The Gray Man: Russo Brothers Break Down the Massive Prague Action Set Piece From Inception to Screen

With The Gray Man now playing in select movie theaters and streaming on Netflix starting July 22, I recently spoke to Joe and Anthony Russo about making the action thriller. Since we already did a longer interview with the Russo brothers where they talked about why it’s taken so long to get Mark Greaney’s novel to movie screens, casting Ryan Gosling, the incredible challenge of making a movie with nine action sequences, and why they cast Dhanush, I decided in this interview to have them break down filming the massive Prague action set sequence in the third act of the film. I don’t want to spoil the movie, so all I’ll say is one of The Gray Man biggest and most involved of the nine incredible action sequences takes place in Prague. In the sequence, you’ve got Gosling under fire, tons of police and private contractors trying to capture or kill him, and eventually the action takes place on a tram that runs through the city. It’s a fantastic set piece that had the audience clapping in both screenings that