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You spend so much time out here with them, you almost become brothers. That is a clip from Brothers After War. It's a trailer on a movie that is out on Friday.
It debuts on Friday in selected theaters. Gary Sinise is the executive producer on it and his fingerprints are all over it. It's a brand new documentary and Gary Sinise's foundation helped finance it. It gives such a message that coincides with Gary's been trying to do. When he's not on screen, when he's on a new television, he tries to give back to those who served in the past and active in wars.
Thankfully, the two of the wars that were active for 20 plus years have wound down and he does it with his band and he does it with his star power. Gary Sinise joins us again. Gary, welcome back. Hey, wonderful to be with you, Brian.
Thanks for having me, bud. I mean, I had you on Fox and Friends yesterday where the day before these are kind of blending all together and I see your passion for this project. So this is a chance for the people who fight this generations of wars to talk about getting back into society. We know so much more and also the taxing natures of the war, never knowing where the battle lines were, never multiple deployments coming back to an America that was not at war and those adjustments. Is that all part of Brothers After War, this documentary?
Well, it sure it sure is. It gives you a good look at military life. This is actually a follow up film to a film that we did years ago called Brothers At War. Brian, my buddy Jake Rademacher, he was a filmmaker. Actually, he was an actor, but he had some two brothers serving in Iraq and he just wanted to know exactly what they were doing and he wanted to be with them. So he embedded over there with them way back when, like in 2006, 2007, that period of time. And he brought cameras with him and he made a film he embedded with other units over there. He made this film that really looked at military life and what it was like for active duty folks to be serving over in Iraq and then come home to their families and then get deployed again.
And the stress on them and their families and and what they were doing. And it was a beautiful look at active duty military life. After that, he went out and started doing workshops because, you know, we had a lot of people that were doing multiple deployments.
You'll you'll recall. I mean, folks in the service were deployed and then they come home and then they're deployed again and then they come home and deploy again. It was a really stressful time on the active military family. So Jake started doing these workshops on military bases and he would show the film and then he would provide this workbook and people would fill these things out. And a lot of people were containing and holding on to so much stuff. And this movie kind of brought things out well and got them talking. And it was very, very helpful.
And he's done hundreds of workshops all around my foundation sponsors these. Now we have Brothers Afterwar, which really looks at the transition out of the military. We decided to follow up that first film and find out what what are all the people that are in the first film that we're serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, what are they doing now? And many of them are out of the service.
They transitioned out. We we take a hard look at what those transitions out of the military were like for all the people that we meet in the first movie and how they're doing. And I think it's really a helpful, helpful movie for a lot of people. You know, they go through a lot.
You know, we we all know the suicide problems that we've had within the services and all of that. This movie takes a look at all of that. And I think like the first movie, it's going to be very, very helpful and healing for veterans. And that's why my foundation decided to sponsor this. We're going to continue to do workshops for this movie as well.
It opens tomorrow, Friday, and we hope a lot of people go see it. Here's a clip from some of the veterans talking about what the documentary means to them. I invested so much of myself into the military that it was hard to let go. I'm doing this documentary right now because I want to see how the guys that I embedded with years ago are doing. How they're really doing. It's a breath of fresh air to know that people still care.
My favorite moment would be now. So and it does show people do care. So, Gary, you know, the World War Two is four and a half years. You know, you go in, you go out.
They never you're 18 years old. You're in the military. This is a war. This is a military that's a volunteer military. So people went in for different reasons to to maybe they want to make this a career. They want to change the path of their life. And then they go to war. We seem to see the negative side, but the positive side of how many lives have been turned around because of the people's sense of value and what they learn about themselves when pressured in this war context.
Do we do we see enough of the positive side, do you think? Because you've been touring with the Lieutenant Dan Ban and you with the USO since 2003. So you don't need to do a study.
I just want to know what Gary Sinise observes. Yeah, you're right. I mean, once once I started doing tours for the military way back when.
You're right. It's it's it's over 20 years now. I started to see the impact that could be made when you show up and you just try to pat somebody on the back and listen to listen to what they're going through. And they were going through a lot. You know, you'll recall the difficult days during the Iraq war when the media, you know, it was a it was a tough time.
The media was not not supportive. And a lot of people were overseas and they were serving and they were doing good things to try to help people over there. They were fighting a tough fight, but, you know, they were really, you know, achieving something. I remember going to schools, Iraqi schools that our military had refurbished and rebuilt and the children like hugging the soldiers and all of that. I was seeing a lot of, you know, positive impact that was being made by our service members over there that wasn't reported at that time. And, you know, yes, this movie Brothers After War takes a hard look at, you know, the transition coming out of the service. What what it's like, sometimes difficult, but also you've got all these veterans in the movie who are open and sharing their experiences. That's the important thing here is that talking about what you've been through, analyzing it, you know, expressing yourself, letting it out. That's all a very good thing.
That's all a very healing thing. We want all veterans to be able to share and to know that there's a grateful nation out there that's willing to listen. So, by the way, Gary Sinise is with us. His movie, the documentary is out tomorrow, Brothers After War. And Gary, where do we see it?
What's the best way to get it or what are our options? Yeah, well, it's in select theaters around the country. It's a documentary. It's in about 150 theaters around the country. You can go to brothersafterwar.com and you can you can see where it's playing. You can kind of put in your town and it'll tell you if it's at a Regal theater. Regal has been very, very supportive of the movie. You can go to garysinisefoundation.org as well. But just look at Regal theaters in your in your area and see if it's playing there. Veterans can also go to vetticks.com and get free tickets. We've provided one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to vet ticks so that veterans can see the movie for free. All right.
