Alex Garland on casting Jesse Plemons in Civil War: 'That wasn't a choice'

There was another actor who’s gonna do it. Oh, really? Yeah. So that was kind of tell me what happened. Well, he bailed just before we were about to start shooting. And then I I was, I was standing on the street and he called me and said, I’m really sorry I can’t do it. And I was obviously very polite and so of course I understand. But inside I was thinking, Oh my God, we’re completely screwed and hung up, having been very polite and understanding. And was walking into a rehearsal with the actors and I thought, oh, I’d better, I should tell them because they were expecting to work with this guy’s like, the right thing to do. Said, well want to ask Jesse and I said, Jake, you do it great. And I think I think he’d already read the script because she was going to do it. So I think to my memory it’s like she just called him, said do you think you could do this And 24 hours later it was Jesse. So it’s it’s not like a directorial. Here’s my great bit of casting idea But then so what’s it like to see how close they are as partners on the day of because that is a fearsome scene and. Just that, I just wonder what that was like to see them go from, you know? People who love each other to antagonists in front of your camera depends what their home life is like, isn’t it? I’ve got no idea. You know they were, they were, they were just being pros and doing their thing. I do remember on the day they kind of kept distance from each other like they didn’t, They weren’t really hanging out. In fact. Jesse, I seem to remember, was keeping his distance from everybody except the other soldiers that he was working with, which I which I can understand When you see the scene, that sort of makes sense.