Full LIVE Roundtable: Margot Robbie, Robert Pattinson, Bryan Cranston | Close Up With THR

[Music] welcome to close up with The Hollywood Reporter this episode we're joined for the first time by a live studio audience now let's meet the actors we have army hammer Diane Kruger Bryan Cranston Margot Robbie Robert Pattinson and Octavia Spencer let's get started okay now the question this is the first time we have mixed male and female actors on the same roundtable so what is an issue that you have always wanted to discuss with actors of the opposite sex right have you ever we've had crushes on people that we've worked with have you ever followed through is this can we do like one question have you ever worked with someone you despised if so how did you work through it yeah how did you deal with it but I was only on the set for one day no I was I can't say that I despised them but you know when a person looks past you and like it really doesn't address you and the directors talking and they close the door in your face it's like I hate you with all of my heart and you know I just think that person is a miserable person so I really didn't have to do anything because I was only there for a day but years later I met that person again did you tell her no I know I just smiled oh they literally walked up to me as if they had been kind and I'm going I've had an actor cenis Tannen to do my off-camera at once yeah it did actually early on yeah yeah with the female star of the show and I didn't I didn't do it I said no she needs to be here it was a very emotional scene I can understand if it was something simple and you're just walking past but no I think you have to establish a sense of of respect comadre like you know yeah and do that that's just plain rude I think yeah I feel you need to change your profession if you don't want to show up yeah you know mainly mm-hmm Margo how do you handle conflict where it arises I avoid conflict at all costs and I haven't worked with an actor that I've despised but I have worked with someone on the production side who I didn't appreciate the way they spoke about me in front of groups so it took me a couple months but then eventually I plucked up the courage and pulled him aside and said you know you're discrediting what I do when you speak to me like that and he was really great about it and you're fired do you have to get to a place where you feel comfortable doing that I mean you've Rob you started as a young actor did you have to get up courage to assert yourself on set with people I can't I just run away well I don't know I do know I mean I just try and avoid and hopefully they'll just see what they're doing is wrong never ever ever works worse and worse but at the same time I feel like it completely throws me off if I'm trying to if I have to say like hey this is my process it's like I don't know what my process is and this needs to be some kind of understanding that you're trying to do something good you're not just like messing around I know right and what helps for us is that we know that there's a finite amount of time that we're gonna spend with that person or persons and so we can just endure and tolerate until you kind of navigate your way through it and the the movies over or whatever you well unless you're on a television show for seven yeah that's right it's it's really important here's you know it's not imperative that you get along with your co-stars it's like your in-laws it just makes things easier it just makes things nicer to be with you know and so yeah you make an effort to to get to know them and to know how they work because every actor works differently and it works well for them and every other actor has to respect and understand how that happens and and to be honest and set an example of how you work and how you're going to go about it Diana and I work together and we shared a lot of that you know how do you want to approach this scene in that so I find it that the longer I do this the more I find that that's just as pivotal a part of doing your job as having your lines down knowing your character knowing yourself all that because you can have your own process but if you can't fit your process into the organic process that is the whole project you're working on right it doesn't really do you any good you have to figure out how to do what you want to do while also not [ __ ] up somebody else's process it's all kind of it's a very sort of cohesive symbiotic say what kind of scenes make you nervous honestly the the scenes that make me the most nervous are the ones where you have the least amount to do where you're just they are and everyone else is doing a bunch of stuff and you have one thing to do like one line one thing to say for some reason it's it's harder to get kind of into that rhythm and all that and then you just end up like waiting to do your thing and it's it's kind of distracting as opposed to just kind of going along with it and being a part of it but in probably by your name there's a lot of intimate scenes and you really had to go there do those kinds of scenes make you nervous or is that just par for the course and they might have on another project but on that one everything just felt so safe I felt like we were in such capable hands and we felt like we had such freedom to explore and to be ourselves and to mess up and it was all okay no matter what happened it felt like we were really protected by Luca and by everybody so we didn't really have that I like the way you say things I don't know why you're always putting yourself down though so you won't I guess you really that afraid of what I think thanks for a difficult form I remember I remember specifically you know we had some you know scenes that were sort of sans clothing and by the end of the first day they call cut and then someone comes up goes do you want a robe you just go that's fine we're gonna shoot it again in a second you just feel safe yeah for the others what kinds of scenes make you nervous this or especially