Margot Robbie & Will Smith

Host: I wanna know what was the, what was the thing that first interested you about this whole project? Will Smith: I love the work of, John and Glenn, the directors. They did, Crazy Stupid Love, and I love that film.

And when I read Focus, it was so interesting because it's so many different kinds of movies. They like, completely ignore genre. You know, so it's a, it's a heist film.

But then it'll be, a bizarre comedy for a while, and then it's really serious, and it's great action. And then there's a love story, as you were aware. You're aware there's a love story in the film.

I yeah. Yeah. There was a, there was a wonderful love story at the, at the center of the film. So I just loved how many different, styles and flavors that, they would demand of the actors, you know?

And there. We would be in scene sometimes, we're like, "So this is. So we're this is serious, right?" They say, "Yeah, but have fun with it."

And we you would just get to go through so many, ranges of the spectrum. Margot Robbie: Like Will was saying, they said at the heart of it was a love story. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, there was a lot to do for Jess in that sense because halfway through she's a woman scorned and it kinda transforms her after that.

So yeah, no, they develop it really well. Host: She has a great journey, though. She does. And I imagine it was fun to kind of, to bring to life.

Mm-hmm. Margot Robbie: Yeah. It's really nice to have a character that has one starting point and Mm-hmm. A totally different person by the end of the film. Mm-hmm. It's kinda nice to, play with that.

So I was lucky. Host: Who do you think's in control by the end of the film, more in control between the two? Will Smith: Who's in charge Who's in charge?

Yeah. Yeah. I think it's pretty obvious. It's pretty obvious. Yeah. Yeah. The thing about Margot

She is absolutely certain of who she wants to be and what she wants to do. But she's absolutely certain of who she wants you to be and what she wants you to do too.

So that was, that was, that was I'm s in the scenes. She would say, "No. Not, like, dude, so I'm sorry.

Hold on one second. Do it. No." Like, "Oh, you know, I've made a couple movies, Margot. I can I have some ideas too."

I bet you quite liked that, though. No. You know what's great? She's, she's right most of the time, which is fantastic, right?

You know, 90% of the time, if something doesn't feel right to her in a scene, it's, it's correct, you know? But I'm a man, I gotta go against it anyway. Mm. So but she her instincts are really brilliant.

You know, she can't always, she can't always say why it doesn't feel right. She just says, "Just, oh, just do it the way I said," you know? So I just do, I learned to do that, but it was, it was, it was really fun working with someone with that level of instincts that were so different than my own.

Host: Did you guys get much of a chance to improv on this film, or was it kind of stick to the script for the, for the Margot Robbie: I feel like we improved quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Which is surprising because there are so many plot points that we obviously had to hit in each Yeah. Or hit to a certain degree or hide to a certain degree.

So it was, it didn't, it shouldn't have left much room for improv, but the guys still really encouraged it. Is there one scene that sticks out for you that was, that was a kind of really good example of you guys getting to rip? I think the end scene.

The end scene. Oh my goodness, yeah. Because when we did that end scene. I don't wanna ruin it for people who haven't seen it, but when we did the end Yeah.