1 00:00:03,447 --> 00:00:06,496 You're the one they're calling the Legend. You've got like 24 confirmed kills. 2 00:00:06,658 --> 00:00:07,955 Well, who's counting? 3 00:00:08,118 --> 00:00:09,415 That's fucking badass. 4 00:00:09,578 --> 00:00:13,879 We took this guy who was iconic in the world that he lives in and moved in. 5 00:00:14,041 --> 00:00:15,418 And they called him the Legend. 6 00:00:15,584 --> 00:00:19,339 And we told his story in as human a way as possible. 7 00:00:19,838 --> 00:00:21,556 Your hands feel different. 8 00:00:21,715 --> 00:00:24,434 This is a human story about people... 9 00:00:24,593 --> 00:00:28,097 who struggle within the world of war and within the world of family. 10 00:00:28,263 --> 00:00:30,857 And this is about a man who saved many, many lives. 11 00:00:31,099 --> 00:00:32,897 I think it really brought home the idea... 12 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:36,360 that it's not just the soldier that goes to war, it's the whole family. 13 00:00:36,521 --> 00:00:38,114 It's not about them. 14 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:41,367 It's about us. 15 00:00:41,526 --> 00:00:43,824 You have to make it back to us. 16 00:00:43,987 --> 00:00:46,957 It's not just a big pro-war picture. 17 00:00:47,115 --> 00:00:49,334 It shows the toll war takes on you. 18 00:00:52,371 --> 00:00:54,749 American Sniper is about the soldiers' sacrifice... 19 00:00:54,915 --> 00:00:57,839 and what we're asking them to give when they go to war... 20 00:00:58,001 --> 00:01:00,595 and what war takes from them. 21 00:01:00,962 --> 00:01:02,179 You're my brother... 22 00:01:02,339 --> 00:01:05,218 and they're gonna fucking pay for what they did to you. 23 00:01:05,384 --> 00:01:08,058 It's an exciting movie. It has humor. It's a good love story. 24 00:01:08,220 --> 00:01:10,188 But at the end of the day, you also felt... 25 00:01:10,347 --> 00:01:12,975 we were doing something special, we were doing something true... 26 00:01:13,141 --> 00:01:15,485 and maybe doing something hopefully profound. 27 00:01:26,279 --> 00:01:28,873 The journey that led to American Sniper... 28 00:01:29,032 --> 00:01:32,377 began with producers Peter Morgan, Andrew Lazar... 29 00:01:32,536 --> 00:01:34,288 and screenwriter Jason Hall... 30 00:01:34,454 --> 00:01:36,502 and the provocative stories they'd heard... 31 00:01:36,665 --> 00:01:40,420 about a legendary military sniper named Chris Kyle. 32 00:01:40,585 --> 00:01:43,509 We were interested in Chris's story... 33 00:01:43,672 --> 00:01:45,970 because we had heard about the exploits of Chris... 34 00:01:46,133 --> 00:01:48,602 and the incredible things he did in four tours of duty. 35 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,889 So we were very, very excited about his story... 36 00:01:52,055 --> 00:01:55,901 even before the HarperCollins book came about. 37 00:01:56,059 --> 00:01:59,233 I was interested in a warrior of that caliber. 38 00:01:59,396 --> 00:02:01,273 He had been in the service and in the SEALS... 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,909 and at war for almost a decade. 40 00:02:04,067 --> 00:02:09,119 And so the idea of someone who had gone to war that many times... 41 00:02:09,281 --> 00:02:12,831 and sounded like Achilles and then had come back... 42 00:02:12,993 --> 00:02:16,918 and the effect of war on men is interesting to me... 43 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,458 and I wanted to see what it'd look like on him. 44 00:02:19,624 --> 00:02:21,501 Jason went down to Texas... 45 00:02:21,668 --> 00:02:26,925 and found Chris to be really a hard nut to crack, but also fascinating. 46 00:02:27,090 --> 00:02:30,811 I got to this hunting ranch that he was working with some guys... 47 00:02:30,969 --> 00:02:36,442 and I walk in and there's Chris and 50 Texas cops. 48 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:43,449 And so it's me, the Hollywood screenwriter, and, you know, 50 pretty grizzly guys. 49 00:02:43,607 --> 00:02:47,612 I think that Chris and the fellow law enforcement officers there... 50 00:02:47,778 --> 00:02:50,281 wanted to kind of get a piece of the kid from Hollywood... 51 00:02:50,447 --> 00:02:51,949 and see what he was made out of. 52 00:02:52,115 --> 00:02:54,038 Chris barely spoke to him. 53 00:02:54,201 --> 00:02:57,250 He wasn't very talkative, he wasn't very chatty. 54 00:02:57,412 --> 00:03:00,211 And I asked his friends, I said, "I keep asking him questions. 55 00:03:00,373 --> 00:03:01,625 Why won't he talk to me?" 56 00:03:01,792 --> 00:03:04,921 And they're like, "He's a sniper. You know, he sits and he waits." 57 00:03:05,086 --> 00:03:08,716 Jason had to really work to get Chris to open up to him. 58 00:03:08,882 --> 00:03:12,557 That night, they got a little— Everybody got a little rowdy. 59 00:03:12,719 --> 00:03:18,601 And there was a SWAT guy who was calling me all kinds of names... 60 00:03:18,767 --> 00:03:21,395 and just, you know, giving me a rough time. 61 00:03:21,561 --> 00:03:24,030 And Chris still wasn't talking to me. 62 00:03:24,189 --> 00:03:27,989 And so this guy said one too many things and I threw him in a headlock. 63 00:03:28,151 --> 00:03:30,745 And I took him down. 64 00:03:30,904 --> 00:03:34,249 They didn't know he was actually a pretty good wrestler. Ha, ha. 65 00:03:34,407 --> 00:03:36,535 State-champion high-sohool wrestler. 66 00:03:36,701 --> 00:03:40,046 So he was able to gain the respect, I think. 67 00:03:40,205 --> 00:03:43,630 And then Chris was like, "Hey, you're all right. What do you wanna know?" 68 00:03:45,627 --> 00:03:50,554 NARRATOR'. Having gained Chris Kyle's trust, screenwriter Jason Hall made it his mission... 69 00:03:50,715 --> 00:03:55,972 to discover the true character of the man whose story he yearned to tell. 70 00:03:56,137 --> 00:03:58,185 I came in looking for something, and it was there... 