nervous I'm Dyslexic so anything where I have to do something if I'm just talking or you know just walking but if you have me doing a lot of stuff it's like I actually have to learn my lines by doing the action so that when I actually have to do it I can throw it away otherwise it's like I'm folding oh wait I'm folding but in real life you don't think about folding you just fold so I have to learn things do by doing things if I have to do things I get nervous in any time I have to act on my own I I that that feels really weird to me for some reason I I'm solo in a solo in a scene which I mean that actually happens kind of rarely but I need to be with other actors then all my focus ISM is on what they're doing and then all I need to do is react to it and I'm just too in my head if I'm it's funny your role in the big short was all solo scenes yeah if it really cuz I was looking at the camera it kind of felt like I was having a chat to everyone I don't know it wallet about them easiest day of work I've ever done in my life yeah half the day shooting in a mansion in Malibu was real 20 year old Dom Perry on the Adam McKay pulled out it was like oh now we're your lines on a teleprompter no no I know that would have been the your right eyes were difficult - yeah I mean I had to like I just had to research it and kind of actually understand it cuz I was I couldn't get all the technical lingo down without actually knowing what I was saying so once I figured that out it was how do you prepare for a role generally like for I Tanya obviously you had to learn to ice skate and yeah was that part of the appeal of the role was that you would have to dive in and learn this or was it sort of the thing you had to do in order to play the part yeah no I get excited with every character when there's a skill set you get to learn for it and we get like I'm so lucky and spoil in that they get someone really good to teach you how to do it too so it's nice like when I did focus I had a real-life pickpocket teach me how to pickpocket like I was like this is exciting no um so that was exciting but the I mean that's that's the mechanical preparation that just you know you put the hours in and it pays off but beyond that I am kind of like a crazy person when I prep I do i do timelines and backstories and I work with a dialect coach and a movement coach and an acting coach and I just yeah I need to do a lot before I show up to certain so I can throw it all out the window when I get on set but but if I hadn't done all the work beforehand I would just be too scared - did you watch a lot of footage of Tonya Harding and I've watched every single piece of footage there's on her hello a thousand times over and I would had a voice in my iPod I'd go to sleep listening to I mean it like lived in Tonya Lanza for a long time did someone want to just tell me to my face you're never gonna give me the scores I deserve this is how it's done some of these girls have paid their dues I don't give a [ __ ] I skated them today we also judge on presentation well you know what if you can come up with $5,000 for a costume for me then I won't have to make one till then just stay out of my face maybe they're just not as good as you think maybe you should pick another sport suck my dick were you able to talk to her in preparing for it I purposely didn't because there was so much online that I could do I could study her you know at 15 there's a documentary made about her she's interviewed all throughout her twenties pre and post incident and then obviously documentaries made about her in her 40s as well and so I was playing her 15 to 44 and I had all that information there my fingertips so I intentionally prepped for the character without having met her so that I could keep her and the characters separate and then once I decided exactly how it's gonna play the character how it's gonna play every single beat then I went to meet her I didn't want to meet her and be altering like all second guessing what I decided to do so I waited and then I met a week before we started shooting oh no she was really understanding about honestly I was like I'm playing a character it's it's you know in my mind there's a difference and and she was all things considered really really understanding that about it is there a role where the preparation and what you would have to do to prepare was part of the reason you took the role if maybe took place I'm like a like an island somewhere that makes factor in tonight's your consideration shooting Hawaii for a month I'd be nice hello Margo said you get to do something Yeah right I think so yeah if you haven't gotten to do it yet you might get to sorry it's all just kind of part and parcel but you've never taken a role where it's you know I'll get to learn how to you know rock climb or something I did a hiking movie and we never hiked really oh my god I'm gonna lose so much weight we just literally walked across the trail and then we picked up you know walking at it so there was no hiking I've toured down a movie because we required me riding a horse and I'm super scared of horses oh really oh yeah I was like I can't do it I can't I don't want to do it here you've been throwing up so many times I hey I can't do you like horse meat I've turned down roles because well know amongst other things but it did factor into my decision is the idea of wearing a corset for like six months I was like I can't I just I can't do that or or a full-on prosthetic oh yeah completely I just you've done that haven't you I've yes I've done that it's it can be very claustrophobic when you're only the only connection to life is through the nostril the only thing everything else is covered it's a little daunting to do it and then to act in that for 14 hours it's just so that's a that's a bit much but I did I took on Lyndon Johnson because of the fact that I could research the first president that I ever really paid any attention to oh I was about 7 years old when Kennedy was killed and then I I knew