Interview with Woody Harrelson and Rosamund Pike, cast member Now You See Me: Now You Don’t

The statements of Isla Fisher

Oh my gosh, this is so special. We're all so, um, all of us get on so well. I think the trick with an ensemble is just the chemistry and we're just really lucky that we all love being with each other.

I think she's just grown so much as a artist. She has a family now and I think she's just like ready like bring her almost maternal energy alongside her anarchic magic tricks. And it's always great to play an escapologist.

I mean, it's so much fun. Everybody here is like such a good friend now. We really play dumb games and we just like feel really blessed to have It's not a job. You can't call this a job.

Oh, because we have the most insane locations. We shot in Abu Dhabi, we shot in Budapest. We built a magic castle with a room that spins and a mirrored room and we have Houdini's straightjacket and whether you're a fan of magic or not, you'll be a fan of the twists in the movie. It's really special.

The statements of Jesse Eisenberg 

Oh, it's like the greatest thing in my life. I love these movies more than anything. I love the character I get to play. I love the cast. Like, to me, like there are a lot of jobs that feel like really like difficult work and this one is the treat. I always think this is what I get to do because I don't know, um, going to be hit by a bus soon thereafter or something. It's just so great.

So, you know, like, uh, most characters I play and in my real life, I'm kind of a miserable, you know, kind of person, and um, this is like I play this confident, arrogant magician and to step into these shoes quite literally is like the most, uh, happy I ever am. So, I love it. I wish I could do one of these movies every day.

It's very difficult to work with this cast because we are like laughing all the time because we enjoy each other so much. And the movies are like very complicated. Not only they complicated because like a big Hollywood movie and everything, but the magic is like so complicated. So, the director of this movie is Ruben Fleischer, a great director, and spent 90% of his day trying to herd us over onto the set.

Well, listen, we were what we were trying to do in this movie is to try to do magic practically, meaning like all the actors had to like learn these complicated tricks to do it for real. You know, but it's a spectacle. This movie is a great movie but it's also a magic trick. At the end of the movie, you realize everything you've been watching prior to that has been a magic trick. So, it's a great thing to experience in a crowd.

The statements of Rosamund Pike 

This is a a new adventure for me. You know, they it's I love the films, they are a kind of space of magic and enchantment and uh with a wonderful cast. Um, you know, it's fun seeing smart people do smart stuff. They're motivated by this wonderful idea that through magic and illusion you can bring down people in power, you know, who are doing bad stuff. 

And, and I'm afraid I am, I am playing one of those people. On this show, there are there's magic happening all the time. We've got magicians who are on set with us, teaching the cast, you know, drilling them on sleight of hand and card tricks, shuffling, throwing cards. And then, you know, someone like Dominic Sessa or someone like Jesse, you know, they've always got a deck of cards with them and they're always doing tricks. 

Actually, Woody's got a great trick too, did he show you? No, he didn't. Oh, yeah, he's got a great trick. You know, you've got people who've made these films before, they're coming back, they had a great time on the others. I think I think Jesse and Isla will tell you that, you know, more people approach them about these movies than any others. There's a, it, it can be wonderful to step into the shoes of a character you've played before.

The statements of Woody Harrelson 

Well, I think he's now reached a new depth of cynicism. He's always had a cynical nature, but uh, yeah, after some things went wrong. The best, I mean, I don't think there's any project I've done where I've laughed this much, like all day, every day.

Dom is really quite good. He he studied a lot with the with these magicians that are part of the film and uh, and he's gotten very good. I mean, you know, Fort Knox, maybe? You know, they think it's impenetrable, but there's got to be a way. Uh, this is a beautiful movie to watch and the illusions are such that you want to see it in that big uh format, you know? That's why I think it'd be good to watch it on the big screen.