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01:01che io sento quando guardo molto early
01:04performancese di Henry Fonda
01:05o Jack Lemmon o Jimmy Stewart o Tom Hanks
01:07o qualcuno che, oh yeah, io would go
01:09anywhere with that guy.
01:11Even in Jason's comedy, there is
01:13a gravitas, and there's almost
01:15a ruefulness, and certainly
01:17intelligence.
01:18You know, once I talked to Jason and heard his hopes and fears
01:21and anxieties, I realized he was exactly
01:23the person to play it.
01:25I think that if there's a sort of sadness for people
01:27under 45, it has something to do
01:29with pleasure and achievement.
01:31and entertainment, like a sort of
01:33emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on.
01:36That was my big task in prep
01:37was to tackle Infinite Jest.
01:39I read, and I read, and I read.
01:41I had some friends start a book club,
01:43because it's a really tough read, and it's a long read.
01:46I mean, reading Infinite Jest really changed my life.
01:48He was communicating really
01:49universal ideas. What he is trying
01:51to accomplish is this idea of
01:54the reader feeling like, hey,
01:55that's me. And I didn't even know
01:57how to express that I felt that way.
01:59I think if the book is about anything,
02:02it's about the question of
02:04why.
02:05Why am I doing it?
02:07And what's so American about what I'm doing?
02:10Jason and I didn't meet until
02:11the night before we were filming.
02:13I think we fell immediately into a dynamic
02:15that was dramatically potent
02:17and carried this incredible momentum.
02:20David Foster Wallace is
02:21a man who means so much to so many
02:24people. That had to be treated with
02:25a real respect, and
02:27I felt like the best way to do it
02:29was to do it with real love.
02:31There's nothing exploitative of approaching
02:33a character. Like, how are we
02:35the same? All I can really
02:37do is to try to
02:39understand a point of view as much
02:41as possible, relate to it as much as I can,
02:44and then just be really honest between action
02:45and cut. When I think of this
02:47trip, I see David and me in the
02:49front seat of his car. He wants
02:51something better than he has.
02:53I want precisely what he has already.
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