71 00:03:58,348 --> 00:04:01,568 and it was like, "Wow, this guy has seen something. 72 00:04:01,726 --> 00:04:06,357 This guy has been to the other side, and he's not quite entirely back." 73 00:04:06,523 --> 00:04:11,620 There was a torment, you know, in his eyes, and it wasn't comfortable. 74 00:04:12,070 --> 00:04:16,997 NARRATOR'. Jason Hall's initial screenplay painted a portrait of Chris Kyle... 75 00:04:17,158 --> 00:04:20,628 drawn from classic archetypes of warriors throughout human history. 76 00:04:21,204 --> 00:04:24,549 Jason started to form a story around it. 77 00:04:24,708 --> 00:04:28,383 And it was really like a modern-day Achilles, is what we came up with. 78 00:04:28,545 --> 00:04:30,718 Chris is the very extreme of what a soldier is. 79 00:04:30,881 --> 00:04:33,725 Chris is Achilles. He's that guy. 80 00:04:33,884 --> 00:04:35,557 And so everybody looks up to him. 81 00:04:35,719 --> 00:04:38,814 And what Jason and I decided to do was not try to dress it up. 82 00:04:38,972 --> 00:04:42,522 Not try to make it nonlinear, not try to add anything to it. 83 00:04:42,684 --> 00:04:44,357 Jason always says— 84 00:04:44,519 --> 00:04:48,524 In developing his material, he says, "Just tell the truth." 85 00:04:48,690 --> 00:04:54,413 And so we created a very straightforward narrative... 86 00:04:54,571 --> 00:04:58,542 and a very straightforward character which serves Chris. 87 00:04:59,868 --> 00:05:03,463 NARRATOR'. With their first draft in hand, Peter Morgan and Jason Hall... 88 00:05:03,622 --> 00:05:06,967 began looking for the right actor to play Chris Kyle. 89 00:05:07,125 --> 00:05:11,722 We had a list of guys that we were thinking about... 90 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,475 and Bradley's name popped off that list as somebody who... 91 00:05:15,634 --> 00:05:20,265 if he's willing to dive into it, could just hit this thing out of the park. 92 00:05:20,430 --> 00:05:26,153 And I pitched him what I thought that, you know, the story was that I wanted to tell... 93 00:05:26,311 --> 00:05:28,609 and he responded to it immediately. 94 00:05:28,772 --> 00:05:30,866 And he and I talked about it quite a bit. 95 00:05:31,024 --> 00:05:34,244 I hadn't read American Sniper: The Autobiography at that point. 96 00:05:34,402 --> 00:05:35,949 And I just loved the idea of this. 97 00:05:36,112 --> 00:05:39,082 I've always been in love with the genre, the war genre, since I was a kid. 98 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,995 Movies like The Deer Hunter, and Apocalypse Now and Platoon... 99 00:05:43,161 --> 00:05:44,913 were things that always resonated with me. 100 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,459 And I was always obsessed with the plight of a soldier when I was a kid. 101 00:05:48,625 --> 00:05:53,256 And he was elemental in finding the moments for Chris... 102 00:05:53,421 --> 00:05:56,470 and the transformation of this character... 103 00:05:56,633 --> 00:06:00,763 and who he becomes and what he almost loses in the process. 104 00:06:00,929 --> 00:06:04,524 I really got excited about it. I thought I hadn't really seen a character study... 105 00:06:04,683 --> 00:06:07,732 about a soldier in a long time, since maybe Born on the Fourth of July. 106 00:06:07,894 --> 00:06:10,568 And then after that is when I actually got to know Chris. 107 00:06:10,730 --> 00:06:14,780 When Chris first talked to him, Chris was on the phone and said: 108 00:06:14,943 --> 00:06:16,820 "All right, then. 109 00:06:16,987 --> 00:06:18,705 Only thing I'm gonna have to do is... 110 00:06:18,863 --> 00:06:21,366 tie you to the back of my truck and drag you down the street. 111 00:06:21,533 --> 00:06:23,661 Gonna have to knock some of the pretty off of you." 112 00:06:23,827 --> 00:06:28,003 Bradley just kind of came in and was able to Convince Chris. 113 00:06:28,164 --> 00:06:31,008 Like, "Listen, I'm gonna take this real seriously. 114 00:06:31,167 --> 00:06:33,261 If I'm gonna play you, I'm gonna do it rough... 115 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:35,969 and I'm gonna want you to roll me around in the dirt... 116 00:06:36,131 --> 00:06:37,758 and put me through the paces." 117 00:06:37,924 --> 00:06:39,722 And that meant a lot to Chris. 118 00:06:39,884 --> 00:06:43,639 With Bradley Cooper on board, Jason Hall and Peter Morgan... 119 00:06:43,805 --> 00:06:46,058 reached out to fellow producer Andrew Lazar... 120 00:06:46,224 --> 00:06:49,694 hoping to find a home for the film at Warner Bros. 121 00:06:50,020 --> 00:06:52,944 And then the unthinkable happened. 122 00:06:54,024 --> 00:06:56,072 I got the draft on a Friday. 123 00:06:56,234 --> 00:07:01,240 Wasn't gonna share with anyone. I was gonna read it and do notes with Jason. 124 00:07:01,406 --> 00:07:05,331 I just had a great day at the beach and was gonna start my weekend reading. 125 00:07:05,493 --> 00:07:09,088 And at around 5:25 I got a text from Jason. 126 00:07:09,247 --> 00:07:11,841 And it just said, "Chris has been murdered." 127 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,753 And I said— I— 128 00:07:14,919 --> 00:07:17,547 I didn't even know what to— How to react. 129 00:07:17,714 --> 00:07:20,558 It hadn't even hit the news services, and I kept on going online. 130 00:07:20,717 --> 00:07:25,223 And by about I would say 7:00 Pacific Standard Time... 131 00:07:25,388 --> 00:07:28,562 the news started to report that there was a shooting at a shooting range... 132 00:07:28,725 --> 00:07:32,355 and then later that night it identified it was Chris. And it was heartbreaking. 133 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,401 Wasn't gonna share with anyone. I was gonna read it and do notes with Jason. 134 00:07:37,567 --> 00:07:41,197 and I, like— I, like, opened it, and I start bawling. 135 00:07:41,362 --> 00:07:44,457 Jason Hall called me and I thought, "Wait, what?" 136 00:07:44,616 --> 00:07:47,210 It just didn't— Nothing— Nothing made any sense. 