 Hey Golden Bears, I'm Samantha Cox-Para for CalTV Entertainment here at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. We're at the Chase Sapphire press line for the film Yellow Birds. I would always be one of those guys who is like Meg Love, not war, but I think it's very important to make something that in no way glorifies war but shows a very true real depiction of what it's like over there. So maybe it gives a few of these kids a little afterthought before they go and sign up to know a little bit about what it is to be over there and also how you come back and you know your survival. Hi Alexander. Hello. So what drew you to Kevin Powers book Yellow Birds? It's an incredible book I was you know I can say that was really crying by page 10. It's heartbreaking and it's really like an aspect of the world that is often left out in recent movies which is like you know what what is exactly is the toll for those people those you know the junkie that are sent over there and it's really uncompromising. It's quite dark but quite moving. Hi Ty, so what did you do to prep for your role as Daniel Murphy? Well I mean I had a long time to think about this one because the script came to me like three or four years ago and then took so long to get the movie up on its feet so I just watched several war films and several documentaries and then we had we had a two week long boot camp while we when we got to Morocco and we had it was really it was pretty intense and you know we began to understand the mentality of a soldier and then we had a military consultant. His name was Captain Dale Dye and he was on set all the time. How did you want to portray PTSD throughout the film? What was your intention behind it? Well the film is a war mystery and PTSD was also like a great vehicle for us to tell a story in a non-linear way where really with memories and dreams and have like a much broader range as a filmmaker to to represent war through like non-linear classic story folding. Anyone who has anything to say against war that's one thing but you can never say anything against the troops and those guys who are actually over there fighting I think that's incredible and I you know give them the hats tipped every second.