Amy Adams & Andrew Garfield - Actors on Actors - Full Video

Oh why these two films and why these two parts and why you know why why what was it that drew you to to these particular words at this particular time sure in your life um I accepted the roles about a year apart and then shot them about a month apart mm-hmm so it's kind of at and then they're coming out a week apart yes restate yeah you deliver meth I think I was at a point where I was becoming a little bit more reflective about choices that we make and kind of how how to be more accepting how to be accepting of myself these roles came around and there was something about each of the characters that had to do with the relationship with themselves and how they communicate with other people and how they deal with consequences of choice and that was really interesting to me hmm and of course you know you get to meet the awesome directors and that always have yeah dr. banks you need to see me that's I love that and I shared that feeling of I can't go to work I don't think unless it's gonna somehow serve um where I'm where I'm at in my life is gonna serve the thing yeah absolutely I mean have you ever cuz this is happening to me before where you've accepted something and then the year that goes by where they get it together now you no longer relate with the character you're like oh wow I have seen anything but then I when that has happened I've kind of trusted that even though if I even if a I think oh no I'm past I'm past that I'm like I'm good like I don't need to figure that stuff out anymore I have to kind of trust that maybe it's not done with me even if I think it's done I'm done with it so when you look at roles and you were talking that you like to sort of conserve a purpose for what you are experiencing in your life and vice versa exactly do you feel like your two films did that at that time is that something we're examining yeah definitely um you know I'm still reflecting on it yeah and and why why those two films were so vital for me to do in that in last year and it was one year and and that they're kind of similar in theme they deal with that they deal with faith they deal with the destruction of the ego that deal with sacrifice they deal with being deeply misunderstood yeah and is that something you often feel Thank You fear I fear being misunderstood so I'll give you that if that helps you that really does help me thank you so much no I don't know if you're bullshitting but about oh I got it I know I do I do and I think it's I think it's I mean to make it make a bit more macrocosmic I think it's it's an endemic in our culture right now there's a lot of there's a lot of over communication there's a lot of over expression of see me deeply see me see me see me with with with social media and that kind of stuff I feel like there's a lot of people who aren't who are terrified of not being seen deeply not being understood and not being accepted and loved for who they for who they are I don't understand I can't hear you so both the characters have to go through their own kind of crucible really of accepting yeah of that that thing that that Jesus did in front of Pontius Pilate when Pontius Pilate says tell me tell me you're the son of God tell me at the Son of God and all he said wasn't up I Know Who I am I don't need to tell you who I am I Know Who I am yeah I think that but I think that's that's something that is a whole lifetime's work I don't believe okay that these two films have healed that in okay I think I have a lot a long long way to go but even to be where you are and at your age and examining that it's really at the age of 59 59 yeah mm-hmm no but I mean I'm luck I I feel really lucky that I got to examine that stuff in work and I don't think absolutely films get made often about themes that are so kind of wide all-encompassing and impossible to find any real final answer - absolutely it's like working within a poem or something absolute without both my films were like that Israel where the ending for some will be really moving and rewarding for some ambiguous for some sad it really the the audience is able to put their own experience onto the film and I think that's when you don't tell people what to think it gets them thinking and I like it's it's great I feel like both of my films got to do that do you feel like your films had that mm-hmm impact as well I think especially you know it's interesting seeing the response to Mel's film to Axel Ridge because from Gibson Mel Gibson yeah yeah sorry Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Gibson I know we're talking about yeah Mel Gibson thumbnail Gibson army and I'm fascinated by the response to it you know you you you have because for me it's a story of love for me it's a story of you know it's a pacifist in the middle of terrible violence but then you have you have a lot of a lot of it the you know people are taking really opposing things from it's it's very bipartisan yeah yeah yeah it's really interesting oh I'm so curious I had a really um very specific reaction - uh-huh because you know in the wake of trying times sometimes it's hard to know what your path is you know and you really feel like you should be called to action but sometimes just being quiet waiting to hear what you're supposed to do I like that about your character yeah yeah he didn't don't move until he really felt the thing he was meant to do and I think that's a wonderful message is that sort of to calm yeah be calm until you hear the voice whatever that voice says it's good for everybody and I think it's applicable to acting yeah absolutely yeah that's very true let's not get in the way of being infused with whatever wants to be I have to work through us we were talking about it a little bit earlier and about how how tricky this stuff can be and yeah feeling especially in this you know celebrity culture of his you know self aggrandizement and glorification yeah and yet I think we I can speak for both of us that we we believe in the power of storytelling and what you were saying are they wish I'd loved so much we're sat here with the camera and and kind of a bunch of people and and we're not representing us were representing what you said the person that freshened up the blood on my um yeah and