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MAY 2015
JB Hi-Fi
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www.stack.net.auFEATURE
DVD
&
BD
032
When you were developing the movie, you
met Chris and his wife,Taya. What was that
experience like and what did you learn about
him beyond what was already in the book?
BRADLEY COOPER:
Well, I don’t want to
speak for Clint, but I feel like the most of what
we gleaned from Chris wasn’t even from the
book. It was much more about the weekend
we spent in Midlothian, Texas, with Taya Kyle,
their children McKenna and Colton, his brother,
Jeff, and Wayne and Debbie – his mother and
father. We got to spend a full weekend, which
happened to be the same weekend that was
the anniversary of his murder. So, it was a pretty
heavy time to be there. We went there sort of
curious and as we were flying back, we were
looking at each other like, ‘Wow, we got a lot
from that.’
CLINT EASTWOOD:
Pretty heavy stuff. It
turned out that the second day we were there
was the first year anniversary. So, Taya was not
in a great state then, needless to say. But we
rode in a car with her, and she was great. We all
just talked pretty frankly about what we thought
about stuff.
BC:
No book could ever really give you what
you get from meeting people in the flesh. You
just watch somebody move through the house
that Chris lived in and it tells you a thousand
things – to sit at the dining room table or on the
couch, or go into his backyard.
There are a handful of scenes that came out
of that weekend we spent in Texas where she
was just telling us stories about their relationship.
CE:
It was also important casting-wise,
because we wanted to get somebody to play
Taya that we felt would not just do an imitation,
but have that same spirit, which Sienna [Miller]
did have. She came in to read for the part, and
did a splendid job. It was surprising – she has this
great American accent, so you don’t even know
she’s British.
Was it important for you to get the truth
up on the screen, to shape what actually
happened in this man’s life into a narrative
story?
CE:
Where there weren’t actual incidents,
all these various people that were hands-on or
had lived this experience with Chris said, ‘Well,
that could have been’ – because it all seemed
to fit into this guy’s M.O. There were other
sequences, too, which we shot and could have
put in. But we ended with something that we
thought would be realistic, and something that
Chris would like.
I wanted to ask you about Chris himself.
What do you think drove him to this absolute
extreme of the experience of fighting a war?
BC:
I think it’s those things that may seem
saccharine in this day and age, but in the movie,
he says to Taya in the bar, ‘I’d lay down my life for
my country. I want to be of service.’ Those aren’t
just words to him. He meant that. He wanted to
be a cowboy and a soldier, period. And he lived
his life that way since he was a kid, taking care
of his younger brother and growing up to be
the man that he was. That’s the guy that I got to
know, and that’s the guy in the movie. It’s really
kind of nuts and bolts. That’s just the way it is. It
doesn’t make him a martyr; it doesn’t make him
anything other than just a man, but that’s the kind
of man that he was.
CE:
But he liked taking care of people. He
liked the leadership aspect of it. I guess he felt
that was his calling. He worked hard to become
a great Navy SEAL, and a great shot, and he had
to work hard, because those guys are all really
solid citizens as far as their physical abilities,
but they have to have the mental ability, too.
He went back for four tours with his wonderful
family back home, so he could have easily taken
the other direction and said, ‘Well, I’ve done a
tour. What the hell?’ But he felt that he had to go
back, because he lost people and he wanted to
avenge that. He felt that we should complete the
mission there.
Director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper talk about
bringing the story of decorated US Navy SEAL marksman
Chris Kyle to the screen, in AMERICAN SNIPER.
INTHE LINE
OF FIRE