00:07Sì, era un po' di premeditation in pre-production.
00:10I mean, I was more actively fighting for different things I wanted in the part
00:15than I ever have on especially a big movie.
00:19And I was just...
00:22I knew I could do something with the role.
00:24And then when I went to go do it, I mean, I did all kinds of random shit all the
00:29time.
00:29I mean, Martin told me that there were like 30 different performances in there.
00:33So he had cut together a good one.
00:41Now, I could have played an entire scene like I was in Out of Africa.
00:45That would have been fine because, seriously, I could have acted like I was Ace Ventura.
00:51It doesn't matter.
00:53You know, I felt like anything that I did was in character,
00:57partly because he doesn't know who he is.
01:00He's trying to figure out who he is.
01:02You know, this is a guy that's like never been allowed to be his own true self.
01:07And so when this thing happens to him and his id comes out
01:11and he acts like he's 14 years old again,
01:14a 14-year-old doesn't know who they are.
01:16So he's like that.
01:17He's like, maybe I'm Laurence Olivier.
01:20Maybe I'm, you know, Jim Carrey.
01:23I don't know.
01:24Maybe I'm a dog.
01:26Like, honestly, that's what I felt like.
01:29When I first put on the prosthetic, I was like, I look like a dog.
01:33It occurred to me that I could play an entire scene as if I were a dog.
01:37Yeah, it was a blast.
01:39And for me as an actor, it's so rare that I'm allowed to go the places that I went,
01:46especially in the second half of the movie.
01:48I mean, you know, not many actors get to do that kind of thing.
01:51I mean, you know, it's, I guess some comedic actors get to sometimes,
01:57but it was fun.
02:05Four hours.
02:06So I go in at 3 o'clock in the morning, and then, you know, I get picked up at
02:092.30.
02:09I go in at 3 o'clock.
02:11I, all night long, they're putting it on my head.
02:16And then I go to set it around 7 and film throughout the day.
02:21And then, you know, we get done.
02:22Say we work an average day, which is like a 12-hour day.
02:25So then it's an hour to take it off.
02:27So I'm done at 8.
02:29And I get home, turn around, come back.
02:32And so because of that, I very rarely saw my own face for a long time.
02:36And even when I did, I'd shaved my head bald, was clean-shaven, didn't I look like,
02:43and I was, I'd lost 35 pounds for the role.
02:45So I look like somebody didn't, I didn't even recognize myself without the head on, you know.
02:56Because Martin likes him.
02:58You know, if your director likes the villain, the villain is going to get some, you know,
03:02he's going to get a couple of scenes like that.
03:04And I knew that going in.
03:07And he made it, the minute he opened his mouth, that was like the first thing that he made clear
03:11was that he liked this guy.
03:20Yeah, I don't know why.
03:23That's like one of those things sometimes where I think because I'm an actor that very rarely do I say,
03:32I want to do a remake of Lawrence of Arabia and I want to play the lead.
03:40It's because it's like a process of natural selection, like mating.
03:45It's easier for me to get a part that's right for me.
03:48You know, he saw something in me that was right.
03:51He offered it to me.
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