and and the who made sure that your hair was perfectly imperfect every single take to take the extras who are beating the crap out of each other off screen just so that myself and Luke Bracy could feel like we were in a war situation um and I think it's it's a this is if anything a great opportunity for Grad that I can gratitude ritual or something i salute lee i mean it's it's a hard thing when you're not comfortable putting yourself i think people don't believe that about actors you don't like to be in the spotlight people like well you picked the wrong career yeah I know um but I wasn't very good at it when I started so I didn't think it would ever yeah but anyway it's but you did does help me if I can think about all of the people that me stepping in front of the film and it helps them get their work scene and it's important and it's the same thing I think about choosing roles as well that thing about being wait waiting to be called you know I don't know about you but I've had opportunities to do things that would have been it would have looked very good yeah you know and and I was told by by the culture this is this is like what the hell aren't why wouldn't you why wouldn't you yeah very hard as you were saying to stay still and quiet and kind of swim upstream and go you know I can't I don't know oh yeah I didn't start working until I was like I mean I worked but I didn't work regularly until I was in my early 30s mm-hmm so like two years ago no I mean that's absolutely believable no well I'm in all seriousness like I'm 42 and I talk about it openly because I think women in their 40s and 50s and Beyond rock so I yeah yeah for me there was a lot of times where I really had to be calm and Trust and if it wasn't meant to happen it wasn't meant to happen and not try to force something that wasn't going to be organic right I think I tried I used to like go into auditions and act like actresses who were getting the parts I guess so silly I was such a nerd like I think there's some where I won't say who because I don't want to insult anybody but I would definitely go in and like have like a weird tick and like think like that was the thing that was gonna like that's what they want and I might do quite understand it so it's hard it took me a long time to trust yeah yeah and I for me Inessa forever unfolding process for me I think it's gonna be constant for me until you know until the end of my life I think I'm always going to be heading towards that that very open place and and I'll get I get flashes of it and it's there just it's just as well I know those moments define like they last like 30 seconds if you buy that it's like usually right before you fall asleep and then you never read it or what what that thing is like I've had an epiphany but I don't remember what it was Neil Young Neil Young would have a recurring dream of the perfect melody anyway anyway and he wakes up and he always forgets it and it's not know of any recurring dreams yeah just curiously I do like somatically or like the exact same dream well I haven't I have a childhood I have a recurring dream since I've had since childhood if I want to particular go into I don't know if it's all that interesting but I do have I do have vivid dream life and I kind of you do we you were saying because during wait no we were said talking about arrival and oh yeah but what did that affect your dreams at all it didn't you know when I work I'm usually so exhausted I don't remember my dreams as much like I just black out slice yeah which is nice groan no I've been having a lot of crazy dreams I I have a reoccurring like place in I think it's Morocco and it's like a market that I need to get to and I'm always like taking different people trying to get to this market what what's happening in the market i buy good deals or something like completely to UNG always looking okay exactly but I'm in Morocco every time or something like what do you associate with Morocco I don't know I really have no idea I haven't right now yeah I'm gonna get into it oh I don't know adventure travel yeah different cultures maybe that's what it is maybe you know that yeah maybe there's just trying to open up to different experiences hmm I can be a homebody uh so this is a psyche wanting balance maybe I don't know I don't know we're just a good deal as a kid we just need the good ones over bracelets and you can really talk him down everything you're doing here I have to explain to a roomful of men whose first and last question is how can this be used against us so you're gonna have to give me more net kangaroo but tell me about how you prepared for a rival guy and I just need to say for the record I I was weeping openly throughout it and I and I found it to be so profound and it transcended going to a movie for me it felt I was I would I was given information from it by watching I was given information thank you in my own life Hank and it was so much to do with what you did and and what you managed to somehow do in terms of I don't know what it was it was something mysterious that you did that like and that's what those those are the performances that I feel forever like inspired by in chasing that white rabbit that's the white rabbit for me so thank you so anyway how did you you hydrant how'd you do that I will say in response that compliment denis villeneuve the director is so wonderful at allowing actors to live in a place where you feel safe he's a compassionate director you know he really seems to have respect for what the actors do and he creates an environment and onset that supports the tone he's looking for and that's so special and but in prepping for the role it was a it was a tricky one because I have to sort of play two things at the same time that can support the first viewing than any viewing beyond so there was just a lot flying through levels of consciousness in it yeah Denis talked about you know wanting her to feel completely off balance and have a sense of vertigo I ended up with a really bad stomachache the whole time yeah yeah the medic was sure I had like a virus I'm like no I just think I just think it's me acting well me being acting so no but yeah do you know um but in prepping I mean I was talking about it a little bit with you before about sort of my