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Starship Troopers Cast Reunion Panel | Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Michael Ironside (SpaceCon 2025)
Oct 31, 2025
Recorded live at SpaceCon San Antonio on October 25, 2025. The cast of Starship Troopers — Casper Van Dien (Johnny Rico), Dina Meyer (Dizzy Flores), and Michael Ironside (Jean Rasczak) — sit down for a raw, funny, and sometimes brutal Q&A about making Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi cult classic.
They talk about shooting Starship Troopers in the late ’90s thinking it was going to be huge in the U.S., only to watch critics miss the satire at first. Now, nearly 30 years later, fans pack conventions, quote the movie, and bring new people to it. The cast leans right into that love.
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Catherine Vine, Dina, and Michael Ironside.
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Well, welcome. Welcome to the great state of Texas. How does it feel to be here? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for
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being here. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Good to see you, Sean. Always good. I call you buddy now. Good friend now. We've had
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some great conversations. I appreciate all that. It's always good seeing familiar faces from online to offline.
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There you go. There you go. Um I do have a confession. I told you this before, uh
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Casper, that I was just 8 years old the first time I watched uh Starship Troopers. very awkward 8-year-old to
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watch that. But uh I had this British friend, his parents were from England and uh just rented a movie for us not
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knowing what it was. Went over for a sleepover and uh
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yeah swamp if you're getting uh there's the wind right here that's coming through. It's quite breezy. It is.
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We got to battle the heat that's outside. That's for sure. If you need another jacket, I'm happy to
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be mine. Look frosty in here. really stay frosty.
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Guess what? But you know, watching that movie was kind of shocking to me because uh I
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became a man the next day. Apparently I woke up a man after Sergeant Troopers. Uh what a lot that is for sure. Uh but
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when you look back now, did any of you realize making some you know making this would be associating fandoms and film
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conversations nearly three decades later? I I think we all thought it was going to
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be a lot bigger than it was at the time. I think we were I think we were surprised that it wasn't
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that that it went over people's heads, some people's heads at the time. I think we thought it was going to be a huge success when we were making it. We
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didn't think it was going to be a huge everywhere else in the world. That was not that.
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Yeah. And and when we got to see it at at Sony before the the premiere, we were just she and I were sitting next to each
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other and we're like, "Oh my god, this is amazing." We were just we were blown away. But a lot of films later on will
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find some amazing success to this day, but even maybe it was a hit back then. It may not have been talked about. Now, three decades later, probably the
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opposite might have happened. So, how does that feel that it's now continue on? It's been Well, it obviously feels fantastic.
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the fact that it's lasted 28 years and another generation is enjoying it as much as we thought that the original
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generation was going to be enjoying it. Um, but yeah, it's it's wonderful that that it's uh that it's withtood the test
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of time for sure. When y'all first were approached to to or got the script, um,
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I'm sure not to audition, but I'm sure Michael, you were just offering the role directly, right? No audition either.
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Do me a favor. Take your mics a little farther away from the microphone. Okay. That way I can hear you.
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Cuz it's sounding just like this. There you go.
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What did you ask me? I'm sure you didn't have to audition for this role. You just you're just Paul. I knew Paul from um from doing to
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recall and uh I was actually concerned. Yeah, Paul's a great director. Um I was
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actually concerned because the book was this huge right-wing manifesto and
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knowing that Paul was um a survivor of the Second World War. Paul as a kid, for
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fun, used to find 88 shells, like Panzer 88 shells in fields, and as kids, they
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put their foot on it, hit this shell with a hammer, fire them off. This is the kind of thing he did for fun as a
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kid being raised in the Netherlands and stuff. I was concerned cuz he said to me, yeah, he said, I'm going to go make
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this film. What do you don't trust me? I said, no, I want to know what you're doing with it, you know, and slightly
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fascist. And he said, "I'm going to make a perfect world where everyone's beautiful,
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you know, if you've seen the shower scene, I know what you
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and everything's gorgeous," he said. Then all the all the architecture is good. He says, "But it's only good for
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killing bes." And I said, "All right, I'm in."