137 00:07:47,368 --> 00:07:49,712 "He's already home. Wait, no, he's already home. He made it. 138 00:07:49,871 --> 00:07:51,589 He did four tours. He's okay." 139 00:07:51,748 --> 00:07:53,716 "No, he was killed by another vet." "What?" 140 00:07:56,169 --> 00:07:59,719 The tragic murder of Chris Kyle changed American Sniper... 141 00:07:59,881 --> 00:08:03,761 from a story with a happy ending into something else entirely. 142 00:08:03,927 --> 00:08:06,225 As the creative team tried to regroup... 143 00:08:06,387 --> 00:08:10,608 Chris Kyle's widow, Taya, made a fateful decision. 144 00:08:10,767 --> 00:08:13,065 She ended up calling 10 days after the funeral... 145 00:08:13,228 --> 00:08:16,607 and said, "If you're gonna do this, I want you to do it right. 146 00:08:16,773 --> 00:08:21,495 And this means more to me and to us now than it did 10 days ago." 147 00:08:21,653 --> 00:08:24,452 And so we started talking on the phone... 148 00:08:24,614 --> 00:08:28,289 and we spent a lot of hours, countless hours... 149 00:08:28,451 --> 00:08:30,795 let's say a couple hundred hours on the phone. 150 00:08:30,954 --> 00:08:34,254 And it was this chance for her... 151 00:08:34,415 --> 00:08:39,717 to secure his legacy and make sure that it was done right. 152 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:46,728 I was a grieving widow in the midst of the biggest trial of my life... 153 00:08:46,886 --> 00:08:51,767 and he was part friend, part writer, part therapist. 154 00:08:51,933 --> 00:08:54,982 He also did not have to stay up till 2 in the morning... 155 00:08:55,145 --> 00:08:56,738 to talk to me on the phone. 156 00:08:56,896 --> 00:08:59,649 It meant that much to him to get it right. 157 00:08:59,816 --> 00:09:01,568 I was very inquisitive... 158 00:09:01,734 --> 00:09:05,580 and I didn't pull any punches, and I was asking really hard questions. 159 00:09:05,738 --> 00:09:09,743 And she was able to provide another side to Chris that wasn't in the book. 160 00:09:09,909 --> 00:09:12,583 And so I got to hear this whole other side of his story. 161 00:09:12,745 --> 00:09:14,497 And it changed the entire movie. 162 00:09:14,664 --> 00:09:17,508 The movie wouldn't be what it is without Taya Kyle. 163 00:09:17,667 --> 00:09:20,796 Without Taya opening up their life to us. 164 00:09:20,962 --> 00:09:24,387 Jason went back and we talked about reframing the story... 165 00:09:24,549 --> 00:09:27,894 and making it much more about the relationship between the soldier and the family. 166 00:09:28,052 --> 00:09:32,649 And the almost schizophrenic nature of having to go from tour to home, back to tour. 167 00:09:32,807 --> 00:09:37,233 What I got from talking to Taya in those hours and hours and hours on the phone... 168 00:09:37,395 --> 00:09:42,652 was how beautiful this story was between this man and his wife. 169 00:09:42,817 --> 00:09:45,286 Because you saw this guy who was sacrificing so much... 170 00:09:45,445 --> 00:09:50,121 and who was under these extreme, extreme situations... 171 00:09:50,283 --> 00:09:54,083 and was still able to be the kind of husband that he was able to be when he came home... 172 00:09:54,245 --> 00:09:56,748 and still be the kind of father that he wanted to be. 173 00:09:56,915 --> 00:10:02,638 That was the key to making this movie very human and real... 174 00:10:02,795 --> 00:10:05,423 unlocking those areas where people can relate to... 175 00:10:05,590 --> 00:10:07,513 who have gone through that experience and say: 176 00:10:07,675 --> 00:10:11,225 "That actually has a glimmer of reality to it." It's because it actually is real. 177 00:10:12,180 --> 00:10:14,399 Armed with a more sophisticated screenplay... 178 00:10:14,557 --> 00:10:18,858 that balanced Chris Kyle's military career with his home life... 179 00:10:19,020 --> 00:10:21,569 the producers began to look for the right director. 180 00:10:21,731 --> 00:10:25,201 The first director attached to the project as far as I know was Steven Spielberg. 181 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,661 And he had worked with Jason on the script. 182 00:10:29,822 --> 00:10:34,623 They were going to do it at Warner Bros. and for some reason that deal fell apart. 183 00:10:34,786 --> 00:10:39,587 Clint and Steven have a close relationship. They really enjoy each other's company. 184 00:10:39,749 --> 00:10:42,343 So I think that Steven was quite pleased... 185 00:10:42,502 --> 00:10:45,676 that if anyone was gonna take over the project, it would be Clint. 186 00:10:45,838 --> 00:10:50,435 ironically, Chris Kyle had the same instinct as Steven Spielberg. 187 00:10:50,593 --> 00:10:54,939 The only director that Chris ever mentioned as wanting to tell his story was Clint Eastwood. 188 00:10:55,098 --> 00:10:58,693 - The only director. - I think Chris wanted Clint Eastwood... 189 00:10:58,851 --> 00:11:01,354 like he wanted a Ferrari. 190 00:11:01,521 --> 00:11:05,571 I don't think he thought there was a pig's chance in hell he was getting Clint Eastwood. 191 00:11:05,733 --> 00:11:07,076 The studio called and asked... 192 00:11:07,235 --> 00:11:10,785 if I'd be interested in being involved with this picture. 193 00:11:10,947 --> 00:11:13,746 And, ironically, I was reading his book. 194 00:11:14,367 --> 00:11:16,745 I was down to about the last 30 pages. 195 00:11:16,911 --> 00:11:20,006 And I said, "Let me finish the book and then call you back." 196 00:11:20,164 --> 00:11:22,542 And I called them back the next day and I said: 197 00:11:22,709 --> 00:11:24,461 "Do you have a script on the project?" 198 00:11:24,627 --> 00:11:28,177 And they did. They had a screenwriter and a script. 80 I read that. 199 00:11:28,339 --> 00:11:31,843 When we first got the script, it was sort of unanimous amongst all of us... 200 00:11:32,010 --> 00:11:35,059 and especially between Clint and I, that it was extremely effective... 