Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Stars Tease Their Next Big Trick & The Reason For Henley’s Return

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Stars Tease Their Next Big Trick & The Reason For Henley’s Return

Everything that disappears reappears. It is very good to be back. Hello. Hi. Now you see me, now you don’t. I see you. Thank God. Congratulations on the new movie. Um, this is for a cover story for Screen Rants. So, I’m so excited to dig into this. I want to start with just kind of the road to get here because I it was like 10 years ago it was talked about that there would be a third film. So, I’m talking for you two specifically. What has the journey been like and the stops and starts and just kind of from your perspective getting to this moment? Um, I was just personally like so thrilled to get to do it again. This is my favorite character to play in the world. It’s like a confident magician who wears nice clothing. It’s like just the opposite of everything I get to do ever. And so, for me, it was like so thrilling. Anytime I get to come to a Now You See Me movie, I always like feel good about myself when it’s over because I like playing this confident guy. And we were so thrilled to have Isa back in this one. Yes. I’m so excited to have Henley back. I feel the same about Henley. I feel like she’s just so fiercely brave and she’s so relatable now sort of with being a mother and trying to still keep up with her kind of career and and it’s so nice to be back with the guys. And but as for I think there was script sort of incarnations over the time period and then Reuben attached our director and he’s just he balances the kind of wit with the kind of glitzy action in such a great way and he’s done it and he’s so confident with it and he’s such a visual storyteller that I think he was the push that we kind of all needed to sort of like harness ourselves and get into a production. Yeah. Oh, I’m so excited. Um obviously we have our our newcomers, our new trio here. What was it like for you three just stepping into this world that people loved? Do you remember your first time seeing the first one? I was so excited. I’ve been a fan of these movies since forever. I remember seeing in the second movie that long sequence of them kind of breaking with the card and that whole choreograph sequence was like so cool to me. Um, and her and the piranha tank. I just like have those memories of being so fascinated with these movies and I immediately fell in love with June, my character. I thought she was so cool and the fact that she gets to like hang out with these guys as well was really exciting for me and their dynamic is like I think such a beautiful layer to add to the story and luckily I like them so it worked out. It’s always good. Yeah. I saw the first movie when I was really young and before I’d even like acted or thought about acting. So that’s I think that’s what made it really cool for me was something that I was genuinely a fan of before I even thought about it from like a acting like movie making perspective you know right and yeah it was just cool I mean I’m like at that age uh I mean Jesse kind of described it like in this in this role he plays he just they come off as like the coolest coolest people in the world you know and I wanted to do that how old were you like probably uh probably like 10 or 11 Wow. Oh wow. Yeah. My goodness. I know. It’s very full circle in that way. Yeah. Um, I had an amazing time on this film. I saw the film later. I didn’t see it as a kid. I actually saw it when I uh got the script, so that’s when I first watched the film, but I knew I wanted to do it. Why did you wait like so long to see this movie? Yeah. I’m trying not curiosity. I’m not trying to personalize that, but it’s like hurts our feelings a bit. Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know. But I knew that I wanted to work with you guys and I’m really happy that I got to because they are like the most loving, welcoming people and um they made like working with these two monsters every day. So, and the first two films they had these that they had very distinct directive styles, directing styles, and there’s a long-standing relationship with Reuben, obviously. Um, how does his directorial vision kind of stand apart from the other two films? Ruben’s like a huge comedy nerd. Like um I did other movies with him which were comedies and like he is just obsessed with comedians. He likes casting kind of underground comedians and um so with this one it just had a sense that the comedy will be kind of important and that we could, you know, improvise and try things and our characters cuz he’s a big fan of that. He would be happy to roll the camera and have the actors improvise for 15 minutes if that was if there was like time to do that. That would be his favorite thing to do. But he also is great visually and he does these, you know, now especially he does these like big action movies. So he has a real great sense of both. And for a movie like this which is a big spectacle but also features real characters and kind of witty dialogue and fun characterizations and banter like he’s a perfect person to do it. And he’s also a secret uh actor. He’s a thespian and he played Woody Harlson’s Merritt in almost every rehearsal. I don’t know where Woody ever was, but he would come in with some sort of vegetable juice or like a plate of avocado and meanwhile we’ve already done like five like entire rehearsals with Reuben being Merritt in like a monotone voice. He’s like completely monotone. It was so funny. Like I don’t know what he was. He came when it mattered when he had action. He was there when it counts. Yes. Yes. Now I will say that like as you mentioned you know international hit. When