techniques really weird and it's sort of the same for every character but you discover different things in the process and just creating creating memory so I guess that creating memories talking to her that a little bit for viewers at home though yeah well creating memory creating experiences in detail so that you know it's a theory where you can sort of trick your mind and body into having experienced something so I go back and I kind of rebuild a life for my character but what's great is I don't own any of it so I can go home to my daughter I feel really separate and when I haven't done that work when I worked on sets where I haven't really done that kind of work I end up damaging my psyche a little bit interest where if a director requires me to step out of that which is fun and great but it has to be in the right environment for me not to damage my psyche hmm so for me that's how I sort of keep myself in check yeah you know and I would go so far as to say in line with the theme of the film arrival you know I what I heard you say was I make things up and I can leave them alone cuz they're not actually my memories yeah but I like the idea that we are your memories somehow I guess sir I'd like I like that the same we move so badly start talking about a character yeah I'm right back there because I their son it's because it lives in it's no less real then I can still talk about a scene from junebug and I really start like I can feel what the character feels which makes me feel like a crazy person mine at the same time yeah bye bye kind of regular cultural standards maybe yeah but yeah but I think maybe my shaman standards he would be kind of normal what about you in preparation did you do you know what kind of did you do like the boot camp and all that great stuff could she looked really athletic thanks for watching but also there was something so believable about your portrayal and his sense of faith it's an interesting thing I had a year before I shot both of these films back-to-back almost and in the year I had what I didn't work and I I I grew a beard and I made myself look as horrible as as possible um I do that every morning like that um and I kind of became I came became a hermit for a year and it was amazing blessed time yeah I got to study with a man called father James Martin who is a Jesuit priest in New York and so I was for the first thing I shot was was the Scorsese film silence and hope and Taiwan so the year was prepping for that Wow and it led directly into hexyl Ridge where I play another man of faith who's struggling with his um with his conviction and faith in a world telling him that he is insane which he kind of was but anyhow I had I had a year with this with this some with mr. Scorsese and with father Martin father Martin became my spiritual director and I never had never done it as a spiritual something so specific and detailed and rigorous I've always had hella longing because I wasn't raised anything I was you know I was raised with with a question mark in terms of a spiritual life my mother I would say is a pantheist my father you know is is Jewish but doesn't practice and so I and he I think he was atheist until very recently actually until until until actually I started becoming an actor where suddenly our conversations started to create more action for him with his world and with because his his deferred dream was to be a screenwriter he never did it really he became a businessman in the swimming coach and I think as soon as I started foray into storytelling and the arts he something in him woke up yeah and and suddenly through me he was getting connected to something that was much more profound than he was and he was used to and that he that he knew and he knew but he didn't allow himself to know but outside I I had a year with this with father Martin and he took me through the spiritual exercises which is um this thing that these set of exercises that you you you put you do you go through over the course of 30 day periods or as a spiritual retreat st. Ignatius of Loyola Loyola created and it's basically a meditation with with the the life of Jesus Christ and you go from his birth to his resurrection but kind of like what you were saying we were talked about earlier in terms of creating memory you you imagine yourself into the life of Christ enough so that I think about it now and I feel like I have a as an actual rhyme about the sound as crazy as you as you feel you did I have an actual relationship to Jesus okay there it is they said yeah I'm gonna move on from it yeah but at about and I say I say it with with a wet with awareness of the kind of weirdness of it but um but no it's a very sincerely transformative process that this guy this man created yeah this ain't created and it's changed the lives of millions and millions of people it's actually the basis for 12-step programs really yeah a Jesuit and and Bill whoever Bill is created or fail created al you know yeah that's amazing um yeah created um create alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous based on the Spiritual Exercises yeah so that was a big part I don't think it sounds crazy just because thank you but I wonder what you think we're gonna be right back pull in with whether you think we sound crazy or not we're back no but I think that everybody um I think seekers find a relationship with something right that's sort of the idea of being a seeker mm-hmm is finding something larger than yourself and however that manifests Prada stubbornness don't confuse your will with the lures you know I'm proud 'fl I don't know how I'm gonna live for myself if I don't stay true to what I believe being spider-man is a lot it's a lot different responsibility than being Lois Lane you know and is it the Amen I don't know probably I mean it's I don't know is it I mean we're both playing characters that have been sort of beloved idolized and yeah exactly but in a way I think it's or I think if it's sort of like theater because in theater roles get played time and talk about different interpretations so I never look I never feel like an eye on ownership no yeah no exactly we knew though do you enjoy working in that universe I mean that's a that's a very easy question or a hard question I don't know I don't know I