- [Chris] Playing Brenda, Rosa Salazar.

(audience cheers)

Playing Minho, oh good, you're coming out there now.

Ki Hong Lee.

As Newt, Thomas Brodie-Sangster,

and then as Jorge, Giancarlo Esposito.

(audience cheers)

Welcome, welcome you guys.

- [Wes] Thanks very much.

- [Chris] First of all, congratulations to you.

Well done, sir.

- [James] Thank you.

- [Chris] Are you, is it seeing it ripped off the page

and putting it up on the screen,

is this what you envisioned?

- [James] It's the highlight of my career, man,

just I'm enjoying every minute of it.

They do all the hard work, I just sit back and watch.

- [Chris] Nice. Wes...

So in the first movie it takes a little bit of time

before everyone starts to figure out what's going on,

and then it takes off.

But it feels like you guys just start right out of the gate

with this movie. - [Wes] Yeah, and that's

what's kind of fun about this movie.

I think I remember being in here a year ago

and saying the same thing,

if we got the chance to make the second one,

it was just gonna pick up right where the last one ended.

And it was just gonna be nonstop, full momentum, full steam.

You know, this movie is way bigger than the first one.

We get to explore a much larger world, many more threats.

It's just as intense and emotional as the other one,

so we're real excited to see what fans are gonna think.

- [Chris] Dylan, how do you think Thomas has changed

since the first movie?

- I think in this one

for me, Thomas is,

he's for the first time, I think, feeling defeated.

And maybe angry, too.

I mean, in the first film he's kind of

the one always motivating,

and everyone's sitting around doing nothing,

he's like, "Come on, we can do this."

And he discovers this leader in himself,

and then at the end of the first film

he's just crushed with this guilt.

And losing one special friend in particular,

feeling responsible for other deaths as well.

He feels responsible for these guys,

and now that he knows that maybe

he didn't lead them to the right place,

it's gonna weigh on him.

- [Chris] Yeah.

Rosa, what did it mean to you to become,

I mean, I can see the look in your face.

- I've never, you guys I'm very emotional right now,

I've never seen the trailer before and I almost cried.

It was so beautiful,

it looks like the movie that we sought out to make,

and I, it means the world to me.

This character is so fun to play,

she's like a total rescue dog who ends up

sort of bonding with these people

in the name of getting beat up.

So it's so emotional for me to even watch this

and I'm really excited for you guys to see it.

- [Chris] How's it been for you so far, Ki Hong?

- It's been great, it's a dream come true.

I mean, working together on a movie

that you're really passionate about,

and a story that's so well curated by Wes,

and also getting a chance to work with

these wonderful people who I call friends.

So it's really a dream come true. I can't really complain.

- [Chris] Thomas, where's Newt at the second movie?

- He's come from a place in which he

really knew how to survive and live

in this certain situation,

and kind of grown accustomed to it.

And worked his way up into the ranks,

and he's been there for quite a long time.

And then to come out of that

into a world that he has no power, no control over,

and is completely foreign and new to him.

Which is exactly the same circumstances

that we're all put in.

Really kind of switches up the dynamic within the group.

But still Newt holds onto that thing of

being the constant source of encouragement for everyone

and trying to see the best in people,

and trying to get them together to do what they do best

and make the best out of the whole situation

and move us forward.

- [Wes] Yeah, a sense of brotherhood was always

a really important thing to our movies, basically,

and we carry that further in this movie, I think.

- [Chris] Giancarlo Esposito.

I don't, this is going to sound creepy,

I look at you every day

because I have a poster of Gus framed in my dressing room

(everyone laughs)

- Thank you, thank you, thank you.

- [Chris] Someone did a depiction of Gus Fring

moments after the thing...

Oh, it's been awhile. You die.

- [Giancarlo] I had very good doctors.

- [Chris] And you're holding a teddy bear,

and it's this artist's fiction,

and you're next to my dressing room,

every day I see you. - [Giancarlo] Nice.

- [Chris] I see half of your face.

- It's an honor to be associated with such a great show,

and to have the opportunity to do that.

It's as great an honor to be part of this film, Maze Runner.

It's explosive and I play a character named Jorge

who is equally as explosive as Gus Fring

with probably a little bit more of a heart.

This is a film that everyone should be getting excited about

because it's not only about action, it's about humanity,

it's about family sticking together to pull each other out,

and believe it or not, it's a challenging film to watch,

so fast-paced, but you're gonna get the guts, the glory,

the humanity of this film.