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think about like the audition process for this and when you first got the script, you know, what was the some words that really
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you were drawn to immediately when you got it? Well, the the script, I mean, I was already a Paul Provin and and and my
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fan. I was a fan of theirs. So, when when I got the chance to read the script, I was like, "Oh my god, this is
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this is brilliant." I just I loved I thought it was funny and and amazing. And I I went in and I auditioned and I
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got to see Ed Newman, the writer at first and then Paul came out and he kicked the soccer ball at me and I
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kicked it back and forth and all these other people were sitting there and then uh after he got me kick it harder, kick
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it harder. Just kick it. And I kicked this ball back and forth to him and then all of a sudden he goes to the audition and we go in and at this point in time
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I'm feeling bad for all the other actors that were sitting out there um because he only kicked the ball to me. Um, but
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then I I had an audition and uh you were already cast at the time and uh and
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then I had to test for it because they had a test thing and it was, you know, Paul had in his contract to do a a
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couple of screen tests for it and he did me and Denise Richards but nobody else. So I I was really screen testing against
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myself. In other words, cuz I asked him, I go, "Who who's the other who's the other person?" Call that a chemistry
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test. Yeah, chemistry test. Want to see your chemistry. They want to see the chemistry chemistry that we really wanted to see. Right.
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But it was awesome. I loved it and I was grateful to be a part of it and uh a huge fan of theirs and just in awe of
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the whole process. It was amazing. And uh and here's a here's a fun fact for the chemistry. Um it when I first
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got the when I first got the material um and the audition, they wanted me to read the part of Carmen originally and when I
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was reading the script and the backstory, I just kept finding myself gravitating more to the role of Dizzy.
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Like just I I could envision my my my mouth making Dizzy words.
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I think we were all I think we were all gravitating towards Dizzy. Well,
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we all have room to chase. So, I had asked, would it be okay if I auditioned
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for Dizzy instead? I just I just found myself, you know, just more more dizzy. I was more dizzy than Harmon. And uh so
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when I went into Paul, I asked and he was like, "Yeah, okay. Okay, sure. You want?" And that was it. And the rest is
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history. My wife getting it. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it was uh I thought it was a better for me.
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Dino, what was it like commanding so much presence in a male-dominated sci-fi environment to just kicking butt against
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everybody? What was it like? It was freaking awesome. It was great. That was that was one of the reasons why I gravitated
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toward the ball so much cuz I just felt like as a woman she would be so much more fun to play cuz she's like, you
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know, she can hang with the fellas, she can go and have a beer, she can go get a tattoo, she can fight with them, she
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can, you know, uh she was the captain of the jump ball team in 20 minutes.
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And 20 minutes, you know, with this guy, we can do it.
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We gave We gave We gave some change. We gave some change. It wasn't like playing.
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Come on. Yeah. So, um, yeah, that was one of the reasons why I love the part so much
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because, you know, I mean, you you can be the a beautiful girl. It's kind of I
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don't know. I just thought they had so much substance and she was so um complex. Uh, and there was so much to
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her that I enjoyed. And I love that I was able to keep up with the fellas and, you know, beat their ass at boot camp a
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little bit and, you know, just it was great. And I and I like what she does, which I'm like, I know she dies, but
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we're rooting for her the whole time. And I just I just love that.
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Was there a boot camp training you'll have to go through? Yes. And how was that? How big was that? And
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how long did that last? It was It was a few months. I mean, we started when we got cast. But I mean, there was the intensive training about
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two weeks before we started filming in uh Casper, Wyoming with Captain Dale Guy, who's like an ex-marine who makes
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all of these Hollywood pansies, you know, seem really tough and strong. And he turned us into the soldiers that
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rat host. What?
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I'm not in the shower seat. I I tried.
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You don't want to be in that scene? Paul said no. A little weird.
