""Don't be slavish about adapting the material," ""'cause we all know those movies that are slavish about adapting the material" " "and ultimately it suffers."" " Here's me trying to get it hard." "So he said, "Make whatever changes you need to make."" " And he bites his lip." "That's the best bit." " It's so funny." "When I've seen this movie with an audience people go nuts during this scene, Chris." "I guess evil dick feels limp." "I love Lindy in that moment, too." "She's just a fighter to the end." "Cops." "Here we go." "Love this moment." " This is so good." " Now it's on." "And the whole point of this scene, again, is setting up Mother Russia as an adversary for Hit Girl." "I got a note on it early on where someone said that it seemed gratuitous, and I was like, "Yeah, that's the point."" "Yeah." "Did they not see the first one?" "But it is gratuitous." "It's like we're setting up that Mother Russia is completely over-the-top and a force of nature that is unstoppable." "You have to, otherwise the ending would make no sense, and you'd be like, "Then Hit Girl can defeat her."" "We blew up that car four times 'cause we could never get it right." "And it took half a day." " So you really did blow it up?" " Oh, yeah." " Oh, yeah." " On a residential street?" "This is from the comic book really, isn't it?" "Maybe not quite frame-to-frame, but it was literally she takes on a whole street of coppers, right?" "And then the accounts and then there's that bit at the end." "The concept is the same." "That butt cheek that wobbles." "It's genius that you used that in the frame." "The concept is the same, but in the comic book she does it all with assault rifles and RPGs and things like that." "This is the most genius thing." "I came away from the end of this movie going..." " That was my favorite part." "..."Oh, my God," ""I can't believe they took a lawnmower and just..."" "'Cause that was the idea, I didn't want to do it with just assault rifles." "And the blood." " I was just like, "Oh, my God."" " I know." "That was my favorite moment." "It's one of my best weapons of choice in this movie." " It's insane." " It's just creative." "Well, I wanted to show that Mother Russia was inventive, and I didn't want to just do it with assault rifles." " So that's why I used the barbecue tank..." " Jamie O'D." " Yup, there he is." "...the lawnmower, the car door." " That guy there is the..." " Stunt coordinator." " Coordinator of this movie." " He's also in James Bond." " Really?" " He also gets down in Bond, yeah." "He did a fantastic job." "The whole stunt team, I mean." "Jimmy and Mike." "Mike Lambert, our fight choreographer." "And Ash, and Talila, and Buster." "We could not have asked for a better stunt team on this film, they really crushed it." "The crew was so good." "Buster with his jujitsu, man, that guy was amazing." " Buster was the assistant coordinator." " Incredible." " It was a good, good team." " Yeah, they were great." "No this is straight out of the comic book, this little moment here." "Again, we're raising the stakes, we're saying that it doesn't matter if you're a hero or a villain, what you're doing is against the law and they're gonna bust you for it." " Which is what would happen, you know." " Or disrupting..." "Remembering Tommy." "This stuff is tough to shoot." "We actually had a splinter unit going on while we were shooting other scenes, at night in Toronto, trying to pick all these pieces up." "It was the only way to get it done 'cause we had to move so quickly." " What's that, like second unit stuff?" " Yeah, basically." "Not even a full second unit." "That was reshoots." "That's a wig." " When you were looking at the computer?" " That was a complete wig." "Wig, No Wig?" "Another episode of Wig, No Wig?" " Wig, No Wig?" " With Chloë Moretz and Aaron Johnson." " Does that say, "Cape Fear"?" " Yeah. 'Cause that was fun." "We had to come up with all these headlines that the paper would approve, and that was one of them." "'Cause it's all under the guise ofthe New York Post, right?" " Yeah." " So they had to approve it all?" "Yeah. 