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These kids were so excited
about playing Thunderbirds
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that it was contagious.
:18:12
And when Paxton came,
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he took all the boys who played his sons to dinner.
:18:19
Great set extension if you see under here -
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it feels like you're inside hundreds of yards
of missile silo
:18:25
but in fact all we have is those two front legs.
:18:32
Paxton took all the boys out
:18:34
and helped me immensely
:18:36
because that relationship
between actors and their roles
:18:42
was enhanced by virtue of Paxton
:18:47
euphemistically putting his arms round
all these other guys
:18:51
and acting as if he was their father.
:18:53
They were eager to be with him
because he's a big movie star and a great guy
:18:57
and he was eager to be with them
:18:59
because he wanted
to make this relationship believable
:19:03
and I was the one who got to benefit.
:19:08
Paxton, Tony Edwards, Sir Ben -
:19:13
so incredibly filmmaker-friendly - Ron Cook,
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because they've had great experience,
:19:19
they're consummate professionals,
they're old school.
:19:24
They come to the set in the morning, ready to work
:19:27
and they stay on the set until they're called.
:19:30
And it's a real treat to be around.
:19:36
Two men in blue glasses who stutter.
Who'd have thunk it?
:19:40
There's a crab that didn't cooperate very often
but I did get him in the shot.
:19:44
Here's the beautiful Seychelles islands
on a good day.
:19:49
They weren't all quite like this.
:19:52
But as you can see from the sand
and from the azure blue sea,
:19:58
after much scouting,