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You don't feel like showing your dad because I know that I would know what
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that's like because obviously that would be weird, but I would imagine it would
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be something weird, right?
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Umer
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Palmer Hovin has been uh famous for it's famous for being fearless. Uh which say on set did he challenge you the most
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outside of probably that shower scene? It's an everyday thing with Paul Vovven. He shows up first on set and last off
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and he's got more energy and he's just very loud and and he really has a lot of
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he puts everything to it. Yes, the most passionate director and he's just brilliant. You you you you can see it in
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everything that he does and he's always thinking about something. So, he's challenging you every day to be bigger and better than than anything you
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thought you could do. And even sometimes if you question him, he's like, "Just do it. This is the way. This is going to be great." Like, "Yes, sir."
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Michael Michael's had a a a longer relationship with him and and uh you know we'd also look at him and how he
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would react with Paul too for kind of a way a little guidance guidance show us the way master
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you want to know we want to know all the things you know they all you talk both you talk
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about Paul like he's a mad man you know I've done quite a few I've done I've done quite a few films I
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to me a def I've said this before a definition of an artist is somebody who gets a concept for something they put it
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through a medium and in the audience's mind with the least amount of distortion and Paul's an artist there's nothing
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that ends up on that screen that doesn't get his stamp of approval he knows exactly what he wants a lot of that
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energy that you know both you guys know that that comes as him trying to elicit
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and try and support more energy from the actors and Uh he's a very calm, very
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very intellectual, very very precise director. Uh he's one of maybe five artists that I've worked with as
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director. I won't name the others because the ones I don't name will get pissed off, but uh there's a few hacks
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out there, you know, but uh Paul's not one of them. Paul's an amazing guy. Um,
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you got to remember when he did this, he meant it as a satire, you know, and it took a long time and
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finally I think the political climate in America now is at a place where I can see the satire and what he was doing and
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stuff like that. Highland, the original writer, actually was a crossdresser. He liked to write in in in u in gowns and
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dresses and stuff. He was AC/DC as far as sexuality goes and he was like a little bit right of conscious con when
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it came to politics, you know, and u Paul being raised in post-war Europe had
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a very specific attitude towards that sort of politics and I don't think I'm speaking for Paul, but uh I think he did
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a fabulous job. There's rumors of them doing this over again. They want to do it because of political climate. They
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want to do it. The statement is they want to do Starship Gibberish per per the book, pre the book, you know, and
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and I my attitude is why why make a [ __ ] film about it? She calls then read the book, you know, it's there.
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Anyway, I'm Canadian [ __ ]
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Uh the designs on the film are amazing from from the uniforms to the gear. How was it, you know, first day wearing your
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uniform and playing around with the gear and that helped kind of embody your character more once you got suited up? I
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mean, the uniforms were incredible to look at. Not very comfortable and not
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always the most efficient. They were fashionable. They weren't functional. Yeah. I mean, the first time I tried the
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uniform on cuz they had a test for it. They had me do some bends and stretches and I and I I went I just they go down
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just do a couple movements and I I went like this and pants rip right over the middle. Yeah, luckily I was wearing underwear.
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Oh, but I was like they're like, "Well, that's not going to work." Yeah. They didn't have they didn't have any lycra. There was no stretch at all.
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And they were they were like lined with nylon that didn't breathe. They were made of kevlar. Yeah.
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You know, and they didn't breathe. At the end of the day, the wardrobe people would literally tilt them up and pour
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sweat out of them. Not mine. Mine were fine. Yours? She doesn't sweat. Okay.
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I ate them up. She's a lady. We had we had close to what 300 extras and they
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didn't 1400 extra. They had they just they justed them
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all. So they had they had to disinfect some of the uniform.
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Well, yours after you did what? What did I miss you or something?
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Bite my ass through this whole goddamn town. Yeah, you I never [ __ ] dizzy. They
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want to say I'm trying to break. All right. So, I wanted to be in the shower seat.
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No. Tell them about the time when we pulled you out of the pit with no legs.
