00:00I think what drew me to this role was just how unique it was.
00:03I think it's a part of the story that's never been told before.
00:05The idea of Ted's earlier life when he's 16 going to Harvard
00:09and you're doing these psychological experiments on him.
00:11It was really an opportunity to really challenge me as an actor
00:15and it's not that often that opportunities like that come to your doorstep.
00:18My first steps in the role of Ted were to watch some documentaries.
00:21There's some good ones on Netflix and then just looking into the manifesto
00:24and just kind of reading the highlights and reading through it
00:26and seeing the motives that drew him, what he believed in.
00:29I think that proved to be one of the first challenges with this role
00:32because we're just so different in every way.
00:35But one thing that I could really relate to, I think,
00:37was the feeling of being the youngest person in the room.
00:40You have the body of a 12-year-old and the brains of a third grader.
00:43My experience was always so positive and Ted's was extremely negative,
00:47but I can empathize with that feeling.
00:49I know what that's like, so I could kind of hold on to that.
00:52Ted's got pretty good posture from what I've seen.
00:55You know, he seems like he's uncomfortable under his own skin.
00:57Me and her weren't even the same species.
01:00Like, she was a person.
01:02I was a Martian.
01:04It's very, like, stiff and robotic and a little unnatural.
01:07Do you like me?
01:08I think so.
01:09I definitely wouldn't envision myself as the Unabomber
01:12if I thought about it without giving the context of him being a 16-year-old going to Harvard.
01:16I understand how people might be taken back by that a little bit,
01:19but it makes sense when you watch the film.
01:21Trust me, if I was playing the older version of the Unabomber,
01:23that wouldn't make much sense.
01:25Let me get my hat.
01:26Ted, get my hat.
01:26Ted, get off me, Ted!
01:27Envy, I can't talk!
01:28The scene that I'll never forget was the final scene when I'm debating Russell Crowe.
01:32That was so intense.
01:33It's such a long scene, a bunch of different camera angles.
01:36It took an entire day of doing that scene.
01:39This just shows how unwell you are.
01:43You just had to be so focused in every moment.
01:46It was really, really challenging, but man, I was just so invested in bringing out the best work I possibly
01:51could.
01:51Any moment with Annabelle was just amazing because she's got such a bubbly personality,
01:56and she's so great at lightening the mood and making things really fun, and she's hilarious.
02:00And that's really useful when you're playing such a dark character,
02:03and the subject matter is so dark and disturbing at times.
02:06Like, it really helps because you can really get lost to it, you know?
02:09It's not something that I want to engulf myself in,
02:12because I would just fall too deep into it and just be really depressed.
02:15It's harder bringing yourself out of a character than it is putting yourself in sometimes,
02:19so having someone like Annabelle on set who can lighten the mood was really, really useful,
02:23and I really appreciate her for that.
02:25We are here for you.
02:27Just getting home and taking a shower, kind of showering it off.
02:30Calling loved ones is a huge, important thing.
02:32Seeing what my friends are up to.
02:34Playing video games.