201 00:11:35,221 --> 00:11:38,100 in terms of Chris's experience at war... 202 00:11:38,266 --> 00:11:41,110 and his experience at home. 203 00:11:41,269 --> 00:11:45,445 Everybody seemed to be on the same page. They thought it was an exciting story. 204 00:11:48,109 --> 00:11:50,658 NARRATOR'. To bring the true story of Chris Kyle to the screen... 205 00:11:50,820 --> 00:11:53,539 the producers knew they would have to go to the source. 206 00:11:53,698 --> 00:11:56,872 When Clint and I started the project, Chris Kyle had already passed away. 207 00:11:57,035 --> 00:12:00,130 So neither of us got a chance to meet him or know him. 208 00:12:00,288 --> 00:12:04,338 So really the only way to get to know him was through his wife, Taya. 209 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:08,596 Bradley and I took a trip down to Texas and met with Taya. 210 00:12:08,755 --> 00:12:11,759 Met the family and the kids. He has two adorable kids. 211 00:12:11,924 --> 00:12:18,057 It was just an incredibly intimate experience researching this movie. 212 00:12:18,222 --> 00:12:21,226 I didn't view them as Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper... 213 00:12:21,392 --> 00:12:25,067 coming to my house. I viewed them as people that I'm gonna need to work with... 214 00:12:25,229 --> 00:12:29,359 to really give whatever I can give to contribute to this project. 215 00:12:29,525 --> 00:12:34,076 You know, I haven't changed very many things from when Chris was alive. 216 00:12:34,238 --> 00:12:36,366 You know, his closet's the same. 217 00:12:36,532 --> 00:12:39,160 I can't bring myself to change it yet. 218 00:12:39,327 --> 00:12:44,709 And so they got to see just sort of our life. 219 00:12:44,874 --> 00:12:47,844 I got to see hundreds of hours of footage of Chris... 220 00:12:48,002 --> 00:12:50,255 just behaving with his family, with his two children. 221 00:12:50,421 --> 00:12:52,423 Before his children were born, when they were born. 222 00:12:52,590 --> 00:12:55,218 And then, you know, thousands of photographs... 223 00:12:55,385 --> 00:12:58,889 e-mail exchanges of all four tours between Taya and Chris. 224 00:12:59,055 --> 00:13:04,733 It was very informative, because we got an idea of the guy without actually seeing him. 225 00:13:04,894 --> 00:13:07,738 I had to pretty much beg Clint to put his feet up on the coffee table... 226 00:13:07,897 --> 00:13:12,152 but by the time he finally did, it was like, "Ah, now we're good." You know? 227 00:13:12,318 --> 00:13:15,538 And she just told us so many stories, and a lot of them are in the movie. 228 00:13:15,697 --> 00:13:19,622 And it was important for me, too, to see them as far as casting the picture. 229 00:13:19,784 --> 00:13:24,130 So when I cast those characters in the picture, starting with Taya on down... 230 00:13:24,288 --> 00:13:28,009 I had to have people that I thought could effect... 231 00:13:28,167 --> 00:13:31,137 that same kind of enthusiasm she had. 232 00:13:31,295 --> 00:13:34,890 Casting the role of Taya Kyle was no small task. 233 00:13:35,049 --> 00:13:37,427 Dozens of actresses were screen-tested. 234 00:13:37,593 --> 00:13:41,143 Among the many tapes that were submitted was Sienna Miller. 235 00:13:41,305 --> 00:13:43,433 None of us had seen her do a role like that. 236 00:13:43,599 --> 00:13:48,651 She had such a natural performance on tape that it just bowled us all over. 237 00:13:48,813 --> 00:13:52,818 It was— Right away we all knew that she was the top candidate. 238 00:13:52,984 --> 00:13:57,865 She's a very good actress. I've liked her in other things that I've seen along the way. 239 00:13:58,030 --> 00:14:02,911 But she came in and did a reading for us, and she was splendid. 240 00:14:03,077 --> 00:14:05,751 You were right. The doctor says it's a boy. 241 00:14:06,122 --> 00:14:10,218 Like Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller had the opportunity... 242 00:14:10,376 --> 00:14:13,505 to enrich her performance by going directly to the source. 243 00:14:13,671 --> 00:14:16,595 Taya and I Skyped a lot. I live in London. 244 00:14:16,757 --> 00:14:19,727 And she's in Texas now. So we met via Skype. 245 00:14:19,886 --> 00:14:21,888 The wonder of the modern world. 246 00:14:22,054 --> 00:14:23,601 And we talk on the phone a lot. 247 00:14:23,765 --> 00:14:26,939 And then she came to L.A. before we started shooting and we spent a day together. 248 00:14:27,101 --> 00:14:30,105 Sort of crying and hugging, and it was amazing. 249 00:14:30,271 --> 00:14:32,865 She's a really formidable woman. 250 00:14:33,024 --> 00:14:38,326 Taya comes across like she may kick your butt, or she'd give you a hug. 251 00:14:38,488 --> 00:14:40,707 She brings all of that heart to it... 252 00:14:40,865 --> 00:14:42,867 but she also brought some of that toughness. 253 00:14:43,034 --> 00:14:46,334 I admire her so hugely for her resilience and her graciousness... 254 00:14:46,496 --> 00:14:48,840 in being as accommodating as she was to me... 255 00:14:48,998 --> 00:14:51,171 and trying to understand how she felt. 256 00:14:52,376 --> 00:14:53,878 Have you heard from them? 257 00:14:55,463 --> 00:14:58,717 I wanna have them nearer the door. Then we'll get... 258 00:15:02,595 --> 00:15:06,896 This was a movie about snipers. Most of it takes place up on rooftops. 259 00:15:07,058 --> 00:15:09,152 So we needed an urban landscape... 260 00:15:09,310 --> 00:15:12,405 that felt like Iraq. 261 00:15:12,563 --> 00:15:18,661 So we looked around at a few places and Rabat, Morocco, seemed like the ideal choice. 262 00:15:18,819 --> 00:15:22,073 Morocco was especially good for the architecture of the towns. 263 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,211 It's very much like Fallujah. There's sort of a style that they use over there... 264 00:15:26,369 --> 00:15:28,463 that you can't mimic here. 265 00:15:28,621 --> 00:15:31,340 After over a year of script development... 266 00:15:31,499 --> 00:15:34,127 followed by months of casting and preparation... 