'Cause they're a real paper, and they had to approve the copy." "This is a rough scene where you see her all beat up." "Again, we're just hammering home the point that there's real consequences." "Yeah." "And I think Lindy is so great in this scene, just really simple and nice." "We're ending Dave's relationship with her, but we do it in a way where we're driving home the point that being a superhero can lead to bad things." "We're gonna find these assholes and make this right." "What's the point?" "I mean, we're really superheroes about as much as we're..." "We're all just sucked into the drama of the movie." " It's only my second time seeing it." " Me, too." "And that moment with her hands." "Didn't we shoot this in a dressing room in the studio?" " Turned it into a hospital room." " Oh, my God." "It's like two dressing rooms down from where we were all staying." " We had no budget on this movie." " Thanks, Pinewood." "I love that little detail that she just lets go of your hand, 'cause I think that tells so much of this story that their relationship is over." "That they had fun, but the fun is done." "She's ready to disappear." "That is real hair, not a wig." "This is actually one of my favorite scenes from a photographic standpoint in the whole movie." "I just love how it's like the slow motion and the cop lights strobing and we're looking through these heads." "Aaron, you're so great in it." "You're just wanting to be like, "What's going on?"" "Which is really honest." " This is in Toronto?" " Yeah." "Outside the new Lizewski house." "Dad!" "Garrett does so much without saying a word." "Yeah." "His eyes are really good there." "I love this cue, too." "You just get that he's the real hero and he's not even the one playing superhero." "Love that right there." " Reshoots." "Wig." " Wig, No Wig?" " Wig." " Full wig." "It's a wig." "Brown hair being covered up by a whole wig." "Lace front wig." "We only put up two walls of your bedroom, Chloë." "I'm sure if you did put the hair color side by side the hair would be much darker here." "By the way, having Morris loop that line about "Get off the phone" was so funny because it was just like, "Mindy, get off the phone!" ""Mindy, you on that phone?" "Get off that phone now!"" "We just did a bunch of takes." "He's such a trouper, such a good guy." "Hey, what the hell were you thinking?" "This was a scene we shot pretty early in the process." "This was probably one of the first scenes, yeah." "This was a hard one, 'cause it was like it was the first time I was trying to get back into the character after four years." "And then go straight to a really deep emotional one." "I remember that, yeah." " I found it really, really difficult actually." " It's a great scene, though." "But you got it, man." "I think you nailed it." "It's, I think, dramatically, one of my favorite scenes in the film because, this is probably the most real relationship, in many ways, in the movie, right?" "This is a father and a son trying to connect." "It's something that we can all relate to." "We all have parents and we all had moments where our parents have said to us," ""Look, it's time for you to grow up and be an adult."" "And we've had to say, "Okay, I'm ready." "I'll do what you're asking."" "And we learn that our parents have made sacrifices for us so that we can have the lives that we're leading." "Right." "I promise." " Such a good moment right there." " Yeah." " CG building." "That building does not exist." " Yeah." "What?" "Oh, yeah." " Really?" "Amazing." " Yeah." "This was such a good song to come into." "Because this is actually back on Pinewood." "This is like a storage facility, it's not even a sound stage." " And now it's knocked down." " Yeah, they leveled it and they built the Star Wars sound stage on this site." "So all the future Star Wars movies are being shot where we shot this." " They literally leveled it." " Following in the footsteps." " Yeah." " Of greatness." "Except we were in a corrugated steel shack and they have a multi-million dollar sound stage." "Well, whatever." "Multi-million..." "Shack." "So, originally, I wasn't gonna shoot this scene on this spinning turntable." "I decided to go for it because I was worried it would be a continuity nightmare." " I loved the Starbucks Frappes." " You killed it." "But fortunately, everyone killed it." "You guys were so on in the scene, so I could just jump in anywhere and didn't have to worry about it." "He's staring at a statue." "Well, this was a tough character turn." "Todd basically gets Dave's dad killed." "And we were talking about how do you pull this off and not seem like a total dick?" "I talked a lot with Augustus about this idea that he just doesn't even really know what he's doing." "He's been cast out by his friends and he doesn't realize the severity." "Yeah, he just wants to get some revenge on them, but not this serious." "He just thinks that he can just talk to people." "He's just one of those stupid, young kids like, "Yeah, everyone's safe."" "He's just trying to make friends, because he is playing superhero." "He doesn't realize that Chris has taken it to a whole new level." " Toodle-oo." " I love this location." "I