Name: SHAKO MAKO with ALIA SHAWKAT & HAILEY GATES
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T20:13:18.000Z
Duration: 28 min 7 s
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What were the kind of initial sparks of this story?

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Actually, I was I was doing research in preproduction.

I'm trying to make a documentary about these fake Iraqi and Afghan villages have been built on military bases in the U.

For training purposes where they create these hyper realistic scenarios.

Sort of built by film and TV people to help soldiers with cultural training and different types of exercises. 00:00:56.940 --> 00:01:6.770  But they're often slightly culturally offensive, and I don't know. 00:01:6.770 --> 00:01:8.180  So I just interviewing lots of people. 00:01:8.180 --> 00:01:20.850  I was interviewing everyone from Iraqi and Kurdish women who were working on the bass playing civilians to special ops guys who had trained there.

Yes, it's kind of a true of interviews on.

Then I got approached by the product foundation toe.

They said, you know, would you like to make a narrative short film?

Um, with the women that you were interviewing, did you speak to any of that women as well.

The story's did you find for those women that they were, it was there on a projection of what they wanted them to do rather than saying you act out Well, in some cases, they were.

They had been translators in Iraq during the war and come back and we're trying to get citizenship through, like working for the military.

So sometimes that was the reason when other times there were Mexican and Honduran women that were working there, just like wearing burkas, having the time when you wrote this.

You are half Iraqis is the best you ever got a plane?

Flake. 00:03:0.100 --> 00:03:6.710  My first job, actually, first film I did was this, like David O Russell movie called Three Kings. 00:03:6.720 --> 00:03:17.080  And I played a rocky 100% and I just, like, cried over my mother's dead body in the movie.

And then yeah, then never since then didn't never play it again till this was kind of like a full circle.

Her father, Tony Shock that he came, didn't set any.

It was like, This doesn't look like a rock Like that's kind of a boy.

It's very meta because you you as an actress yourself, Los Angeles.

You know, you're very interested in this. 00:03:55.340 --> 00:04:0.650  Our performance before acting spills out for film into life. 00:04:1.240 --> 00:04:1.780  You know what? 00:04:1.790 --> 00:04:12.520  I'm very interested in circumstances in which people have to play parts, but they're not being filmed or for, you know, perform for theatrical sink.

But when you have to make believe in real life for others, that's it's just it's just strange tone.

And I also really interested in the art of the self tape.

So did it remind you many, uh, do you have this whole ex essential moment sometimes when you're actually kind of look around like you have a majority of the time?

Would you recommend I got stoned once on said it was the worst, Like my life was like a glorified extra in this film, and I was like I'm not even gonna see me like I'm gonna get stoned.

Like everyone was like doing their job. 00:04:57.380 --> 00:05:2.260  Like collecting water and stuff, like, What do we owe? 00:05:5.730 --> 00:05:7.260  I was like, This is a job. 00:05:7.270 --> 00:05:8.310  I gotta take it seriously.

Your friend Ana, was it nice to be able to work in that kind of collaborative Precious Always just approached me in a taxi cab ride.

I'm saying, like we were in New York, were taxis are and she was just like, Yeah, I got past, you know, to do this like you short film.

You told me the whole premise and I still wasn't expecting.

I think she was just I thought she was just like, telling me about this cool new thing she's doing.

It was like, God, that's so Brad. 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:0.730  And then she's like, But I want you to be in it. 00:06:1.610 --> 00:06:2.460  I was, like, really flattered. 00:06:2.640 --> 00:06:2.990  Still. 00:06:3.500 --> 00:06:5.240  Yeah, it feels like we're paying.

Yeah, I was so excited and we're talking about really have smooth shooting.

Experience was it was My mom always says, like the fish sticks up ahead, especially when it comes to sets.

There was a very enjoyable experience and, like we got to work was just such amazing other, you know, department heads and stuff too.

So it was just like, Yeah, it was really possible.

