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“I’m Kathryn Bigelow, and
I’m the Director of "A House
of Dynamite.
So here we are with Deputy
National Security Adviser Jake
Baerington, played
by Gabriel Basso.
And he’s in a hurry because
he’s just learned that there
is an incoming nuclear
ICBM to North America.
And he’s getting this
information and trying to get
to the White House,
which is where he works.
So he’s in a hurry and he’s
trying to communicate with
our general from Stratcom,
played by Tracy Letts,
"By moving to DEFCON 2,
sir, we are potentially
risking a spiral of alerts."
And what’s interesting about
this scene is, of course,
the movement and
the urgency of it.
But the fact that you have
two different philosophies,
You have a more
hawkish approach
that the general is
providing, and then you
have a more dovish
approach, a wait
and let’s try to analyze this
in a more careful fashion that
Jake Baerington is
putting forward.
"That's your job, not mine.
You have someone you can call
who will tell us just what
the hell’s going on?
Don’t let us hold you back."
So what’s interesting
here, I think,
is all the different sets that
we had to create as a seamless
movement from A to B. Well,
you start with the security
kiosk, and that was a build.
And then he gets through
the security kiosk.
And then.
And then he’s going through
the White House briefing room.
He’s on his way to the
White House Situation room.
And that’s in the
middle of a briefing.
And that was also a build, but
in another part of the studio.
And so trying to make it
a seamless integration,
then we needed an exterior
to make that work.
And so we went
to a golf museum,
which was built in the same
period as the White House was
built. And it has pillars
and it has a portico that’s
actually architecturally
very similar.
And so we did a couple of
beats there to get him from
the kiosk to the press
briefing room. But we’re
intercutting that
with Stratcom,
which is Strategic
Command located
in Omaha, Nebraska,
which is the home
of the nuclear
umbrella for America.
And that’s where the
general is speaking from.
Throughout all this, the
clock is ticking down.
The ICBM is on approach, its
inclination has flattened.
So they now know this is not
a test launch of anybody’s
equipment.
It’s absolutely on course
and on track for impact
in the continental
United States.
So it’s a very heightened
moment exploring various
options and various
trajectories.
And so trying to put all these
different locations together
in a way that makes
it feel seamless.
And then we see
our flight pilots
who are going to
ready the B-2s,
a B-2 is a particular
bomber of which
carries nuclear warheads.
So if we were to, in this
situation, retaliate,
that would be one
method of retaliation.
We shot at a studio in New
Jersey called Cinelease,
and we had three
of their stages,
and each stage was
a different set.
One was Fort Greely interior,
one was Stratcom interior
and one was White House
Situation room interior.
And our production
designer, Jeremy Hindle,
was truly brilliant
in his replication
of these locations.
He and I visited the
White House Situation
room and stratcom
only for minutes.
We couldn’t take pictures,
but even based on having been
there a few minutes, he was
able to replicate it to such
a great extent that military
personnel that we’re familiar
with those locations, they
thought we had shot there.
I mean, it was kind
of that accurate.
"Sir, our GBIs will be
airborne momentarily.
This is what we do."
"Jake, you’re still there?"
"Yes, sir."
Well, this is all
happening live.
It’s almost like a theater
piece where the other actors
that you see on the screen
in the teleconference call,
they’re on the set as well,
in different sets a ways away,
but they’re there so that
their response is live
to the people, let’s say,
in the room of Stratcom,
that’s a simultaneous
situation.
And that was actually fairly
complicated to set up.
But it was very
helpful to the actor
to have it be live
and have that response
time be immediate.
"Once the kill
vehicle separates,
our mid-course intercept
system has a success rate
of 61 percent."
"So it's a coin toss?
That’s what $50
billion buys us?"
"We are talking about hitting
a bullet with a bullet."
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