"999" is a code no cop ever wants to hear, and "Triple 9" is a wild, testosterone-fueled movie with gangs-bangers, guns, cops and robbers. It’s got a huge cast of A-listers, but it’s hard to tell the bad guys from the good, so Deco sat down with the stars to find out all about it.
"Triple 9" is a good cop/bad cop movie — with way more bad than good. Corrupt or straight arrow, these officers are all trying to survive a gritty gang beat, and Casey Affleck’s one of the good guys.
Casey Affleck: "Kinda gritty, real, slightly stylized realistic portrayal of, you know, cops and robbers."
He has no idea his fellow cops, played by Anthony Mackie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus and Clifton Collins Jr., are bank robbers. And they’re about to stage a "triple 9!"
Aaron Paul: "You know, a ‘999’ is the police code for officer down, so you know the entire force is gonna go to that location."
Clifton Collins Jr.: "It’s 911 for police officers. So if you’re down, if you think you’re caught up in a gunfight, or if you’re by yourself or your partner’s been shot and you’re gonna get killed, you call in a ‘999.’"
The corrupt cops are using the "triple 9" as a distraction while they’re pulling off the bank heist. Aaron and Norman loved shooting it.
Aaron Paul: "To rob a bank, you know, put on a mask, run through a bank with a giant gun and then running out of the bank in our getaway vehicles. It was a blast."
They both find our Magic City a blast, too!
Aaron Paul: "Love Miami."
Norman Reedus: "I was just there. I was in a — I did a motorcycle ride from Naples to Key West with Peter Fonda."
Wow! Peter Fonda from "Easy Rider?!" But this wild ride on the set? Not such an easy ride!
Aaron Paul: "They claim that it wasn’t dangerous for us. Do not worry, but anyone that wasn’t an actor that was around that vehicle all had big gas masks on."