 Hey, this is Ryan for So Is Any Good. We are on the red carpet for Hacksaw Ridge. Everyone's coming down the red carpet right now. Let's see who we can talk to. You're a part of so many iconic films. You've played so many iconic characters. What drew you to Hacksaw Ridge? I think Mel really because I actually didn't really... I was very tired and I have been working a lot and I wanted to have a break. And yeah, this came along and I said no, and then I finally read it and the characters really is a pretty traumatised, conflicted man. And then Mel was keen to do it and we had a chat and so it smelled good. What drew you to Hacksaw Ridge? What was the script like and why did you choose this film over anything else you got on your table? Well, I wasn't as much of a choice as I was me begging to do the movie. I'm not quite there yet. I was like, I read it. I was like, oh my gosh, this is the dream. I loved the story. I love the characters. Desmond Doss is man with unwavering principles and he's just so strong in his beliefs and I think that's a beautiful thing. And we need that right now. We really need it right now. So I connected to that and then, of course, Mel Gibson directing. I'm a huge fan of Apocalypse. My mom's entire world is passionate about Christ. It's her everything. Is that the Easter film? My mom watches it about once a week. She's literally so obsessed. She's all doled up tonight ready to meet Mel and tell him. Have you told him that? Have you had a session with him? I'm like, you've changed my mother's life. So what was it like auditioning for the film? What did you have to do? What was the grueling process of being a soldier? I read the script at the start of the year and called my agents and said I will play a tree in this. So just get me on the movie anyway. You have a face of a tree. I would have been anything in this film after reading this script and knowing that Mel's doing it. But I got to do a self-tape actually, which was kind of, it's a bit freeing and I was actually supposed to sit down with Mel in person, but I got extremely sick and so I had to kind of cancel that day. I gave myself to the last minute and I thought I'd lost the opportunity because I didn't sit down with him and then Mel called me two days later and we were on the phone for 45 minutes or an hour and at the end of it, we got along so well. What's this conversation about? That's what it was like? Yeah and about World War II. I've got a deep fascination with World War II in history so we just chatted about so many things and then at the end of the conversation he goes, alright I'll see you in Sydney. I went, I think I got the movie. What was it like auditioning for this movie? Like what was the audition process like? Weird process. It was a really weird process. I think we all read for the Greek Nolan's character who played by Ben Mingo in the end and we all did one audition and then I still have the page in my hand. I was still reading off the page and then I was thinking there was going to be some sort of callback thing and I just got a phone call going oh you've got a callback for Hacksaw Ridge and it had been so long I was like which one's Hacksaw Ridge? And then my agent Tracy said oh no you've got a meeting with Mel Gibson tomorrow is that what? You go back for a callback it's like oh you know okay what do I need to learn, what do I need to prepare and they're like no no no don't read the script don't do anything just rock up and have a chat. I spoke to him about farming for like 20 minutes. I was like are you gonna audition me? That's ridiculous because I actually had to go to his house in Malibu. He made me do Chekhov, Moliere and two Shakespeare sonnets and I had to go back there four times and do that.