something was gravely wrong my parents and every every neighbor was weeping during this and I thought I I need to pay attention there's something going on that's more important than me and at 7 I got I it was my first breaking out of my own self-centered nature you know and this new President was Lyndon Johnson and then years later I had this opportunity to play him so I mean for actors it's I love the research part of it to be able to dive in and go through a treasure chest of who knows what and then you couple that with your imagination and the text and and your talent and you put it all together and hope for the best is there a role or even a portion of a role a line that has particularly stuck with you years later from someone you've played mmm people walk up to me all the time and just say three little words that the strangest time I don't want to say it because you know it's my [ __ ] I mean my thing you restrained yourself and let me say and I it's and it's really strange because if when you're in your life and you're at the grocery store and you're in your own you're like trying to figure out how do I tell if this is a ripe and how do I choose and somebody just leans in what's going on oh okay so it's interesting that is interesting unfortunate catch straight it doesn't have to be something people say to you it could just be fun but I think I think my prostate is asymmetrical I always from Cosmopolis me and podium area have this thing I say I say it to him when we're crying together and he's like mine too and like what does it mean it's nothing it's a harmless variation at you are a Jew I worry about my favorite season but there's something I just think there's something really profound for me anyway couldn't tell you what it means cover the other things that are stuck with you Michael Stuhlbarg has a speech and call me by your name and it's I don't get to say it and it's one of the most beautiful monologues I've ever seen in my life and it truly changed the way that I'm gonna parent my children the way I look at people the way I mean everything it was just like one of those on the end yeah yeah just one of those things that from that moment you know that that changed the rest of my life and I think that's one of the beautiful things about this medium specifically is it's very subjective it can be you know eat my [ __ ] it can be what they just like most things that kind of changes your perspective for us I have a lot from Breaking Bad a lot of iconic lines right one of the Breaking Bad lines do people most approach you with this well I am the danger or I'm the one who knocks lightly there's all all kinds of those are good though very fortunate we had good writers yeah that's the key man okay is there an actor that you think had closest to the perfect career someone that you look at and said I want this person's career they had it they had everything right paola Streep no people paw there yeah Cate Blanchet really admire the choices she's made and she's Australia and she's Australian which makes it seem like it's a more attainable dream somehow Whoopi Goldberg for being interesting and Morgan Freeman so combination of both okay yeah well wolf Raymond I just loved a lot of the choices that she made as an actress and also Kathy Bates has made some very interest I mean we could talk for hours yeah for me the common denominator so far is that all these women and men are doing comedies and dramas they're kind of floating in between and I think most of us would love to have that as our body of work that you you're not pigeonhole to any one thing but you can move depending on how any particular story resonates but comedy drama stage film which you did so well I mean going from Malcolm in the middle which is one of the funniest shows that's been on television to them Breaking Bad which is one of the best dramas that's been on television usually I've been lucky yeah been lucky but it's a you know I don't want to repeat myself a lot of the times that the roles that I take are things that kind of scare me if it if it makes me a little tingly then it's like oh I could fail at this Bryan what about last flag flying scared you the character I played in last flag was huge he is a massive consumer he takes the air out of the room he says yes to everything drugs drink women you know but he also says yes to being a friend he's the first one to say what do you need and I told Richard Linklater I said I I feel like the only way I can really understand this character is if I go way out there so I'm if when I go out on that limb if you start to hear it crack pull me back how did it happen that this boy was shot in the back of the head like a dog he was a brave marine credit to the core and he served his country well yes he did so did we all everyone of us here and we do it again if we had the chance what's going on so I don't know that's why I'm asking I know there were takes when I was just massive but I have to try that in order to know to feel like that was wrong and to try to find that sweet spot it's ephemeral it comes and goes you don't you can't repeat it take after take it depends on how you feel at any given time but it was a beautiful film and lovely bonding with Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne and and having Richard Linklater to be our conductor it's very heartfelt and this great experience are any of you the kind of actors who will cold call other actors when I saw Wonder Woman I am as soon as I went home I wrote to Patti and gal I'd never met either of them before but I wrote me just said you've made me feel so proud to be a woman in the DC Universe well thank you but thank you for opening this up for the rest of us really mm-hmm I emailed some Hayek after I saw Beatrice at dinner I just thought it was such a beautiful film and they know a lot of people had seen it and I have saw it on a plane and the movies amazing she's so amazing you know I sent an email to a guy I knew just did a film this year beautiful film and he