267 00:15:34,293 --> 00:15:37,843 American Sniper began production on location in the Middle East. 268 00:15:38,005 --> 00:15:40,929 A mark. B mark. 269 00:15:41,384 --> 00:15:45,309 When you start a movie on location, no one goes home to their homes. 270 00:15:45,471 --> 00:15:47,314 You go to a hotel. You go to the same hotel. 271 00:15:47,473 --> 00:15:50,898 So really being over there for three weeks and bonding... 272 00:15:51,060 --> 00:15:54,815 I think some of the best war footage was shot in Morocco. 273 00:15:54,981 --> 00:16:00,283 Especially doing a movie like this about war, being away from your home... 274 00:16:00,444 --> 00:16:03,914 and being in a new environment is sort of unsettling. 275 00:16:04,282 --> 00:16:07,411 And I think that was very useful to the actors... 276 00:16:07,577 --> 00:16:11,127 to feel kind of out of place like a soldier would. 277 00:16:11,289 --> 00:16:16,295 And it just enabled people to really be together not just on-screen but off-screen. 278 00:16:16,460 --> 00:16:19,930 So by the time we hit California to do the rest of the movie... 279 00:16:20,089 --> 00:16:23,889 there was a real strong sense of bond and camaraderie with the actors. 280 00:16:24,051 --> 00:16:27,305 We were able to go do two six-day weeks in Rabat, Morocco. 281 00:16:27,471 --> 00:16:31,601 And where we shot in Rabat has such a specific energy... 282 00:16:31,767 --> 00:16:33,895 and the people there were actually wonderful... 283 00:16:34,061 --> 00:16:37,986 but it is a whole different world than Los Angeles and much of America. 284 00:16:38,149 --> 00:16:42,074 More than anything, you realize just what it's like to orient yourself... 285 00:16:42,236 --> 00:16:45,911 as a soldier in those areas, because you're basically clearing houses... 286 00:16:46,073 --> 00:16:48,496 which means you're setting up on a place... 287 00:16:48,659 --> 00:16:51,458 and then basically going through and making sure everything is safe. 288 00:16:51,621 --> 00:16:54,340 So you're "clearing," meaning going through each house one at a time. 289 00:16:54,498 --> 00:16:56,921 These are very narrow Stairways. Five-story walk-ups. 290 00:16:57,084 --> 00:17:02,090 You have 80 pounds on your back, and if you're a sniper, you have a huge weapon also. 291 00:17:02,256 --> 00:17:07,979 So just being able to, quite frankly, maneuver within that space was very informative... 292 00:17:08,137 --> 00:17:11,687 and you just realize just how difficult the job is. 293 00:17:11,849 --> 00:17:15,228 We hired Jim Dever, who's been with us on a number of war pictures. 294 00:17:15,394 --> 00:17:17,112 Jim is an extremely knowledgeable guy... 295 00:17:17,271 --> 00:17:20,491 and made sure that we had all the right equipment... 296 00:17:20,649 --> 00:17:22,276 and all the right uniforms. 297 00:17:22,443 --> 00:17:24,787 Being a true story, like American Sniper really is... 298 00:17:24,945 --> 00:17:28,290 we have to make sure everything is accurate. They have all the correct weapons... 299 00:17:28,449 --> 00:17:33,421 of those time periods, from '03 to '08, and the weapons that Chris Kyle carried. 300 00:17:33,579 --> 00:17:38,005 Jim ended up finding all of the tanks and helicopters and planes... 301 00:17:38,167 --> 00:17:42,013 that we were able to modify to make the whole picture as real as possible. 302 00:17:42,171 --> 00:17:44,720 We used a real military from Morocco. 303 00:17:44,882 --> 00:17:49,558 So I was working the Moroccans' army. We had tanks from there and Humvees. 304 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,317 And you could see the big scope of the movie, when you see it, it looks really like Iraq. 305 00:17:54,475 --> 00:17:58,150 That's why we filmed in Morocco for the wide shots and everything else. 306 00:17:58,312 --> 00:18:01,156 And then we were fortunate enough to have Kevin Lacz. 307 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:04,114 He had been instrumental to Jason during the writing of the script... 308 00:18:04,276 --> 00:18:06,119 so we wanted to meet with him. 309 00:18:06,279 --> 00:18:10,284 lfAmerican Sniper had a secret weapon, it was Kevin Lacz... 310 00:18:10,449 --> 00:18:14,204 one of Chris Kyle's fellow soldiers from SEAL Team 3. 311 00:18:14,370 --> 00:18:16,088 Kevin Lacz was assigned to train me. 312 00:18:16,247 --> 00:18:20,297 Kevin had done two tours with Chris in Iraq as a Navy SEAL sniper also. 313 00:18:20,459 --> 00:18:23,963 I really just thought he was incredible, and he taught me so many things. 314 00:18:24,130 --> 00:18:27,509 Was supposed to train Bradley, do long-range sniper work. 315 00:18:27,675 --> 00:18:30,929 We did a three-day course, and two hours into it, Bradley's like: 316 00:18:31,095 --> 00:18:33,063 "You ever consider playing yourself in the movie?" 317 00:18:33,222 --> 00:18:37,147 And I'm like, "I don't really know about my acting skills, but I'll see what I can do." 318 00:18:37,309 --> 00:18:39,186 I just thought he had a great face and voice... 319 00:18:39,353 --> 00:18:41,606 and he was a character in the movie... 320 00:18:41,772 --> 00:18:45,493 and I thought, "Why would we ever hire somebody to play you, when—? 321 00:18:45,651 --> 00:18:46,777 Would you play you?" 322 00:18:46,944 --> 00:18:49,538 And it became obvious to Clint and Bradley and all of us... 323 00:18:49,697 --> 00:18:52,701 that he might as well play himself if he could pull it off. 324 00:18:52,867 --> 00:18:56,872 Having him there, having a real SEAL there, really upped my game. 325 00:18:57,038 --> 00:18:59,416 When you're trying to perform a maneuver... 326 00:18:59,582 --> 00:19:03,962 with an actual SEAL, it just is invaluable, as opposed to all actors. 327 00:19:04,587 --> 00:19:08,308 With the help of Kevin Lacz, Bradley Cooper began the process... 328 00:19:08,466 --> 00:19:13,768 of becoming Chris Kyle, starting with transforming his normally slender frame. 