Green Zone

Uh, began his career in current affairs television, as you know, with World in Action.

Uh, then became one of Hollywood's leading directors, so, um, if you just zoom through, Murder of Stephen Lawrence on ITV, then Bloody Sunday, then Omar, then The Bourne Supremacy, then United 93, Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, Captain Phillips, Jason Bourne, 22 July, News of the World, The Last Bus.

It's an extraordinary, uh, catalog-

That's a hell of a CV, isn't it?

Anyway, he was involved in the Bourne films, absolutely.

But then he was very famous for some of the other films, like Bloody Sunday was a good film, Green Zone.

Captain Phillips was his as well, I think.

Right.

It is the most emotionally truthful reflection of my time in a war zone.

You can look at something like Green Zone.

Green Zone is, as far as I'm concerned, the most technically accurate war depiction of the war in Iraq everything looks absolutely astonishingly accurate some of the people have too much facial hair but apart from that it all looks exactly how I remember it and when you talk to when you talk to people who've been in the army what I found quite often was the film that they came up with in terms of technical accuracy was A Walk in the Sun which I don't think anyone in the UK seems to have seen but that is often brought up I imagine Warfare would be now these are both technically accurate But when you look at the emotional accuracy of war films, Jojo Rabbit, the ending of Jojo Rabbit is one that's mentioned a lot.

Obviously, it didn't happen like that.

But again, that emotion, that feeling of utter chaos and just things being completely all over the place, that is emotionally truthful.

They never go onto the front line.

And what's often missed is the fact that 80% of the US military who were deployed in Iraq were Fobbits.

So for every person who's going on the front line, for every person who's in Green Zone, for every person who's in Hurt Locker, for every person who's in American Sniper or Jarhead or any of these films, there are four people supporting them back on base.

Mark Wahlberg in football.

He was in Baby Mama, Ghost Town, Green Zone, The Kennedys.

I actually think he played Jack Kennedy.

Yep.

So-

...

so July 22-

And Bloody Sunday

... real events

And then even Green Zone a little bit, not quite, but s- real events.

So not that this is like exactly that, but, uh-

I think it was made for, for TV, and is a also powerful and horrifying film based on real events.

And then he's also made, um, some Jason Bourne and Green Zone as well, and you'll probably name another, a bunch of films, Tim, that he's, he's made.

But I think that I would say between this and Bloody Sunday I think are his, his best.

Certainly most, sort of, you certainly don't, um, forget this soon after watching it.

Bobberdegger's own is the Christmas slot.

When did Green Zone come out, as far as green grass? March.

March.

That's a March film, right? Yeah.

Certainly his movie about, with Matt Damon in it, You're At War, about finding WMDs was very agenda-driven, so you end up ...

You're not really wat- I think it was Green Zone it was called.

Yeah.

You end up ...

Darling, Captain Hook, and Peter Pan.

Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot, Captain Steele in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Major Briggs in Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, Captain Wagoner in Fury, Captain Lorca in Star Trek Discovery, and is currently in a brand new movie called The Salt Path.

We're so happy to have Jason Isaacs join us here on Celebrity Salute.

Jason, how are you? I'm sorry? Yes! Yeah, a few times.

I was on the right side in Black Hawk Down.

I was on the right side in Fury.

I was on the right side in Green Zone.

I don't think there's been any other American soldiers, no.