Patrick Wilson on How Directing Latest 'Insidious' Helped Him Become a Better Actor

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Patrick Wilson tells THR his favorite part of the Tony Awards is getting to reconnect with Samuel L. Jackson each year. Plus, he shares how directing the recent 'Insidious' movie has helped him become a better actor and producer.

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00:00We were just chatting with your friend, Brian Darcy James.

00:02How exciting was it to, you know, have that interaction and be able to see your friends tonight?

00:09That is the best part about this night.

00:11I used to, this is shameless name dropping, but the most fun for me for the past like three times that I've done this

00:17is this is the only time I'd run into my friend Sam Jackson.

00:20And we did a movie together like 18 years ago.

00:22But he said to me a couple years ago, he goes,

00:24you know, the only time I ever see you is the Tonys.

00:26So he's sort of my representative, although I don't, I didn't see him here tonight.

00:30But there are plenty of other friends that I, that I, you know, we never get to see.

00:33And when you're doing theater, you're on that schedule.

00:34So you really never get to see anybody.

00:36But obviously somebody, seeing somebody like Brian, who's been nominated, I don't know, four or five times.

00:41He's got to be, he's won a ton.

00:43It's just one of the best guys on Broadway too.

00:45I forever, forever known him for 25 years.

00:50That's what makes it special.

00:52These are, you got lifelong friends here that, that, that we've known.

00:55And you come up together and now we find ourselves in our fifties still being here.

01:00It's exciting.

01:01And you're obviously such a Broadway veteran.

01:04Is there any play or revival that you would be itching to do next?

01:09Yeah, there's a lot.

01:09I'm trying to find a bunch.

01:12Yeah.

01:12I don't know if I want to do a play.

01:13I really want to do an original musical.

01:16So I'm looking at that, looking at a few of those.

01:18I workshopped one of those for a long time.

01:20It's going to run in London.

01:21Maybe it'll come here and maybe we can talk about that.

01:24Um, that's on the back burner.

01:26But then there's other stuff that I'm trying to, you know, yes.

01:30The answer is yes.

01:32Looking forward to that.

01:33And finally, I, I wanted to ask, I know you, uh, made your directorial debut with Insidious.

01:38What was that experience like?

01:39And what did you learn as a director that you've taken with you as an actor now moving forward?

01:44Sure.

01:44Well, there's an understanding of just the process, especially making a film.

01:48But I actually think, and I'm, I've been in a producing, I'm producing a show that hopefully

01:52will be on Broadway next year, a musical adaptation of The Lost Boys.

01:55And I think being on the other side as a director, a producer, and understanding just how it all

02:00works and how it just takes an absolute village.

02:03I mean, luckily I was never one of those actors that was very me, me, me.

02:06I'm the most important person in the room, like some actors are.

02:10Uh, so that was never my thing anyway, but certainly it gives you an understanding of

02:14the process.

02:14And certainly in film where you can shoot your stuff out in one day and then the director's

02:18living with it for another year, trying to make it work.

02:21Ha ha ha ha.

02:25Ha ha ha.

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