The delays have been talked about and reported online. What was it like in that time-frame when you had to go back and shoot extra scenes with Channing and Dwayne after getting that feedback?

All those things aren’t true. We didn’t go back in. When we were reading about it, ‘right, that’s interesting, we’re not shooting anything right now’. In the delay, we did shoot a day or two before all that, like December or something like that.

We shot the video game scene, which was a bit of fun. We just wanted a bit of humour in the movie so it wouldn’t feel so heavy because when you kill a whole bunch of people, when you destroy London, I mean… That was way before the delay. When the delay happened we literally didn’t shoot anything. We were full-on trying to get 3D and we spent ages. We had over 700 artists and 300 shots. Each shot we needed to make fifteen, twenty different versions. It was a gruelling marathon at all times.

I thought it was funny, it hurt – I was like ‘they don’t know and they’re making up all this stuff!’ Paramount’s rules were don’t say anything and let it ride, we’ll deal with it when we do. When the next trailer came out people were like ‘See they shot more stuff, he’s alive!’ I couldn’t say no he’s still dead because I wanted that to be a surprise too. It was funny just to see how people take it and run with it.

Well it’s good to have that cleared up because that was commonly spread as gospel online. Thanks for this Jon!