hey I think every I'm that's those the only two I did to those films in it it was a very specific experience and I imagine I imagine it'll be different every time those the two big big-budget films I've done yeah and it was its own thing so I'm loathe to judge that experience and kind of paint that whole quest but but they were great things about it I got to work with incredible actors a really great director and then riri trick I found I was very young if for a man I was 25 26 and I felt young in retrospect and I had only done a few films and I was feeling so like in the right place yeah and like I like I knew like it like I was being guided somewhere and doing the spider-man stuff I felt guided into it I knew it was the right thing for me to do I learned a lot yeah about what feels good and what doesn't feel good yeah and what to say yes to suits don't feel bad huh that's just scratching the surface I know I know I understand but so so it's like I was think about it today actually I was young I was young and I think it's and is it's a it's a it's a difficult you know not as young as someone like you know the young guy playing it now Tom Holland is a fantastic actor by the way but there's thing about being that young in that kind of machinery which i think is really dangerous and I wasn't I wasn't young I wasn't a teenager but I was still young enough to to struggle with the the value system I suppose of of corporate America really it's really a corporate enterprise mostly yeah that's the that's the that's well you're you're leaving something in service of something you know what I mean like yeah character is serving the story or serving a cannon as opposed to all of that serving okay that's how I feel going serving that the character do you know what I mean civil right mmm like that's the tricky thing with Lois that I find is that I feel like I love trying her she said I love everyone I work with sometimes it's tricky because I feel like she's in service of the story instead of the story serving the character okay you know I think that that sometimes can be tricky when you show up in here you really want to retain a character's you have to serve a story but I mean does that make sense I think so yeah in a perfect universe they all work together that's what I always want to service the story sure yeah right but I want to feel supported as in the character as well absolutely oh and they are one in the same thing yes but and I can show how what I said sounds no but I think we I think it's clear no no but I think the something that there is something that happens in those I don't know if what your experience was but my experience is something that happens that something that happened with that experience for me where it was story and character were actually not top of the priority list ultimately got it yeah and I think that's I found that really really tricky I just I signed up to serve the story and so this incredible character that I've been dressing at since I was three yeah and then there's the it gets compromised and I egg breaks breaks you breaks my heart right I got I got heartbroken a little bit um to a certain degree not entirely no but I totally I get oh sure I've signed on to things for one reason and they've turned into something else and it's always a little heartbreaking because you have to let go of that ideal and it's kind of part of growing up right you know I think so you decided sort of sign on for one thing and then you realize there's something else and you have to mature through that and come out with some something learned for the next thing but then that does it make you even ever more discerning about what you can go to work on and where and and how I think having my daughter did that cuz I'm gonna be away from her it's how to go yeah it has to count oh and I think I didn't I didn't realize that soon enough having her and I feel like I work too much mmm I love everything I don't regret the work but I regret the time missed but I kind of thought you know I don't know what I was thinking I don't know it's weird now that I this meant really beautiful about regret yeah it's make cuz well if you're if you're not gonna repeat the actions exactly well I think I think regret means that you won't yeah if you accept those people said no regrets I had a friend like I had a friend a tattoo artist never hurt and and and someone came in with it with a no regrets tattoo and and she came in and said I needed to remove this tattoo ah and he was like I can't I can't do you understand why I can't and she said no well yeah kind of no regrets so I kind of just leave it alone okay he's kind of bit it's like yeah I don't really abide by that I think regretting is kind of healthy well I think I like but I also take a lot of accountability for my own action mm-hmm so I think that's that's important as well and I think when you're somebody who does take accountability you can have regret for you know having hurt somebody having or if we're looking at accepting a film which really is not hopefully not my biggest regret that means I'm not really doing it right it's weird I've been thinking about him a lot lately and then recently he sent me this book that he's written and it's violent and then sad and he titled it nocturnal animals and he dedicated it to me so this there's no title animals as well yes and this is directed by Tom Ford who's who's a fantastic filmmaker yeah um so tell us about that one it's interesting because that one deals a lot with regret other thing about regret it does um I thought about it when you were talking about your dad and saying that he had wanted to be a screenwriter and he just didn't sort of get into it she had gone to school to be an artist and she let it go - she became a gallerist so she was still in it but she decided she was too cynical mmm you know and never let herself become the person that like shouldn't she doesn't believe that she could be the person that um that she envisioned herself to be you know she didn't have enough faith in herself but working with Tom it was interesting because I wasn't familiar with his story as a designer or his personal story and when the film came up I knew his previous film and um I thought well okay I'll go meet with him but I was