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It's the we got most of your ass. What happened to my ass? What? Oh, there's actually we were shooting
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that pit scene where my character dies. Um, and it was what 105°. It was like
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high noon and Paul had a for Mike a bit he wanted the sun to reflect so I
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actually were in a bit of a concave lens so that you know and uh I had he I don't
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remember shooting this scene um it's true I'm in a I was in a kind of a half
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costume with a you know a half costume with these um
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You want to tell the story? No. I was hoping you were hoping with these mutilated legs and stuff like
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that and I'm buried in it and uh Dizzy and and and the trooper there was trying to pull me
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out and uh I couldn't remember the lines. I actually turned to Casper. Casper, I
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don't remember a damn thing, but Captain said I turned to him and asked for my line. Yeah, Michael knew everybody's line in
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the script. I just want you to know this. He's a very I have dyslexia so I learned everyone's dialogue and I I have dyslexia, too. So, it's
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interesting. But he does know everybody's lying. He's he's a professional. And the first time in my life, he turned to me and looked while
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he's in this getting overheated. And he looks and he goes, "Casper." And I goes,
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"I don't I don't know what I say." And I say, "You know what to do, Rico." And he goes, "You know what to do, Rico." And I
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do that scene and I shoot him. And then then I go, "We we got to we got to take him. We got to take him. He's he's not
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here." Yeah. I got heat prostrated. I passed out. I went to the hospital. Um, if you ever get, they call it sunstroke.
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Every orifice in your body opens up if you ever get that. So, they had to steam
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clean my outfit that night. Dizzy actually got hurt right after that. Uh,
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Dina, um, you also got heat prospect. Yeah. No, it wasn't the heat. It was like because it was such an awkward
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setup in the in the pit in the vermiculite, we didn't really have we couldn't get our footing properly. We
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were, you know, trying to pull Michael out and we were we were below the the
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set. So when we when I yanked him out like with the the force, I wound up like smacking my head on the on the uh on the
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set on the floor. Yeah. But we were in the hole. So it was like So Michael they
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took him to the hospital. They put the dummy Michael in with the no legs and we literally pull out and as we're pulling
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out she she smacked her head so hard she knocked herself out. She has a knockout, but then she knocked herself out. So
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then there was one. So there was the two of them and then there was one. Then there was me left and they're like,
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"What do we do now?" And I'm like, "Whatever you want. I I have no idea, but it's not looking good."
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It was it was a physically uh draining and grueling shoot for sure. I mean, Casper when we were shooting Londo and
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he got his when he got pinsed by the, you know, in the leg, he he had like a flu or was like throwing up between
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tapes like literally bring they were bringing him a bucket cuz he was like, "Right." All night long I threw him into a
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bucket. They go, "Okay, you ready?" Yeah. Yeah.
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The bucket ready. Can you do another one? Yes, sir. So, I did it until the sun was rising
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and then Paul goes, "Can you do one more?" And I go, "Yeah, yes, sir, sir." And I threw up again and he goes, "Take
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him to the hospital." I ended up on They put me on an IV
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overnight and uh and then unplugged me in the morning. We went back to work. It was It was one of those shoots.
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It was You were troopers.
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I see what you did. I got a million. I got a couple.
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Um, there's a lot of goo, a lot of bugs. What was the weirdest luge?
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That's just offset. What was the weirdest thing you had to act against? You know, cuz there's a lot
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of things you don't see. What's what you're you're acting against. So, what they put in place of some of the bugs?
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We were the mobile infantry. We didn't get anything. The fleet, they got blue screens and green screens, but we got we got Paul and you know tennis balls
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and sticks. Tennis ball and stick. And then and then they move them out. They go now. Hey, over there. Shoot.
