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Hold you is, folks, it's
show time. People paid good money to

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see this movie. When they go
out to a theater, they want cold

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sodas and hot popcorn and no monsters. In the Projection Booth, everyone pretend

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podcasting isn't boring off. Get up, so fucker is a gold miner,

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a rich boy. Get down on
your knees, fucking up big a gold

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h He was a Finnish commander,
lost his home and his family in the

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war. He became a one man
desquad. He's one mean motherfucker that you

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do not want to mess with.
Hi. Yeah, you'll see what happens

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when you take everything from him.
He really believed that he's immortal. Now

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he just refuses to die. How
many minds did you bury here? All

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of them? You and you.
This is not about who is stronger.

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This is about not giving up.
We had a word for that in Finland.

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We might have a problem. Hey, folks, wilcome to a special

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episode of The Projection Booth. I'm
your host Mike White. On this episode,

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I'm talking with Yald Madri Hallander all
about his new film Sisu, which

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is playing theatrically here in the US
starting on April twenty eight, twenty twenty

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three. Mister Hollander is the director
of such films as Rare Exports and Big

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Game. Sissu is his latest movie
and it is quite a ride. Hope

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you enjoyed this interview and definitely check
out Sisu when you can. How did

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you even get involved with filmmaking?
One of the reasons is behind me First

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Blood, of course et and Joe's
and I knew in a lot of per

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season in a way because I knew
it very early on that I want to

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make films like something when I was
or something. And what makes me luck

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of it that is that I'm actually
doing it and also having the luxury of

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being to do so I don't have
to do anything else from one I Underson,

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You've been working on TV for the
last few years. What have those

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projects been like? Some of them
really bad, but I made one a

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nice comedy series, which it's something
I really enjoyed of doing, even though

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it's totally different than with my films. But you have to do something to

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get money. Because I had a
really rough time at the Big Game trying

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to figure out what I'm going to
be next. How did Sister come about?

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I wrote six years what this one
sci fi fail to supposed to shoot

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when their pandemic came and everything fell
apart, And it has been so long

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since I've done a film, so
I of course was really fucking angry,

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and I've had this idea of CCU
like coup of years before. But then

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I got into this place of anger
and almost like Sailor's kind of feeling of

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all my goaleagues and all that that
I thought, I'm now I'm going to

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write something fucking amazing, something that
no one has seen before in a way.

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And I basically needed to be on
that mindset to be able to write

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this. And I wrote it in
two months, and everywhere we sent the

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script with the producer better that Asher
came latest in twenty four hours, and

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the dog it was always yes.
It was really quickly to raise the money

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for this film, and it's been
so good process of and I hope every

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film would be like this, so
you don't have to develop something for that

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many years or because it's not always
a good thing. Just to maintain the

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image you had when you like wrote
the script and used that the energy and

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being in the shooting right after that
and just write it. I love it.

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Have you ever had a project though
that smoothly before? Yep, not

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even close. I was very surprised
when I watched the movie the first time

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that it was in English. Why
the decision to have most of it in

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English? That helped for the quick
finance, And because I've even in Finland.

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We have something like five million people
living in Finland. If I would

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do those of a Finnish language film, it would be well, most impossive

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pool Jewel. I have that kind
of budget to do an action. So

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my Joe's was not just speak at
all, and not just we're talking in

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it is like they do in some
other films. Also, I had a

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basically kive a shit about they just
have to talk something different than art of

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it? Does you need tell me
a little bit about the locations because I

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love just how stark the world is
that you're cared living and this It was

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very jagremy in the beginning that I
need to be somewhere really open landscape like

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that that you can see the emptiness
and you can see the loneliness, see

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the whole lessness of being in a
very difficult place and you don't have police.

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You're going to call it you off, you are in a pas where

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you actually have to that and there
are no rules. You have to do

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what you do to survive. And
what Game was a place like that,

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and I've never been there myself,
but it's north part in Finland you can

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actually get so it was a really
difficult place but really beautiful place and it

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really gave a lot of energy and
I think it's really important part of the

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film, the whole place where we
are, and then the actors bring so

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much to it. Can you tell
me about your lead actor, especially how

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I've worked with your of course before
involved my films. Also he's been involved

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in my short films before my feature
films and that, and he was the

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first person I called when I had
the idea of Sisu because I never couldn't

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imagine anyone else doing it that him, because he has that kind of in

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his presence or karismael in his face, source somewhere that you can just shoot

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him. And he looked interesting and
it's not that common do you have an

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action without a dialogue and still maintained
like all the stuff, because he's basically

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carrying the whole film in his shoulders
and he does it so well. Like

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one of my favorite moments was wo
when I was behind the monitor of seeing

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him finding the cold wine in the
hole where what he has been digging,

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Like, how good is that performance? It's like a force of nature.

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Well, I can really see you
going to your rambow roots in this.

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This whole idea of this guy is
just trying to give from one place to

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another and people mess with him and
then he messes back. I love stories

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that you're fucking with the wrong dude
kind of ibas somehow really satisfy. I

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remember this scene from The Witness where
Hotterson four is sitting with all the Aviash

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dudes in there, and then these
people come to mess with one, but

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they don't know that there's this one
guy who doesn't have the rules that the

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rest of us. And there's something
really satisfying of that kind of situation.

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One of the key elements of writing
sees Arar was because I don't have one

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hundred minute dollar budget, I knew
that I had to be inventive in the

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ways that I can, because it's
not just about art and fighting Maxis,

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it's about how that's the important thing. If I would just I or fight

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this film wouldn't be as famous as
it is now. That's the key thing

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I think to keep the audience surprise, surprising themselves. Okay, what the

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fuck is Econic do now? And
I'm Britisher. No one can tell what

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he's going to do next, and
that's what I think. It's really entertaining.

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Can you tell me about that airplane
crash? What happens on the phone?

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We actually had the hull of the
plane which actually has been involved with

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the D Day Norman Dick and we
found it from the yard of from museum

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and we brought that to the studio
and we used a lot of it.

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Of course, we didn't drop it
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But what we did do is the
SFX team was like, I don't remember

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how many days, when it was
something like three days, they were digging

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dinahite inside to the swamp to make
that huge explosion. We added that CGI

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plane eating that ground. The look
of the dirt and just all of the

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debris in the air looked so good. It was so well done. Yeah,

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it's just something you've can't do with
CGI because I allow real explosions and

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real stunts, because what's interesting is
that you can't expect everything what's going to

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happen, like you're going to see
something you just like that's happened. As

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the film already been out in Finland
and in Europe. Being in Finland,

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it opened on January in Finland,
but it's not being really anywhere else yet,

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so I think it's all the other
Nordic countries are this week, I

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think, and US is next week. It's very thrilled to see the trailer

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for it on the front of john
Wick four. That was great. I

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saw it too, and I went
to see Joe. Thank you so much

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for your time. I really appreciate
this. Thank you, keep up the

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great work. Thank you again.
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soon. Say light daurnaukum nepat yapurukautu
la keep minamisia media. I'm now nagain

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me. You're the good. I
mean I could have me to day sail

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on time and I can dynaby step
on drive directors, take on to keep

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up, keep back and I start
the sun. I mean upstans call get

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rid this time good. I mean
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macky man, my car MARKI the
Love of Margins with fancy local ass

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like I said, thank cool,
yeah, give me Holly on mission da.

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