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somebody's got it, they got it. They've got the knack to say, "Well, you can't have four car doors sound the same. Car comes up and goes bup bup bup bup. That's rule one. Everybody wants to get "designy" about things. Some of the things that they're designing I would have had bounced off the stage 20 or 30 years ago because it would sound too FM-ish or whatever. But that said, they're doing some really cool stuff out there. This is the perfect show for me to work on. This would be a wonderful noir, thriller, suspenseful, thinking, great script, great dialogue, I think I'm going out on top with this one. SSS: Brilliant. I agree. What I wanted to ask is if you were willing to work at a ski resort because we're hiring… JJ: (laughing) SSS: Minimum wage Jon, minimum wage … $13 an hour, that's all you get. JJ: But do you get a break on lift tickets or anything? SSS: Oh yes! I've been skiing free for 32 years! You had a statement called, "The hole in the aircraft." Your ADR was a hole in the aircraft. What does that mean? JJ: My wife worked in aerospace. She worked on the F-22 Raptor. They had a cooling system. Basically, what they're trying to do is a lot like what we were trying to do, is come up with something you've never heard before. They're coming up with something that's an engineering feat, a magical whatever. They say, "Yeah, we can get it built for maybe this much." They're coming up with something but there's a schedule that we deal with. They have their spotting session, they have their building session, as we do. It's a schedule through an event to build an airplane. But sometimes the technology that you are supposed to deliver isn't there quite yet, because it's just not. It's the real world. We are inventing something nobody's ever seen before. So, as they start putting the aircraft together, they have stages where they get the outside fuselage, and they get the engines in, then they get the wiring in, and then they start to finish out all of the doo dads. Well, where this doo dad is, say, it's supposed to be like something you would see on the dashboard, well, they don't have it yet, but they can't stop to wait for that to get done, it just has to keep going. Nonetheless, you can't fly the aircraft when you have a hole in it. (laughs) SSS: That's right. That's the hole in the aircraft. How did you fill those holes? JJ: Faith. In the dialogue, we would have possible alternates to it but a lot of the adds we were doing were actual structural plot devices. Things that were necessary in telling of the tale. We just had to wait. SSS: You said that Jared Leto's ADR lines were all o› screen. They were all adds. JJ: A lot of them were in the scene where he was getting Rami into the car to go out into the desert. David (Fluhr) did a fine job of matching them with the onscreen dialogue so it was pretty seamless. Mr. Fluhr is quite good at that! He's also a fine, fine idea of a music mixer. Beautiful, incredible score. (L-R) Director/writer/producer John Lee Hancock and Jared Leto on the set of the psychological thriller The Little Things. Photo: Nicola Goode. © 2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.