00:00A man alone, I mean, and that's something that just always has interested me, and somebody who's thrown into a
00:10new situation and is maybe emotionally not ready to handle it. I just, I thought that was fascinating. And, and
00:18it's, um, I did see a lot of me in it.
00:25I think subconsciously he's looking for a connection, whether it is with his wife, maybe through music, which was her
00:33life and who she was. And, um, it's really, I always thought of it as like, um, what do you
00:42want to do, Walter? Not what do you think you should do, but what do you want to do? And
00:47that's why I think, you know, the drum is so seductive to him.
00:54When I go to a movie, I want to, I like to watch. I like to see someone. I like
00:58to, I like to eavesdrop. I like to window peep. And I think that's, um, that's what films can do
01:06better than anything. And here's a man who doesn't say a lot, but, um, hopefully something is going on all
01:12the time. And the camera is there to document it, to see it. And so you, you kind of make
01:18your own judgments as you watch it. And that's what I loved about it.
01:23Walter teaches global economics in a small college in Connecticut. And he's been doing it. He has tenure and he's
01:33been doing it forever. And he's been a widow for about seven years. His wife was a classical pianist.
01:38Um, and he's, uh, going through the motions. He's not, he's not living. He's existing. He's, uh, and he's sent,
01:50um, to New York to present a paper that he co-wrote, which he didn't really co-wrote, right?
01:56He just lent his name to somebody else who wrote the paper and they want him to go to present
02:00it. And, and he doesn't want to go because he confesses to the head of the department, um, that, you
02:07know, I didn't really do anything on this. Uh, you know, and he says, too bad. You got to go
02:11anyway.
02:11So, when he goes, that's when, uh, he, uh, runs into a new culture and new people.
02:24You know, a 60 year old man trying to learn to play the African drum in Central Park with, you
02:29know, I mean, it's, it's a, it is a little, uh, but, uh, the fact that it's so different and
02:34that he's willing to do it, even though he said, I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't
02:38do it. I'll watch. I'll just do it.
02:39But, um, you know, it's, uh, I love that. I love the fact that at his age, it's almost like
02:46he just says, okay, I'm going to learn to swim. I am going to, I'm going to jump in. And
02:49he talks about it, talks about it, and he just jumps right in, you know, and I love that.
02:56For Walter, the piano is, seems restricting and it just seems wrong for him. And he's trying to push a,
03:05you know, round peg in a square hole.
03:07And, uh, uh, uh, uh, square peg in a round. So the drum is a little freer and, uh, the
03:17rules don't seem to be as strict. And I think that that is for somebody who's lived his whole life
03:24this way is very attractive.
03:28I, I said this to Tom, and it's the truth that I have waited my entire professional career to be
03:36a part of something like this.
03:37And it's, I mean, that's the truth. It was for me, you know, I, I, you know, it's, he, he
03:48trusted me. He trusted all of us. He put the camera on us and said, we're going to watch.
03:53And then when I saw the film, I said, oh, he, he, that won't be in there. It was.
04:00It was a beautiful, in fact, the speech that I have in the, um, restaurant where I say I don't
04:05do anything, I, I actually was talking one day about that.
04:08I said, this guy pretends to work. He doesn't do any, and then all of a sudden Tom writes this
04:13amazing speech and puts it in the restaurant, you know, uh, after the phantom.
04:20So it was that kind of experience for me. And it, and it was, I mean, it was, um, you
04:27know, it was a, a collaboration. It was, uh, exciting. It was, it was amazing. It was amazing.
04:34And I've said this before, it was tiring, you know, emotionally tiring.
04:40Well, he says in the script at the end, which I, I love. And I think, you know, sometimes stage
04:45directions or the, the director there to just actually not so much for the actors as for somebody reading it.
04:51Um, uh, but he said he plays with a freedom that he's never had before. There is, there's, there is
04:58the ability. I mean, if somebody had told, just think of where this guy goes from the first scene to,
05:04he ends up playing the drum in the subway by himself. It's like, you know, for me, it's a miracle
05:11to me.
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