Did you ever have a bad vacation?

Beau Garrett: The worst vacation is in LA.

Olivia Wilde: Exactly, exactly; you run into more trouble at home than you do abroad.

You talked a little bit about the nightlife –

Olivia Wilde: I wouldn’t know anything about that.

Josh said you were the ones who were pushing it.

Olivia Wilde: Josh is very reserved.

Beau Garrett: He put it on us.

Olivia Wilde: We used to call it – there’s this thing called ‘The Duhamel’ that if you suddenly disappear from a party, which is when you’ve gone home and hadn’t said goodbye to anyone. And that’s called ‘A Duhamel.’ I still use it, and no one knows what I’m talking about.

Beau Garrett: You just did a Duhamel.

Olivia Wilde: You can’t go to Brazil without embracing their nightlife - they’re happy people, and they love to dance, and we love to dance, and we really took advantage of that. And it was great because the crew – we were the only Americans there; there were 10 of us who were American, as well as English and Australian in the cast. Half the cast is Brazilian, and the crew was Brazilian; so we were the minority. It’s not like we traipsed in with 100 Americans and took over a city; we were visitors, and they encouraged us to enjoy their nightlife. It’s not like we were in Rio the whole time with these giant uber clubs; we were a very small community. So going out and having a night out on the town literally meant sitting at the bar with these little bar stools and dancing samba, or attempting to.

Beau Garrett: And we went out with the crew; the crew would join us. It wasn’t like the cast went here, and the crew goes there; we were all combined.

Olivia Wilde: Which was great; it’s very different – the American film industry is very different than the Brazilian, the hierarchy is very different.

Beau Garrett: Yeah, exactly; there is no hierarchy in Brazil.

Olivia Wilde: Well, it’s different; here, it’s the actors, director on top, and the crew at the very bottom. There, it’s the director at the top, and everyone else at the very bottom; he is the captain, and everyone else is working on his ship. And I really appreciated that because they really didn’t give us any special treatment, and didn’t understand it when the special treatment would be hinted at – ‘Can someone get them their robes, they’re in bikinis and they’re freezing.’ They’d be like, ‘They get robes? We should get robes.’

Beau Garrett: Yeah, exactly.

Olivia Wilde: And I kind of love that kind of spirit of the crew because it’s totally new. And what was great was going out with them was kind of embracing because ‘we’re not going to try and stay isolated from you’ and be that ‘holier than thou’ cast of actors, we’re not Gods. It’s so silly to put actors in that position, and we really just wanted to learn from them and let them know that we weren’t there to exploit their country and resources; we were really there to enjoy it from the ground up with them.

You went to a big club when you first got there.

Olivia Wilde: The first; we were in Rio for a week for pre-production.

What was your favorite club?

Olivia Wilde: Oh gosh, I wish I could remember the names; there were some really great clubs, great music.

Beau Garrett: Ulysses – it wasn’t a club; it was a bar.

Olivia Wilde: And it was in a little town. But in Rio, I remember there was this club we went to, and because we were American actors that were shooting a movie, they ushered us in, big security guards, into a VIP room. We were looking down in the glass window – ‘They’re having so much more fun down there; why are we up here? We’re here to party with the Brazilians; why are we in the little American VIP room?’

Beau Garrett: No one else was in there, this isn’t fun…

Olivia Wilde: We instantly went down, and started attempting to samba and that was way more fun, and that kind of exemplified our whole night life experience there. It was ‘screw this VIP bullshit.’

How was it to shoot the gruesome scenes?

Beau Garrett: It wasn’t funny; it was a process, it was a process. It started before I went to Brazil; I had a body cast – that I had never done before. That whole process is fascinating; it’s a seven hour thing, and you’re on this thing. I fainted, and woke up to them panicking and feeding me ice cream, and I was like, ‘I’m ok, I’m ok. Where am I? Get it off me.’ They did my head, the whole thing – and that’s an art in itself; they made her me, the whole thing – ‘oh my God, you’re hot!’ Kidding, kidding. But then to do the scenes –

Olivia Wilde: That was Beau Garrett, that was not Olivia Wilde.

Beau Garrett: But to do the scene where I’m on this cold medal, or steel, or whatever it was – the hospital bed, strapped in, and I have this torso thing on me, and he has this blunt scalpel. And this doctor – an amazing Brazilian actor, and he’s cutting me open; I was like, ‘Oh my God this is crazy.’ And I didn’t leave for 12 hours, I peed in a bed pan, and I ate food in a torso, and it was super strange. And then to see it was so eerie; I won’t let my - my parents won’t see it. They’re going to buy the ticket to support it, cause if they don’t, I’ll kill ‘em; but they won’t see it cause it’s super real, and watching it I was like – it was a very gruesome surgery scene.

Olivia, you had a scene where you had to be very flexible. Are you that flexible to get out of the knots?

Olivia Wilde: Yeah, that’s yoga for you; it really comes in handy when you’re hogtied in a dog kennel in the rain. It’s really funny because we were tied up, and we were struggling with a plot point, which was ‘how do they get to the point where they can cut each other open with the knife, how can they cut each other’s binds up with the knife.’ And John was thinking, ‘One of you has got to be able to pull the cuffs in front of you,’ and we were thinking about it. And so he said, ‘You can’t do that thing, can you? You know that thing from movies when they – that’s not real, is it?’ ‘I can try.’ And I remember everyone was standing around hoping I could do it, because if we could do it, we could solve the plot point problem. So they’re all standing around staring at me, and I was like, ‘Common yoga!’ And I did it, and it was realistic enough to make that plot work, or else you’re like, ‘Common, how did they get out of a kennel; that’s stupid.’ But it really worked, and you can all try it at home, and you can do it – go yoga!

