Itâs never difficult to sit down with two beautiful women to discuss anything. And itâs especially easy when both are really friendly and outgoing. Sometimes you sit down with someone and twenty minutes feels like twenty hours, thankfully these two had a lot to say and were willing to dish the dirt on making Turistas, which opens this Friday.
Turistas is about a vacation that sort of goes wrong. And when I say wrong, I mean there is a lot of spilled blood.
What I really enjoyed was Turistas was filmed entirely in
The roundtable was pretty lively, with many subjects covered. Obviously all the usual stuff got mentioned, but there was big one surprise - Beau Garrett actually talked about Fantastic Four 2
With all the comic-book movies the one thing that is constant is that no one talks about anything until the movie is out in theaters. But Beau Garrett actually told us about her character âFrankie Raye is a military brat, who works under General Hager, who is played by Andre Braugher and they come in to collaborate with the Fantastic Four to help stop these occurrences that are keeping, or putting the world at stake. So sheâs a very thick skinned character who grew up in the military heâs kind of a father figure for her, and she has this love interest with Johnny Storm. Sheâs a cool character, sheâs human underneath all the exterior sheâs got a good side that really comes out in the film.â
She says a little more on FF2, but that is why I have the interview below.
This interview was done about a week ago and with about six or seven people in the room. If you want to listen to the interview you can click here to download the audio, otherwise the full transcript is below.
Also, if you missed my interview with John Stockwell, the director of Turistas, then click here.
How did you get approached for this film?
Olivia Wilde: Oh gosh, all I know is that it was quite the audition process itâs not like they just offered it to us and said, âWhat do you think?â We both worked really hard to get these roles, and Iâm glad that we did because the casting was such an important part of the way this movie panned out because the dynamic between the characters ended up being just perfect. We had a mix and match, where all different actors try out being the team, and they see who does it.
Beau Garrett: That was an experience as well.
Olivia Wilde: And Beau and Josh and I were together for the first time and the scene we did just clicked and they said that it was that moment that they said they knew who it was going to be. And I was so thrilled that they were going to let me do Bea because I just really felt from the second I started the script â the original script had this âwarning to all visitorsâ at the beginning that said there was a warning because of some recent violence towards tourists because of kidnapping and suspicion of organ harvesting by Americans. Once I read that, I knew what kind of movie I was about to read, and I was already really hooked into it and I closed the script, and said, âI need to play her and I need to do it, and Iâm going to work so hard to do it.â And I was so thrilled and said âyesâ right away.
Were there any bikini tests involved?
Olivia Wilde: No, are you kidding? That would have turned me off.
Beau Garrett: No bikini tests.
Olivia Wilde: Iâm sure they were trying to figure out.
Beau Garrett: I worked with John Stockwell before, this is my second time â yeah, yeah, so working with him again I was excited about and the casting process was as she (Olivia) said. When I found out it was
So he brought you in?
Beau Garrett: Yeah I auditioned for it as well, but I had worked with him before. And he told me, âIâm doing this script and I think youâd be great for this role. Would you be interested?â I was like, âOf course.â And then, of course, the auditioning process.
Olivia Wilde: Iâm so glad the other Amyâs didnât get it.
Beau Garrett: We just had this bond, and I think everyone just resonated because we kept coming back in together, they kept bringing us back in. It wasnât this awkward going back to the room full of people â âWe just wanted to be good together, but no worries, everyoneâs good.â Itâs such a weird thing, but Iâm so glad, we had such a great time.
What about the bug bites and injuries? Who got what?
Olivia Wilde: Well, I had a bruise the size of
Landing on a rock?
Beau Garrett: Crawling out of a bus when it was going down and that was the only major injury I got was that. And I actually was good, I didnât get the â the women didnât get the mosquito bites as much as the men. Desmond and Ken, one of the producers there, I swear to you, cankles, I swear.
Olivia Wilde: We called it âelephant legsâ because â
It swelled?
