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She's brilliant, yeah. She's available is what she is, and that's very tough for an
actor to be truly present and available.
Because it's tough to be... I mean, it's quite a - not grim - but it's quite a dark role
she's got, isn't it?
Mmhmm yeah. It's a dark subject matter and somebody who has has held love to such a high
standard and has been only been disappointed and because of that becomes almost agoraphobic,
a shut in. You know, and made her turn her son into almost a surrogate husband. It's
a tough, tough deal. And then you see this guy come in, and it's like oh that's right,
there is life outside my bubble.
It is a very subtle movie, isn't it? Is that hard for you as an actor?
Yeah, yeah man it is because it's easy to do this, you know? It's like we all want to
go play hunchback of Notre Dame. When you sit there and you're you, and you can't move
and you can't distract and you have your eyes, you know, it starts to become... Like right
now, I'm starting to move. It's uncomfortable, and Jason just wanted less and less and less
and less. And I didn't really understand it until afterwards and then looking at the movie.
You could see how much had to leak because it wasn't allowed to be distracted through
the fingers. So a lot of that emotion and a lot of that sensitivity just starts to leak
through, whether you like it or not.
This is quite different from what you've been doing recently, isn't it? And probably the
same with the director as well. It's different to what he's done before. Are you pleased
with the final product?
I am. It's different for me. You know, and it's always nice to be involved in different
films. People say, well you know... I like not having carved out any niche. I don't want a niche.
-You don't want to get typecast. -No, no. The masculine thing or whatever I
can't really get away from it because I'm a man. But I'm willing to not be a man if
that's what it comes down to, and if that's what is presented fine. But with this it's a nice
romance. I love that it was with Kate. I love that it's with Jason. I love that it's unlike
things that he's done in the past. So yeah, it's a real pleasure watching this move in the end.