“We got cows.”
“Oh, s—,” theHamiltonandIn the Heightsalum exclaims.
“It’s Nancy’s mom!”
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I wanted to combine all of those things in this movie."
Or it feels like they pick a director who can just get bossed around by the studio.
But when I saw Isaac was directing this, I was like, ‘Nah, this feels different.
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“But now, it truly feels like he’s in the center of that.
We feel the connection between him and Kate throughout the film.
“But she’s trying what she can to move past it so that help other people.
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I found it very interesting that throughout the script, there’s this idea of taming a tornado.
It was just a blast to play.
But, unlike the original film,Twistersgets cloudy when it comes to who you’re rooting for.
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“We often don’t look at the gray zone that all of us are in.
And stepping into the fish-out-of-water (cow-in-the-air?)
“So, in a way, it just kind of felt like we were chasing a tornado.”
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“It made a big difference being on set in Oklahoma,” adds Ramos.
“I’m talking in the middle of small, small towns in Oklahoma.
And you’re like, ‘Oh s—.’
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The irony of storms interrupting fake storms is not lost on theTwistersteam.
And if it wasn’t the wind, it was the heat.
“Some days, the rain was genuinely steaming off of us.
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I can imagine what being tumble-dried feels like.
I think I slept so well after every day of work.”
One evening, they braved a torrential downpour and windstorm as they left a bar.
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“We were running through the streets totally covered in rain,” says Edgar-Jones.
“Stuff like that really bonds you.”
The cast also pulled from their own experiences with severe weather.
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Do I get under the bed?’
I had no idea what to do.
I just assumed that meant that it was upon me.
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I was just like, ‘Well, there you go.
Just got here, and I’m not going to survive this thing.'”
“Isaac was so flexible and relaxed and really open to ideas like that the entire time.”
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Well, at least heseemedrelaxed.
“That was one of our North Star scenes.
For all the concern about lightning strikes, it was theScreen Actors Guild strikethat paused production for months.
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What wasn’t helpful was the change of weather by the timethe strike ended in early November.
“It was just absolutely freezing, and I was in shorts,” laments Edgar-Jones.
“That was brutal.
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But we survived.”
But we really had a great team.
We had a really great cast.
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“It gives a language to a community, and they take ownership over it.
That’s really what I think this movie’s going to do.”
After about eight hours, the stars ended their day without a tornado touchdown.
I really want to see one.
I cannot have made this film and not have seen a tornado, so I’m so determined.
I am desperate to go back.”
Does that sentiment stand for returning for anotherTwistersas well?