Have you noticed that old, you know, is the film industry's been changing? 00:06:53.220 --> 00:07:1.370  There's more opportunities that you be brought out by producing more opportunities for these different kinds of ways of working. 00:07:1.940 --> 00:07:6.180  I'm more collaborative where the role's getting more wish together. 00:07:6.930 --> 00:07:9.140  I mean, yeah, definitely is happening. 00:07:9.290 --> 00:07:11.080  I think then it's like anything.

It's about your perception of the changing, so it is changing.

But I think it's like which one came first?

It's just like also the perception of being like, now that I've been working more and I get to meet like minded people who are also making things were just like there's nothing.

There's no real excuse to stop us for making things any more.

It always is still difficult to get cast in things that are a bigger budget because they have a very small list of, you know, skinny white girls that make money good for them. 00:07:43.560 --> 00:08:3.750  But, you know, that list is like I e just spit on the paper so well, I think more this frustration of like, I'm never gonna fit in this thing And and now, you know, as you evolve as an artist, it's like we look around the people that we want to work with, people who are just making stuff. 00:08:3.750 --> 00:08:11.320  So we're like, Oh, we get to create these things together And I guess it's kind of more focusing on making the thing instead of looking around to make sure that everyone's following.

There's still moments of frustration 100% but I think there's definitely more opportunities.

There's just so much room for like the girls were content in general, you know, and it's definitely a hot topic right now where people are like great makes about that.

Like I've always been pretending I wasn't for a long time.

So you know, and I'm part of it feels a little commercialized degree like that's why, you know.

But at the same time, I'm like, whatever it takes to have the opportunity, just like I just want to be on a set with Haley making stuff.

So whatever it takes to do that talk about on the set, how did you get permission Thio shoot on this Army? 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:1.850  Basically, they know concerned that betrayal. 00:09:1.860 --> 00:09:11.710  My job is not It's actually not well, actually, the reason that I was so interested in trying it's a narrative story in the space.

Is that so difficult to get Profession to shoot on U.

So this was sort of a wayto faker way, but it z Andi, where they concerned about you talking the women, that one.

But I guess it's a basic, secretive place.

I mean, there were definitely asked a number of questions that were not answered when I was people, a couple of things that seemed touchy.

I mean, a couple of people I was asking like, Don't you think it's a little offensive that, like they're spreading Chuy's in the air? 00:09:59.450 --> 00:10:5.450  I don't know, like things like, and they were just They didn't really want to go there with me. 00:10:5.940 --> 00:10:9.200  Are there any burning questions in the audience? 00:10:9.350 --> 00:10:12.380  Anyone on the Net?

I mean, they have a Siri's that they started about years ago.

I think where every year they give to women the opportunity to make a film.

Yeah. 00:10:47.100 --> 00:11:8.600  I mean, the the closer in there, I don't know Thio wanted by I don't I guess it's not like fashion sector to me, but they certainly exist. 00:11:8.790 --> 00:11:11.550  I mean, it seems like these projects of actually being quite great things.

I know there's a lot like people he's, you know, been encouraged to direct the first time with different labels.

Really amazing results, like it's a good way, just like pushing some people very confident people that you wouldn't He didn't pushing anyway that has ever given me confidence.

Yeah, I mean, like, you get your money from like, nice ladies make nice clothes or do she men want Tokyo?

There's lots of ways to get money, and they're not a lot of ways Way saying that.

I'm just having addressing it is being so weird fits in so well to remember it like it was gonna feel like putting on.

We're shoving it in. 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:1.910  But they float so well with the actual story. 00:12:2.590 --> 00:12:56.610  And I was like, Nice one Tri City saying And I like the way he manages to shoot The whole thing like that's like, That's a plastic, a self tape trope where they have to scan your body, go brown people play Or actually, why someone who's paying attention? 00:13:3.740 --> 00:13:4.020  Yeah. 00:13:4.030 --> 00:13:6.800  I mean, I feel like a better word. 00:13:6.800 --> 00:13:8.690  I think it's, um it's funny. 00:13:9.320 --> 00:13:18.460  Honestly, you know, it's like I think that my favorite kind of humor comes from the things that are the kind of sickest in a strange way on that mess with identity.

Yeah, I mean, I think the way that Haley approached it was so smart that it has this kind of, you know, went to it and that at the beginning, Remember when we showed it the first time?

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