Michael Peña

Nobody was expecting something like this at this time.

Michael Pena playing Will Jimeno right there, I think that was actually a fantastic choice.

I think Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena for both John McLaughlin and Will Jimeno, absolutely terrific casting choices.

Yeah, no, he's a great actor.

I absolutely love the choice.

I mean, they literally do that in the film.

Michael Peña, I think, gives directions to Taurus.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, both of the characters are pretty, they're very simple, well-written, well-acted.

And I also kind of want to usher in something that the cinematologist said on Twitter himself.

He goes, that's a problem with all you young actors.

He said to Mike Pena, you're vain.

He said to Armando, you're vain.

But then to me, he's got these big, thick fingers.

You, uh, mentioned World Trade Center, which is another movie that I thought was really good.

Obviously Michael Peña and, and Nic Cage is in that as well.

Uh, w- who are some of the actors that you worked with that kind of, I mean, acting is very much a, a team sport in a lot of ways.

Who challenged you and, and how, and made you raise your game a- a- as an actor?

They're, like, playing themselves in this wild way of revisiting this traumatic day for them, almost like it... like you could only imagine as some sort of crazy way of going through therapy or something by reliving the most hectic, crazy day of work anyone's ever had.

That's the... kind of the reason I stopped watching World Trade Center, I was like, "Well, there's somehow still two hours of this movie left, and we already have Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, uh, like, buried under the rubble." And I think, like, the flashbacks and stuff were about to start.

But it's, it's so the opposite [laughs] of this movie.

I mean, it's not totally, like, tasteless or...