Colin Firth, J. Irvine on Working with Each Other and Nicole Kidman, S. Skarsgard on a War Story

well you know we were talking about luck and how careers and one thing can change everything for people Jeremy with Colin earlier and I know that your first movie or 24 but your first movie was warhorse yeah you had the lead in that film you were wonderful in it by the way thank you I so he's in a Steven Spielberg movie your first big role how did that happen well I was playing a tree and that's they had a show at the time haha I went alone son auditions that was a stretch yeah it was a no video it was crazy it was it really was um out of the blue you know it's been serious walking around London trying to get an agent and you know I was hearing maybe four or five times a week every time went for an audition hearing hearing you're not good enough and no and then finally vanished contagion and nothing was like that the second audition that he put me up for so you know it's um it really was out of the blue yeah and - and so now you're in the railway man and and what was that making that movie what was that experience like because it seems like it's a very sweeping kind of saga you know you don't really see that many movies made this way that has a cast of thousands right all the incredible locations what was that experience like for you um I think the railway man I mean for me it's been quite a unique experience in a way that it's it's certainly a movie that I felt almost almost haunted by I think since since we finished now it really has kind of stuck with me for a very long time you know it was wonderful games are going to play a real person who we both you know got to know as well as we could and and you know putting yourself as much as you can in those sort of horrific experiences that Eric went through you know and you know there's a lot of aspects this roles I think because do you my part was I think my part you know playing area through going through these you know so harrowing and horrific circumstances how on earth can someone of my generation really relate to that so in a way it was a process of of clutching a straw was really I suppose and I and I know that as she said Jeremy you both spent time with Lomax and he passed away I guess a couple of years ago Colin is that right it was about a year and a half film was ready so what an extraordinary opportunity to sit down and really hear from this man everything he had gone through and everything not only during the actual conflict and the actual imprisonment but in the in the year since when when you heard that Jeremy had this part I know that you all wanted to make sure that you were true to Eric Lomax as a young man as an older man and and how did you ensure that that he would truly reflect this this individual as a younger person as Charlie says it's trying to reach into another person's experience it's difficult anyway it's what we do and that's the job description but when you when you have a fictional character who has experiences beyond your comprehension you feel somewhat free to use your imagination as wildly as possible and you know unfettered but when there's a real person and that real person is still alive and the stakes a immense and that his own telling of his own story is so critical to the story if that makes sense because this is about a man who eventually spoke who hadn't spoken then a series of confrontations which with himself largely which were required a great deal of courage led to him writing a book which created immense in and immense impact he spoke for all his peers and contemporaries who had also bottled it up to be entrusted with that and told well this is you gonna take another step in interpreting the same story you felt you did not want to let him down and all the other people down and so in some ways you have this embarrassment of riches because you have Eric and his wife who can tell you things right share things but on the other hand you feel how can I dig deep enough how can I understand enough and do justice to something that really happened yeah and you know I don't think it does you know it means to maybe to do things you and only due for a row let's suppose and you know we had to look you know love the torture scenes and I mean you know it was important for you Jeremy to actually not have a double in many of these scenes you actually experience sort of you know or at least not yeah waterboarding and the beating and that the trauma yeah I mean I'll be careful like is not it's very you know when you hear actors saying they suffered for a role but um you know things like the weight loss and you know the waterboarding sequences you know there's there's no way that I could ever get to what Aramis felt like in that you know I could stop it at any time which is the real torture but at the same time having those moments when it is real and you know there is a shot in the movie where we did let it carry on maybe just a couple of seconds too long and you know subsequently you just throw up all this water and there's that and there's these these glimpses ins what it what I imagine it must have been like just and as you say yes glimpses just a really a scintilla of the experience which was I'm sure overwhelming and devastating not a lot of hair splitting semantics about where the water board were boarding qualifies as torture either everything after yeah it's funny because you hear that you know people can only last it for eight to 12 seconds you think what could possibly be that bad you could only do 8 to 12 seconds and then you know you experience a little bit of it and there's I think it's one of most sickening things you can do someone what I appreciated about this film too is you know I think that we've become so in order to to people who come back from combat situations that the servicemen and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan we hear so much about PTSD and I think it's very hard for people to a understand it or be appreciate how terrifying agonizing and life shattering it is for people who have gone through something like this and then how are expected to come back to civilized society and integrate their lives once again and so I think it's a it's a it's actually a very helpful reminder for us to think about all those people and what they're going through right this very minute very much so and when people ask what's the relevance of to today of telling a story which takes place which starts 70 years ago it's that I mean no it's not only that of course you know people are as we speak coming back from from Afghanistan and having experienced unfathomable pain and the difficulty of coming back and reintegrating and because you have experiences that no one else can share and but we don't have many movies about that we don't have a lot of stories that help us to understand that but what actually this film I think is trying to do as well is to show you a lifetime afterwards it's not just the the moment of coming back the reentry period no it's it you see something of that but it's actually saying you know we take him into much later in life and we're saying well these scars this is how you know they they have to be managed through your relationships they will affect your capacity for intimacy they will they will affect your emotional relationship with the world and actually it's a hopeful story now I'm not being sort of teary-eyed and and and blindly optimistic about this I didn't think we would have any authority to tell a hopeful story about all that how did not come from someone who'd been through it and you know the themes in it that are to do is letting go of bitterness and rage and hatred and and if we just made that up if Hollywood made that up I think there'd be an awful lot of people would be within their rights just to reject it as as romantic but it's not as this meant went through all the steps and I think what starts out as a movie about vengeance you know first of all brutality than vengeance it's ultimately a movie about humanity and deliverance I think well tough before we go what's what's next for you you have two movies coming out with Nick you and Nicole Kidman I'm getting a little jealous she's in this movie she's in your next two movies yes what the heck is going on I don't think it ends there either I need to have a little talk with Nicole we're going for the box set yes it's just sort of happened we met and and I inflict a couple of years ago and all right it's okay we had a professional you know so don't worry not on my mantelpiece she you know we it started with this and then there's a film we did together called before I go to sleep and there seemed to be a vacancy for a particular role which I could just step into and it was it happened to be shooting in my neighborhood and she she very kindly invited this the extent the invitation and and then Paddington Bear or something completely different so I'm a I'm a three foot tall fluffy bear and she would like to have me killed and stuffed so our relationship has gone through various jobs like it well actually I'm a I'm a huge fan of Nicole's I think she's absolutely luminescent and such a good actor at fuse yeah and what about you Jeremy what what are you up to next I'm currently filming a movie about fallen angels hence the silly blonde hair and yeah they're doing that and then got a few coming up woman in black noise just done a movie with Michael Douglas well sounds as if you've come a long way from playing a tree I said so far so good yeah no that's wonderful congratulations on all your success continued success to you and Colin thanks so much for coming by it's always great to see you and just just to bring our relationship full circle I should mention I'm getting married on June 21st and Colin I was married on June 21st so there you go we have something that yet another thing in common it's amazing the shara wedding anniversary anyway great to see you

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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2018