With director Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger opening this Wednesday, Disney held a big press junket Santa Fe, New Mexico. While I’ve done a lot of interviews, it was incredibly cool to be talking to the cast and filmmakers with the beautiful New Mexico desert behind us. If you’ve missed the trailers, the story focuses on John Reid (Armie Hammer) surviving an attack, being saved by Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp), and the two teaming up to fight injustice. As you can see in this featurette, the production went to enormous lengths to film the majority of The Lone Ranger practically, and they shot at some amazing locations all around the country. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, and Helena Bonham Carter.
During my interview with Armie Hammer, he talked about a particular scene he was nervous to shoot,what he likes to collect, what it's like to go from David Fincher to directors that shoot a lot fewer takes, and much more. In addition, he also talked about Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, if you missed my interviews with Johnny Depp or producer Jerry Bruckheimer, click the links.
Armie Hammer:
- What does he geek out over. What does he collect?
- What kind of transition is it going from David Fincher who does tons of takes to a director that only does a few
- Talks about what made him the most nervous when he first got the script. Talks about having to act on a huge platform that he needed a helicopter to get to
- Did he have a lot of friends that wanted to visit him because he was making a movie with Johnny Depp
- What does he wish he could tell himself looking back now that the film is done
- Talks about The Man From U.N.C.L.E., who he plays, and working with Guy Ritchie