INTERVIEW WITH BRAD RENFRO:
Your character has very limited screen time but is integral to the plot. How do you make the most of that as an actor?
I don’t know. To be quite honest, I just play it like you would anything. Just play the reality of the scene and have fun with it. Any time you kind of try to make your mark, I would say you’re going to either look silly or fail miserably. So, you know, I just let the work do itself.
For a character like this, do you create a backstory?
Yeah, maybe, but just little things like maybe what he was doing a week before. Like little fun stuff, like maybe put a car seat in the backseat. He’s probably stolen this station wagon, little things like that but nothing too [extreme].
How was working with Adrien Brody? Did everything the two of you filmed make it in the film?
Nice and easy. I was surprised – I haven’t seen the film - but I was surprised when I did my ADR that yeah, pretty much everything we did made it in. There wasn’t very much time. We just kind of knocked the whole role out. But it worked.
Your character is not a sympathetic. The audience doesn’t like him. Do you like playing that type of role?
You know what? I just honor the opportunity to get to work with such a great bunch. It wasn’t necessarily that I was attracted to the character, but it was definitely fun. I played him way over the top so I didn’t take it too seriously. And it came off even creepier, so I hear.
In keeping with one of the critical elements in "The Jacket," if you were given the chance to see into the future, would you take it?
No.
Why not?
I don’t want to know.
How was working with director John Maybury?
Wonderful. He just let me go. It was fun.
Was he pretty loose? Did he let you play with the script?
Oh yeah… As far as dialogue it was just fun.
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS FROM "THE JACKET" PREMIERE:
Adrien Brody / Kelly Lynch / Massy Tadjedin / Kris Kristofferson
