It’s all dealt with and dived into in the same way. There’s no throughline to any of it other than I’m acting in any of them.įor me, there’s no difference between doing Avengers, No Country, Milk, The Goonies. People say what’s the similarity between you doing Avengers, Cable, No Country For Old Men. I don’t really follow that, but that’s the thing. What do they say? The pinnacle of wisdom is to treat everything with a beginner’s mind. That he surrounded himself with the best people he could, and listened.Ībsolutely. But he talks about his film work there, and says he made his best film – The Madness Of King George – when he knew the least. There’s a book by Nicholas Hytner on his time primarily overseeing the National Theatre in Britain. I thought that helped, but then you realise after a while it’s just life experiences, and whatever you have, you use. I backpacked, I went to Europe, had amazing experiences. I felt the cage of naivete and inexperience. Goonies was a great example of knowing after that movie, and a movie and a couple of TV shows after that, that I didn’t have the experience that I needed. Coming off the back of that film succeeding, had that film existed now and you – as a young actor – would have been exposed to that level of social media instant fame as a consequence, do you feel your career would have taken a different curve? I put them up for the movie, and I don’t like that.Īuthenticity and social media aren’t always a natural crossover. When I post shit… I just took off two posts, because I said that’s inauthentic to me right now. It’s more like a sociological study to me, as opposed to a personal definition. So when I see it, I don’t take it personally. I think I’m used to seeing both sides of the coin. I don’t have the same reaction that most people have about social media. It’s funny you should say that right now. Because I’ve been humbled too many times to believe it’s not always right around the corner. In my experience, I think that’s a really good thing, because it’s kept me from – even though I may come across with some arrogance – having any true arrogance whatsoever. To movies that were supposed to work that didn’t work. Lighting problems where we had to start a play over, and when we finally got someone over from New York to critique what was a really good play, it fucked up the entire night. I’ve forgotten major monologues on stage, I’ve had props that weren’t there that were supposed to be there. Not while it was happening, but in hindsight. I’ve had every worst nightmare come true. People have said to me, even me doing stage and that kind of stuff… all actors have their worst nightmare. When he’s talking to animators there, he tells them to ‘fail fast and fail often’.
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