love that couch." "I remember how no one could sit on it because it was thousands and thousands of pounds." "Everyone was like, "You can't sit on that."" "It was so funny." "It's such a cool couch, though." "The whole design of that lair was so rad." "Yeah, it's such a cool look." "And such a great extension of what we set up with Chris." "Yeah." "It just shows you the expanse of his money." "And also, Russell is just a brilliant, brilliant designer." "He's so great at evoking character through design." "Bye-bye." " This is a major turning point." " Look at the size of the guy on the left." " He's huge." " He's just massive." " He's like the size of The Rock." " Yeah." "This was a tough scene to film, too." "It's like, how do you deal with this information?" "'Cause it's straight out of the comic book that he gets this photo on his cell phone." "So sudden, too." "You know, to escalate so quickly from his walking in from dinner to that happening is hard." "What is it?" "Aaron, you just conveyed the shock of it, I thought, so beautifully." "'Cause we talked about it, right?" "You gotta save the emotion for the funeral scene, which is coming up." "And so it's gotta be about the shock of it." "It was your idea just to drop to the ground." "That was intense." "And that was a tough thing to shoot with Garrett." "We had to really go for it and convey that he was getting the shit kicked out of him." "Because when you cut to this funeral scene and you see that he's no longer with us, you have to believe it." "Yeah." "This scene is awesome, this action scene." "There's so much going on in this scene." "We've got the intense, raw emotion that you've gotta convey, Aaron, 'cause you've lost your father." "And the last time you saw him you had a fight with him." "Look at that." "Anger." "Sadness." "Your ability to convey what you're saying in the voiceover in your face while we were shooting it, I think, is really impressive and not easy." "Look at Garrett with the old sideburns and the dark hair." "I love Morris back there." " I love that." "They come out of costume." " So cool." "Everyone was worried, they were like, "How are we gonna know" ""that it's Justice Forever if they're not in costumes?"" "I'm like, "You're gonna know."" "It's Donald Faison." "And Insect Man doesn't have a mask?" "Yeah, how can you not know?" "Those are the kind of notes you get on scripts." "If you actually studied these headstones you'll see that it's the names of everyone who worked on the movie." " Oh, cool." " Yeah, that was messed up." "When I walked through the graveyard and I saw, it was like," "I was like, "This is really, really dark, dark, dark."" "It's a great moment between you two." " I love this." " It's just again, it's just simple." "This is one of the first scenes we ever did in London." "Yeah." "Because the weather was changing so quickly we had to get it done." "But it's so hard to shoot something so late in" " the movie early." " It was so freezing." "This isn't a real cemetery." "This is just a garden at Pinewood." "And we put up all these gravestones." "It's the back garden, where they filmed so much stuff back there." "Yeah." "Well, 'cause originally production was talking about trying to find a real cemetery, and I was like, "No real cemetery is gonna let us shoot what we want to shoot."" " No." " You're right." "No, you couldn't blow anything up on the ground like that." "I love this, it was so cool." " Damian was our armorer." " T took that hit hard, too." "Yeah, T, the stunt double, Damian was the armorer." "He did such a great job getting all those weapons for us" " and making sure everyone's safe." " He did the first film, too, which was so cool." "We had to find all these weapons for the safe house," "I mean, it's a difficult job and he's probably the best I've ever worked with." " This is a great action scene." " Damian's great." " Yeah, we had tons of cameras." " This next action scene on the van is insane." "All these squibs." "Sam was our practical effects supervisor." "So, he had to set up all these squibs and deal with the smoke." "Sam runs his business with his father and they're legends in the UK." "They did a fantastic job rigging the mortar that sent all the earth into the air." "Again it's funny how you don't really know what you're gonna need when you're shooting a scene." "So all that stuff of Justice Forever watching, that was just like one take that I just grabbed at the last minute, and, in a weird way, it became the point of view for the whole sequence." "Mindy?" " Where did Mindy go?" " Where did Mindy go?" "She's on the other side of the van in case anyone's