We spoke w/ DevotionMovie's Jonathan Majors & glenpowell about their emotional journey, why you should see the movie in theaters, and the complexity of capturing real-life fighter pilots.
In filmmaker J.D. Dillard’s upcoming historical drama Devotion, stars Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell portray real-life wingmen Ensign Jesse Brown and Lieutenant Tom Hudner, two U.S. Navy fighter pilots who served in the Korean War. Based on the novel by author Adam Makos, Devotion chronicles the aviators’ bravery and determination when they make the conscious choice of honor and devotion, even when all the odds are stacked against them.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY COLLIDER: A lot of people in the last few years have gotten comfortable watching movies at home, and Devotion, to me, is a movie you want to experience in a movie theater. You want to get off your ass, you want to see this on a huge screen. Can you both talk about that, that this is a movie theater movie?
MAJORS: Yeah. There's also a lot to feel. Theater drama is made for the masses. The way theater came to us as a species is we would gather together in large groups to watch it. There'd be reenactments of marriages, of war, of journeys. It was important that we all saw it together to witness and to take on that moment of catharsis, so we could all heal, and grow, and be put in a mindset that would allow us to collectively move forward.
POWELL: On a movie like this, when you approach characters like this who there is so much, I would say, pressure to do their story right, you can't take your foot off the gas. You can't quit, and you can't have a day off. That's one thing that having someone like this across from you at every stage of this thing gives you so much confidence.
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