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Get closer. Get closer. The film actually holds a record for the most money spent on ammunition to this
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day. I think we spent close to a million four just on ammunition on that film. We
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Yeah. Rocky came to us. He was He's also a marine. He was our weapons guy. He came to me. He goes, "Casper, Casper,
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Casper. We're in two months and one week to this movie. He goes, "We just broke the
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world's record for the most ammunition used fired on a on a film." And we went
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for 6 and a half months straight. And then two weeks is pickup shots. But we broke it at 2 months. In one week, we
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got the record. We still did this book, the records for the most amount of So we had 30 actors firing, 30 stunt guys
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firing, and then we had the rock on the on the big on the big guns just go. He
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had melt. He was like, "We were melting that." He We had to tell Paul we couldn't shoot because they were just going so hard on those uh on the big
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gun, the turrets that they were uh I don't know any of you are Marines or
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weapons guys out there, but they were just firing them so long and so hard that they were they were melting them.
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Yeah, there was they were M16s got down with a future stock put on them and Paul wanted a big flame out of the front. So,
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they were overloads. They were overload shells and stuff like that. And some some of us got burned, you know, because
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we get in a line of fire and the flame would come out and stuff like that. But uh
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it was coming out like what? Like coming like a foot on the side and like two feet in the front. It was coming out of the sides and
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everything. Apollo just loved it. Yeah. Get closer. Get closer. And you were sure that you were getting We had to line up staggered so we
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wouldn't get burned and stuff like that. Got shot. Yeah.
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So I won't I won't point out who shot me in the face, but
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shot right in the face. What a woman to get shot in the face by I got two days off because I was all
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blistered. The shel the argument was I may have
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been off my mark. Well, that's what the bedroom of 340
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films was off my mark. I'm not pointing the finger or anything.
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I didn't remember it. No, no, it was like it was absolutely kind of controlled havoc a lot of times on
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scene. Um Paul would start a scene right after we unloaded about three clips and
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everyone basically deaf after you know you fight you fire 50 rounds you know 50 calibers
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right beside your head and Paul go we do an arc tape okay and people couldn't
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hear the direction so there was a lot of misdirection and stuff well not only that we had we did have ear protection in also so like we
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couldn't really hear anybody not all the time sometimes they would go and you lock you lost and then these
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helmets would just like it would echo and reverberate in there and you wouldn't have your ear protection in and I am part deaf now because of that I
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have a hard time hearing and also usually it's the women's voices that are harder to hear and that's um
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my wife goes nice nice selective hearing what what I didn't hear you from Starship
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then you'd be doing a take and Jake Fusy in the middle would run out of ammunition you go I'm out of ammunition
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and walk off camera so we have to shoot the goddamn think again. Jake, act when
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you run out of ammunition. Act not here so we can [ __ ] on
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the He's a He's a nice guy. He's a real professional.
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I care for everybody. Everybody needs a friend like him. Um he
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just asked who the troublemaker was. And you know, the funny thing about that is Troublemaker was Paul Brovin. So he's
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also the incredible guy, but he's also like, but I think he's just doing that to get, you know, you to be full energy
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and and and really into it and get exactly what he wants. So he would do whatever it took to do that. He was one
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of the loudest directors I've ever worked with, but he also was one of the most professional and most, you know, you could just watch him just see he's
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always thinking of something, scheming something. So I think you know troublemaker but also just because he
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was trying to get the best film possible but not really troublemaker I guess but just in some ways I think I'll tell you
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something stir things up something called at one point where I think it was shooting in Utah somewhere
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where was the board was that Utah Casper that was in Wyoming that was in Hills
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Casper Casper say it again Casper Casper Casper Casper Will Hotel, Casper
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Planetarium, Casper Spanium Liquor, what and the two and the two studios that
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were they the film was fairly expensive at that time. So they split the cost between two studios and they flew all
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the executives up in one big exe two executive jets, right? And they all came on set. Now Paul's not somebody you do
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that too. So Paul's they came to Paul and said all the Disney and the I think it's Columbia
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Disney and Southern Columbia. Yeah. Yeah. Columbus Sony were coming up and Paul went, "Oh yeah," he said, "You all
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take a break." And he took all the body parts and laid them all around the fort. And when they showed up with all their
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chairs and like that for 2 hours, all he did was shoot body parts at blood
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and one of the execs came up to him and said like, "Um, why are you doing that?"
