'Thunderbolts*' cast and director unpack that 'Emperor's New Groove'-style stunt

I think what's beautiful about this movie and Jake's optics of making this movie

and dealing with the topics and the relatability I think the audience gets to have with this

is I think the word is patience. And it's, I mean, it's got the humor, it's got the action, it's got everything in it

But there's space that's held, really. And it was amazing to kind of see the audience's reaction of just actually having the patience

and the connection to the characters and to what they're feeling and what is going on

especially with these misfits in this movie. And we had many rehearsals and we all, you know

I mean, especially with your character, we talked very, very intently about, you know

what these characters are going through and what each individual's journey is and what we're all going to kind of interlink with this film

and the sensitivity of it as well. I guess I brought in a lot of collaborators

who can connect with that loneliness And, you know, they're also some of the funniest people I know

And so I think we always felt like those two things could coexist, that you didn have to sacrifice comedy or fun to address like a sense of emptiness or darkness And those were themes that we really you know explored on beef and i brought in so many of the collaborators from beef like sunny who created it and wrote on this and joanna who wrote on season one and department heads like harry

yoon and grace yoon who had worked on it so i think yeah it's a strange balance but it just

felt like you know something on beef that we always talked about is sunny really felt that

that, you know, these ideas and struggling with these things is not a niche issue anymore

You know, that it's something everyone at this point could admit that they struggle with and is so much a part of the cultural conversation that even though it seems odd to make a summer blockbuster

that has those ideas in it, it's not actually any smaller of an idea than anything else

you would make a summer blockbuster about. We can't do this. No one here is a hero

Lena, when I look at you, I don't see your mistakes. That's why we need each other

Okay, that was really good. I love the amount of names for your characters

that Ava calls you disposable delinquents. Yes This antisocial tragedy in human form Defective losers it a bit harsh We so nice about ourselves aren we We so complimentary One moment when your characters really come together was one of my favourite scenes in the film

which was when you sort of link arms in Emperor's New Groove up the..

How did you make that scene as actors? I can't stop thinking about Emperor's New Groove right now

That was the first time I've been referenced and it's a perfect reference. Yeah, that's it

I couldn't help it. So as you're shimmying up the tunnel, how did you make that scene together as actors

Well, that's your idea, isn't it? It's Bob's idea that you take this one

I think that was a moment where Jake continually, while we were shooting, was like

this is the weirdest stunt ever. He was like, is everyone really into this

Do we keep doing it? We're all like, yeah, this is brilliant. Because it's so like, to see superheroes doing something so very..

It's just such a juxtaposition of what Marvel is. I mean, it's the only way we can get out

And it all down to this character idea Bob Who Bob And it your idea And it such a practical practical way is of like you know teamwork and team building exercise Like you know I will say that it was kind of in many ways it served as like a cast bonding experience as much as it did for the characters

Like we were in that elevator for like a week or something. That came from one of my earliest pitch meetings because there was this elevator shaft

But I think they got up in a different way. and I was talking to Brian Chapek, our executive producer on this

about each sequence, each action sequence should be about, these are superheroes, they probably could solve this

if they could just work together, but can they trust each other? And that was actually his great idea about the back-to-back thing

about what is the ultimate, you have to trust each other or you'll die

kind of scenario to put them in. And we always described it in shooting as probably the least dynamic action sequence in Marvel history, probably

But very fun. Very fun. Yeah. Yes! Yes