wondering." "That fall on to the ground is actually a reshoot, right?" "Yeah, yeah, we picked that up with you in front of a green screen." "This whole van sequence, we shot the first shot eight months before we shot the last shot 'cause remember, Aaron, we were shooting stuff with you in the van, on the pickups, this bit with the knife." "Yeah, that bit there, just that tiny clip was a wig." "You were really on a driving van there, right?" "No, green screen." "There's a girl on the roof!" " I know, I wish I was..." " Damn it, Chloë." "Chris is like, "What, you're not actually shooting guns at each other?"" " So that's T." " That's T actually moving on a highway." " Fake highway." " It's so cool." " Yeah." " This is T." "We had a closed track where we shot all sorts of stuff with the actual cars and stunt people hanging off the vans." "That was a real moment on the van, that wide shot." "And then we go on a green screen stage and shoot all this other stuff." "And we also did some digital face replacement to make some shots that she did do on the van..." " Yeah." "...me." " I think I got her!" " Go check!" " You fool." " I love this moment here." "You fool, you didn't get her." "I was so worried that people will be like," ""Wait, where is the other side of the highway?"" " Okay." " So brutal." " That's so hard." " That's just a dummy, too." "That's not a CG person." "We just dropped a dummy off the back of the van." "That was genius, that was a great moment." "That's the sickest moment, and then she just beats him up and dodge." "This is cool, too." "Yeah, we storyboarded this whole thing." "Because there is a similar sequence in the comic book," " but none of this stuff happens." " So nutty." "His whole knees are just gonna get taken out." "That's Buster, our assistant coordinator, we're actually dragging him on the track." "I'm just trying to work out why you'd still be holding on, though, if your knees are just being absolutely severed." "Didn't you see what happened to the last guy when he fell?" "But his knees..." "I love that bit, goes to total stand up, flick up." "It's amazing." "The coolest bit about Buster is that he was the Batman stunt double, and then he also became the Bane stunt double." "So he was the only guy to be Batman and Bane." "What, beating the shit out of himself?" "This is Andy Nyman playing The Tumor." "I love him in this scene." "Basically 'cause he gets the joke so well at the end of it, that's why he got the part, he just crushed it in the audition." "And I also love how you guys have this serious emotional moment." " I know, so stupid." " In front of, like, a kidnapper." " And then you're like, "Get the pliers."" " Love it." "'Cause Hit Girl is back, baby." "Coolest part is just seeing her without the wig and without the mask, but still really doing badass stuff." "'Cause that's the point in that van sequence, it's not about the costume." "It's an Angelina Jolie moment." "It's when you see the person out of costume and in normal clothes." "Yeah, that's the point." "It's whether she's wearing the purple wig or not," " she is Hit Girl." " Yeah." "And this is where she tells us that." "It's a good shot 'cause you never see her without the wig." "We closed the loop on her relationship with Marcus." "You know she's not going back." "...as this little girl, but I'm not and I never was." "You're right." "Daddy did take my childhood away, but I'm not so sure that was a bad thing." "And I like that she admits to that 'cause she owns up to her past and she's been struggling with that for so long." "Well, 'cause all three of you are trying to figure out who you really are." "And this is that moment for her where she says, "I know who I am."" "It just works beautifully with the way you played it and the music swell, it's really just a nice moment." "No, he doesn't want to change yet." "He still wants to just hang out in those bloody clothes." "He's got to get the message out." "He's got to get the message out." "I love how he had his tie on and now it's off, nobody ever notices things like that." "Aaron so jacked." "Bomb-diggity." "Doesn't even want to talk about it." "This is his favorite scene in the entire movie when he got to take his shirt off." " People always chuckle when they see this." " Matthew McConaughey." "Take this." ""Last resort" really isn't my style." "But I like how we're bringing Mindy's two stories together." "Her superhero story and her coming of age story, in her feelings for Dave." "And her dad's watching." "And Daddy doesn't approve." "Remember when he called you Ass Kick in the first movie." ""Nice to meet you, Ass Kick."" "Who scored