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got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: My goodness. I mean, what I love about this movie
is that there's no way in hell anybody's gonna be
able to predict it, and because they're going to go
in there expecting something, and it's like, if you would
have done your homework, you would have understood what you're watching.
And what you're watching is creativity at its absolute best.
Speaker 2: Ah Lo's lovely. Yeah, it's fantastic. It's a very fun, enjoyable,
thrilling film.
Speaker 1: Well, it looked like it was fun only because I mean,
not only do the sets look absolutely amazing. But the
camaraderie between everybody on that set, I mean it looks
like you guys genuinely went out and had pizza one night. Oh,
let's play some cards the next night. We're friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was, It was. It was beat.
I mean, we were filming in Rome, so we were
all like, this is fantastic. We were having the best time.
The crew was amazing. We got to eat a lot
of amazing Italian food and go out for drinks and
hang out and it was summer. Yeah, it was. It
was fantastic. It was. I was very, very lucky to
be there and very grateful.
Speaker 1: Well, the movie that we're talking about is called Cold Storage,
and I love the way that it opens up because
I burst out laughing the very second the credits hit
where it says pay attention, and I lost it. I
just I just thought, oh my god, in all my
movie watching, I've never seen the credits say pay attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's David Kept. He's he's a genius.
He's like, you know, such an iconic writer. He's fantastic.
So from the moment of reading the script, I was
so excited to do it. It just jumped off the
page and then getting to read his book as well,
and it was his first book and now he's you know,
adapted it himself into the screenplay and was producing. It
was just, you know, a dream. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about modern day writers today, that
they're not settling just for the paragraphs on a page
sitting inside Amazon or a Barnes and Noble. They realize
that there are a lot of people out there that
need these moving pictures.
Speaker 2: Hmm. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: But I think one of the biggest strangest twists and
listeners need to understand this. You did not walk into
the wrong movie theater when this movie begins. Just hold off.
It's everything you've seen in the trailer it's coming. Just
don't because you know how the opening scenes are. You're going,
am I in the right movie? What's going on here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The movie's really split into two storylines really at
the same time. So you're following Liam Neesent on one
and then you're following me and Joe on the other.
Speaker 1: Well, you and Joe, I mean, what is the camaraderie
between the two of you, because why aren't you doing
a morning radio show? Somewhere because the way that you
guys set each other up, the timing was so perfect.
Was somebody working with you or was it that you
just felt it in your moment.
Speaker 2: We just really felt it. Obviously, we had Johnny with us,
Johnny Campbell who's the director, so of course he was
there and helping us and creating this world. But we
just immediately clicked. We got on really well, and the
characters were so well written. It's very easy to get
into a flow. I mean, getting to work on something
that David Kep has written is I'm so happy that
I got to do it. Because he's die. Everything is
just so tight and is so easy. And I think
that's what you see when you're watching it, is that
it just flows. It's yeah, it's kiss me so. And also, yeah,
Joe's very easy to get along with. He's a very
nice person. He is everything you would expect him to be.
Speaker 1: Well, we're so instantly attracted to Naomi, and the reason
why is because she's got courage. I mean, she's ready
to hit that wall, she's ready to get moving, she's
got nothing better to do. She'll tell you that, and
all of a sudden, it's like this movie's going to
take a twist because she's not running from this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That is a really fun thing about Naomi. I
think there's been lots of discourse about you know, women
in action films and that there's kind of normally a
moment where the woman's like what do we do now,
or that the male character is kind of leading the charge.
And I really love that they are put and that
in this film, and that it really is Naomi that's
kind of marching forward with reckless abandon. She just wants
to have a good time. She wants to have fun,
and she's sort of dragging tea cake into her nonsense
when he's trying to be the voice of reason. So
it was it was so fun getting to play.
Speaker 1: That voice or reason. And yet he was so male.
I mean, I mean he's just say I kept going, Ah,
he's just a guy. He's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Oh he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just think he's pretty. So he's like, yeah, fine,
I'll do whatever you say. Now.
Speaker 1: Did anybody on the set bring up the term cult movie?
Because there's one cult line inside this movie where I
thought I thought, oh my god, this is gonna be
forever in a day on every college campus. It's like,
what's wrong with him? I's got COVID. Nobody twenty five
years from now is gonna understand that. But god dang
if I didn't laugh my ass off when I when
I saw that line and going only we can understand
that line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is fun. I didn't really think about that.
It's it's definitely of the moment. I mean, we filmed
this like three years ago, so we would have just
been coming out of the COVID funk.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I know if anyone said anything about being a
cult movie, but it would be very cool if it was.
It's definitely got that feeling to it. Hopefully it will
kind of stun the test of time.
