00:00This is the first time my family wasn't invited.
00:02I was very aware of the chance I had.
00:04I promise you.
00:06How are you today?
00:07I'm good, how are you?
00:08Very well.
00:09Can I just say, I will eat my metaphorical hat
00:12if you guys are not sweeping the Oscars.
00:14It was unbelievable.
00:16I sat down for 20 minutes and thought,
00:18I thought Ethan Hawke was in this, for God's sake.
00:20Didn't I promise you?
00:22I was looking around at him thinking,
00:23I'm in the wrong one, I'm in the wrong one.
00:25It's not in it.
00:27Is that a goal?
00:28Was that good to hear?
00:29Yeah, that's wonderful to hear.
00:30We needed Larry, to get Larry,
00:32we had to kind of disappear Ethan,
00:33which was, we've worked together a bunch,
00:35but that was the first time we ever,
00:37the part demanded this kind of physical transformation.
00:41So that was a new twist for us.
00:43Yeah, it was just unbelievable.
00:45But was the song in your head a lot?
00:46Was it?
00:47Because I go around and around,
00:48because I kept singing it,
00:49and I thought, I want to hear more of it.
00:50It's a lot of songs.
00:51There were a lot of songs.
00:52We had the whole Rodgers and Hart songbook
00:54going in our head and making this movie.
00:56Yeah, I just love, just love the whole era.
00:58I love the theater.
00:59I just loved all of it.
01:00I'll stop saying how much I loved it, though.
01:02Let's talk about-
01:02Don't.
01:03Yeah.
01:03No, please don't.
01:04And performance of a lifetime, Ethan,
01:06do you think it was as well?
01:08Because you must watch it back and think,
01:10God, I'm actually pretty good at this.
01:12You know, actors, we're only as good as our opportunities,
01:18you know, and when you get an opportunity like this,
01:23it's really exciting.
01:25You know, it wasn't lost on me looking at the material,
01:27thinking, all right, I could scroll through lists
01:30of performers that have really excited me
01:33through my lifetime and think,
01:34wow, if they had an opportunity like this,
01:36they would really seize it.
01:38So you have to ask yourself, like, all right,
01:40well, what am I willing to do?
01:41And how will I take this opportunity?
01:45So I was very aware of the chance I had.
01:47It's an amazing character,
01:50really complex character with so many dynamics at play.
01:54And so that was not lost on me.
01:58Yeah.
01:59Well, it was fun to have a front row seat
02:00to Ethan pushing himself to this extreme.
02:03It was like what was required for the movie,
02:06but to see Ethan just going for it in that way.
02:10Because there was no other way to do that.
02:11Well, I got to chat to Daniel Day-Lewis this week
02:14because he's an absolute legend.
02:15He lives his character.
02:18Did you finally took him home?
02:19Did your family go, can you stop?
02:21Larry, come back, come back.
02:23You know, I've been doing this since I was a kid
02:25and I can develop a kind of ease with it
02:29that I work towards.
02:31I don't want to, I want it to be easy, you know?
02:34I want it to be playful and joyous.
02:37But this is the first time my family wasn't invited
02:40in a long time.
02:41I knew that.
02:43Yeah, it was all in.
02:44I knew it had to be a monastic experience.
02:47You know, I didn't want them around for it.
02:50I had no brain space to not be Larry.
02:54There wasn't enough time.
02:55Was it air mode phone at night time?
02:57Was it, you know, people wondering where you were?
03:00Yeah, I told everybody that I'd see you in a month and a half.
03:03Oh, wow.
03:04Yeah.
03:05That's dedication, isn't it?
03:06I love that.
03:07Well, it doesn't happen.
03:08You don't often, the problem with making movies
03:12is it's not as good as you can make it.
03:15It's as good as you can make it today.
03:17There's this, you can never return to this moment.
03:20It has to be executed today.
03:23And we shot it in three weeks.
03:25So you just, you know,
03:27you weigh around a bar pretty well now, guys, do you?
03:30Yeah, I just thought it was really clever
03:33the way that it was just there.
03:35It was just so, I say simple.
03:37Is that good to hear that it was simple?
03:38It looked simple.
03:39It was minimal.
03:41It's one location, but it's not one set, really.
03:44That bar is a multifaceted place.
03:46There's a bathroom, there's a coat check room,
03:48there's an entryway.
03:49The bar is obviously a big part.
03:50But, you know, we kind of danced around that place
03:52the way you would explore a space.
03:55You know, when you go out in an evening
03:56and you go to a place and you don't think,
03:59oh, it was only in one place tonight.
04:00No, it's a pretty dynamic place.
04:01So we were just trying to get that feel.
04:03Yeah, it was brilliant, like a labyrinth.
04:05A bar labyrinth.
04:06Everyone's asking about your height in this.
04:08What do you want people to ask you?
04:09What haven't they asked you yet?
04:11Something you can tell us that...
04:12Oh, guys, I don't have an agenda about that.
04:14I think it's wonderful
04:17when people can experience Larry Hart.
04:22Part of, my job was to play Larry Hart.
04:24Rick's job was to feature Larry Hart.
04:26Bobby Cannavale is supporting Larry Hart.
04:28Andrew Scott is...
04:29They were all supporting...
04:30The film is this portrait of this man.
04:32And we needed all of us to do it.
04:35And so the film, to me, is a victory when you feel him.
04:39When it creates a feeling in you.
04:42And I think the film's successful at doing that.
04:45And you are idols to a lot of people, which is amazing.
04:48Who is your idol?
04:50And has it changed as you've kind of got older
04:52and got more experience in this world of film?
04:56Oh, gosh, it's so...
04:58We're lifetime devotees to this profession, right?
05:01Yeah.
05:02So there's a lot of idols.
05:04Yeah, no one idol.
05:06Somebody in my life, just to jump off when I think about it,
05:10is when I first started, I really...
05:14Dead Poets Society came out when I was 18.
05:16And I kind of looked around, I was like,
05:18who started at...
05:19Who had success at 18 who turned into an actor I would want to be?
05:24You know?
05:25And Jeff Bridges left to mind.
05:28The Last Picture Show is one of my favorite movies.
05:31And he's really amazing in it.
05:33And he's been consistent throughout his life.
05:35And I really admired him.
05:39So he's somebody that I look to as to know that this water can be sailed.
05:45Maybe you could play him in a biopic that you could produce and direct.
05:49That's right.
05:50Good.
05:51Thank you very much indeed, guys.
05:52I didn't...
05:53You didn't get time.
05:54Yeah, I know.
05:54There's too many guys.
05:55Just quick, quick name.
05:57Oh, gosh.
05:58Well, with Nouvelle Vague.
06:00Yeah.
06:01His other film here at the London Film Festival is incredible.
06:03We'll be here about Jean-Luc Godard and the Nouvelle Vague of France films of the late 50s, early 60s.
06:10Great moment.
06:11Well, people will be studying you guys soon, I'm sure.
06:13It's incredible.
06:14I loved it.
06:14Thank you so much.
06:15I've told everyone to watch it, by the way.
06:16Oh, thanks so much.
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