this movie?" "Henry Jackman." "Henry Jackman did all the original themes and Matt Margeson wrote most of the new stuff." " It's great." " Yeah, he did great." "He wrote your theme, that whole Motherfucker theme that is so iconic." "Chloë, what were you saying about Mother Russia's butt?" "Just that shot." "Look at it." "Look at that shot." "I actually wanted her in a thong." "Oh, my God, she should have been in a thong." " I thought that would've been good." " I don't know." "That would have been ridiculous." "Hey, it's not necessary." "We're making a movie called Kick-Ass 2, Aaron." "No, but you've already conveyed that." "You can see enough of the butt, how it is, you don't need the thong." ""You can see enough of the butt."" "You have a girl shitting in this, Jeff, all right?" "Well, Olga is also largely based on a character from The Dark Night Returns." "Did you read that graphic novel?" "There's a character named Bruno" " that looks a lot like Olga in this film." " Really?" "That's where we got some of the ideas for the costume, like the hammer and sickle on boobs." "In The Dark Night the characterBruno has swastikas on her boobs." "That's scary." "Chris, you're so great in this speech." "This is when The Motherfucker basically figures out who he is." " Absolutely, yeah." " Accepting his destiny." "We had a joke in here with Union J, right?" " Yeah." "Yeah." " But it didn't feel needed in there." "No, the joke was very funny, but..." "Yeah, but it just didn't feel needed." "When they play music, they put on Union J, I'm like, "Not that song."" " Oh, yeah." " It's very funny." "But the point is you've realized who you are, and we wanted to give you that moment." "That's a dramatic moment before you wanna throw..." "There was the whole thing with that belt." "Obviously it was BD, it was Big Daddy." "And then last minute we found some tape and changed it into a "K" and an "A."" "Just by putting a bit of tape on either side of it." "So it's still the BD, the original Big Daddy belt, but with little bits of gaffer tape over it." "But you did that in the fitting, right?" "You just had the idea in the fitting to do it." "Yeah, but we ended up not approving it right up until that last minute." "Up until then and you was like, "Yeah, I want it,"" "and it had to get approved by a lot of people, but we just went for it I think." "I love this moment." "To me this is what the whole movie is about." "It's the moment when we bring all of you guys back together again." "This is the only scene where we had all three of you." " Yeah." " I know, Jeff." "All right?" "I wanted more with them." "I love working with these guys." "That's why I made sure you were alive for the next one, Chris." "Yeah, thank you, thank you." "Spoiler for the end of the movie, obviously." "And I love that you're just kids, too." "It's basically this big superhero showdown and you're just talking shit to each other." "I know, that was so terrible." "So silly." "Now that's the original armor that Nic actually wore, right?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah." " Really?" "So cool." "Took a lot of time in creating that look for him in the original movie, so it was nice to see it back." "You can see everyone fighting and doing their thing, sort of fulfill the promise of Justice Forever." "This is supposed to be evocative..." "It's supposed to be Highlander." "There is a scene in Highlander, where he just strides through the battlefield." " Love that." " I love that." "'Cause that's just a reference to earlier, she's like," " "I can kill someone with their own finger."" " Yeah." " And then, we see it." "Genius." " That eyeball has a lot of blood in it." "Then comes the epic battle." "Chris!" "And what I do like is that the character of Hit Girl in this movie, she never shoots a gun in the entire film, which is kind of interesting." "We never see her actually use them." "We wanted to take it to another level and show that she's proficient in all different kinds of weapons." "'Cause in the first one all I really use is guns, so it's nice to see it's actually a lot more hand to hand combat." "And it's not like she's eschewing firearms, she's got them, she's ready to use them, it's just that she can use a lot of different tools." "I like that she is more talented than that." "And I like that Chris is becoming a little bit of an equal for Dave here." "Obviously he's using his evil followers to have a greater advantage." "But you're holding your own with Kick-Ass." "You've got the ax handle back as a nice resurrection beat for the Colonel." " Show that Donald can handle himself." " D. Gravity." "Again we were