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“#Leo Scott and Ting Poo \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"Val<\/p>\n

Val\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is perhaps the closest audiences will ever get to actor\u00a0Val Kilmer<\/strong>. The documentary is pulled from thousands of hours of Kilmer\u2019s personal footage, spanning decades and covering his life on and off movie sets. Kilmer wants to let people inside his life, and as the documentary reveals, he\u2019s always strived to do so with his career.<\/p>\n

According to co-directors Leo Scott<\/strong> and Ting Poo<\/strong>, nothing was off-limits. The two filmmakers wanted to tell a story about what it\u2019s like (as Kilmer says in-character as Mark Twain) to \u201cFind the thing that you love and someone will pay your wages for it.\u201d\u00a0Val\u00a0<\/em>shows the ups and downs of that specific journey, but as the two filmmakers told us during a recent interview, there may be more stories to tell in the future.<\/p>\n

With all the footage at your disposal, what vital qualities were needed for moments to make the final cut, to tell the story as both of you saw it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> There was so much good stuff, but we had to be strict about what we included in terms of those seminal roles and the seminal moments in his life that evolved him as an actor. And also, the things that affected who he is as a human. So while there were amazing, lovely scenes like a road trip<\/a> to New Mexico that he takes with John Gries after Real Genius<\/em>, and amazing little mini-movies<\/a> within, we had to stick to the things that would evolve those main theme<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

Val Kilmer said he sees this as a movie, not a documentary. As a protagonist, he\u2019s fascinating, just having this intensity but goofiness about him. As a character, what fascinated the two of you about him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> Well, there are just so many layers of Val as a person and he is hard to even describe. We wanted the film to reflect those layers, and as you watch the film, you understand him, who he is from his craft to his sense of humor, to him as a father, and his wisdom, his spirituality. All these different things make up who he is. In the film, we are inspired a little bit by these scrapbooks which Val keeps and has done for the last couple of decades. We follow this idea of a scrapbook approach to filmmaking to help show these different angles of Val and how they are juxtaposing against each other to create the man he is.<\/p>\n

He comes across as just an artist not always gelling with the Hollywood machine.<\/strong>
\nTing Poo:<\/strong> Yeah, I mean, you see the same intensity and artistic drive from the time he\u2019s playing Scrooge on stage when he\u2019s seven to going through the Hollywood machine. I think in the movie there is a bit of that. A bit of what happens when the spirit is confronted with different situations.<\/p>\n

He had 200 hours of footage from\u00a0Red Planet<\/em>, right? Did you both watch all of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> To be honest, we tried to do it. That is the one piece that probably I didn\u2019t watch every single frame from. It was a multi-camera shoot of behind the scenes and also like three different DV cameras, two HD cameras, and at a certain point, we were like, \u201cWe need some help.\u201d So we had an assistant come in and bring it down to about eight hours of selects to go through. We had a whole scene cut around that film, too, but it didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> There\u2019s an incredible scene, but it wasn\u2019t just Val, it wasn\u2019t just shooting himself. He was actually making a documentary around that film, about the planet itself. A lot of time there are rough edits of documentaries within the archive, things he had been working on over the years that we had access to.<\/p>\n

What was the incredible scene?<\/strong>
\nLeo Scott:<\/strong> Oh, it was just like we made a seven minutes sequence of that experience of Red Planet<\/em>. If you included everything, the film would have been three or four hours long.<\/p>\n

Have there been any discussions about whether more projects could be made with all that footage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> Absolutely, yeah. There are other films, this is like a life story, but there are other films within in the archive. You could make the Mark Twain film, which is something we started years ago, an explanation of creating the character of Mark Twain. There\u2019s a film in there. There\u2019s an incredible film, a potential film, about his younger brother, Wesley. I mean, he made this incredible little film [as a kid]. Van lost his brother in the \u201970s. There are other films in there and could still be. There was a lot of stuff around Wonderland<\/em>, as well. When he was filming Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0he was incredibly hardworking on that film and really dove into the John Holmes character. But again, it was like another thing that we ended up streamlining in the end.<\/p>\n

