I think just working with someone so smart and so lovely, you feel in very, very good hands. So you sort of do anything. I think that’s probably why we love him so much, because you just feel very secure. You know if it’s going awry, he’ll put you on the right path and you trust him implicitly that you’re just in very, very good hands.
In your opinion, why did Larry want to know all the details of what went on sexually between his wife and her lover?
Within this piece, I think it is… That is one of the things that Patrick’s dealing with in the piece. He’s looking at that male thing of not only winning the girl but making sure you kill the guy as well.
How was working on “Sin City?”
It was extraordinary. It was Robert Rodriguez, who is like [a]
Renaissance man, really. He's a complete one-of. I've never met anyone quite
like him. He does absolutely everything. He shoots, he edits, he operates,
he lights, he composes the music. He's the most amazing cook. He really
pissed me off.
It's an extraordinary project. He's doing this strip, cartoon, picture book, Frank Miller thing [i.e. graphic novel] and he's been so faithful. He re-creates image by image by image. To us, it was very weird. We were just standing in [front of] a sort of green screen every day, and everything else will be added. It was an extraordinary experience, but my most overwhelming memory is how hugely impressive the whole thing he's got going down there in Texas is.
Which story are you in? Who do you play?
I'm in "The Big, Fat Kill." Dwight.
How do you feel about the Oscar buzz associated with “Closer?”
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the
basics: characters, great writing. It's unusual. You forget, really. You go
back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the
people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that
in movies. It's very unusual to hear fantastic dialogue, to hear intelligent
people interacting. And to do that in this piece is hugely exciting and to
be involved in a film for adults. It's an adult movie. It's about adults
relating, about adults having sex. It's for grownups and I think that all of
that is very exciting.
Mike Nichols says you'd make a great James Bond. What do you think
about that?
What do I think about that? I don't really think about that.
I just never really think about it. The Bond rumors have been circulating
for a while and that's all they are. I learned a long time ago not to waste
time thinking about things that [are rumored]. [Indicating his “Closer” co-star, Jude Law] We'll do it together.
