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Yeah

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my earliest memories are all

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surrounding aviation quite literally .

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My first memory is burning my hand on

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the nose of an F . 18 hornet after an

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air show show that my dad had just been

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a part of , he was a blue angel for two

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years and I was super super young so

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just like navy bases the smell of jet

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fuel like that whole world are like all

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tied to my earliest memories . So

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stepping into devotion has been kind of

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funny because it's kind of taking me

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back to those places all over again .

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And when I heard about J .

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D . I got a call and they said we found

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our director and so you're kind of on

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pins and needles who is it ? Who is it ?

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Who is it ? They told me about who J .

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D . Is he's this young man , he's got

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great vision and then they said his

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father was a blue angels angels pilot .

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I felt like I don't know there's just

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this weight lifted because to do this

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movie you have to have lived this story .

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You can't take a crash course in naval

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aviation in six months or even by

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reading my book and know how to make a

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movie . This big J . D . Grew up on

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these bases with his father he grew up

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talking to his dad late nights at the

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kitchen table he knows the lingo , he

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knows the world , he knows the culture ,

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he knows the ethos and so there's no

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better director on the planet than that

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young man when I first read the

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script um I kind of cried my way

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through reading it , which is um I have

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to say , incredibly rare . So it wasn't

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just because Jessie and Tom's story was

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so remarkable , which it is on its own .

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Um but then also I saw so much

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commonality between jesse and my dad ,

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who himself was unable 30 years after

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jesse , so sort of at the heart of

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making this movie , you know , it's

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been not just an opportunity to sort of

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celebrate who jesse and Tom were , but

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also kind of get to tell my dad's story

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and , you know , look as a as a

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filmmaker , you always look for that

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personal connection . Um and I'm just

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really lucky that the one on devotion

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is just so intense .