00:00Thank you. What do you want to know?
00:03In the front row right here on the left?
00:05Jeff?
00:06Hi, Jeff. Congratulations.
00:09Julia Pierpont.
00:10You have such a remarkable range of comedy.
00:15And angst and intensity.
00:19Where's your...
00:20Where's your comfort zone?
00:21Or is it all one to you in that sense?
00:23Uh...
00:24Uh...
00:25They all...
00:26Not all, but the...
00:27Like Frank Griffin got comfortable.
00:30Harry Dunn was comfortable.
00:32Looming Tower I kind of...
00:35Got comfortable.
00:40There really isn't any difference.
00:44I don't...
00:45You know, the honest answer, I try not to think about it.
00:48I try not to think...
00:49You don't want to get...
00:50Caught going for the joke...
00:52In a comedy.
00:53Um...
00:55And in drama, you look for the humor.
00:58I mean, it's kind of basic.
01:00I also...
01:01Meryl taught me this.
01:02I...
01:03I...
01:04Leave a lot to chance.
01:05Maybe it's getting older.
01:06Where you don't do the 300 pages of backstory for your...
01:10Character that you write out in single space.
01:12You don't do that anymore.
01:14You just...
01:15Get the basic idea of what this guy's thinking when he starts the scene.
01:20And then jump off the cliff and start flapping your arms.
01:24And you use the...
01:25The other actor.
01:26That's what you're not taught in Hollywood.
01:28You're not taught...
01:29You're not taught...
01:30To listen and react.
01:31Which is...
01:32I know it's a joke, but Spencer Tracy was one of the best...
01:35Listeners we ever had.
01:37And that disservice of, I'm ready for my...
01:40Close-up.
01:41Which is another way of saying I'm ready to...
01:43Watch myself in front of a mirror.
01:45I like working with people who...
01:49I like working with people who...
01:50Take the mirror down.
01:51And I've gotten to do that in newsroom, but godless.
01:55And Looming Tower.
01:56It's been a string of them.
01:57Of actors who are really good.
01:59And you use...
02:00Half your performance is in the other actor if you do it right.
02:05Godless.
02:07Yeah.
02:10Hello.
02:11How are you?
02:12Joe with American Urban Radio.
02:13I was wondering if you could go back a little bit...
02:15further.
02:16And how did you carve...
02:18Because you seem to have carved out a unique...
02:20niche to the relaxation of all your characters.
02:23When did...
02:24When were you able...
02:25To be able to...
02:26Use...
02:27And draw on that.
02:28And become yourself.
02:30I mean...
02:31Become that kind of actor.
02:32And...
02:33Still get work.
02:34I mean...
02:35And not change.
02:35Every...
02:36Every time.
02:37I never...
02:38I came up through the New York Theater.
02:40And you never heard...
02:41Hey...
02:42Could you do this play...
02:45And do it exactly like...
02:46Do the character exactly like that...
02:48Character you did in the last play.
02:49Just do...
02:50And do it again.
02:51You hear that out here.
02:52You know...
02:53It's the brand.
02:54You brand yourself...
02:55As a certain kind of...
02:56Personality.
02:57And that's what you play.
02:58It's been doing...
02:59That's going on...
03:00For decades.
03:01I was never interested in that.
03:03So then it became about...
03:04How do I...
03:05Inhabit Harry Dunn.
03:09You don't just act...
03:10Stupid.
03:11Or be dumb.
03:12It's got to be specific.
03:14And you...
03:15You start thinking like them.
03:17And that...
03:18That made sense to me.
03:19Other people have other methods...
03:20I just...
03:21I got to think like...
03:22Frank Griffin.
03:23Or Harry Dunn.
03:24Or John O'Neill.
03:25What are they thinking about...
03:26While they're listening to this guy?
03:28As soon as you start thinking like him...
03:30Then everything else kind of happens.
03:35It's...
03:36That's...
03:37It's always been...
03:38That.
03:39And how...
03:40How soon can you forget about the camera?
03:43How...
03:44You learn all the mechanical...
03:45techniques of film acting.
03:46And then you put them in the back of your mind...
03:48And try not to...
03:49Think about them.
03:50You know it all.
03:51You want...
03:52You plug...
03:53Woody Allen taught me this on Purple Rose.
03:54He said...
03:55I said...
03:56Woody I can't do Errol Flynn.
03:57I can't do this.
03:58I don't...
03:59He goes...
04:00You know...
04:00You have...
04:01Well...
04:02At the time...
04:04You have Mia...
04:05She can't get her...
04:06The...
04:07Yeah.
04:08Pull a...
04:09gonna...
04:10One �4m in the Huge Age...
04:11Yeah...
04:12It's...
04:13And...
04:14It's...
04:15It's...
04:16...
04:16It's...
04:16You know...
04:17It's...
04:18It's...
04:18Unuse-s they're...
04:19It's...
04:20It's...
04:21It's...
04:21It's...
04:22It's...
04:23Congratulations.
04:24Thank you very much.
04:25Is that it?
04:28Thank you very much.
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