00:03I just know how to do it. I don't know why I do it. I don't know how to do
00:07it. It's just a look.
00:07I know it's scary. I'm playing this part. When the young man comes into the room, you know, he don't
00:15have to do much.
00:16There are lines when he comes in the room where he says, Father Lucas, I say, oh, he's not here
00:19at the moment. He's out.
00:21The audience goes, oh, we did not. So it's very easy. He said, no, he's out at the moment. He's
00:27not here.
00:28Close the door, please. We don't want to be disturbed, do we? Boom. The door closes.
00:32That's enough to scare the hell out of people. So I don't have to act. You know, I say, sit
00:36down, please.
00:38Hello, Clarice. All that stuff.
00:43And I think they put that special effect. I was kind of surprised when they put so much on at
00:48the end.
00:48But no, I didn't have any makeup. It was just some, you know, computer stuff they do after the film.
00:55I did all the voices myself. All that was my stuff.
01:02It was the most beautiful city I've been in for a long time.
01:07I look back on it with great nostalgia. We arrived there on May the 22nd, I remember, Saturday night.
01:13We drove from Venice. We were from Rome.
01:16We spent one night in Venice and then drove across Slovenia into Budapest by 8 o'clock at night.
01:21and it was raining and it was beautiful. And next, that was a Saturday, and on a Sunday morning I
01:26woke up
01:27and I walked over the bridge to Buda. Beautiful city.
01:30And just outside the hotel, I was staying at the Four Seasons, there's a street that goes up to St.
01:35Michael's, I think, St. Stephen's Cathedral.
01:38Or St. Michael's, St. Stephen's, I think. This beautiful cathedral, which is not that old. It was probably 19th century.
01:46I went into the churches where Elizabeth of Austria was crowned. Fascinating. Fascinating.
01:52And fortunately, it's been preserved. I mean, the Hungarians, resilient, tough people, they suffered under Nazism and they survived that.
02:03and the tough communist regime where they didn't have any, you know, people were very close down, they were censored
02:10and there was no sense of freedom there.
02:13But they muddled along, you know, and I think once the collapse of the East and the Iron Curtain country
02:19after Gorbachev and taking them down the wall of Berlin,
02:22I think people could breathe a sigh of relief. But they were still a little nervous, you know.
02:26You know, they, it's very closely seared in their memories that it wasn't the best life to live, but fortunately,
02:32nothing was destroyed, the architecture of the places, Buda, and it's interesting over Buda you still see the machine gun
02:39holes in the walls of the uprisings and the, you know, the partisans fighting against the Germans, and really interesting.
02:50No, I, I gave him a bad time. No, I'd say to him, I'd say, that's the way you're going
02:55to play the part? He said, no, it's your career.
02:58No, he's a wonderful actor. I, I, and you know, this is his first movie. And also, um, he, um,
03:06his agent phoned him and said, I want you to do a film test.
03:09He said, I don't know, he lives in a little town outside of Dublin, and, uh, he hadn't worked for
03:13some time.
03:13And, uh, his friend from next door, I met him, actually, he came out to Budapest to visit him, uh,
03:20filmed him, and, uh, a scene from the movie.
03:23Then I met him out here. They, Mikael Hofstum said, we've got this wonderful actor. Would you like to? I
03:27said, yeah.
03:28He said, would you do a film test with him? Because they want to make sure at the studio that,
03:32I said, well, so we met at, uh, Shatter's Hotel.
03:34They had a little video camera, or a DVD camera, or you call it, digital camera.
03:38And we did a little bit of a scene, and, uh, he seemed pretty good to me.
03:43And then Mikael for me, the director for me, said, what do you think? I said, well, he's pretty good,
03:47isn't he?
03:48And they had, he still didn't know that he'd got the part or not.
03:51I think the studio, for business reasons, were thinking about getting a kind of name actor for the part.
03:58And then some wisdom prevailed, and I think Mikael Hofstum and, uh, um, the producer said, no, let's go for
04:06this unknown actor,
04:07because we don't want the information of somebody who's a star actor, you know.
04:12Um, so there, he turns up on the first day, and I said, how are you feeling?
04:17He said, I feel very nervous. I said, oh, well, don't be. Just enjoy it.
04:22I'm really impressed by him. He's such a nice guy as well. He's married, and he's, his mother and father
04:27came out to Budapest,
04:28and he's very much, uh, an Irish boy, you know, uh, lives in a small town in Ireland.
04:34And I think, I think they're having a showing of this in Dublin for some charity of his, or his
04:39brother's charity.
04:40But what I like about Colin is that he's a very modest guy, you know.
04:44I said, don't lose the modesty. Don't lose that. I like young actors. They're great to work with.
04:51I like young actors.
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