Hello, fellas.
How you doing?
How's it going?
Thanks for being here.
OK, so first of all, it's crazy
that you're playing yourselves.
You actually lived through this.
And then you're actually
doing a movie as--
it's a movie, but
it happened to you.
So this was two
years ago, right?
Yep.
Yep.
A little over two.
OK, so explain.
You're vacationing.
You're going.
You've known each
other all your lives.
Right.
So you're on vacation.
And what happens?
Well, we were going
from Amsterdam to Paris.
And we got on the train.
I was on, like, the window seat.
Spencer was on the aisle seat.
Anthony was opposite
on the other aisle.
And they passed out.
Just, I was up texting
some friends back home.
And then I hear, like, a
gunshot and breaking glass.
And I didn't really know what
to think of it because we're
on a train in Europe.
So I just put my head up
and was like, what was that?
Then a train employee
comes running away
from the noise at a full sprint.
And that wakes Spencer up.
And we both looked back to
see what he's running from.
And there's a guy with
an AK-47 and no shirt.
So we both ducked
down behind the seats,
just in total shock
and disbelief.
And I just tapped
Spencer on the shoulder.
And I say, go.
And before I know it, he's gone.
So you told him to go.
[LAUGHING]
Yeah, well, I--
He's a great friend.
He had the aisles--
I had the exits.
--for the record.
And it was a combat seat.
But, yeah, I was just like,
you go first, and hopefully,
take all the lead.
Then maybe I'll think about it.
That's right.
And I was just the shield.
Right.
But I saw that he
either jammed the gun,
or something wasn't up because
he hadn't started shooting yet.
And so I kind of took
a leap of faith at him
and ran right at him.
Luckily, he pointed
and fired at me.
But it was a bad
primer in the bullet.
And anyone doesn't
know what a primer
is, it's what ignites the
gun powder to actually make
the bullet fly.
And so I ran into
him, tackled him.
We wrestled for a little bit.
And Alek came down.
Anthony came down
to help me out.
We kind of laid the smack
down on him a little bit.
Yes, but in the
meantime, wasn't he-- he
had a box cutter or something.
And he was kind of
slashing at you.
So he took out a box cutter
and cut the back of my neck
a few times.
He almost cut my left thumb off.
It severed the tendon and nerve.
He tried to shoot me
with the handgun as well.
Luckily, that had
no ammunition in it.
And I was able to get him
off me and then eventually
choke him unconscious.
OK, so you're
still in your seat.
And so you--
[LAUGHING]
Pretty much.
And you're still texting.
You wouldn't believe
what's happening now.
[LAUGHING]
The selfie.
You guys.
So what were other people--
I mean, probably, you
didn't notice other people
on the train at the time,
because you were just
focused on that.
But, I mean, was it just
the three of you doing this?
There were some people
involved prior to that.
There was two men waiting
outside the bathroom, Mark
Moogalian and Damien.
And Mark actually played
himself in the movie as well,
and his wife and
another passenger
Chris Norman, who helped tie
up the terrorist afterwards.
And without them, I mean,
Mark took the bullet for us.
And we wouldn't have been able
to be in the position we were--
So he got shot.
--if it wasn't for his action.
Yeah, it was basically,
him getting shot
was what alerted us to
something being wrong.
And who was the one
holding the fingers over--
Yeah.
So I was a medic
in the Air Force.
And so as the guy went
unconscious, Alek and Anthony
yelled out, hey,
this guy's been hit.
And first thing I see is
him standing in the aisle,
collapsing, spurting
blood out of his neck.
And then so I said, I'm a medic.
I crawled over to him
and took my shirt off.
I was going to use that as a--
to hold pressure with.
And then I just stuck
my hand in his neck.
I found his artery,
and I pinched it off.
So you saved his life.
Yes, ma'am.
[APPLAUSE]
So besides getting to act
in a Clint Eastwood film,
which is a pretty big perk,
what other perks have you had
since you've all of a sudden--
you're heroes.
So what happens now for
you all in your life?
Since the journey, it's
been, like, such a whirlwind.
But as, like, different
things have came out,
we've got to meet, like, just
cool people that we've always
admired, like Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Kobe Bryant,
Barack Obama-- like, just
multiple people that we've--
You start with Arnold
and end with Obama.
Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
And then Obama.
No, no--
We got to have a--
No particular order was there.
We got to have a private
meeting in the Oval Office
with President Obama.
I got invited back to his
last State of the Union.
Got to sit in
Michelle Obama's box.
So we've got to do
some awesome stuff.
But, I mean, everything's
great, and the movie's great,
and everything like that.
But nothing's better than
what we did that day.
So that's something we
can always take with us--
Yeah, it was amazing.
--forever.
And the fact that they made
a movie out of it, which
is incredible, and you must
have thought when they're
making a movie, you
must have had ideas
in your head of who
was going to-- who
did you want to play you?
Zac Efron.
Uh-huh.
[LAUGHING]
And who did you
want to play you?
Denzel Washington.
But that--
[LAUGHING]
Uh-huh, all right.
And--
And mine was Michael B. Jordan.
All right.
You're a little off with your--
Hey.
Have you looked in the
mirror lately? 'Cause you--
It would be a
challenging role for him.
Yeah.
All right, the 15:17
to Paris comes out
in theaters on February 9.
