knows the viewer and as someone who
has read the books and seen the movies I found that seem to be particularly
satisfying
I you playing and having played the character for all those years
do you for the have those for the promotional
they've been cathartic moments with with the rollers
feel like a scene that you're playing and we move on to the next
I'm mmm well-known I mean
with the last film it was very cathartic
because you were firmly able to see
who he was um and it was i spose
strange in a way to play stuff that was so emotional
because a lot of the term
you know you're working in two dimensions not three it's a very clear
outline
the role of those characters have but such as finals
also serve levels a.m. you know rayford I had a scene where you just thought
well
finally has just a couple about just talking to each other
and most special effects up
just watching the scene using will thank God for computer graphics cuz
madyun are having real holding a long does not the most threatening
yeah good
up up and pointing it at Dame Maggie Smith
yeah you know you've grown up
worship in from the cheap seats at the National
the and she's pointing in the years
her she can option eyebrow like nobody
yeah after thank God for the sheets laying there on
head are very compelled me a little slower than seeing done
and group member and
that's ten years we watched people go from 12 to 20
to and was ur
was there ever a point in the unfolding above the
he movies series where you ever considered not continuing
morals me hmm
girls anal anybody else said yeah
to deliver a the good you've also worked as a
rector yourself on screen on stage most useful in New York I believe creditors
a at the Brooklyn Academy music I'll
what do you enjoy most about directing the perhaps
different than what you enjoy about them
term were all it's a very very different activity of course
from and it goes back to what I was saying before about working out why I
needed to go to law school when I did because it
about Paul my training and who i am. from
it's very much um part of the equipment
I need is a director and that sucks is fine
to be in control the visual aspect as much as anything else
um arm-in-arm
on passionate about storytelling
and sometimes you want to tell stories and I term sometimes
now um
much more as a director it takes a long time
upside to get to the point where did for me weasel I've actually got something to
say
I'm all these hopeful faces staring at you
on the first day it's a bit challenging but
but I but I over the years you love the
one of the greatest things a director can never say to a doctor that will make
them immediately trustee
is you much loss aggression the directors say I don't know
and whenever you hear the
from a direct to something in me I to relax else
my next question and a little over thought but from your experience as a
director
what's a with creditors is there anything that you learn from that
experience that you
now brought to your latest probably roll and
seminar two very different planes but I wonder
from as a director that helps you ace
an actor in the skins absolutely and I think that working on film
tonight helps me work on stage tonight
personal to I'll everything is about
distilling to me and
trying to get simpler untrue
arm and that I actually it's not about you
which is something I remember from a one of the great teachers at drama school
you know and when you think you for kicked and screamed to get into this
Academy Amanda a the teacher says
just as you're about to get up and do some pieces works this and remember
it's not about you there
but it's true %uh from and so
ultimately acting to me whether
as an actor or a director and it's very certainly very relaxing as an actor
to think about is focus on the other person
up you have something to say to them
'em usually you're saying something to this other person because what they just
said to you
so it's really just about like you're listening
and a and then bolstering
so don't think about what you're saying think about what you just heard on what
you say is ultimate
tell us a little bit about your character leonard in seminar
who is see those have not seen the play
your mmm I'll world with us
the story is a four young writers in New York Harbor
a mental pay him five thousand dollars each
for 10 weeks mentoring period
um pretty early on up pretty resentful that the money that give
yeah um he's truth teller
relentlessly truth-telling
arm and I'm two reasons right she is so
brilliantly observed and constructed
that you kinda just get on his train and ride it
button fortunately he's also a human being
you do wonder when the it's gonna be the case but
whether he's just I'm a destroyer but I'm using all
is a great deal of comedy in the show i the play I loved it
and well there's also real emotional have to think for me that came from
the scenes when you realize that they're not all just trying to undermine
undercut and destroy each other that's there are some real
affection especially for talent for the surprise the town
can hold on I'm curious a question that was email them from a family of yours
John Collins that's what do you think leonard
with think I've Joel Rowling's writing
probably be buried journalists hahhah
what she's achieved I'm
unsure or you'd have to say it's from market deserve
female version of the word lost early but anyway
um storytime
you called falter really crime
other any elements the your character leonard that you
hamper that you can relate to personally
what I guess other people would have to say hey
are they not be the person to say I'll
I don't know I mean I Spurs as a director
I think I'm gentler and more encouraging
a I didn't see the point in being destructive
and I don't think ultimately he is he seems that way but
I'll but as a director I absolutely don't see the point insulting them
your your actors or being destructive I think the job is to you
am courage as in fill with courage
you know as a nod to when you're standing backstage about go on
in whether it's there's another is a private lives with its
you do wonder woman the he said yes full
up at certain times
I recently returned to the seminar to prepare for this
per second time in sums up really really enjoying some other
detail touches the maybe I was playing paying too much attention to
manure performance to sum up your Paz's
in dealing with the lowly raids character
and Jerry O'Connell's characters you were sizing them up and
a speaking truth and particularly just a moment that was very
emotionally satisfying where a your character Leonard and
Hamish Linklater's young novelist character you're reading
his work that he's resisted sharing with you and
there's a moment where your reading at the long pause on the stage
%uh and then the your I is just start-up and you see him
and it it's a moment where you feel like someone
is seeing a person different way
that is exciting I now that the please been running a performance is a week for
about two and a half months you find yourself
changing up the performance in terms of pace saying line delivery physical
choices
I mean every night that's another thing one learns
is to be free and available to be
a around you every night and I
I'm on stage with four remarkable York Times
and there's huge trust amongst us
I am and armed listening
unilateralism now in the same way that you did
24 hours ago so everything's
in a way everything's the same and in a way everything's different
is there an example you could remember risley the moment in the play that
a choice was just very may be different than how it had been
on the were conscious for maybe the
enjoyed I really like nailing anything down
because in a way you destroy it but doing up
I think we're all aware different timings and find me a different word
am stressing in a different way all
discovering the phrase you know really discovered the full
it's all cumulative and as time goes on
different moments acquire little spotlight because what you learned
in the previous week's sir I would resist
your desire for me to a Hummer nails to
but and nothing yeah I asked yet a
we're going to go to audience questions and my beloved minutes
their microphones at the bottom of these 2 I'll see if folks want to line up
now a feel free to on
what do you enjoy the in your free time what do you enjoy doing for fun
2011
you actually I'm in the morning while doing a play like the
any better or is you don't have free time yep
I'm in prison a.m.
arm the whirl I I if you're not too is
now say to me what advice do you want to give to your right
I say to them to think about acting
you know you are you are the your own instrument we were talking about the
before
and I'm so I've learned
I have to bring the posts into a script so
if I have anything to piles on gr8 as its girl you know ago read books
heard go to art galleries a know what's happening in the news
have opinions yeah a
from your cell because you're gonna script hasn't come out %um
who are you can just be attacked
combo I have to travel