00:00 If I wasn't an actor, I would be doing hard time.
00:03 The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable is about to drop,
00:09 and we're giving you a special preview.
00:11 The latest episode of our signature Roundtable series, Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter,
00:16 features Coleman Domingo of Rustin, Robert Downey Jr. of Oppenheimer,
00:20 Paul Giamatti of The Holdovers, Mark Ruffalo of Poor Things,
00:23 Andrew Scott of All of Us Strangers, and Jeffrey Wright of American Fiction.
00:27 The thing that I have come to value above all other things in this stuff that we do,
00:34 and it's the collaboration. It's the people that I have the opportunity to do it with.
00:40 All the time where I wasn't sort of more, what's the word, I suppose recognizable,
00:44 I never felt like I was failing, really. I was always just so delighted to be working.
00:50 And then I suppose when you get a bit more choice, I never really think that I was winning.
00:57 You have your dreams, and then those start to become realized, but they're not what you
01:02 thought it was going to be. At some point, it gets away from you.
01:08 During the hour-long sit-down moderated by THR's Scott Feinberg,
01:11 the actors cover everything from their latest film projects...
01:14 For me, it was the story of this man who's all of a sudden burdened with the responsibilities of
01:21 family. You guys have talked about how these things affect... My mom passed not too long
01:27 before I got that script. And so it was the caretaking. Honestly, there's those roles that
01:35 I don't know if we wish for, but we hope for, that we were able to give everything.
01:41 And I know that I've given everything in the 32 years that I've been in this industry,
01:46 from regional theaters to off-Broadway to writing to directing, you name it, it's in this film.
01:50 ...to their most notable and favorite roles.
01:53 Because there was no real surety that this was even going to take off, Iron Man was like a
01:58 second-tier hero, they kind of let the lunatics run the asylum for a little while. And so it was
02:05 a completely in-indie approach to a genre movie to begin with. That was the strange fulfillment
02:11 of a deep dream. Seriously?
02:13 To be an orangutan, to be an ape in Planet of the Apes.
02:16 It was.
02:17 Was. If that had been it for me, I would die happy.
02:20 Well, this is where I'm kind of going.
02:21 I couldn't believe I was going to be able to play a talking orangutan.
02:24 And my agents were like, "Don't you want to be a human so they can see your face?"
02:28 And I was like, "If you tell them I want to be a human, I'm going to burn the agency."
02:32 Off-Script with The Hollywood Reporter brings the film industry's top creatives together for
02:37 inspiring and surprising conversations. Check out the full Actors Roundtable when it drops
02:42 on THR.com and YouTube.com/HollywoodReporter on Thursday, January 11.
02:47 And for all the latest Roundtable conversation
02:50 and awards season coverage, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.
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