You see the trailer,

you're gonna see it on screen September 18, I'm so excited.

(audience cheers) - [Chris] Wait, I mean...

Seriously.

- He is the man. - [Chris] First of all...

- [Dylan] We're all just nervous answering...

- [Chris] Oh, no. - [Rosa] I almost cried.

- Hey, you told me I had very little time.

- [Chris] Well, first of all, way to keep me on track.

'cause I'm like, "Remember when you were Gus Fring?"

and then you wove it in so gorgeously.

- Everyone asks me, "What role do you love

the best that you're playing?"

I say, "It's the role I'm playing right now."

- [Chris] Yeah, it's Jorge right now.

- [Wes] That's why we cast him.

- [Chris] But, Wes, let's talk a little bit more,

I mean are we going to start to learn

some more of the motivations and some of the secrets

behind WCKD, and what's going on,

and what's behind the curtain?

- [Wes] Yeah, and that's the fun part about it,

is it was really important to me

when we first went into this thing,

is we weren't just gonna do a rehash of the first movie.

We wanted this movie to feel totally different.

We wanted to just go into a whole new landscape

and kinda explore new ideas,

and carry forward some of the questions

that were sort of left lingering in the first one,

and just continue this story.

So what's really cool is that this movie

really does start exactly where the last one left off.

So you could watch these two back-to-back,

and it's this awesome, epic three-hour adventure.

I mean, it's just gonna be really fun I think,

and it leaves some new questions, basically,

and some cool new twists and turns

that are gonna pop up, I'm not gonna give those away.

But it's gonna throw us into a really cool third movie.

- [Chris] And so when you're taking characters,

a lot of characters that people already know,

and they're very personal to people,

so what is your role,

especially when you're working with James?

How do you honor that,

but then also give the audience something new?

Because obviously if people read the book,

and it's like, "Oh, this is everything that was exact..."

You know, like you want some new things,

but you don't want too much to change.

- [Wes] Yeah, I think that's in the active interpretation.

This is my interpretation of James's books, essentially.

And not just mine, actually, the entire team's, basically.

When it comes to these characters,

we all have our discussions,

we talk about who they are

and what role they need to serve the narrative.

And then I'll let them go, I'll let them do their thing,

and that's what makes it feel real,

makes it feel spontaneous.

And it doesn't have this paint-by-numbers approach.

I think that was something that

was really kind of charming about the first movie,

is that there was an authenticity to it,

there was a realness to it, something grounded about it.

And I think we tried to really contain that

in this movie in a big way.

- [Chris] Dylan, how much, I mean,

did you feel your life completely change overnight?

- No, no, I don't think so. - [Chris] Oh good, okay.

- [Rosa] No.

- [Chris] No! Leave me alone!

- [Dylan] Yay!

I want to defer,

I want one of you guys to answer my questions for me.

- [Chris] Giancarlo, did Dylan's life change overnight?

- This guy is amazing, he's a bionic man on set.

I mean, he has so much energy and so committed all through.

You are, you really are.

He tumbles, he jumps, he runs,

he looks you right in the eye and he plays the scene.

It's been one of my favorite films to do,

I've been doing this for 50 years,

and this cast is committed.

Truly extremely committed.

- [Chris] Giancarlo.

- [Dylan] The same goes for Giancarlo, by the way.

This is what I got to work with every day,

and it's fantastic.

- [Chris] Giancarlo,

what were Rosa's motivations for playing...

- [Rosa] Giancarlo. (everyone laughs)

- Look at me, look at me.

- [Chris] (laughs) I'd love to talk about

some of the new threats, Wes.

'cause I know that this world

is going to be more expansive and broader, obviously,

than the last one.

- [Wes] Like I say,

it's almost a different genre of a movie, basically.

And one of our main threats in this movie

are these things called the cranks.

And something we set up in the first movie,

you start to see that there is a virus

that's kind of infected the world.

And is ravaging these people of the world,

and these kids are kind of important

to uncovering how to solve this big issue,

it's kind of a big, giant threat in the world.

And so it was a really fun challenge

to try to visually come up with something for these cranks,

these things that James described, these infected people,

and throughout the entire movie you see

these different stages of cranks.

People that are just starting to get infected

all the way to people that are really far gone.

And they're pretty terrifying,

I mean we have a little bit

of a horror movie here on our hands here,

which is kinda fun.