329 00:19:13,929 --> 00:19:19,561 When we went down there Bradley was 180 pounds or something like that. 330 00:19:19,727 --> 00:19:22,697 And when we started, he says, "Well, I'm going to have to get bigger." 331 00:19:22,855 --> 00:19:26,234 I was really light when we started. I was like 185 pounds. 332 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,657 And I think in the end I was almost 238, 235, I think. 333 00:19:31,822 --> 00:19:35,497 Down, down, down... 334 00:19:35,659 --> 00:19:40,130 I had to become that big and talk like him so that I believed I was him. 335 00:19:40,289 --> 00:19:43,384 And if I believed I was him, then there's a chance you would believe it... 336 00:19:43,542 --> 00:19:46,762 because if I didn't believe it, there's no way in hell you're gonna believe it. 337 00:19:46,921 --> 00:19:48,764 There's a weight-lifting scene in the movie... 338 00:19:48,923 --> 00:19:51,597 and Bradley actually lifted. Those were not fake weights. 339 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:55,104 And I think it was well over— I think it was 425. 340 00:19:55,262 --> 00:19:59,187 The training that I went through with this incredible trainer, Jason Walsh... 341 00:19:59,350 --> 00:20:01,273 consisted of just heavy weights... 342 00:20:01,435 --> 00:20:04,609 no cardio for all the months that we were prepping and shooting... 343 00:20:04,772 --> 00:20:08,367 and just eating basically upwards of 6000 calories a day. 344 00:20:08,526 --> 00:20:10,528 And that was a dead squat that we would do. 345 00:20:10,694 --> 00:20:14,790 So I pitched to Clint, "Why don't we just come around and you just hear this clanking?" 346 00:20:14,949 --> 00:20:18,374 And it's a beautiful shot. It's when he's about to go back home... 347 00:20:18,536 --> 00:20:21,130 after his first tour, and his mind is racing. 348 00:20:21,288 --> 00:20:24,292 And we just wanted to show just how powerful he was. 349 00:20:24,458 --> 00:20:27,712 So I did say to Clint, "Let's just put the weight on. I can do it." 350 00:20:27,878 --> 00:20:30,848 The most he could do is like seven. Just when the camera came around, like: 351 00:20:31,006 --> 00:20:33,054 "Oh, my gosh, I hope the camera's gonna get there." 352 00:20:33,217 --> 00:20:37,472 Because I was feeling for him. Like, "No. How many more can he do?" 353 00:20:37,638 --> 00:20:39,060 I said, "Just film it. I can do it." 354 00:20:39,223 --> 00:20:43,273 I think he was worried, but we did it like three or four times. 355 00:20:51,318 --> 00:20:53,491 In addition to his physical transformation... 356 00:20:53,654 --> 00:20:57,158 Bradley Cooper underwent extensive sniper training. 357 00:20:57,324 --> 00:21:00,294 The research process was when I was sort of bowled over... 358 00:21:00,452 --> 00:21:02,375 by what a Navy SEAL sniper has to do. 359 00:21:02,538 --> 00:21:05,883 I mean, I was very ignorant to what it actually means... 360 00:21:06,041 --> 00:21:07,759 to actually line up a target. 361 00:21:07,918 --> 00:21:10,762 You have to take, for example, into consideration... 362 00:21:10,921 --> 00:21:14,425 the rotation of the Earth, because obviously the world isn't flat. 363 00:21:14,592 --> 00:21:17,061 So as the target is further and further away... 364 00:21:17,219 --> 00:21:22,271 the rotation of the Earth is gonna influence the pathway of the bullet... 365 00:21:22,433 --> 00:21:24,652 along with windage and so many other things. 366 00:21:24,810 --> 00:21:28,314 Just sniping with real bullets, live ammunition, which I got to train with... 367 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,484 which was invaluable, that alone, realizing the power of a gun. 368 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:34,324 It was so impressive to see how Bradley transformed... 369 00:21:34,487 --> 00:21:36,489 and was committed to Chris Kyle. 370 00:21:36,655 --> 00:21:39,875 You could see his level of commitment every day. 371 00:21:40,034 --> 00:21:42,253 And I think it was like it inspired us. 372 00:21:42,411 --> 00:21:47,542 He could have made a very good movie without doing all the work he did to be Chris. 373 00:21:47,708 --> 00:21:51,303 He has the talent. He's very gifted at his craft. 374 00:21:51,462 --> 00:21:53,305 No, we can't do that. We need you on overwatch. 375 00:21:53,464 --> 00:21:56,843 - If I'm on the street— - Look, house to house is the deadliest job here. 376 00:21:57,593 --> 00:21:59,561 You got some sort of savior complex? 377 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,189 I just want to get the bad guys, but if I can't see them, I can't shoot them. 378 00:22:02,348 --> 00:22:06,023 All these guys? They know your name, and they feel invincible with you up there. 379 00:22:06,185 --> 00:22:08,904 - They're not. - They are if they think they are. 380 00:22:09,188 --> 00:22:10,485 Why don't you just keep banging on the long gun. 381 00:22:10,648 --> 00:22:13,071 We'll let these dogs sniff out Zarqawi. 382 00:22:13,275 --> 00:22:17,325 People see this movie, they get the heart, the soul, the character... 383 00:22:17,488 --> 00:22:20,412 the real Chris, not one-dimensional. 384 00:22:20,574 --> 00:22:22,997 Multifaceted Chris. 385 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,881 There was this psychic element to it... 386 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:31,215 where somewhere along the way he picked up some element of Chris Kyle... 387 00:22:31,377 --> 00:22:34,722 transforming his voice and his body... 388 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,009 where I'd be watching the monitor and he'd stand a certain way... 389 00:22:38,175 --> 00:22:41,645 and it was kind of over his shoulder, and just his aura... 390 00:22:41,804 --> 00:22:45,900 you could feel Chris Kyle, and I'd just get these goose bumps down my arms. 391 00:22:46,058 --> 00:22:49,153 You know, I'd met Chris, and I'd seen him, and I'd hung out with him. 392 00:22:49,311 --> 00:22:54,238 And it was like, you look and you're like, "Holy cow. That's Chris." 