took great risk and did a wonderful job and it in a film called call me by your name and I never responded what a dick what I thought was a very lovely letter Brian run mean email huh after Ken which is really sweet how do you get each of these emails I sell them you know just to say one more thing about that it I think actors have a tendency to be reticent on coming forward and telling someone of a performance that affected them and I think that's I think it's great to do what you did to do you to be able to say I don't know them or what I just want to reach out and say your work affected me and Rama and thank you for that for a couple years I was always - I always wanted to but I was - scales like well Who am I like right we told my son like no I didn't want to hear from me and then nice voice that's someone there like would you like it if someone reached out and said they appreciated your home I was like yeah that would mean the world to me I should definitely email do you consider yourself a mentor when you're on set I don't but others may when when you lead a cast you have the opportunity to to wear the mantle of a leader and I choose to do that but I don't have to be if I'm not it depends on where the energy goes I just did a movie with Kevin Hart he takes it over and I was happy to step back and go you run it and he was a blast and a hard worker and a great so I don't have to but I think it's important to do it if if that is your responsibility if you're number one on the call sheet I make sure that when anybody comes on to a movie or a television show that I'm doing producing or whatever and they have that one line and they're nervous as hell is to reach out and and to welcome them to because for two reasons it's the right thing to do it's a to reach out and help them out but when they calm down if someone has come they do better I love Ted Danson to this day because he made a point I did his show Becker and I have severe stage fright and we did the run-through and he came up to me and he just said oh my god you were just this this and this and it's like Ted Danson said that to me and I have loved him forever and I think and that's the motto that I follow as well because it really does it helps everyone if everyone it feels on equal footing yeah you know I appreciate that have either of you had mentors I've definitely felt like I have looked up to people and and admired the work you know and they have shaped I think Who I am as an actor today including this sir sitting there you know because you look up to them I do when you admire someone's work you well you want to follow their lead you know like what Brian said he was an amazing leader on the movie that we did which was not an easy fun to make and many challenges and so much fun was it the infiltrator okay yeah and without him and being so calm and being so kind to everyone including myself and just being the first one unsaid and you know doing amazing work and and he just really made every thing and everybody feel it was gonna be okay even though was it you know chaotic at times it's it's sometimes very hard but but we're very lucky I think that I don't think you can say it's hard work without saying but we're very lucky to be able to say that we're actors and this is what we do for a living we tell stories please there are people who work for a living and we get to play but that so when I am on a set I try to say that artistic frustration is always expected and absolutely we're all gonna have that and we might even have some skirmishes within our family but I really don't want to discuss anything I don't want to hear how the bitching and complaining about you know how long the hours are of them I just we're so lucky to be able to do this but you you didn't achieve stardom whatever that means until somewhat later in your career do you think that gave you that kind of perspective yeah I did so do yous do you find yourself saying things to actors who maybe don't have that perspective well I just try to do it by example I learned it from Tom Hanks I've known him for 30 years and he's given me opportunities and I've watched him on the set as you meet our wives are very good friends and my wife was in their wedding and that's 30 30 years ago and so I was able to watch firsthand how a young man who is a star comports himself and treats other people and is able to create an atmosphere on the set that is fun and engaging and welcoming of thoughts and ideas and get the work done and then see you go home and I thought that's nice that's that's a good way to live and you can have it all you don't have to be the tortured actor and making everyone's life miserable it doesn't have to be that way is that your experience to you also kind of achieve stardom a little bit later do you think that gave you perspective it's weird because I don't see myself as a person who's it came stardom I I get to work and I love doing what I do but I can tell you that if the success that I have achieved up to this point if I had achieved it I'm sorry we can tell I have not slept in hours right the the if I had have all this happened for me at age 26 I probably would not have been able to handle it but you know working with Sandra Bullock is watching her example and Matthew McConaughey and Sam Jackson on my very first movie and how they worked with a crew and took care of their crew and and each other I said okay I want to be that one day if I'm ever that lucky that's how I want to be and I feel like I have unless you know early in the morning haven't had coffee well you're sitting next to a guy who had you know superstardom at a very young age and you've it seems deliberately taking roles that are in smaller more FileMaker driven films since the Twilight franchise now do you ever see yourself going back to more blockbuster big-budget type films or do you prefer this I don't know I mean is that I always kind of fool myself sometimes into think of it there's some kind of macro plan to look my decision making but it's