YOU KNOW FROM BALL ARES, BLACK KLANSMAN AND THE NUMBER ONE

MOVIE IN THE WORLD TENET, PLEASE WELCOME THE TALENTED MR. JOHN

DAVID WASHINGTON IS HERE ON THE SHOW, THERE IS HE, HOW ARE YOU,

JOHN, ARE YOU GOOD?

>> I'M REALLY GOOD, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, THANK YOU, THANK

YOU.

>> James: CONGRATS ON EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN

YOUR LIFE SINCE YOU WERE LAST ON THE SHOW.

I FEEL LIKE IT HAS JUST BEEN GROWING AND GROWING, IT IS

INCREDIBLE.

OBVIOUSLY NOW LOCKDOWN HAPPENED.

AND YOU SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF LOCKDOWN LIVING BACK IN YOUR

PARENTSES, RIGHT, YOU WENT BACK HOME?

>> AFFIRMATIVE, YES.

I WAS BACK HOME LIVING IN MY OLD ROOM, ACTUALLY, JAMES.

IT WAS QUITE AN EXPERIENCE BEING BACK HOME LIVING IN THAT ROOM.

>> James: WHETHER WAS IT LIKE STAYING BACK IN YOUR OLD

BEDROOM?

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SLEPT IN IT.

>> IT'S BEEN, I MEAN, A LONG TIME.

ON HOLIDAYS WHEN I GO SEE THEMK I WILL GET BACK AND FORTH IN

THERE, BUT THIS WAS DEFINITELY THE LONGEST SINCE I LEFT HOME

FOR COLLEGE.

BUT IT WAS NICE.

I GOT ALL MY OLD ACTING THINGS ARE THERE, POSTERS AND MOST

PRIZED POSSESSION.

MY-- JORDANS-- SIGNED BY MICHAEL JORDAN.

>> James: WHEN DID YOU GET JORDANS SIGNED BY JORDAN.

>> I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

I THINK IT WAS 97Y.

I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.

WE BEAT OUR ARCHRIVALS.

AND HARVARD WEST LAKE, MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM AND THEN

I GET TO GO TO A LAKERS GAME THE NIGHT AFTER, I THINK IT WAS THE

NIGHT AFTER, SAME NIGHT, SAME DAY.

AND I WAS WEARING THE JORDANS WE BEAT THE SCHOOL IN, TO THE GAME

AFTERWARDS, MY DAD TOOK ME DOWN AFTER THE GAME.

AND WE GOT JORDAN TO SIGN MY SHOES WHILE I WAS WEARING

THEMMENT AND I NEVER WORE THEM SINCE, I RETIRED THEM OBVIOUSLY,

BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID I WIN THE GAME, I GOT THEM SIGNED BY

JORDAN SO LIKE ICE CUBE SAID TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY, THAT-- .

>> James: I HAVE ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN MORE JEALOUS OF YOU.

>> WELL PLEASE, CARRY ON WITH YOUR JEL OSY BECAUSE IT WAS A

GREAT DAY, ONE OF THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.

AND THEY ARE STILL THERE IN THE ROOM.

>> James: STILL GOT TO SEE THEM.

>> YEAH.

>> James: NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR NEW MOVIE TENET, IT'S THE

BIGGEST MOVIE TO BE RELEASED IN THEATERS SINCE THE PANDEMIC

STARTED, NUMBER ONE ALL OVER THE WORLD.

NOW IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A STUPID THING TO ASK YOU, BECAUSE I KNOW

THAT ALMOST NOTHING YOU CAN SAY, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE

MOVIE?

>> WELL, JAMES T IS A GLOBE-TROTTING SPY THRILLER THAT

DIFFERENT GEN RES, SPY TRILLER, ACTION PACKED, GOT THE BOURNE

ELEMENT, REALLY IT IS ALL NOLANNIZED.

A NOLAN GENRE, IT IS SO INNOVATIVE.

IT IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND MNT TO BE SEEN

IN THE THEATERS,IX MAX IF YOU CAN.

SOMETHING LIKE WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

>> James: IN THE MOVIE YOU ARE SORT OF A CROSS BETWEEN LIKE

JASON BOURNE, JAMES BOND, SORT OF FIGURE WHICH MADE ME REALLY

EXCITED FOR THE DAY WHICH I THINK WILL COME WHEN CLIS TOFER

NOLAN DIRECTS A BOND MOVIE.