393 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,903 I did feel like I had Chris with me the whole movie... 394 00:22:57,069 --> 00:23:01,199 as sort of mystical as that sounds. I can't believe I'm actually saying it. 395 00:23:01,365 --> 00:23:04,960 But that is what I felt like. There was a reason why I felt so confident and at ease... 396 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,295 and able to just dip into any scene, because I felt him there. 397 00:23:10,374 --> 00:23:13,298 Bradley Cooper's commitment to American Sniper... 398 00:23:13,460 --> 00:23:15,337 went beyond playing the lead role. 399 00:23:15,504 --> 00:23:17,472 He was also one of the film's producers... 400 00:23:17,631 --> 00:23:20,931 involving himself in every phase of the production. 401 00:23:21,093 --> 00:23:24,313 In fact, Cooper's commitment reminded his director... 402 00:23:24,471 --> 00:23:26,974 of another young actor he once knew. 403 00:23:27,141 --> 00:23:30,816 He has great interest in the whole project and every aspect of it. 404 00:23:30,978 --> 00:23:35,984 He's a very activist actor, as I was when I was young. 405 00:23:36,150 --> 00:23:39,620 I was interested in the overall project... 406 00:23:39,778 --> 00:23:43,248 and that's probably what drove me into being a director. 407 00:23:43,407 --> 00:23:47,503 And I probably would suspect that in the future years... 408 00:23:47,661 --> 00:23:51,086 he would be wanting to direct films himself. 409 00:23:51,790 --> 00:23:53,258 All right, Cole. 410 00:23:54,668 --> 00:23:58,718 Well into his eight decade, directing his 35th feature film... 411 00:23:58,881 --> 00:24:01,725 Clint Eastwood's professionalism and sheer stamina... 412 00:24:01,884 --> 00:24:04,763 inspired everyone on the production team. 413 00:24:04,928 --> 00:24:07,977 Clint is the quintessential leader. 414 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:10,393 When Clint was in Morocco, he didn't sit down. 415 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:13,062 He'd be on set all day long in the hot sun, and I'm like: 416 00:24:13,228 --> 00:24:15,856 "Oh, my gosh, please, have a seat." 417 00:24:16,023 --> 00:24:19,823 You wouldn't want to sit down. When you're around set and Clint's working... 418 00:24:19,985 --> 00:24:22,613 you actually don't want to sit down, because he never sits down. 419 00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:26,000 Clint is— What I found him to be was very instinctual. 420 00:24:26,158 --> 00:24:32,291 He really trusts himself, and he has this inherent ability to know where the truth is. 421 00:24:32,456 --> 00:24:34,584 He's so relaxed and so trusting... 422 00:24:34,750 --> 00:24:38,254 and so confident in his ability to know when he has what he needs. 423 00:24:38,420 --> 00:24:41,924 And it just forces this freedom in you as an actor. 424 00:24:42,091 --> 00:24:46,892 He brought a grittiness to the movie, and a sort of sand-in-your-mouth feeling... 425 00:24:47,054 --> 00:24:50,058 where it felt authentic and it didn't feel like something... 426 00:24:50,224 --> 00:24:53,478 that was trying to ring emotion out of you. 427 00:24:53,644 --> 00:24:55,942 He let this thing happen in front of us... 428 00:24:56,105 --> 00:24:59,985 and he's letting the audience choose if they want to go along with this journey or not. 429 00:25:00,150 --> 00:25:06,499 From the very first moment I met Taya and the rest of the family down in Texas... 430 00:25:06,657 --> 00:25:09,501 I had a pretty good idea of how I thought everything should be. 431 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:14,632 Jason, who wrote the story, he had done a lot of research on it... 432 00:25:14,790 --> 00:25:19,762 so I just took advantage of what everybody else knew and put it all in the mix. 433 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,299 He has the ability at this point in his career and his life and his talent... 434 00:25:23,465 --> 00:25:26,139 to be so confident that he's willing to step aside... 435 00:25:26,301 --> 00:25:29,726 and let Chris take over, which is what I experienced even as an actor. 436 00:25:29,888 --> 00:25:34,234 We really did step aside and let the story be at the forefront. 437 00:25:34,393 --> 00:25:37,988 It wasn't an overly directed film, it wasn't an overly scored film... 438 00:25:38,147 --> 00:25:41,947 and the camera movements are not anything other than economical. 439 00:25:42,109 --> 00:25:45,079 And I think it's because he really was aware of: 440 00:25:45,237 --> 00:25:47,786 "Well, for this one, we're gonna focus on him." 441 00:25:47,948 --> 00:25:49,746 And as an actor, I felt the same way. 442 00:25:49,908 --> 00:25:55,256 The vain part of me could have wanted some big moment of a thing. 443 00:25:55,414 --> 00:25:58,293 But, no, it's just not who Chris was. 444 00:26:00,252 --> 00:26:02,801 After 12 shooting days in Morocco... 445 00:26:02,963 --> 00:26:07,093 the cast and crew return to California to film the rest of American Sniper... 446 00:26:07,259 --> 00:26:10,354 including the love story of Chris and Taya Kyle. 447 00:26:10,512 --> 00:26:13,482 For me, the beating heart of the movie is Chris and Taya... 448 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,144 and that love story that I think totally transcends... 449 00:26:17,311 --> 00:26:19,939 just being a Western or just being a military movie. 450 00:26:20,105 --> 00:26:22,483 It's so much deeper than that. 451 00:26:22,649 --> 00:26:26,654 Though Bradley Cooper admired Sienna Miller's work in other films... 452 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:30,495 the question of their on-camera chemistry had yet to be answered. 453 00:26:30,657 --> 00:26:32,659 Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. 