Olivia Wilde: Yeah, huge really bad mosquito bites we were working in this waterfall that just happened to be the breeding ground for the giant, Brazilian mosquitoes. That was really, really terrible for some people, and we were thrown in there 100% DEET right away we started with the nice eco-friendly, and slowly went towards the chemical.
Beau Garrett: Just bring it on.
Olivia Wilde: But it was definitely heroine for all different reasons the bugs, the sickness that came from being open and trying the different food. We were really great about that no one was too afraid. We wanted to experience it, and I really felt like they welcomed us and encouraged us to try their food and try their drinks â and we did.
Beau Garrett: Yeah, we did.
Olivia Wilde: We were definitely the locals in that way.
Beau Garrett: Some people got sick, but it was great and it was worth it.
Olivia Wilde: It was definitely an experience we called it an episode of Survivor. It was like âwho was going down next?â
Beau Garrett: And who was going to get the Turistas, thatâs what we called it.
Both girls together: The Turistas.
Olivia Wilde: Which a lot of people call it that I hope people donât make the connection when they see it in theaters.
Beau Garrett: What a really weird film.
Beau, did you have any reservations about your characters overtly sexual nature?
Beau Garrett: No, sheâs sheltered she comes from a small town, but I think the dynamic between her and Bea. I think Bea is this more conservative and insecure character, and Amy is like âCommon, letâs go do this.â And I love that about her sheâs free, she wants to travel and see
Are you that confident and self-assured?
Beau Garrett: Iâm slightly that I donât take my top off at every given moment, but I do have a sense of â I grew up in a very free-spirited community and very self confident in the ways of the way I am as a person I think that resonates in the character as well.
Did this make you scared to take vacations after reading the script or doing the movie?
Olivia Wilde: No, I think these people we play in the movie exemplify, or represent rather, the tourists in the world â it doesnât matter if theyâre American â from all over, usually from first-world countries who take for granted the treatment they will receive, the safety, the language. People often wonder, âWhy donât everyone speak English?â And that is a ridiculous kind of barrier that keeps the third-world away from the first-world, and people absorbing cultures when they go and visit. And I think these characters are representing that kind of person which many of us are, and many of us have been â a lot of people who see the movie might recognize that in themselves, and think, âHmm, Iâve never read up on a countryâs political climate before Iâve gone to visit it.â People just think, âLetâs go to
Beau Garrett: Yeah, itâs an incredible time, and this film isnât about scaring people away from traveling, or seeing places like
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Did you ever have a bad vacation?
Beau Garrett: The worst vacation is in LA.
Olivia Wilde: Exactly, exactly you run into more trouble at home than you do abroad.
You talked a little bit about the nightlife â
Olivia Wilde: I wouldnât know anything about that.
Josh said you were the ones who were pushing it.
Olivia Wilde: Josh is very reserved.
Beau Garrett: He put it on us.
Olivia Wilde: We used to call it â thereâs this thing called âThe Duhamelâ that if you suddenly disappear from a party, which is when youâve gone home and hadnât said goodbye to anyone. And thatâs called âA Duhamel.â I still use it, and no one knows what Iâm talking about.
Beau Garrett: You just did a Duhamel.
Olivia Wilde: You canât go to Brazil without embracing their nightlife - theyâre happy people, and they love to dance, and we love to dance, and we really took advantage of that. And it was great because the crew â we were the only Americans there there were 10 of us who were American, as well as English and Australian in the cast. Half the cast is Brazilian, and the crew was Brazilian so we were the minority. Itâs not like we traipsed in with 100 Americans and took over a city we were visitors, and they encouraged us to enjoy their nightlife. Itâs not like we were in
Beau Garrett: And we went out with the crew the crew would join us. It wasnât like the cast went here, and the crew goes there we were all combined.
Olivia Wilde: Which was great itâs very different â the American film industry is very different than the Brazilian, the hierarchy is very different.
