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" Interviewed by Cal Fussman, October 10, 2013 PETER BERG: If someone&amp;#039;s my friend, there&amp;#039;s somehow an additive quality to the relationship. TAYLOR KITSCH: We met in the NBC Universal building, when I was screen-testing for Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights. I was waiting with the other actors. Pete would come in, pull whomever out, and then bring them to another room. Then it was my turn. We went to this boardroom and did improv for a long time. BERG: I liked him right from the get-go. Instinctively I felt like he was the kind of person I liked having in my life. I wanted him to play the part, but I didn&amp;#039;t want to let him know that\u2014plus I had to sell him to all the producers first. So as we walked out of the room to meet with the other producers, I go: &amp;quot;Hey, try not to sound so fucking Canadian.&amp;quot; The way he looked at me\u2014that&amp;#039;s when I knew for sure. The fact that I could say something like that to him and he could handle it foreshadowed that we&amp;#039;d probably end up friends. BERG: In Lone Survivor, we do the RPG explosions\u2014real explosions that are throwing up pieces of dirt and debris\u2014and we put them extremely close. At one point the aim of the RPG wasn&amp;#039;t correct, and it literally blew up in Mark Wahlberg&amp;#039;s face. It hit him pretty hard\u2014it could&amp;#039;ve blinded him. Every day we were filming on ski cliffs where guys could&amp;#039;ve fallen off. KITSCH: Serving this story was a dream. I can look back and feel there&amp;#039;s nothing I could personally have done more than what I did. If I&amp;#039;d have looked back and thought, &amp;quot;Oh, fuck, I should have trained harder,&amp;quot; that would&amp;#039;ve been the worst thing in the world. And a feeling like that&amp;#039;s not going to go away. KITSCH: I was brought up in a trailer park with two brothers and a single mom. I like to think I don&amp;#039;t look at money any different than when I was young. I like to consider myself still pretty fucking cheap. BERG: I&amp;#039;m from the mo&amp;#039; money, mo&amp;#039; problems school of philosophy. I&amp;#039;ve always been raised to not equate finance with happiness. I don&amp;#039;t think either one of us are big material guys. We don&amp;#039;t buy a lot of fancy watches and cars. The happiest experiences that I ever have with money are generally when I&amp;#039;m giving it away. KITSCH: You know, we box together. We did this morning. BERG: We go pretty mellow. There have been many times on set when one or both of us is in a foul mood. We&amp;#039;re ready to kill each other. We&amp;#039;re both conscious of the fact that if we started fighting really hard, it might get fucking crazy. KITSCH: Yeah. BERG: With all this talk of friendship and trust, we could kill each other at any moment. So we generally go 70 percent max when we box. That way it&amp;#039;s contained. BERG: You know, Taylor did just write, produce, and direct his own film. KITSCH: It&amp;#039;s a thirty-two-minute short that we&amp;#039;ll take to a few festivals in the coming year. BERG: I was shocked how good it was. And he didn&amp;#039;t ask me for any advice. KITSCH:Nope. BERG: What I want is a role reversal. I want to be his actor. KITSCH: I would never\u2014 BERG: I would go fucking crazy! KITSCH:I would never cast\u2014 BERG: I&amp;#039;m so ready to be his actor! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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