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\u201cI\u2019m Kathryn Bigelow, and I\u2019m the Director of \u201cA House of Dynamite. So here we are with Deputy National Security Adviser Jake Baerington, played by Gabriel Basso. And he\u2019s in a hurry because he\u2019s just learned that there is an incoming nuclear ICBM to North America. And he\u2019s getting this information and trying to get to the White House, which is where he works. So he\u2019s in a hurry and he\u2019s trying to communicate with our general from Stratcom, played by Tracy Letts, \u201cBy moving to DEFCON 2, sir, we are potentially risking a spiral of alerts.\u201d And what\u2019s interesting about this scene is, of course, the movement and the urgency of it. But the fact that you have two different philosophies, You have a more hawkish approach that the general is providing, and then you have a more dovish approach, a wait and let\u2019s try to analyze this in a more careful fashion that Jake Baerington is putting forward. \u201cThat\u2019s your job, not mine. You have someone you can call who will tell us just what the hell\u2019s going on? Don\u2019t let us hold you back.\u201d So what\u2019s interesting here, I think, is all the different sets that we had to create as a seamless movement from A to B. Well, you start with the security kiosk, and that was a build. And then he gets through the security kiosk. And then. And then he\u2019s going through the White House briefing room. He\u2019s on his way to the White House Situation room. And that\u2019s in the middle of a briefing. And that was also a build, but in another part of the studio. And so trying to make it a seamless integration, then we needed an exterior to make that work. And so we went to a golf museum, which was built in the same period as the White House was built. And it has pillars and it has a portico that\u2019s actually architecturally very similar. And so we did a couple of beats there to get him from the kiosk to the press briefing room. But we\u2019re intercutting that with Stratcom, which is Strategic Command located in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the home of the nuclear umbrella for America. And that\u2019s where the general is speaking from. Throughout all this, the clock is ticking down. The ICBM is on approach, its inclination has flattened. So they now know this is not a test launch of anybody\u2019s equipment. It\u2019s absolutely on course and on track for impact in the continental United States. So it\u2019s a very heightened moment exploring various options and various trajectories. And so trying to put all these different locations together in a way that makes it feel seamless. And then we see our flight pilots who are going to ready the B-2s, a B-2 is a particular bomber of which carries nuclear warheads. So if we were to, in this situation, retaliate, that would be one method of retaliation. We shot at a studio in New Jersey called Cinelease, and we had three of their stages, and each stage was a different set. One was Fort Greely interior, one was Stratcom interior and one was White House Situation room interior. And our production designer, Jeremy Hindle, was truly brilliant in his replication of these locations. He and I visited the White House Situation room and stratcom only for minutes. We couldn\u2019t take pictures, but even based on having been there a few minutes, he was able to replicate it to such a great extent that military personnel that we\u2019re familiar with those locations, they thought we had shot there. I mean, it was kind of that accurate. \u201cSir, our GBIs will be airborne momentarily. This is what we do.\u201d \u201cJake, you\u2019re still there?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d Well, this is all happening live. It\u2019s almost like a theater piece where the other actors that you see on the screen in the teleconference call, they\u2019re on the set as well, in different sets a ways away, but they\u2019re there so that their response is live to the people, let\u2019s say, in the room of Stratcom, that\u2019s a simultaneous situation. And that was actually fairly complicated to set up. But it was very helpful to the actor to have it be live and have that response time be immediate. \u201cOnce the kill vehicle separates, our mid-course intercept system has a success rate of 61 percent.\u201d \u201cSo it\u2019s a coin toss? That\u2019s what $50 billion buys us?\u201d \u201cWe are talking about hitting a bullet with a bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n