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He said, "Why are you here?" and they quickly got back on the aircraft and left. And that's the kind
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of person Paul was. I mean, he's very much in charge of what he's doing. He knows what he wants. And at one point,
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some guy said to me, "Well, that's an awful lot of blood." And I said, "What?" And to one of the executives substanding
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by the ramp, I said, "Mention that to Paul." And the guy went over and said, "Why is
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there so much blood?" And Paul said, "What the [ __ ] do you know about war?"
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And the guy And the guy turned around and literally turned redfaced and walked away.
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Paul, if you ever see this, I don't know if I was supposed to say that in public. Don't hold it against me.
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I'm a minor executive at Disney. I don't think he counted.
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Uh, did y'all take anything home instead? Any of you like your your helmets or maybe some ammunition, shells, just a keepsake or anything? Or
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they just tricked off? They didn't they really didn't want you to take it. I mean, well, they told me I could. First of all, let me just preface
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it with I died halfway into the film or like 3/4 or whatever. So, they were
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still shooting an extra month after. So when shooting was done, people might have been able to take more things, but
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since I it was they still had like five or 6 weeks left of shooting after I was gone, I was only like I was able to take
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my my sweats from days of training, my dog tags, my chair back. I mean, I think
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Denise got her whole chair. Did you get your whole chair? I I took my whole chair. Whole chair. Was done.
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Jade tells us that he just walked off set in his whole uniform with everything and just got his truck and left. And I
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was like, man, that's that's smart. Yeah. Well, he was able to sell it recently. Someone just told me they
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bought that uniform. Wow. Just sold. That's really smart.
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Seriously, I met somebody and he was like, "Oh, yeah. I just bought Jake over." I I had people come up and go, "Hey,
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this is your uniform." And I'm like, "Well, I had seven of those. Seven of the bloody ones. Seven of the semi-
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bloody ones." You know, we have different I saw like Jake was on Instagram selling it. Yeah. So, I was
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like, I saw it. It's I think it's real. I think it's I think it's all right. Who bought it? Who bought it?
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Who's wearing it now? With such a uh, you know, young cast.
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What are you all doing? You all spend time together between scenes or after shooting? What are we all doing? Is
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there like a true friendship growing now or that friendship come later on in life? I think we have friendships then and
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now. And I think we've just grown even close together. We spend so much time together now. Um, and and it's so sweet
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because, you know, I I just lost my father and uh and I got messages Dina
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called me, you know, to tell me that. He was so sweet and and Denise messaged me
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and then Michael just g me a big hug and and they've been such we've all been such a family for such a long time. Uh
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it's just you know it's wonderful to have that and we have that only because of how much you guys love the movie
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because Michael's done I don't know how many films and been how many projects and Dean has been in so many and I've
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been in so many over 200 you know we got all these projects we've been in and this is the main one that I do these things for uh that that I think we do
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these ones. There's other ones too but this is the the main one for me and it's just uh it's it's a nice family thing.
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It just feels like it keeps growing. Yeah. Because we both cuz we've just we it feels like we kind of grew up together, you know. We were we were so
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young where we Yeah. This is our dad.
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You're still young, Michael. You're still young. Michael had like a hundred films under his belt before we even worked with him.
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Now he's got like 600 because he's a Say it. Tell him what you are.
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You're a [ __ ] It doesn't mean I'm bad and fit
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very good. Just because you get money, you can give a good lady.
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And I do get to say no to the really ugly ones. I'm talking about scripts.
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Married 42 years. Karen, are you here?
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I never just saw her leaving. You might be in trouble. Can we talk about how great Michael is?
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Every role he's in is fantastic.
