It’s always great to dive into a fun action-adventure movie, and Fountain of Youth delivers just that. 

With an all-star cast including John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Laz Alson, Carmen Ejogo, Eiza Gonzalez, and Domhnall Gleeson, Fountain of Youth is a great movie to add to your watchlist this summer. The film follows estranged siblings and their team as they track down the mythical Fountain of Youth. Will they succeed in finding it? Well, you’ll have to watch the movie to find that out! 

Ahead of the film’s premiere on Apple TV+, I had the fantastic opportunity to chat with Laz Alonso, who portrays Murphy in the movie.  Alonso spoke about the script reminding him of the fantasy and adventure movies from the ’80s he loved, his favourite places that they travelled to while filming, and more!  

Check out the full interview with Laz Alonso below:

There are many adventure and fantasy films from the ’80s that still make their mark today. For Alonso, this was something that drew him to the story and script of Fountain of Youth.

Alonso said, “Well, what excited me most about it was the genre. You know, I grew up on ’80s movies where Fantasy was normal; that like the plethora of movies that we had to consume were fantasy. Indiana Jones, Goonies, Neverending Story, just movies that would pull you out of reality and put you somewhere else and let your imagination just run free. And so, that was the first thing that made me say, ‘Oh, this is what I’ve been waiting to do,’ one of the types of movies that made me want to be an actor in the first place.”

Regarding all the travel and different set locations, Alonso had no idea that they would really be going to all of these places at first.

“I had no idea we were going to be shooting in so many countries, I’ll tell you that. You know, I was thinking, ‘Okay, we’re definitely going to be shooting in London,’ because that’s where his home base is. But I never thought that we would also be in Vienna shooting in castles, like old castles that are now libraries, but it’s like where the original, like, you know, Emperor used to live and and in the Pyramids of Giza. It was just really mind blowing,” Alonso said.

Alonso easily connected with his character Murphy, and appreciated that he was an older statesman within the team.

Alonso said, “I like that he was an older statesman in the sense that he was part of John Krasinski’s character’s, Dad’s crew, you know? So the fact that they brought these characters in who already had experience in this world of high value and high net worth, you know, art theft, you know, and decoding ancient civilizations mysteries, to me, gave me a lot to play with as a as an actor, as a performer. Just knowing that a character has a certain expertise, that’s half of the work that you have to do as an actor, as far as creating backstory, is done, because now you can consume yourself in learning what this expertise is, and consume yourself with with civilizations, with the world that you’re going to be in, you know, and you can bring that to to your performances, even the excitement that you get from talking about these things.”

Alonso continued, “I got so excited finding out about this new French study that showed that the Pyramids of Giza, especially the middle, the the largest pyramid – you know, big daddy pyramid has eight solid columns that extend down into the earth, more than three miles under the pyramid. And they say that it’s impossible for a human to have been able to to insert these eight columns, and they have coils, like copper coils wrapped around them all the way down three miles into the earth, into the Earth’s core. So that, in and of itself, just makes – it blows my mind, and it lets me know that the story that we’re telling, is much bigger than what we’re telling.”

Fountain of Youth is streaming Now, exclusively on Apple TV+.