Kilmer\u2019s early and mid-2000s movies are streamlined in the narrative. Was that just a matter of, again, time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> It kind of was, really. Also, we\u2019re playing to the strength of the footage as well. Some things you have more of, early on no one had a video camera. You see Kevin Bacon say in 1981, \u201cIs that a real video camera, Val?\u201d And it was so unusual then, and Val was very sort of dedicated to recording these important moments. Later on, there was a lot more filming going on set, anyway. And at that point sometimes he would be making his own film during the film, for instance, like on Red Planet.<\/em><\/p>\n

But it was like a life thing, because at that point in his career and going into act three, we really wanted to get through Twain to pay tribute to the project. It was like his masterpiece that he had been working on for 10 years. So that\u2019s some of what was behind the decision-making.
\nHe\u2019s fantastic in Spartan<\/em> and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/em>. Was there much footage from those films?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> Not a lot from those two. He loves Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/em>, too. It\u2019s not just one of his favorite films, but experiences working on a film.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still surreal watching him as Jim Morrison, just how close he got to him. What was it like witnessing the full scope of how deep he went into that performance?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> Oh yeah, it was incredible with The Doors<\/em>. He spent a year on that role and learning how to move like Jim and talk like him, but also sing. He learned all the songs and he mastered executing them perfectly to the point where even The Doors members couldn\u2019t even tell if it was Jim or Val. What\u2019s interesting about that character is, to a lot of people, is actually when they think of Jim Morrison, they actually think of Val Kilmer first.<\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> What I love about that film, too, is that all his drive of trying to get these characters, like trying to get a role in Full Metal Jacket<\/em> and a role in Goodfellas<\/em>. He didn\u2019t give up and when he saw something and saw a character that he thought would change him or evolve him as an actor, he kept going for it. It finally paid off in that movie, and I think undeniably he is, for me, Jim Morrison. He is Jim Morrison, I think of the poster of Val as Jim Morrison on my wall. It\u2019s just rewarding that that kind of determination finally paid off.<\/p>\n

One intense scene is him and director John Frankenheimer going at it [on the set of The Island of Dr. Moreau]<\/em>. When you first saw that, did you know it had to go in the movie?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> It was intense. I think it was more intense for us than it was for Val. The first time we cut together that scene, it was twice the length that it is now, but at the same intensity. We were very nervous in a way to share it with Val, and we kept trying to preface it and be like, \u201cThis is our first cut of it, but \u2026\u201d But he\u2019s so great at reading people, he could tell these guys are worried about something. When we sat down and played it for him, and he looks over, and he was like, \u201cIs that it? Is that what you were worried about?\u201d He was very cool about it. I mean, that footage was obviously extraordinary. There were hours and hours of it. You can feel the frustrations of everyone. It was one of those films that was doomed.<\/p>\n

With that section of the film and other scenes, obviously, you touch on his reputation as being difficult, but it\u2019s not a major focus. In making the film, did you both decide his life is just so much bigger than that reputation or headlines?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> That\u2019s exactly how we felt because he is such an evolved human being. We didn\u2019t shy away from including some of the hearsay around it. What we thought was most special about what we had was an opportunity to show him as a person, and sort of the context within of why these situations might be the way they are, and they\u2019re difficult for everyone. You know him as a human being who has super-high standards, who\u2019s incredibly dedicated to what he does. That\u2019s what we really wanted to show.<\/p>\n

Was anything off-limits? The Comic-Con scene, for example, is such an intensely vulnerable moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Scott:<\/strong> Nothing was off-limits, and in Comic-Con in London, you know, he was fine about continuing to film. He was sick that day, but he is incredibly brave to show the vulnerable moments as well as the comedic ones and the career moments.<\/p>\n

Val Kilmer makes clear what he wants to say with the doc in the end, but what did you both want to say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ting Poo:<\/strong> What we wanted the ultimate takeaway to be is what Twain says in the end, which is, \u201cFind the thing that you love and someone will pay your wages for it.\u201d It\u2019s an inspirational movie about someone that loved something so much and worked hard his whole life at it. Storytelling and art is something that was not only his career, but it\u2019s the thing that heals him as well, and the thing that connects him to other people.<\/p>\n

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