Speaker 1: So when you're doing a movie like this that has
the two separated stories that are going to come together
like the most unique way you've ever seen. But when
you've got those two things going on, how as an
actor do you envision it? Because it's like all of
this stuff is probably in the production room. You're not
going to see the actual finished product until that moment,
So how as an actor do you see it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like any script. Obviously you have
the vision in your mind. When you're reading it of
what it could be, which is, you know, I'm not
a director, so I'm sure Johnny obviously his vision's a
lot better and thought out than my idea when I'm
rushing through a script. But he created such an incredible
world and it really jumps off the screen and it's
so kind of bright and fast. Yeah, nothing that I
could have really imagined. It definitely surpassed that.
Speaker 1: Was there ever a moment, I mean when when Travis
is playing the part of Travis and you're sitting there
and you're watching the banter between you and Travis or
Naomi and Travis. It's one of those where I have
so much compassion for you because I love the way
Travis just goes and goes and goes and goes and goes,
and it's like, quiet down, dude, let her do her thing.
But because I mean, because he's such a guy in
the way of just just throwing things onto that subject matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really fun playing that dynamic and getting
to watch Joe do those very you know, he had
all these like little mini monologues all the way through
the film, and he delivered them so wonderfully and different
every time we did a take. And also he's he's
a veteran, he's been doing stranger things. He's been doing
a love television, so he's able to really pick up
things and get the cad right and get things moving fast.
So it was really enjoyable getting to watch him do that.
And then on the other side of it, you have
my character, Naomi, who's a lot more careful with her words.
She's a bit more thoughtful, So it was fun playing
that dynamic.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Georgina Campbell coming
up next. The name of the new movie Cold Storage
starring Georgina Campbell. Okay, we see who you are, we
envision that character. And then when you're driving the car
and the big big blank, I'm going to say blank
because I don't want to spoil the movie something. When
you're driving the car, you know what happens. How did
you even experience that? Because when you felt it, I
felt it, and then when I felt it, everybody else
in the room felt it.
Speaker 2: That's very kind. I'm trying to think about. That scene
was really interesting because we did a lot of it separately.
Because we say room has to get in car and
get there. You know, the camera guy has to get
in with the camera and everything. So a lot of
it it was us going into the car separately, so
you didn't really know what the other actor was doing
when they are in there, and you just kind of
had to go with it. And then obviously I don't
want to ruin it either, but you've got you know,
Johnny the director saying this is happening, and this is happening,
and it's you know, one of the many moments of
acting that feels really humiliating at the time, but once
you see it in the film, you're like, oh, it worked.
Speaker 1: So no, no, was the director of the film. Was
there any way that he was actually trying out for
some sort of film contest or a science project, because
the Journey of the Cockroach, I'm telling you that right
there is going to win something somewhere, because right in
the middle of the movie and you've got this Journey
of the cockroach, I'm going this is original. Nobody will
ever try to emulate this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really fun. I didn't I don't remember. I mean,
it must have been in the script, but I was
very pleasantly surprised by it when I first saw the film.
It's such a great sequence and it's funny and bizarre. Yeah. Yeah,
Jenny's very good at ways.
Speaker 1: But it explains everything though. I mean it really does.
I mean everything that was taking place, and all of
a sudden, now I became a wise person, almost like
I was doing a true crime novel in the way
of putting the pieces together as they were happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a great way of pulling the
story together and giving a very concise understanding for the
audience of exactly how the fungus works and what it's
doing without it being, you know, someone just telling you,
like a big, boring conversation about what it does. It's
fun to actually see it.
Speaker 1: When you put that hole in the wall, did it
feel good? Come on?
Speaker 2: It did? It felt great? It was really fun. It
was very fun. I got to have a go because
obviously it starts with Joe doing it, and then I
get to have a go after him. So yeah, I
was happy to get my old go.
Speaker 1: And not to spoil the movie, but what happens once
you crawl inside that hole is the funniest thing because
it's total slapstick. Because everything that you guys did once
inside is what we would do as normal people. We'd
be all over that place just going. We were just
and then trying to piece it all together.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, again, David's great writing. It was really fun
getting to do those little scenes with Joe and that
was like right at the beginning, and we mostly shot
in order, so we got to do that kind of
right at the beginning before we get further into the film,
which was great.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that, about the
set and stuff like that. So it was completely one
hundred percent inside a building, or did you get to
at least travel outside a bit?
Speaker 2: There was, So the set was actually built in Rome,
so everything that was inside the storage unit. But it
was incredible because it was built you know, there there
were multiple stories so you could go upstairs, you go downstairs.
