All language subtitles for In Conversation with Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan

I know this was a movie that
was in the works for a long time.

How did the script find its way to you and
what attracted you to your respective roles?

I was doing Equus on Broadway when
John Krokidas, the co-writer and director

came to see the show

and, yeah, he sent me the script after that.

And I loved it immediately.

It was such great writing.

It was such a complicated story,
yet it was very immediate

and hit you in a very emotional
and visceral place.

And then on meeting John,

a question that I've been asked a lot
over the last few days is,

"Did you have any trepidation
before working with a first-time director?"

No. Because when you meet John,

it was so clear immediately that
he had such a vision for this film.

And one that he had lived with
and refined for a long time already.

And that was five years ago.

Yeah. He was somebody that was very easy
to have immense confidence in very quickly.

I was sent the script by my agent.

And always when you read
a really great script, it's such a rare find,

and such an exciting thing.

And the role, it was like, read the script
and look at the role of Lucien,

who's also like this incredibly complicated,
incredible person

and had a lot of elements that I felt like
I hadn't really done before in my roles.

So then I flew to New York,
and read with Dan and with John.

And, yeah, luckily that went well.

And here I am.

This whole ensemble, you guys all have
such great chemistry together.

Was the chemistry between
you guys instantaneous?

Was it developed on set?

Not just with you guys,
but with Jack Huston and Ben Foster?

Yeah, it was, I think, a combination of both.

We didn't have a whole lot of time to make
the chemistry before we got onto set.

We did have a week of rehearsal.

The director took us through
a bunch of improvs and stuff.

It kind of felt like being
in drama school again.

But it was really helpful and he threw us
into intimate situations from the start,

where we really had to trust in one another.

Dan and I hit it off from the start
in terms of friendship and stuff like that.

It wasn't like we were battling to like make
a love for one another happen.

But that process definitely helped.
lt aided in that chemistry.

I think everyone who was involved in the film

really came to it with an attitude
ready to give of themselves,

and all kind of pitch in and work together,

and engage with each other and have fun,
try to recreate some semblance

of the camaraderie of the original Beats.

Also, I think, John, the director, does
definitely deserve a lot of credit

for doing things like organising
a first night party as it were,

just for everyone to meet and get together
and trying to...

These things only work

if everyone makes an effort to hang out
and engage with each other.

And we were lucky on this film.
We had a great group of people who all did.

Was there any particular scene
that was difficult for you

either logistically orjust emotionally?

Logistically, they were all difficult.

We shot it in 24 days.

In terms of scenes
that were particularly tricky,

one scene that I thought
was going to be tricky

but actually ended up not being,

was when we actually came to film one of
those scenes that we'd done for the audition,

the goodbye scene,

'cause it had been the scene that I did
when I auditioned,

and then it was the scene that Dane had done
when he'd auditioned.

So we both had done it a lot
and knew it really, really well.

And I always worry about that.

And you think, "lf I'm having this emotional
response to it every time I read the script,

"will I then be able to keep that fresh
for when I'm doing it?"

And John did this fantastic thing
before we started the scene.

He asked the crew to leave the room and
he just took me over to one side and said,

"Your goal in this scene is to not
let him leave, whatever happens."

And he took you to one side
and said something to you.

And he just asked us to improvise the scene
away from the script.

And within seconds, we were both sort of...
Floods of tears.

And there was something
incredibly powerful about that

and I'd never really had quite
that level of intensity of feeling.

'Cause I never quite believe it
when somebody says,

"I just became that character."

You didn't become a different character.
Nothing happened.

But what you were was completely,
emotionally open and honest

and available to somebody else.

And that isn't something
that happens all the time.

And when it does happen,
in that context, it was just thrilling.

For you?

Yeah, well, like Dan said,

all the scenes kind of presented their own
challenges 'cause of the time constraint,

but for instance, the scene that we shot
on the steps of the library,

when I'm leaving and Dan comes up to me
and convinces me to not leave,

we shot that scene in 12 minutes.

And it's a pretty emotionally tight,
elevated scene.

And also we were, at the time, getting a lot of
pressure from the security of Columbia

to get off of campus

because they wanted to go to bed.

And it was just time for us to go

and we had to get the scene.

Yeah, and then I spent an entire night naked
in the Hudson River,

which presented its own set of challenges.

Yeah, and there was not a word of complaint.

He was stoic. It was fantastic.

You guys did an amazing job.

Congratulations again.

- Thank you so much.
-Thanks.