people come up to you too and and mention this movie what is the first thing they say or quote or ask? I get stopped for this movie more than any other movie. Do you really like more than Wow. Yes. It’s I can’t exactly even like articulate why people just like love it generationally like old like everybody just seems to really like love it. Um what do I get asked? Uh people really I mean it’s sounds weird to say this but people like really do. You going to do another one? you’re going to do another one. Like people are looking forward to the series of it and um so after 10 years I can finally say yes. I just want to know what was going on in that one interview with that girl where you guys are doing the punter trick and I could not pick up what the vibe was at all. Oh my god, that was so funny. It’s one of my favorite. He is so funny and dry. Like he was being so funny. He’s like the kindest person. So funny. Every time I come across I I have to watch the whole thing. Um Isla, what what about you? What do people ask? I feel like the most disappointing thing people ask me is always like, “Can you do any magic?” And it’s a bit like when they mistake me for Amy Adams and Enchanted and they say, “Can you sing?” And at the beginning I used to just go, “No.” Or, “Oh, no.” But now I go, “Yeah.” And sing really badly. Or I go, “Yeah.” And I show a really long magic trick that’s really boring until they walk away. Wait. On purpose? Yeah. I say, “G, have you got a coin?” And then I say I get a coin and then I just start a whole magic trick. I see. It’s like the the guys on the boardwalk, they’re like, “I’m going to flip.” Yeah. You want to hang out with Henley? Oh, you will hang out with Henley. You will spend magician. Spend time with her. Where has she been? What can you say about what she been up to? We we we hear in the second I feel like we all we disbanded for a a reason that’s a bit of a plot twist. We can’t tell you. Um but we get brought back together by this mission. Um there’s this character called Vono Vanderbump. Vanderbomb. Oh my goodness. I am not jetlagged. Um anyway, and she’s sort of like very corrupt and anyway, so we come together for this great mission and uh and for for Henley, I think she’s been with her kid, but truly she’s not coming back because of her ego or because she wants to resolve things with Danny Atlas who sort of sidelined her as an assistant. I think it’s much more about she feels passionately about, you know, about this disgusting person and the human trafficking and money laundering and she wants to be involved in activism and this is a way to use her skill set and align with her, you know, her friends and and new horsemen and uh write the wrongs. Yes. So excited to have her back. So, with the new horsemen, I just want to get a a a rundown of who they are and kind of just some of their traits that you you like or admire or hate. So yeah. Um, yes, I play June RLA. Um, June is I feel like like an alleycat. Like she’s definitely had to fend for herself I feel like majority of her life. Um, and she’s very strong and and confident. I feel like she is more low-key than like say Bosow who’s more of the performer. She’s um I guess kind of the brains and also I feel like the heart of the trio. She really loves Charlie and Bosco a lot. Um, they’re her family, so I feel like she family-wise will literally do anything for them no matter what. Um, and she’s there for the ride. She’s there for the journey, and she likes to check them, and she’s very smart. Um, and yeah, that’s June. Yeah, I guess I mean, I think you mentioned it, but I cuz everyone in the Horseman kind of has their specialty. So, what’s her what would you say her specialty is? Yeah, so she’s slight of hand. So, similar to Jack Wilder, um, she’s good at picking locks. She’s good at pickpocketing. Um, she’s kind of sneaky like that. I feel like my height was weirdly like a big talk with Reuben and I because he likes to say that I’m uh vertically challenged. So the narrative in a sweet way, supportive. Yeah. Um, no, but um, yeah, she’s really offensive. Really offensive and hurt my feelings. Um, but I think because of her her size, like her being sneaky and kind of like literally looked over. Um, her being slight of hand makes sense. She’s small. She you don’t really see her. She’s not in anyone’s way and she’s quick with her moves. So, yeah, she’s underestimated. Thank you. She is underestimated. Yeah, she is. Just like you. Oh. Um, cool. And a good That’s a nice thing to say. Yeah. Really? Like you’re so amazing and powerful and people underestimate you. Thank you. Um, I play Charlie. He is the kind of the behind the scenes of the group. So, he designs all of their tricks. Uh, he’s a huge magic nerd. Uh, knows everything about magic history. He’s a huge fan of the Horsemen. Um, and so being recruited by Daniel Atlas is like his dream come true. But the journey uh that he has in the film is kind of learning to be okay in the spotlight. Uh because that’s something that he shies away from. And his specialty, did I say his specialty? Well, his specialty is being behind the scenes. Yeah. So, my character’s name is Bosco. And uh I’d say he’s more of like a very much more suspicious think of this kind of new thing that we’re being thrown into. uh uh and also is a very impulsive person. So I think out of the three of us maybe he is more willing to like throw himself into the fire I guess in terms of you know in the context of like the whole you know things we’re trying to pull off cuz we’re all doing it together as a team. I think I my character puts himself in the position where it’s like uh there’s a lot of attention you know drawn to what I’m doing. Uh because yeah, I guess he’s like a failed actor, too. That might have