Beau Garrett: Yeah, exactly there is no hierarchy in
Olivia Wilde: Well, itâs different here, itâs the actors, director on top, and the crew at the very bottom. There, itâs the director at the top, and everyone else at the very bottom he is the captain, and everyone else is working on his ship. And I really appreciated that because they really didnât give us any special treatment, and didnât understand it when the special treatment would be hinted at â âCan someone get them their robes, theyâre in bikinis and theyâre freezing.â Theyâd be like, âThey get robes? We should get robes.â
Beau Garrett: Yeah, exactly.
Olivia Wilde: And I kind of love that kind of spirit of the crew because itâs totally new. And what was great was going out with them was kind of embracing because âweâre not going to try and stay isolated from youâ and be that âholier than thouâ cast of actors, weâre not Gods. Itâs so silly to put actors in that position, and we really just wanted to learn from them and let them know that we werenât there to exploit their country and resources we were really there to enjoy it from the ground up with them.
You went to a big club when you first got there.
Olivia Wilde: The first we were in
What was your favorite club?
Olivia Wilde: Oh gosh, I wish I could remember the names there were some really great clubs, great music.
Beau Garrett: Ulysses â it wasnât a club it was a bar.
Olivia Wilde: And it was in a little town. But in
Beau Garrett: No one else was in there, this isnât funâ¦
Olivia Wilde: We instantly went down, and started attempting to samba and that was way more fun, and that kind of exemplified our whole night life experience there. It was âscrew this VIP bullshit.â
How was it to shoot the gruesome scenes?
Beau Garrett: It wasnât funny it was a process, it was a process. It started before I went to
Olivia Wilde: That was Beau Garrett, that was not Olivia Wilde.
Beau Garrett: But to do the scene where Iâm on this cold medal, or steel, or whatever it was â the hospital bed, strapped in, and I have this torso thing on me, and he has this blunt scalpel. And this doctor â an amazing Brazilian actor, and heâs cutting me open I was like, âOh my God this is crazy.â And I didnât leave for 12 hours, I peed in a bed pan, and I ate food in a torso, and it was super strange. And then to see it was so eerie I wonât let my - my parents wonât see it. Theyâre going to buy the ticket to support it, cause if they donât, Iâll kill âem but they wonât see it cause itâs super real, and watching it I was like â it was a very gruesome surgery scene.
Olivia, you had a scene where you had to be very flexible. Are you that flexible to get out of the knots?
Olivia Wilde: Yeah, thatâs yoga for you it really comes in handy when youâre hogtied in a dog kennel in the rain. Itâs really funny because we were tied up, and we were struggling with a plot point, which was âhow do they get to the point where they can cut each other open with the knife, how can they cut each otherâs binds up with the knife.â And John was thinking, âOne of you has got to be able to pull the cuffs in front of you,â and we were thinking about it. And so he said, âYou canât do that thing, can you? You know that thing from movies when they â thatâs not real, is it?â âI can try.â And I remember everyone was standing around hoping I could do it, because if we could do it, we could solve the plot point problem. So theyâre all standing around staring at me, and I was like, âCommon yoga!â And I did it, and it was realistic enough to make that plot work, or else youâre like, âCommon, how did they get out of a kennel thatâs stupid.â But it really worked, and you can all try it at home, and you can do it â go yoga!
What about all the swimming none of it was in tanks?
Olivia Wilde: No tanks. We were in the most beautiful underwater caves in Bella it was all about pushing yourself farther than you ever imagined going. By the end, we all became pretty good free divers we had amazing doubles who were teaching us everything we knew. Mine was Megan Greer, who is the world champion free diver she is a Sports Illustrated model, she has a show on Discovery â sheâs an extraordinary woman, who can dive 185 feet in one breath. And rather than wanting to do all the stuff instead of me, she was encouraging me she said, âYou should try it, you can do this, Iâve seen you swim, I think you can do this.â And I would say, âThereâs no way in hell I am claustrophobic, and Iâm afraid of drowning.â And sheâd say, âYou can do it.â And sheâs the reason I did, and Iâm really happy and grateful, even though we ran into some sticky situations.
Did you have SCUBA guys standing by in case something wrong happened?