completely intimidated cuz I'm not I'm not trying to you know put myself down but I don't hold I don't think that I'm at Tom Ford standards like in my head as far as like what a woman should be you know like very poised in prose elegant um but when I sat with him and started to connect with him and stop thinking about my own insecurities I realized that this story felt very personal to him and that became a really fascinating thing to me because it was personal to me the idea of the person we become and sort of what we've let go of to become in the people we've heard along the way and the regrets that we have mm and it's told in a really interesting way and Tom does a really great job taking you out of time in space and and he uses music this beautiful score it's stunning and Seamus Seamus see you want me use last names on with Seamus you know how you work with O'Shea no and you're like Seamus you show me but we have an amazing cinematographer so all of that how he was going to use sound and light and camera to take us in and out of story and unreality and past and present so it seemed like a really good challenge and I like a challenge mm-hmm but I do I loved the character story and sort of getting to know Tom that way actually just watched a documentary about him after I worked with him and I saw him last night like well you have done a lot young man it was like 50 something I'm like I didn't even know that actually looks 22 he does and he has so much energy in position and excitement for everything and so that's fun to get to be around that and get to participate in that sort of world the world of Tom for it yeah is it a world it is a world but it's not it's not an accessible you know it's not no I mean it I can seem that way from the outside if you just sort of put that on it but when you when you sort of get into his psyche and how he relates with the world you know I love that so much it's about like texture you know it's a simple agrarian it's a simple @ut oh I just love the texture I love I love nice you know I mean are you ever intimidated by directors cuz I would think with Mel Gibson and with Scorsese that that would be I mean you're you probably don't need to be I would be intimidated but I am of course but I I was thinking about it when you were talking about mr. Ford and about how things seem versus how things are exactly and if you know anyone's story you love them kind of thing yeah and that's like that's why why we tell stories one of the reasons I think so of course I'm meeting Mel you know there's so much baggage there and there's so much projection there's so much perspective and perception that may or may not be real and what's real and what's not so I went with all of that and I met him and and yeah it was just one of those things where you're just kind of hanging out with an actor friend and you're you're kind of bullshitting and talking about nothing and and everything simultaneously and it was very very I was very very quick to love him and to see him deeply and very very easy to say yes to going to work with him not you know the fact that he's a tremendous filmmaker is was a given yeah and I'd the way he tells a story I find to be totally visceral and human and not for you know he as he says himself he doesn't make food for the elite you know he makes he makes like home cooking for the masses really but it's like medicine yeah it's not cynical it's it's it's deeply human what he does I think and the same thing with mr. Scorsese I I was of kind of dead I'm a little when you said that you didn't kind of went into it I was telling that I was terrified really I really was and especially because he's been wanting to make this film for 28 years and it was my first audition in a long time I haven't had an audition oh yeah and meet me in a few a few other guys auditioned and it was it was it was wonderful so glad we did michael stuhlbarg was reading off camera and he's futures and you work with him on arrival right I did yes wonderful I've done and so so so then there was that it wasn't terribly intimidating and we didn't you know he tried to put me at ease but I was not put at ease about in that moment yeah I think I was just sort of surrendering to be at ease and then he got here he asked me to do it and then we had we had a we had like a three hour dinner talk and and then on once every week we we would get together and just like that's awesome walk away out of words about the the poem of this film because it's really not it's it's so mysterious deeply mysterious and multi-layered and we would always end up with about five to six minutes of silence at the end of each talk and he would I would wait for him to say okay kid alright till next time and and that was it and and and he's just a he's a dad he's a dad and he's become a real elder like he's become a true elder of our community he's not an old person he's an elder yeah in the sense that he's he's nurturing and mentoring yeah I think I feel makers it's done it's not it's not happening often I think about that often as an actress I need it with young younger actresses I mean actors yes but definitely younger actresses between the men and sort of yeah you know I need it and I need to yeah and I want to give it to me maybe you and I should start like a mentor program for like young actors you know I actually done all right I like that I did yeah I actually do like the idea but but I think we need Oldham we need like multi lights I need mark Rylands to come and like put his hand on my shoulder and tell me I'm not doing all right yeah you know what I mean well working with Meryl I mean my god with her twice and she without being a mentor she is a mentor just because she she does it right she lives right no and she she has a balance and a perspective that I feel is something to aspire to beautiful so I had that with Mike Nichols a little bit yeah he was it was that for me antastic yeah I loved him he called me a Mila he's the only person I'm Allah he somehow made everyone feel like themselves yeah yes or people did so truly oh yeah there's been a couple really special people I've worked with

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Length: 32min 57sec (1977 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 29 2016