454 00:26:32,826 --> 00:26:35,420 We were just lucky that right away it clicked. It was easy. 455 00:26:35,579 --> 00:26:38,503 Clint does this fantastic thing where he just doesn't cut. 456 00:26:38,665 --> 00:26:42,169 Sometimes he doesn't even say "action," so you're very unaware of what's going on. 457 00:26:42,336 --> 00:26:44,680 But I think he let the camera roll in that first scene... 458 00:26:44,838 --> 00:26:47,682 for about seven minutes, at which point you just— 459 00:26:47,841 --> 00:26:49,764 You're grasping. You're free-falling. 460 00:26:50,219 --> 00:26:52,142 You're obviously military. What branch? 461 00:26:52,304 --> 00:26:54,181 I just finished BUD/S. 462 00:26:54,348 --> 00:26:56,646 - Are you kidding me? You're a SEAL? - Yes, ma'am. 463 00:26:56,809 --> 00:27:01,155 I mean, it's pretty egotistical of you to think you can protect us all. Isn't it, Chris? 464 00:27:01,313 --> 00:27:05,659 Well, our BUD/S office commander said that it's three— 465 00:27:06,068 --> 00:27:07,115 Okay. 466 00:27:07,277 --> 00:27:10,998 He said there's three things we gotta worry about: ego, booze and women. 467 00:27:11,156 --> 00:27:12,328 Well... 468 00:27:12,491 --> 00:27:14,619 it sounds like you're under attack. 469 00:27:15,619 --> 00:27:17,997 The thing about Clint Eastwood, there's no rehearsal. 470 00:27:18,163 --> 00:27:21,007 So you don't work on any scenes together until you actually shoot them... 471 00:27:21,166 --> 00:27:23,419 which I like as long as you do your work. 472 00:27:23,585 --> 00:27:28,261 But what that lends itself to is spontaneity and organic back-and-forth... 473 00:27:28,548 --> 00:27:31,097 and, quite frankly, a lot of surprises. 474 00:27:31,260 --> 00:27:34,685 Creatively, it became so much more than I had imagined it would be. 475 00:27:34,846 --> 00:27:39,272 Once you accept what it is, you accept that you have two or three takes, if that... 476 00:27:39,434 --> 00:27:41,562 once you become a part of that environment... 477 00:27:41,728 --> 00:27:44,982 it's kind of the most creatively liberating experience I've ever had. 478 00:27:45,148 --> 00:27:48,618 And getting to work with Bradley, who is probably the most amazing person... 479 00:27:48,777 --> 00:27:52,372 I've ever worked with in terms of his openness and generosity... 480 00:27:52,531 --> 00:27:56,161 and willingness to experiment and improvise. 481 00:27:56,326 --> 00:28:00,832 And we both felt a tremendous responsibility to serve this couple. 482 00:28:00,998 --> 00:28:03,092 It was amazing to have a partner like her. 483 00:28:03,250 --> 00:28:05,594 And to play somebody who's got that much going on... 484 00:28:05,752 --> 00:28:09,097 to be a woman in this environment, to be a woman who's trying to raise children... 485 00:28:09,256 --> 00:28:13,227 who's trying to understand and be supportive of her husband but inside is imploding... 486 00:28:13,385 --> 00:28:17,106 and having met her, I feel a huge responsibility to have done it justice. 487 00:28:17,264 --> 00:28:22,395 Doing justice to Chris Kyle's story was on the forefront of everyone's mind... 488 00:28:22,561 --> 00:28:25,940 when production wrapped after 44 shooting days. 489 00:28:27,316 --> 00:28:31,947 I felt like we did tell a story in a human way... 490 00:28:32,112 --> 00:28:36,834 and that there was a nugget of truth that I thought that people would relate to... 491 00:28:36,992 --> 00:28:40,963 that I hadn't really seen before, that we got a little bit of him right. 492 00:28:42,372 --> 00:28:46,297 NARRATOR'. In the months that followed, through the film's release and beyond... 493 00:28:46,460 --> 00:28:50,055 the creative team that brought American Sniper to audiences... 494 00:28:50,213 --> 00:28:53,808 held out hope that its themes would endure. 495 00:28:53,967 --> 00:28:56,937 It's not a preachy movie. What's great is it's a character study. 496 00:28:57,095 --> 00:29:01,316 But I think what will result in the movie is people will ask a lot of questions... 497 00:29:01,475 --> 00:29:05,651 because there are serious issues that the movie brings up. 498 00:29:05,812 --> 00:29:09,191 Regardless of whether you believe in a particular war or not... 499 00:29:09,358 --> 00:29:13,283 you have to value the fact that these people are willing to go over there... 500 00:29:13,445 --> 00:29:15,743 and make these sacrifices for us. 501 00:29:15,906 --> 00:29:19,206 That to me is the most important aspect of this movie. 502 00:29:19,367 --> 00:29:23,588 It's a complicated story, and people are gonna have very mixed emotions about it. 503 00:29:23,747 --> 00:29:25,590 Some people will come out and see a film... 504 00:29:25,749 --> 00:29:29,344 that's celebrating somebody who did, in many people's eyes, many heroic things. 505 00:29:29,503 --> 00:29:32,757 Other people will be probably deeply affected by what they've seen... 506 00:29:32,923 --> 00:29:34,345 and be shocked by some of it. 507 00:29:34,508 --> 00:29:37,182 But this is the world we're living in. This happened. 508 00:29:37,344 --> 00:29:40,689 I was just hoping that it really would be a movie seen for what it was... 509 00:29:40,847 --> 00:29:44,021 at least intended to be, which was a movie about soldiers and their families. 510 00:29:44,184 --> 00:29:45,811 That's it. Two days before it came out... 511 00:29:45,977 --> 00:29:50,027 I went to San Antonio, Texas. We showed the movie and talked to the vets. 512 00:29:50,190 --> 00:29:53,740 And one Marine stood up and was very emotional, saying that we got the story right. 513 00:29:53,902 --> 00:29:57,873 And if you know anything about the military, for a Marine to cry in front of other Marines... 514 00:29:58,031 --> 00:29:59,408 means something's happening. 515 00:29:59,574 --> 00:30:02,669 Jacob, who was a Marine sniper, who was with me... 516 00:30:02,828 --> 00:30:07,959 said to me, "The amount of guts it took for him to do that, you have no idea." 517 00:30:08,125 --> 00:30:12,096 And I thought, "Yeah." And I thought, "Well, that's it. We got it right, then."