BUT WHAT WERE THE MOST CHALLENGING ASPECTS OF SHOOTING

THIS FILM.

>> IT WAS THE MONTHS PRIOR TO PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

WE HAD A PERIOD OF TRAINING, TWO A DAY, SOMETIMES THREE A DAY

TRAININGS AND LEARNING THE RULES OF INVERSION WHICH OUR MOVIE

DEALS WITH.

AND SENSE OF MOVEMENT SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, HAD TO LEARN HOW

TO WALK, FIGHT, BLOCK, ROLL, JUMP, BACKWARDS AND RIGHT WITH

WAS LEFT, LEFT WAS RIGHT, DOWN WAS UP.

SO HAVING TO LEARN THAT AND HAVING AN ATHLETIC BACKGROUND, I

FELT CONFIDENTOTHAT I COULD HANDLE IT.

BUT SOME OF THE FIGHTING MOVEMENTS, TECHNIQUES WE WERE

LEARNING HAVE NEVER BEEN DONE IN SIN HE MA SO WE WERE MAKE

D-- CINEMA SO WE WERE MAKING HISTORY IN A LOT OF WAYS.

>> I ARE SAY-- SAY YOU ARE WEARING THE CHIC TYPE SUIT, YOU

LOOK LIKE WERE YOU IN THE SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE, ALL OF YOUR COSTUMES ARE SO CHUK AND SO

TAILORED, IS IT HARD TO STAY IN SHAPE WHEN YOU ARE WEARING THOSE

SHEUTS ALL THE TIME.

>> I WAS IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE, UNFORTUNATELY THERES WITH

A TIME IN ESTONIA, I WAS ON A STRICT DIET, DIETARY

RESTRICTIONS AND WITH THE FOODS I WAS EATING.

I WAS GOING CRAZY AND I NEEDED MY SNACKS.

SO THERE WAS A TIME IN ESTONIA WHERE I FOUND PAPRIKA FLAVORED

PRINGLES, SO I HAD TO DO IT, AND I STACKED THEM NEWSPAPER MY

BACKPACK AND I GET ON THE ELSEWHERE I WAS STAYING AND LOW

AND BEHOLD THERE IS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, HE CAUGHT ME WITH ALL OF

THESE PRINGLES IN MY BAG.

IT WAS VERY EMBARRASSING.

HE STARTED LAUGHING, GAVE ME A HARD TIME THE ENTIRE SHOOT.

>> HE DIDN'T REMOVE THE PRINGLES FROM YOU.

>> NO, HE DID NOT.

HE DID NOT.

CUZ I TOLD HIM, PAPRIKA, WHERE ARE YOU EVER GOING TO SEE

FLAVORED PRINGLES LIKE THIS.

>> SO MUCH HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT TENET BEING THE FIRST MOVIE BACK

IN THEATERS AND LIKE YOU SAY, IT REALLY IS THE BEST WAY TO

EXPERIENCE THE FILM.

CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST MOVIE THAT YOU SAW IN EYE THEATER THAT

HAD AN IMPACT ON YOU?

>> OH YEAH, I MEAN HUGE IMPACT WAS THE FIRST-- THAT WAS EPIC.

THAT WAS AN EVENT FOR ME.

AND I REMEMBER CUZ WE WERE AT A PREMIER.

AND SO AFTERWARDS WHEN WE WALKED OUT OF THE THEATER I REMEMBER

SEEING THE NINJA TURTLESK THEY MADE IT TO THE PREMIER.

THEY HAD THEIR COSTUMES ON AND EVERYTHING, AND THEIR WEAPONS,

SO I WANTED TO ASK THEM, SO MANY QUESTIONS LIKE A CHRISTOPHER

NOLAN FILM.

I WANTED TO ASK DONE TELLO, WHY DID YOU ORDER AN CHOFIES ON YOUR

PIZZ BLANCA HI ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THEY ORDER

PIZZA.

AND I REMEMBER DONEOTELLO WAS LIKE.

>> THAT WAS, I WASN'T EVEN LETDOWN, YOU DIDN'T EVEN FEEL

BAD ABOUT IT BECAUSE AT LEAST I GOT TO TALK A PICTURE WITH

DONNATELLO, LOOK AT THAT, FROM THE NINJA TURTLES, THE NUMBER

ONE MOVIE IN THE WORLD, CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN.

I'M SO THRILLED WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN YOUR

CAREER.