changed, too. But uh yeah, so I guess yeah, maybe he’s and he’s a very sensitive ego. So, uh I guess he’s trying to maybe make up for the the failed career. By the way, like you know, each movie starts off with this amazing set piece kind of introducing. This one has it might be my favorite. I love it so much the way that everybody’s kind of reintroduced and introduced. I mean, how did you feel about kind of filming that and just kind of reintroducing yourselves to the audience, although they haven’t seen it yet? You mean like the stage show that we did? Yeah. Yeah. It’s super cool. It’s very strange. Basically, it’s like a hologram on a show. And so, as the horsemen, we were performing it, but it was this very strange thing where we can only be like filmed two-dimensionally because it’s a hologram. And so it’s this really amazing performance where you had to like we’re just constantly standing like facing the audience because the audience of the movie has to know the audience of the movie is tricked into thinking it’s a real thing until it’s revealed to be this hologram. That’s really fascinating. And we also had to look like we looked 15 years ago. So we all had um plastic surgery. I’m really grateful to Lionscape for paying for that. I really enjoyed my boobs and my lips. So thanks Lionscape. And they had to take it all out for the month. Yeah, that was so cheap of them discount giving it back. I love it. And and he’s also had he’s Daniel Alice had a hair journey, too. Yes, exactly. I’m going to be in the next one. Salt and pepper. Oh my god, I’d love that. Of course. That would be really cute. Who is like I know like you mentioned everyone always asks you to do a magic trick, but I’m sure like everyone has kind of picked up something. Who has who is like would you say is the best magician among you? Dom has been practicing cards and double D’s double D’s. Justice Justice also knows. I knew I knew that. I feel like there’s a handful of tricks that I can do that you don’t know how to do. And then you also have some kind of people were gatekeeping tricks. I was definitely gatekeeping tricks. There was tricks that the the teachers would teach us and then D was like teach me that. I’m like, “No, that one’s mine.” Cuz I wanted to like do it in the movie. I can’t remember any of you would never throw cards like very very That’s pretty cool. It’s like the Yeah, it’s really sick. There’s always a balance in in these movies between are the horsemen tricking the audience or are we in on the trick with you guys? Um, how would you say this movie plays with that expectation? I remember the first time I read the script and I was so confused because I didn’t know what had been real and what had been fake and what was the truth and what was a trick. So, I definitely had to read the script initially um quite some times over just to kind of pick up what I’m actually supposed to be like following along and what was a performance and what was real and what wasn’t. So, I think that definitely resonates in this movie to a large degree. Um, I also do think, sorry to interrupt, but I do think that modern magic is about a collaboration with the audience. It’s not like in the olden days where we magic was sort of like, oh, they were like a mystic, you know, whatever. They were, it was like a spiritual thing. Nowadays, people are in on it. They know they’re in on it and they they they’re sort of trying to be clever and guess it. And that’s what’s cool, I think, about the script, too, cuz our audience, we’re not dumbing them down. We’re sort of taking them on the ride as well. Yeah. Yeah. Every time I watch one of these movies, I’m like, I gotta watch this again because there’s so much. You’re like, okay, now now I know what’s happening. Yeah. But we did some cool stunts with our clothes. We did. That was fun. I think Reuben’s main like thing in this in this film was like he definitely wanted the magic to be practical. Like he had us really either learn the trick or rehearse the gag or whatever we’re actually doing is happening in real life. He wanted to keep that um part of it, which I really enjoyed. I thought that was like the best part for sure. This film, I will say without giving it away, it has one of my favorite needle drops. Um, if you know what I’m talking about, what song would you pick as your horsemen needle drop? Ooh, like 6 hours of whales. Whale sounds. Whale sounds. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Wait, there was a scene that I think was re-shot, but where Dom is singing a song in a karaoke bar. That’s not in the movie. No. No. Um, and not only that, Dom did two separate versions and there we shot it for three days. Yeah. And so Dom sang two songs over and over for three days. And I catch myself fully singing it. Why do I sing that song? What were they? It’s a song from what’s this musical? Zanadoo. I love Xanadoo. It was my favorite. Oh my goodness. You were John. Was it like now that you’re here now that I’m there about magic? Do you believe in magic? Magic. He has to sing that for us. Oh my gosh. On camera. Do the whole thing. We’re going to Guys, be really quiet. Tom’s going to do the whole thing. Start to finish. Let’s go. Now You See Me for is now for me. Now you for me is is the title as Oh, I I saw someone on Reddit say now for my next trick. Oh, wait. right that time. That’s good. That’s Yeah, I got that. That was someone on Reddit. Credit to them. That was not me. But, um, supposedly already in development. Uh, and this this film, you know, maybe sets up the future in some intriguing ways. Um, what would you like? Where would you like to see the franchise go next now that we have all of you guys together? What would you like to see? I’d like to see more of June’s background and how she ended