And that's important before I want to get your comments on Gene Hackman is passing. Just broke. And I want to get that.
And you were in a movie together, I think. But before we do that, do you see the numbers for the first time people are signing up for the military again? The Army had a 12 year high in December and in January, a 15 year high.
I think the Pete Hegseth has a lot to do with that in my humble view. He's a war fighter that wants to let people be proud of being in the military again. We're not seeing transgender ads to get people to sign up. We're seeing be all you can be style ads from someone so intertwined in the military. How do you feel about that?
Yeah, well, that's very, very encouraging. Look, military service is an honorable thing. And where would we be if nobody signed up? You know, we'd have to have a draft.
Right. And then you would have to have and then you would have a bunch of people that really shouldn't be there being drafted into the service. So we want we want to know that people are in our military who want to be there.
And so we want them to we want these volunteers to sign up. It's an important thing. It's a noble thing to serve, serve your country. I've met some of the greatest people I know in the world have served or are currently serving in the military. And I think it's nice to see that, you know, Pete, certainly a great guy, just an amazing service member, served our country. I think just there's a spirit around service again that is very, very important and very encouraging. Because I thought about you, too, in Afghanistan, because we did so many great things in Afghanistan. You gave people 20 years to get a sense of of independence and Western culture.
And for 20 years, women were able to literally get the the hoods off their heads and go walk around and have jobs and get the sense of what your what your life could be. And then with the way we ended it, it made a lot of service members question, what did I do this for? And that makes the recovery so much harder. We've made.
You're absolutely right, Brian. We've had a lot of people who have served in Afghanistan just questioning a lot. And that that that has been very you know, I mean, we've we've had to really provide a lot of services of the Gary Sinise Foundation to help with mental wellness. Still, people understand that, hey, just because that ended in the way it ended does not mean that your service didn't matter. A lot of look at all the girls that went to school and they had they had for for a time, there was a generation there that that grew up in freedom. And now it's it's very sad because they're back to slavery and very, very hard. But I knew service members over there who got so so compassionate, had such compassion for the people there that when they got out of the service, they went back to Afghanistan and started trying to build schools there and all these things. And then during the withdrawal and everything, they had a lot of hard times trying to get their people out of there.
It was very, very difficult. So we provide a lot of mental wellness services of the Gary Sinise Foundation. Any veteran out there who might be feeling like they might be in need of something like that.
Go to Gary Sinise Foundation dot org and see what we're doing. So Gene Hackman passed away at the age of 95. I'm just telling you, as a moviegoer, I just thought he was as good as it gets. He never did. I never saw a movie where I thought he mailed it in the if he was his name was in the title.
I think it was worth seeing. You're the actor, Gary. What was he like? I know you worked with him. We found out in one movie, Quick and the Dead. Yeah, yeah. I just read this about an hour ago and I'm so saddened to hear Gene was 95.
You know, it's it's it looks kind of strange to me. I don't I don't know what of course they found him and his wife and his dog. I'm not sure what happened, but just on on the side of Gene as an actor and a person and everything, I I did this movie, The Quick and the Dead, with him for two days. I only had a little part two days and I did it because he was in it.
They offered they offered me this tiny little part. And I said to spend two days with Gene Hackman, I'm I'm going to do it. And then I ended up doing a photo shoot with Gene Hackman for Esquire. They asked some actors who were who were your role models as actors?
And we all got to pick one. And I picked Gene because he was he was the ultimate for me. I loved so much of everything he did. The conversation Scarecrow was one of my favorite movies of all time. That's a little scene movie that he did with Al Pacino.
That was really, really good. He's just you know, he's just was a great professional. He served in the Marine Corps. I mean, Gene was was an amazing human being and an amazing actor.
I'm very saddened by what's happened. You know, we weren't close or anything, but we did the photo shoot together and he came to see me. And one flew over a cuckoo's nest when I did that back in 2000.
And just getting to know him a little bit and spending that time with him was a real honor and privilege. Pete has found the cut of you and the quick and the dead. This scene, Gary, you have a hangman's noose and Hackman forces his daughter to shoot at him. Let's listen. I'll give you three shots to save your daddy's life.
Son of a bitch. Shoot the rope. And if it breaks, your daddy can live.
Got my word. You can do it, darling. You just told the gun in both hands. Pull the hammer back. I can't. You can't. You can do it. No, I can't. Don't you blame yourself now.
Just remember that your daddy loves you. I'll always love you. Now, just remember that now.
Come on. That's close enough. She missed.
No, she didn't miss what that was. Yeah, I'm the sheriff in the town and it's a flashback scene, actually. Jean, I was the sheriff at this one point and Jean takes over the town and he's running everything. And this little girl is the little is Sharon Stone as a little girl.
And Sharon Stone comes back to get revenge because of what he did to her father. Wow. Gary, thanks so much. Great thing. Go see Brothers After War. It debuts on Friday, opens up and it's another great documentary and helps the Gary Sinise Foundation.
If you guys can help out that foundation, he puts it to great use. Gary, great. Thanks so much for your reflections on Gene Hackman and for telling us about this great project. Always great to be with you, Brian.
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