Olivia Wilde: Yeah, it was interesting because they felt so far away, and the nature of the film is that, how are they supposed to tell when youâre actually panicking. The situation I ran into was I literally started to have a panic attack, flailing my arms, and they thought I was acting because thatâs exactly what my character is supposed to be doing. You can see in the movie when I go for one air pocket, realize itâs not there, turn around â I can hardly watch at that point, it gives me shivers because thatâs when I thought it was over. I didnât think that the safety diver would be close enough, even though he was only 50 feet away and could swim really fast he told me afterwards he had no idea. He said, âWe were watching the monitor, and thought you were doing a great job.â And thatâs a testament to â ugh, I donât know Iâm just happy it happened at the end because it made for good movie watching.
Beau, youâre in Fantastic Four 2, who is Frankie Raye?
Beau Garrett: Frankie Raye is a military brat, who works under General Hager, who is played by Andre Braugher and they come in to collaborate with the Fantastic Four to help stop these occurrences that are keeping, or putting the world at stake. So sheâs a very thick skinned character who grew up in the military heâs kind of a father figure for her, and she has this love interest with Johnny Storm. Sheâs a cool character, sheâs human underneath all the exterior sheâs got a good side that really comes out in the film.
Do you get to kick some ass?
Beau Garrett: I do a little bit I get to hold a gun, which I thought was really exciting, which I havenât done yet.
Do you secretly have super powers?
Beau Garrett: The character does, in the comic, she does end up having super powers. I donât know what theyâre going to do with that in the film. In this, she doesnât but who knows what theyâre going to do with it.
Youâre also in Live.
Beau Garrett: Itâs loosely based, or based â Eva Mendes plays this network head, and she wants to create this reality show to bring in more audiences. And itâs pretty much having six or seven contestants on this reality show putting a gun to their head. One of the contestants has a bullet in their gun, and so itâs pretty eerie I play this Vanna White kind of character, which is so cool Itâs like having this ethereal âahhhhhâ â it was so neat. And to be a part of that, it was an indie film, and to be a part of that, to be on set, it was cool it was only about a week of work, but it was great.
It looks like a large ensemble cast.
Beau Garrett: It is. It was great it was cool to see them. To have a gun to your head and not know if youâre going to live or die, it was silent there was a lot of silent acting which was kind of cool to watch their thought process as the gun â what are they thinking. And they have a clip of who these people are, but good actors it was really cool to watch how it pans out.
Are you able to watch yourself on screen?
Olivia Wilde: Well, with this movie there was no make-up and hair, so it was a little difficult. But I find myself totally unrecognizable I donât recognize the person on screen, and I guess thatâs a good thing. But itâs a little odd for everybody, I guess.
Do you have a brother?
Olivia Wilde: I have a little brother, but Iâve always wanted a big brother and if I got one, Iâd hope heâs exactly like Josh because he â
Joshâs character or Josh, for real?
Olivia Wilde: Both, theyâre really similar Josh is a little more worldly, and a little less anal than his character. But that sweetness, and that brotherly nurturing is there in both the character and the real person, so Iâd love to have him. But he is my brother now he calls me âlittle sister.â I think weâve convinced a lot of people.
Olivia, whatâs up for you?
Olivia Wilde: I am shooting the Black Donnellys right now, which is an NBC show by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco. And itâs about the Irish mob in New York, and the community where the Irish mob existed, about this family thatâs struggling with taking over the neighborhood and itâs very, very different than Turistas. But itâs also fact-based, and loosely based on the life of Bobby Moresco, who grew up in Hellâs Kitchen so itâs great and interesting, and hopefully people will like it when it premieres in January.
So itâs finally coming out, because theyâve had to push it backâ¦
Olivia Wilde: No, they always wanted it to be a mid-season Greyâs Anatomy for those character-driven shows, itâs kind of easier to premiere because you have a little more space around you. But, we were originally going to take ERâs slot, and then ER started doing freakishly well so weâre not doing that anymore. But they have another good slot, and I hope people like it. And around that same time, Alpha Dog comes out that finally comes out.