trying to think of ways where we can show that these heroes are capable," " and if he's got his zero G device rigged up..." " That would hurt." " That would hurt so much." " Yeah, it would." "... that makes him more capable." " Wanted to pay off the sick stick, too." " This is funny." "A redeeming moment for Todd." " Yeah, bring him back into the fold." " The goth kid." "Oh, that is him, isn't it?" "Yeah, it's like someone set all this stuff up." "Yeah, it's like someone wrote the script." "I hope there is a sick stick invented eventually." "I don't." "Wouldn't it be great, like, someone cuts you off in a line..." " Someone told me the other day..." " Yeah, yeah." "If I'm not getting sick, then that's okay." "... they wanted an app where you can put the number in on the phone and it turned your phone into a personal sick stick." "Disgusting." " There's an app for that." " Just a disgusting idea." "Look, there's your portrait." "There is Chris' portrait in the background." "I love that detail." "I remember they wanted Johnny Romita to draw it originally, right?" "But he just didn't have the time." "And we also went for something a little more lifelike." "Because John has such a cool iconic comic book-y look." "We wanted something that felt almost like a Caravaggio." " I love to just get in there." " I love that." "By the way, that's a pose straight out of one of the comic book variant covers where Kick-Ass is jumping with his feet behind him." "And that was your idea, Aaron, you're like, "I got to jump just like this."" "That's so crazy." " This is T." " I love this, to get that one shot." "That's a real crash with T and digital face replacement." "But that glass table was made of candy glass." "They started setting up at 3:00 in the morning... 3:00 in the morning and we only had one shot basically to do it." "If it didn't work, we were gonna have to try again the next day." "But then they set it up and put it perfectly on top and the whole thing shattered." "And then they had to rebuild it all back together." "No, no, no, there was always the danger of that because it was made of breakaway glass, so people couldn't talk loudly around it." "It was really intense and difficult." "Those little shards of sugar are so sharp." "Oh, yeah." "Here we see both our heroes about to die." " Hit Girl's in the signature move." "It's all over." " Leg lock." "Bad guys actually won." "Here comes the needle, the last resort." "It was great." "When I saw this with an audience last week, people actually gasped." "They thought that we killed Hit Girl." "Well, yeah, 'cause Jim Carrey dies, all bets are off." "You know what I mean?" "I love this, though." " So sick." "And this, right..." " Gross." "That's not what it's for." "That's reshoots." " That is right there, that moment." " That's reshoot." "'Cause we had to spell it out that it was adrenaline..." " Ball kick." " Ball kick." "You need a good ball kick in an action movie." "There's lots of ball kicks in this movie." "This is sick." "So cool." "Well, this is an homage to what happens in the comic book, 'cause she kills her with glass shards in the comic." "Disgusting." "Again it's in Times Square, but I wanted to do something similar to that here." "That's so cool, how she kicks the shards up and catches them in midair." " Yeah." " That's so sick, too." "Well, in the comic she takes her head off." " Sick." " Crazy." "Yeah, that's sort of a reference to the corridor sequence in the first film when she threw up the clips." " I love that shot, too, underneath the glass." " Yeah." "This is a big debate about should Dave just let Chris fall because Chris has done these terrible things." "And my point was, "No, Dave is a hero at the end of the day."" "Spider-Man never kills anybody, he always puts them away." "He's interested in justice, and he believes you should be punished for what you've done, but his instinct is he's not gonna let you fall to your death." " He's a hero." " 'Cause he's a good guy." "Also just before that you saw Hit Girl say the "C" word again, but geniusly in Russian." "'Cause everyone's wondering," ""It's the second one, is she gonna say the cunt word?"" "And this is a nice little twist." " It's a nice way to do it." " It's nice to have it that way." "Chris, you played this so perfectly." "I think you realize your own mortality when you fall." "I'm like, "Oh, wait, I am actually gonna die," but nope." "That's what we do, we keep switching it up on you, and again some people were like, "Can you keep switching it that many times?" ""Switching three times in a fall."" "How do you not drown?" "I had a man underneath the water." "I