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“#Nine Days, Deadly Class, and More \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Unborn souls want to go to Earth. That\u2019s the story of\u00a0Edson Oda\u2019s ambitious feature directorial debut,\u00a0Nine<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Days<\/strong><\/em>. It\u2019s an epic concept told with intimacy and simplicity. In the film, it\u2019s Will\u2019s (Winston Duke) job to decide which soul has the pleasure or displeasure of experiencing life on Earth. Will\u2019s righthand man is Kyo, played by\u00a0Benedict Wong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Wong has become well-known for his work in genre projects. Years ago, he stood out in Danny Boyle\u2019s Sunshine<\/em>. Since then, he\u2019s gained recognition for his work with the likes of Ridley Scott, Marvel, and Ang Lee, app<\/a>earing in films like The Martian<\/em> and Doctor Strange<\/em>. He\u2019s one of those actors that\u2019s always a delight to see on the big screen or, in the case of\u00a0Marco Polo\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Deadly Class<\/em>, the small screen.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Wong to talk about Nine Days<\/em>, his career, and the untimely demise of Deadly Class<\/em>.
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\nHow satisfying has the reception been for this movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s incredible. It\u2019s been about 18 months, 20 months, just from the conception of reading a script like that to now. I\u2019m 30 years in the business now, and you know the rarity of a gem of a script. Just like everybody else, I just went on a plane to Utah, and with little budget, told this amazing story, I think. You can do a lot with passion.<\/p>\n

What I did find is just that this movie is having a real effect on audiences. They have their own personal moment of deeper inner reflection. And a couple of times at the Sundance screening, there was a war veteran suffering PTSD, came up, and he was saying, \u201cI\u2019m Will, that\u2019s me.\u201d There was an Asian family that were crying, and then the mother was like, \u201cI\u2019ve got to go, I need to speak to my son to tell him I love him.\u201d For me, it was like, fuck, this movie is just moving into another chapter elsewhere offscreen. I\u2019m bowled over by that, of how that affects people in a good way.<\/p>\n

When you got to the line he\u2019s never lived a life, did that at all change how you saw the character or wanted to play him?<\/strong>
\nEven though he\u2019s never been alive, he\u2019s still a romantic about life. He vicariously lives through these screens that he\u2019s watching. And he wants to be at a wedding, and he\u2019ll stand and be an audience member. But yeah, he\u2019s kind of like the oldest character, but the biggest kid and innocent as well. But yeah, he\u2019s a co-worker, he\u2019s a devil\u2019s advocate, he\u2019ll put Will in his place. But as we slowly start to find out, he tries to pull him out from the fog.<\/p>\n

For such a fantastical job, too, he has such a workman-like approach.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think so. As much as this is a high concept, unusual circumstance, you just got to play it for real as well. And it\u2019s just like these two guys, they\u2019re interviewing people for a chance of life on earth, whatever that means. You had to see it as a day-to-day job. I\u2019m going in and I\u2019m seeing these screens. It\u2019s almost you view it as a couple of security guards manning some CCTV stations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fantasy movie, but still, it\u2019s a movie in which four people, for a very big scene, are seated at a dinner table. Since you\u2019ve made large-scale fantasy movies<\/a>, is it nice to have a day where you\u2019re simply just seated at a table?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was great. It was a bit of a push at four in the morning. I\u2019m just trying to get these lines out. I think that was probably one of the last scenes, really. Because we didn\u2019t really criss-cross as much, but it was, yeah, it was a great night. Each day, it was like 24 days it took to make this film, and I think everyone was just deep in the trenches with everybody. It was just putting in a shift, I think.
\nYou get a big laugh during that scene when you\u2019re actually off-screen.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad I got a laugh off-camera. Well, some don\u2019t [stick around to act off-screen], but you do, you do. You give so much for your fellow actor. I just see it as a play, anyway. It\u2019s just like these cameras happen to be there, and then I just try and see through them all. But yeah, we\u2019re giving it our all. There were times where that particular camera team was on a circular track anyway, so it would just go all the way around. I quite enjoyed that.<\/p>\n

What were some other special days for you making<\/strong>\u00a0this movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a moment, I think, we were all driving in the desert, the salt flats, the sun setting, and just like driving away from that. Because you\u2019re just so remote, and we\u2019re just this like ragtag crew, just making this movie. It was a really beautiful moment, I felt.<\/p>\n

But you know when you\u2019re so knackered, and then you just put in a massive shift, you\u2019re exhausted from it. Or when you have to just really buckle down, you are too tired, you\u2019ve just got to keep pushing yourself, just get that shot or whatever. I think that\u2019s the process. Now there are these fruits of the labor, that I\u2019m seeing now, with audiences connecting to it. For me, that\u2019s it, you just want many people to see this. And to some degree, going in cold, not knowing anything, and just to be a captive audience by this experience really.<\/p>\n

So, in terms of getting the shots, does work on a movie this intimate feel the same as a Marvel production?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a Marvel nerd. I love Spider-Man comics. I\u2019m obviously playing a character called Wong. I really enjoy that fantastical, high-budget filmmaking. But then you got this flipside here, where we\u2019ve got this incredible script, but very little money. All you have is passion. That is just like making the wheels turn as well. I think there\u2019s merit in that as well. It\u2019s quite a much more organic feel to it because in some ways, there are not that many different voices at the table. Do you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

Yes. Very handmade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very handmade.<\/p>\n

Speaking of comics, do you have a lot of good memories making\u00a0Deadly Class<\/em>? That show was a lot of fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lots of great memories about that show and lots of heartaches. It was tough. I just think if we went on a streamer, we would have still been doing it. I mourn on that particular ensemble of casts because all of those kids were amazing, they were amazing. I was the granddad of the piece. But I was just seeing like, wow, that sort of John Hughes, this new brat pack. I thought, fuck, okay, we\u2019ll just see where they go. But you know what, they\u2019ll all do amazing. It\u2019s just a shame that we can\u2019t have them all together all at that same time. And they were brilliant, they were brilliant together. So yeah, so that was really, really sad. But we\u2019ll see what happens. I\u2019d like to make a feature film, or something like that, of Deadly Class<\/em>. That\u2019d be cool.<\/p>\n

It was huge on Netflix overseas, too.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it was like the number one show everywhere.<\/p>\n

Was getting to fight Henry Rollins as enjoyable as it looked?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

To fight the king of the mosh pit, is possibly one of those bucket lists notched [Laughs]. He\u2019s a great guy. It\u2019s so great to go toe-to-toe with him in a kind of fantastical way. He\u2019s got incredible anecdotes [Laughs]. Lovely guy. And, again, I\u2019m slightly heartbroken now, I can\u2019t hang out with him as well. I think that would be quite a cool feature film, getting all the teachers from Deadly Class<\/em> together to do a mission.<\/p>\n

I think that show will keep finding its audience.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I\u2019m from Generation X, and all that particular music as well in the 80s. When I went up into a few Comic-Con signings, and it\u2019s like, you see a dad and his teenage kid coming up for signing the Deadly Class<\/em> photo or something. It\u2019s really heartwarming when you see the dad explaining to his kids that was me. They\u2019ve been represented well, they\u2019ve properly seen, I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s visualized it as well as Deadly Class<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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