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I want you all to talk about like what does Michael bring to a film that you're a part of cuz like he brings so much experience and just his his presence,
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you know, all is amazing in everything and anything. What does it mean to have someone like him part of a film like that or any film that he's a part of is
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amazing? I agree. you you know Michael in in Starship Troopers
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he would go he go Casper come here and he would give me advice um and he would
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just give me his words of wisdom you can look at somebody like that and you see the kind of career that they've had and
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and the amount of amazing things they've done it's always impressive but also you can see his professionalism on his head
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and uh and the way he is so it's a way you know especially when he takes he takes it serious and he he really wants
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to make the project better all the time so That is that's why you want to be around other actors, people who are
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professional because you want to you want the whole project to be incredible. You want to keep making it better. And
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when everybody's doing that that collective creativeness is you it's infectious. And uh and he's just got
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that presence, you know, you all see it when you watch it film. You see his presence and you know he's like Rico,
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you know what to do. He was like even when he couldn't remember what was my line, as soon as I said to him cuz even
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though he was out of it, he wasn't there. He still went right into it and he goes, "Rico, you know what to do."
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Right after I said that, I said, she said, "Rico, you know what to do." He did it. And the best line, Casper, my
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ass is starting to flare. We might have another incident where we have to take him to the hospital and
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clean out his whole uniform. Talked previously about continuing, you
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know, Rico's legacy and video game format in other ways. pleased me to have Rico still around and and having that
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that fun stuff out there for people to keep playing that that VR game was awesome and I was fun to play. The VR
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game was cool and the uh the 16 person shooter is great. It's always fun to see that. You know, when I saw Starship, I
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thought I was gaming a lot back then. I thought it would be a great video game. They're like, "No, we make movies, not video games." And then Halo came out and
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I was like, "Hey." And then, you know, here's where I'm like, "Hey, these are all like Star Tubers." And then there's all these games that are like it. And
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then when they finally started making them like they are now like the one search of Jewish extermination and and and that uh continuum there it's so much
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hell division extermination is troopers and it's just fun and it's fun to kill bugs with uh
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all you guys. So anybody wants to come play I I play online all the time on my
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I'm crazy though. I love it. You're a pro at it. I don't know if I'm a pro, but I I kill bugs real good.
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Does the audience get to ask questions? Does the audience get to ask? Does the audience get to ask questions?
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You want to go through and pick some? I'm not picking some. You want to go through? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These are the audience questions.
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We're reading them. You want to pick some? They want Oh, they're not asking. These are
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Well, you can ask them. Okay. All right. Yeah. My glasses.
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Oh, here's a fun one. I'm going to kind of tweak a little bit from Rachel. Would you be interested in doing or seeing a
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Starship Troopers musical? Yes. Yes.
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I mean, how's it not been done already? Let's
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dance.
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I know. Don't be a smarty. Help us kill a little bug. Nah. Who the [ __ ] wants to see a music?
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We have a question for you, Michael from Katrina asking, "Do you prefer to play a good guy or the villain?"
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I prefer a good script.
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And this one's from Laura. Uh, she says, "This movie seems like it was a blast to film. Any funny behind the scenes
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stories with the cast you can share that you haven't maybe shared previously?" We shared them all.
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We shared them all. Did the the pooping himself and uh knocking herself out. That was the funniest day.
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Talk about the show seeing penis. Oh, the shower.
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There's another question about that scene if someone wants to follow along. The fake pen is the fake one. Not the real ones.
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The real ones weren't quite as funny as the fake ones. Now you have to tell the story.
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You're welcome. Jake's not here. Yeah, don't [ __ ] on Jake.
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But Jake Jake comes into my trailer where we're supposed to shoot this 14-hour day in the shower. Um,
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and he goes, "Casper." And we're both like, I'm like, "What, dude?" I'm like, "Naked getting my towel
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on to go in there." And I'm like, "What?" He's like, "Put this on." And he handed me um a strap on,
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a huge like past your knee strap on.
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And I'm like, "All right."
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And then Dina proceeded.
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Dina proceeded. They pulled her home and came in. We're going to shoot in the shower. We're all like a little nervous. We're all like, you know, we can all be
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naked together. I've never seen any of them naked. And I didn't want to see any of these dudes naked personally.