was gonna say, because that suit would literally weigh you down." "It was so hard." "Later!" "Yeah, but you made it work, Chris." "You were exhausted, but..." " Yeah." " And it also kind of worked for the moment." "I love seeing the heroes handcuffing the bad guys, we understand that they were there for a purpose, to stop the evil army." "Good does win in the end." "Good shot." "Harkens back to the end when I tell, at the end of the first movie, that my name as Mindy." "Yeah." "And that was the idea, invoke that, but then bring the whole team back into it and say like it's more than just about what you two have done together, it's that you've done it with a group." " This is my last day on set, right?" " Yeah." "This is my last day on set, which is nice because I actually got to do the end of the movie on the end of the movie, which you never get." "Good to see the team all together." "The Colonel's ax handle again." "Giving him a nice resurrection beat." "And I also think it's nice that Night Bitch says, "He'd be proud of you, Dave."" "Right, again 'cause it's referencing the end of the first film when you use your real names." "This is who you really are, you are a hero." "And that was all Lindy's idea to actually do that." "Justice Forever!" "The Ducati." "Did you get the Ducati?" " No." " Get to keep it." "Matthew, if you're listening to this, I want my Ducati." "I want my Mustang from the first movie." " It will never happen." " No." "Never gonna happen for either of us." "He has it." " This was early on, right?" " Yeah, we shot this in Toronto." "So annoyingly, paparazzi shots got it the minute it happened." "And released the pictures day of." "So one of the biggest twists was leaked so early on." "But at least it's in the movie." "You know how hard I had to fight to get this in the movie?" "I think it works really well, too." "It's not weird." "A lot of people were like, "It can't be in the movie."" "I was like, "No, the whole point is their relationship." ""It's all about Dave and Mindy and their connection."" "It's all building up to that." "And she's got a crush on him." "It's her first kiss." " It's her first, got to be Kick-Ass." " Yeah." "You guys played it so perfectly." "I mean this close-up." "Here where you come back down onto the motorcycle, and you just sort of realize what you have done." "And now everything changed from there." "But it's so innocent." " Which sets up that line so well." " Very Hit Girl!" "She would ruin a moment, wouldn't she?" "There was a big debate about how to end Hit Girl's story 'cause in the comic she goes to jail." "Well, this is like a self-imposed exile, and I think that sacrifice changes Dave and that's what starts this whole voiceover, and he realizes where his life is going, that he wants to be a hero like Hit Girl." " Yeah." " And we don't know where she is going." "She's off into the great beyond, leaving the city." "We had like one chance to get that shot on that helicopter, it was such a nightmare." "That day the sun came out for about five minutes." "There's Donald again." "Back in our safe house." "This is the second time we shot this, too." "Nice." "And we get that Dave is gonna be the hero the city needs." "That's the movie, although there is one more scene coming up." " That's right." "That's right." " Yeah." "Adam and Dave, great producers." "All of which was on the first movie." "Dave Reid." "Well, pretty much everyone worked on this..." "Everyone who worked on this movie worked on the first one except for..." "You and Jim Carrey, Donald Faison, people like that, but pretty much the same crew, exact same crew." "Well, they did such an amazing job on the first film." "I had a moment when I began this process where I could hire a new crew, orjust hire the crew that worked on the first film and I was such a fan of the first film," "I said, "No, let's hire everyone who worked on the first one." "Let's get them back."" "Also it just had that feeling that four years didn't feel like had passed at all." "We just stepped straight back on." "And it felt natural, it was like a home." "'Cause that was the challenge with this movie that nobody wanted to reinvent or reimagine the world of Kick-Ass, but at the same time, I think we all agree that we didn't want to do just like a rinse and repeat sequel" "where we put all the characters through the same movements of the first film." "We wanted to do something new and different." "So I think having the crew back, but also having everyone willing to push things further, allowed us to ultimately achieve that." "There's Jimmy O'D, all the stunt guys." "You wanna thank Jessie J for making