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  • On what attracted Brad to the film: "Certainly the period is great fun. Quentin is the last purveyor of cool. If you land in one of his films, you know you're in great hands. Quentin gives you these speeches, the kind that you wished you had said on the drive home that you think of a day later. I felt the script was an evolution of Quentin's voice. I mean, we know Quentin as an auteur sending film in a singular, original direction, but I found this an evolution — and an amalgamation of what we loved about his other eight films. . . . And doing this with Leo was really cool and a rare opportunity. Then there was just the whole thing, where we all grew up with the lore of the lead actor and his stuntman — that relationship and craft. I mean, there are epic stories of these duos: Burt Reynolds had Hal Needham. Steve McQueen had Bud Ekins. Kurt Russell had his guy. Harrison Ford had his. These guys were partners for decades and it's something that is not the same in our generation, as the pieces became more movable."
  • On Brad's favorite part of filming the movie: "I'll tell you one of the greatest moments I've had in these however many years we've been at it in this town: getting to spend two days with Burt Reynolds on this film. . . . It was a f*cking pleasure."
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