up with these guys and where she ended up. I think that would be interesting. So, the fourth movie is just kind of like this dark or like for Joan for who’s Joan for who’s for June and it’s like it’s just about her basically right and it’s kind of like just her like going through one and then we find out that like June’s mother and we find that Henry gave birth to you and that’s why you have these magic skills and there’s a lady and then I take my brown hair off and I’m actually redhead I’m like mom I think I would love if everybody got a twin I wouldn’t like everyone had like some sort of their own Chase McKini. Yeah, exactly. Everyone had an evil twin. Chase M. I think we should all funny. That’s incredible. That’s funny. That’s really funny. And then come back and do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be ideal. Um and we’re with a new magic kid, right? How often do you think the horsemen go to Magic Castle for lunch? Every day. That’s a good question. They have to be members, right? Yeah, they definitely are. Well, they’re members of the eye, which I don’t know if it outranks magic. Oh, like are they not allowed to go to magic? I think they’re an arrival group. Yeah, they’re not allowed. The eye is in England in the second movie where the eye is located in this one. There are probably several branches. Yeah, I figured it was like a Doctor Strange thing where it’s like something like this. It’s like a portal. You can enter it from any country. That’s what I assume country. Yeah. I mean, that’s kind of what what’s wrong with me. What happens in the second one? In your opinion, what makes Now You See Me different from other heist or action series? The magic part. I was thinking that, you know, I was thinking it could be that. No, I think the best things about this movie are like the values it has. It’s like they’re not teaming up to like steal something for selfish reasons. They’re not trying to kill people. It’s for the greater good of Yeah. And it’s like celebrates cleverness. It’s not violent. It celebrates teamwork and cleverness. It’s like And it’s anti- capitalist. I would think like if you if I saw the horsemen were putting on a show like those tickets must be crazy cuz you get money back. You get money. You make money. I’d be Yeah. It’s an investment for all the audience members. Yeah. Exactly. It’s a writeoff. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Like the I feel like Ticket Master goes nuts for those. Yeah. Totally. If you could pull off one impossible illusion in real life, what would it be? To disappear forever. Do you hate this interview? Not right now. After a disapp I’ve learned to disappear for sure. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I think invisibility. Yeah. I would like walk into like a like a national monument or something. Mhm. That would be the first thing you do. Yeah. Cuz they’re like so you can finally go to that national monument now. Yeah. Now that no one can get me out there, you could like have to wait on my You could climb the Lincoln Memorial. No one would stop it. So that’s your big dream. That’s not an illusion. I would take everyone’s cell phone. I wish there was a way to just take everybody’s cell phone and then gone. I love that. No more cell phones for anyone ever again. I love that. No more social media. cell phones. No, she said one illusion like a collective thing that you do with a group of people where you just get rid of like you they just detonate and in a in a harmless playful way. Yeah. In a nice way and then no one has their phones. Wait, I would do you want to still have your phone? Yeah, I need my phone. I want people to call but no, only the people I need to call need their phone. Everybody else. Got it. So, it’s in your circle. Everybody’s got a phone. But outside the outside just me. Just me with the phone. Climbing national monuments. Sword swallowing would be cool. That would be cool. Yo, or like spitting fire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Dangerous. And own a small space. Yeah. I bet if I did it, you know, if I learned how to do it safely. Being cut in half is always cool. That’s a cool one. I feel like if I had invisibility my I’d get my feelings hurt pretty quickly. Like cuz you Oh, you want to be nosy and like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be like, “Oh, I don’t like that.” Okay. Uh, just to wrap it up here, uh, give me, you know, one word to describe the movie or three. You can have as many as you want. Actually, the best movie ever. Wait, what were you going to say? Was that one word? I think it was, was it one? You know, I kind of changed the rules. Oh, right. Chosen Family. Chosen Family. That’s good. Sincere. The movie is a magic trick. When you watch the movie, you realize at the end, oh, this has been a magic trick. That’s 18 words. Yeah. I That’s 18 words is in my world is one word. It takes that same amount of time to say the 18 more than one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I think it’s thrilling and really well crafted and I think no one’s going to see the twist on this. Everyone sees it. They’re like, “What were they talking about?” Does everyone see it? Really, Mike? Everyone I know. Like imagine like they watch this interview and they’re like what was [Laughter] eight magicians against a worldwide criminal network. I like our chances. [Music]

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t stars Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Ariana Greenblatt, Justice Smith & Dominic Sessa introduce the newest Horsemen and discuss the franchise’s return after 10 years.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t arrives in theaters on November 14.

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