this song for the movie" " because she killed it with the sound." " Is that going to be released then?" "Yeah." "In conjunction with the film." "And it's a perfect fit for the film because I said I wanted a female vocal for the closing track." "It's perfect, too." "Fortunately we were able to get to Jessie J and she did a great job." "She dyed her hair purple for a couple of days." "Don't you remember when we were trying to figure out Hit Girl's look for this movie and the new wig, I had a picture of Jessie J up on my wall 'cause we wanted a wig that looked like the wig she had on." "Yeah, she's just totally that modern-day real Hit Girl." "I haven't heard the song yet." "It's really good." "Female empowerment, Kick-Ass kind of vibe, which works, oddly." "A lot of people worked on this movie." "We had two full crews." "We had the London crew and the Toronto crew." "Yeah, two full crews." "'Cause we did a month in Toronto and two months in London." "How do you guys feel, it's over now?" "Was it weird coming back to these characters after three years?" " Four." " Four years, right?" "Four years, almost five." "Yeah, it was crazy, especially for me 'cause I was a baby." "I was 11 and then coming back I shot when I was 15." "It was such a different time period in my life and everything was so changed and I've done so many things emotionally, as an actor you just want to do something that's fun and challenging." "So, you know?" "Yeah, I agree." "It was a mad challenge just coming back." "It's strange because I'm so sort of hyper critical about everything I do." "So I always want to kind of do something different and with this I'm going back doing the same role, which meant that you had to be really happy and pleased with what you did in the first one." "We were talking..." "There were so many added ticks and mannerisms that I thought would be great to add to this character, but then it was like, "Okay, that's all good, but it's not Dave."" "And it had to be about kind of letting go and being happy with what I did originally, which is sort of humbling, in a way." "You got to just feel pleased and happy with that." "And I eventually got into the rhythm, and essence, and soul of Dave." "You were able to build off that, though." "Yeah, and take him to the next place I think, I guess." "Yeah." "What about you, Chris?" "It was fun." "It's such a different character than what Chris was in the first movie." "I know Aaron had to go back to almost the same character, but for me it was a new, it was almost like someone I hadn't played before." "The first 30 minutes of it is similar to the old Chris D'Amico, but, in a way, it was a whole new character to play." " Yeah." " So it was good, it was fun." " He was The Motherfucker." " Yeah." "Are you surprised by anything in the final cut of the film?" "Do you guys look back on what we did for those three months and think, "Oh, that was not exactly how I thought it would be or that changed." ""Or that's not how I imagined that scene."" "Were there any surprises for you when you watched the final cut?" "Not too much, no." "I think it was pretty on point to what I thought it would be." "I don't know." "I think always the hard thing with sequels is to convey the same tone as the first one and keep with the same values of emotional content and humor that the first one had and journey." "And it was all there in the script." "But every piece is to the puzzle, it's like you have a great script then it's about how we're filming on the day and then comes back to the edit." "But I know we had the same editor which is excellent, we had Eddie." "And also I guess Matthew Vaughn had a bit of input in the finished piece as well, which is great." "Now that continuity is really important." "That kind of gave it the same feel." "It's still surrounded, like we said, by the people who did the first movie, so it still had that same energy, same vibe." "It didn't feel like not only did we step from one crew to another, and made it a separate film." "Hello?" " Here we go." " Here we go, our final scene." "Don't go." "Is anybody there?" "This was my dressing room." " Was it?" "It was." " This was my dressing room." "We shot a lot of scenes in dressing rooms in this movie." " Oh, my goodness, look at you, man." " Such a great way to come back." "This is our Marvel moment, our little button at the end." ""A shark bit my fucking dick off."" "I just want to thank you guys again." "Been so much fun working with you and so much fun making this movie." "And hope everyone out there enjoyed the audio commentary." " Good work, everybody." " Yeah." " Thanks, guys." " Thanks, guys."