Everything was real. It was it felt like you were
in a storage facility. It was really funny. Actually, my
mom came to visit and I sawt Of was showing
her around. I was like, isn't this incredible? And she
was like, it's just a building and I was like, no, no, no,
they built this entire thing, but this didn't exist. This
is a building and everything that's outside as well. There's
a car park. We filmed some of that outside properly outside,
and some of that is inside a warehouse. So they
built the entire car park inside a warehouse and they
had rain machines and it was such a huge undertaking.
It was really impressive. Wow.
Speaker 1: So then there's snow scenes. I mean, was it in
the middle of summer because I mean, I mean I
really got cold while I was watching those snow scenes.
Speaker 2: The snow scenes, is that in the in the there's
a kind of time lapse.
Speaker 1: Well, it is, okay, you win, You're you know with
the second you brought You're absolutely right, that is it
absolutely is. I still felt but still you had to
film it and you still had to put yourself in
that situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean in the time apps we were in
the snow, there was some rain. There was a lot
of rain. We did a lot of rain in the
in the kind of finale, so there was a lot
of We had machines because we were inside at that point,
so we were all just soaked for like two days.
But in the Rome in the summer, so you just
stand outside and it was hot and beautiful.
Speaker 1: I think one of the T shirts that you guys
need to sell is is what is it? I don't know.
It's big. I mean, it's interesting. It just explains that
whole entire movie. I don't know what it is. In fact,
I was sitting here watching it with my wife and
we both were going, what do you think it is?
I don't know. I've never seen this before. Ok, and
then and then I mean, because that's how original this
movie is. We've not seen this before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: When you've got Liam Neeson inside those those speaking lines,
I would I would be losing a gut every time
I'm in there, because anytime that guy speaks, it's like,
you know, it's like Ef Hutton. You start listening to
what he's saying because he says it so softly. He's
so Liam Neeson mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fantastic. He's an icon. He's an incredible actor
and it was really fun getting to watch him do comedy.
He's fantastic in the film.
Speaker 1: What did you learn from this? Because you were surrounded
by great writing, You've got a director there that's willing
to take chances and do something differently. I mean, you're
hanging out with Joe, You're hanging out with so many
different people on this set. Do you walk through it
as a student or how is it that you that
you make your way through it?
Speaker 2: Honestly, on this film, I felt like I was able
to really relax, which was so nice. I feel like, yeah,
sometimes you go onto jobs and you feel very you know,
you feel very stressed, or you kind of feel the
pressure of it. This was just such a wonderful, wonderful people.
The crew were incredible, really hard working. Everything was a
very well oiled machine. And then on top of it,
getting to work with Joe and Liam, who were both
very kind, and I just had such a wonderful time.
And I think that that really shows on screen, especially
with me and Joe and our scenes together, I think
you can really see we're enjoying ourselves and having a
great time, which you know, I do a lot of
intense stuff, so it's nice to do a job where
I got to smile a lot and laugh a lot,
and I know, a top of it, there is, you know,
all the horror that's going on, but at its core
is it's a fun film. It's a comedy film, and.
Speaker 1: Yet it does scare the bajibi's out of you, because
when you sit there and think about that a piece
of land can be sold, It's like.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 1: And then they turned it into a storage unit like
they have. It's like oh no. And because I mean
you know that inside your heart this could happen, and
that makes it very scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for sure, I mean anything could happen.
Maybe it could happen. But I feel like it's coming
at it from quite a kind of oh, I don't
know what the word is. I was trying to think
of it. It's very kind of bombastic. It feels otherworldly.
Speaker 1: So was there a side of you that wished it
could have turned into a series where I could have
gotten twelve episodes out of this or do you feel
like it's like, Okay, it's complete the way that it is.
We did exactly what we needed to do. Move on
so we can get on to the next movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's absolutely complete. I think it's perfect. I think,
especially looking at you know, I read David's book obviously
before doing it, and he was the one that wrote
it into the screenplay and he did it perfectly. He
got everything he needed to from that book onto the screen.
So I think it's perfect as a movie.
Speaker 1: Did you get to sit in the theater with any
of the real people, you know, the ticket buyers and
stuff like that, because it would be fascinating to watch
how they react to the scenes that you actually brought
to life.
Speaker 2: I haven't as of yet. It comes out on the thirteenth,
so I might do. I live near a cinema at
literally a five minute walk from AMC, so we might
get a few friends together and go and watch it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's definitely got that Jordan Peele kind of a
vibe to it in the way that I'm complimenting you, like,
in other words, he took a chance. You guys are
taking a chance. You are setting the future on fire
when it comes to comedy and sci fi coming together
and having people that work together. I mean, this really
is a step in the most brilliant direction.
Speaker 2: Oh that's very kind.
Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime, because the
door is always going to be open for you.
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks so much. She was lovely talking to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this movie. It was filled with
a lot of entertainment.
Speaker 2: Gat I'm glad