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And you know, and tears there. I hadn't seen her naked. And um seen anybody.
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Yeah, we had seen it. How did Paul react? Paul goes, "You guys are so nervous. Why are you so shy? Are
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you a new man? What's the big deal? You're rude. Rude." And she goes, "Oh,
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yeah. If it if she was, oh my god." Yeah. I just I was like, you know, he goes, "What's the big deal? What's the
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big deal?" I said, "Well, what's your big deal, Big Shaw? Let's see you take your, you know, you're standing there with with your clothes. You're fully
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clothed behind the camera. Let's see you take your clothes off." So he goes and Yos goes and he goes, "Yo." And he
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goes, "RP." And I go, "Oh god, no. God, no. My
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eyes." And they go, "Okay, are you guys ready to shoot?" Yes. Just put back and they put their pants on and they left. And I
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go, "Oh my god, I didn't know he was going to do that."
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Was difficult to look at his clothes on. I know.
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I never wanted to have to be the man to say that. I never wanted to have to see that.
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I never wanted to have to see that and now I'll have that again and he can't unsee it. Yes. The funnest thing was that Seth was
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standing over in the corner laughing at the ball. He didn't have to wear a prosthetic.
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And and and the funny thing about that is how do you do that joke after that's already happened? It kind of like really
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knocked the sail the wind out of the sails kind of, you know, it's like, oh yeah, well, we were going to do this
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dildo thing, but whatever now. Thanks, Tina. But they did it anyway.
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Next question. Stop [ __ ] around.
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Was that the scene that had the most like amusing out takes? What was that? The one that had the most amusing out takes or was there another scene that
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had some crazy outtakes that were pretty memorable? Uh,
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I don't I didn't know that. I didn't see the blooper reel. I didn't see the blooper. I've seen a
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couple of blooper. I mean, the only blooper reels I had is like when Patrick Mulun
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had picked me up so much in our fight sequence and he dropped me on my head one time. He's, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Casper. I'm so sorry." But he had
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kept lifting me up as we're jumping over and throwing on the table. And then one time he's like, "Just he goes, I'm not
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going to throw I'm not going to drop Casper again on his head." And he missed and I landed on the apple box on my
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back. That or those were out takes or those were ouches. Sorry, you said out.
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Uh, Kevin asks, "What character from another movie or show would your Starship Troopers character like to
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party with?" Or maybe a crossover. What crossover would you have like to see with Starship
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Troopers? What What character that you play that
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wasn't Starship would your would want to party with or Yeah. Yeah. Party with me.
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Or a Starship Troopers crossover with another franchise. What would you like to see? Oh,
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that requires a little bit more thought. Maybe maybe Clancy Brown. Oh, party. Clancy Brown. Well, who's in
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it with us? Oh, I thought you meant like a character that we played in other You could go that way.
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Really? Other directions for that question. You know, our uniforms our uniforms were also used in uh in in Firefly Serenity.
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So I think that'd be a good crossover to be in that with Nathan Fillian and all them. I think they wearing the same
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outfits. No, we were Yeah, we could just be in there and be like that was in the same universe.
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You have to go after uniforms. No, they didn't wear the uniform, but they're the Federation. That's where
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they were fighting against. Lastly, we'll end off this note for this amazing panel. If you had one word to
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describe what this movie means to you personally, what would it be? What would if you had one word to
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describe what this really means to you personally? What would that be?
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One. Can you a couple more? I'll give it to you. Uh, I'll just say gratitude. I'm
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going to give you my hope for gratitude eventually. I mean, give me all you guys
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later.
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You know, we could have been in 28 years later. We could have been there with our Korea rifles blown all them zombies to
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hell. I could have done that. I could have killed them all over. That would be
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but we are so grateful they all came and to talk Starship troopers. We're excited. I know we have a bunch of fans out here. Let's thank them for coming.
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Heat. Heat.
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Yeah.
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Heat.