John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
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And over a long period
period of time and he learned through failures and he crafted something very powerful.
But I think what I wanted to point the most
defining attribute, I think, to Washington that I wanted to point out in the film is here's a guy that through this first set of adventures in his life realized that it kind of wasn't about him, even though it would be, in the sense that he realized that to lead,
you know, the first half of our f our film, which I think is accurate, as with any story about someone that m wants to make a name for themselves, you know, um, or wants to make it in the big city or whatever, this is kind of a storytrope.
It's selfish.
It's it's about them, you know.
And I think for Washington it was he wants to be weighed and measured.
Yeah, he wants to advance his station.
He and and so it is about him until his what we say in the film was his his ambition was he put his ambition in front of his men and he got a lot of his men killed.
And I think this guy realized that, oh, leadership is to actually serve, to serve the people you're entrusted with and to serve an idea.
That is so much bigger than you, that in service to that idea, you become the embodiment of the idea.
In front of his men.
Flogged, shot.
And he would yeah, and and he had I think discipline was very important to him.
Order was very important to him.
Also as an exercise, which this is something any American can do.
I don't know, for you, like whenever I'm in between movies or whatever, I like to like
redesign something like a wall, a room, or something, because it's like this is the little thing that I can control in this uncontrollable.
Yeah, you know.
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