and they pitched me to direct this, and Chris to join in. I first met the Russos in 2014 on. We had been talking and I had mentioned I was looking to direct movies. I had been directing second unit. Joe came to me and said, "Hey, I have a script I think you'd be perfect for as a director." I said, "Wow.
You can quote me. Chris Hemsworth is like a fine wine. He gets better with age. I first met him on the first. He would have been 26 and I was 27, I think. So from that time, almost 10 years later, to see where he has come from and where he has arrived in his acting career is incredible. The growth that I've seen from him and the performances that he's turning out. They keep getting more nuanced. He has introduced a lot of humor that maybe before he didn't realize he had.
We planned it as the first time you really see Tyler do his thing and show his skills. It was about halfway through our schedule, when we first got to Thailand at the end of the calendar year 2018. You will come up with ideas through the years that won't make it, even into shooting. You hold on to it. Put it into your back pocket for later. Even things you shoot get cut out of the movie, so people will never see it. You've always got those in your back pocket, but I hire teams that are always trying to think of new things and pushing the envelope. Bringing on Daniel Stevens and Michael Lehr, our fight coordinator and choreographer, we tried to infuse new things into that.
Great movie.
Thought Chris Hemsworth was perfect for it
It's like a reverse Jack Reacharounder