What about all the swimming; none of it was in tanks?

Olivia Wilde: No tanks. We were in the most beautiful underwater caves in Bella; it was all about pushing yourself farther than you ever imagined going. By the end, we all became pretty good free divers; we had amazing doubles who were teaching us everything we knew. Mine was Megan Greer, who is the world champion free diver; she is a Sports Illustrated model, she has a show on Discovery – she’s an extraordinary woman, who can dive 185 feet in one breath. And rather than wanting to do all the stuff instead of me, she was encouraging me; she said, ‘You should try it, you can do this, I’ve seen you swim, I think you can do this.’ And I would say, ‘There’s no way in hell; I am claustrophobic, and I’m afraid of drowning.’ And she’d say, ‘You can do it.’ And she’s the reason I did, and I’m really happy and grateful, even though we ran into some sticky situations.

Did you have SCUBA guys standing by in case something wrong happened?

Olivia Wilde: Yeah, it was interesting because they felt so far away, and the nature of the film is that, how are they supposed to tell when you’re actually panicking. The situation I ran into was I literally started to have a panic attack, flailing my arms, and they thought I was acting because that’s exactly what my character is supposed to be doing. You can see in the movie when I go for one air pocket, realize it’s not there, turn around – I can hardly watch at that point, it gives me shivers because that’s when I thought it was over. I didn’t think that the safety diver would be close enough, even though he was only 50 feet away and could swim really fast; he told me afterwards he had no idea. He said, ‘We were watching the monitor, and thought you were doing a great job.’ And that’s a testament to – ugh, I don’t know; I’m just happy it happened at the end because it made for good movie watching.

Beau, you’re in Fantastic Four 2, who is Frankie Raye?

Beau Garrett: Frankie Raye is a military brat, who works under General Hager, who is played by Andre Braugher; and they come in to collaborate with the Fantastic Four to help stop these occurrences that are keeping, or putting the world at stake. So she’s a very thick skinned character who grew up in the military; he’s kind of a father figure for her, and she has this love interest with Johnny Storm. She’s a cool character, she’s human underneath all the exterior; she’s got a good side that really comes out in the film.

Do you get to kick some ass?

Beau Garrett: I do a little bit; I get to hold a gun, which I thought was really exciting, which I haven’t done yet.

Do you secretly have super powers?

Beau Garrett: The character does, in the comic, she does end up having super powers. I don’t know what they’re going to do with that in the film. In this, she doesn’t; but who knows what they’re going to do with it.

You’re also in Live.

Beau Garrett: It’s loosely based, or based – Eva Mendes plays this network head, and she wants to create this reality show to bring in more audiences. And it’s pretty much having six or seven contestants on this reality show putting a gun to their head. One of the contestants has a bullet in their gun, and so it’s pretty eerie; I play this Vanna White kind of character, which is so cool It’s like having this ethereal ‘ahhhhh’ – it was so neat. And to be a part of that, it was an indie film, and to be a part of that, to be on set, it was cool; it was only about a week of work, but it was great.

It looks like a large ensemble cast.

Beau Garrett: It is. It was great; it was cool to see them. To have a gun to your head and not know if you’re going to live or die, it was silent; there was a lot of silent acting which was kind of cool to watch their thought process as the gun – what are they thinking. And they have a clip of who these people are, but good actors; it was really cool to watch how it pans out.

Are you able to watch yourself on screen?

Olivia Wilde: Well, with this movie there was no make-up and hair, so it was a little difficult. But I find myself totally unrecognizable; I don’t recognize the person on screen, and I guess that’s a good thing. But it’s a little odd for everybody, I guess.

Do you have a brother?

Olivia Wilde: I have a little brother, but I’ve always wanted a big brother; and if I got one, I’d hope he’s exactly like Josh because he –

Josh’s character or Josh, for real?

Olivia Wilde: Both, they’re really similar; Josh is a little more worldly, and a little less anal than his character. But that sweetness, and that brotherly nurturing is there in both the character and the real person, so I’d love to have him. But he is my brother now; he calls me ‘little sister.’ I think we’ve convinced a lot of people.

Olivia, what’s up for you?

Olivia Wilde: I am shooting the Black Donnellys right now, which is an NBC show by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco. And it’s about the Irish mob in New York, and the community where the Irish mob existed, about this family that’s struggling with taking over the neighborhood; and it’s very, very different than Turistas. But it’s also fact-based, and loosely based on the life of Bobby Moresco, who grew up in Hell’s Kitchen; so it’s great and interesting, and hopefully people will like it when it premieres in January.

So it’s finally coming out, because they’ve had to push it back…

Olivia Wilde: No, they always wanted it to be a mid-season Grey’s Anatomy; for those character-driven shows, it’s kind of easier to premiere because you have a little more space around you. But, we were originally going to take ER’s slot, and then ER started doing freakishly well; so we’re not doing that anymore. But they have another good slot, and I hope people like it. And around that same time, Alpha Dog comes out; that finally comes out.