not I mean it's just sort of you just try and find anything which you should hopefully will connect to anything you can somehow make it a little bit better or any order just do anything with it I don't know I mean I like getting into trial and everything everything felt so accidental maybe it's just some kind of self-protection just like oh it's all just like you know everything's just kind of happened by accident but I don't know I mean I think in the same way that actually when you get incredibly lucky with with having roles which could be wished affords you the opportunity to do smaller things but it's clear to you about good time because it's a dark roll I mean but there was no roll when I first signed up - there's no script or anything I just really liked the trailer the director's previous movie and really I'm starting to find as well that I'm just basically playing a director like every single - in one way or another I think that's the only way I can really figure it out and I really liked their energy just as people they're like little dynamos and I'd kind of I'd played a lot of parts which are quite reactive and quite passive and I just wanted to play a part which was really on the front foot and also didn't have any shame and any fear excuse me you Peter yes I am we're in the middle of say hello what are you doing we're in the middle of something here apparently please how would you like it if I made you cry like that no I would not let's go let's go this is my shame on you Jamie you're not how are you game on you and the first draft of the script there were certain scenes in it where I was reading that Jesus I don't even know if this is legal loophole if you do something in a movie does that make it legal and it's exciting I mean there's so there's so many other things that get in a way of making a movie like the people who are writing the money so you can't do so you know and when you have someone who's really kind of Punk and says I don't even care I have this opportunity to make it and this might be my last opportunity I'm gonna do whatever I want and you've so rarely meet those people when I mean what would Claire Denis afterwards and and she's like that as well was just kind of and she's been doing it but maybe you have to maybe her whole career I think it's just that you know my own insecurities so whatever I want to I want to find someone who doesn't have them and just be like okay if I just hold on to the train the train will go through the wall and everything will be fine so much of an actor's career is the choices that you make I'm curious Brian is there something on your IMDB page that you would love to expunge one thing Amazon women from the moon that reel is one of my favorites so it's not bad that's a real movie Joe Dante directed at me and that was I was early on I think I was paramedic number two back when he didn't have names yeah I know that it was just a silly I never saw it so I don't even know what it's about really but in Amazon women from the Amazon women on the moon I know nothing about it apparently one of them needed a paramedic you could disappear from IMDB just one army yes I played I played a character back when you don't get names you get by their numbers or like a bad descriptor I played Abercrombie boy and what was called spring breakdown okay you have to take your shirt off abet all right I had a tequila shot taken off of my body juice and then salt which was like sugar so by the end of the day which was shot in like a foam party you know when I was younger I did a deodorant commercial that was a proud moment I was doing I was like even that spasm of embarrassment you find when you first watch it you just wait like five six years and everything like I actually really like Octavian shape of water you had to sign on to doing that film not knowing what this fish monster thing would look like right what is that conversation with guillermo del toro like well I could tell you this I before even meeting Guillermo I have seen or had seen every movie he'd ever directed and most of the things that he's executive produced because I'm a fantasy horror fan so when he called I literally like left at the chance to work with him and we met for 30 was supposed to be for 30 minutes but it turned into a three hour conversation and he only mentioned the the role as he was paying and he said I wrote this part for you and and I don't want to tell you anything about it I just want you to read it and I'm thinking well I'm in but oh okay well let me see what my characters going to be doing looking like you don't know anything lord help me if they ask me if I do I'm not a good liar except grossed it takes a lotta last people married all personnel prepared to present your identity and appearance cars I didn't care what the creature was going to look like because I his signature is there is always a creature so I I knew the creature was going to be great and it was an easy decision for me to make how did he shoot that was at CGI was it practical was that someone in a suit or someone with dots or was it wasn't it it was an actor in his suit and let me tell you it was so wonderful to have him there you have a real actor act office at you he was amazing it's 90 percent actor 10 percent CGI Doug did all of that work Doug Jones Doug Jones he is amazing Wow Margo you come from Australia and you've done a lot of studio movies I'm curious what surprised you about working in Hollywood what most surprised you well I went from working on a TV show in Australia called neighbours which probably Rob's the only person at the table that was big in the UK but but you know that there's [Music] 30-something you know around 30 cast members you'll no one has trailers and when has a chair on set with your name on it there's no omelet chef you just hit him one like you have one greenroom conditions so I like that's what I thought a set set was like to be in one room with 30 of your cast mates and like you know if someone wanted a cup of tea like you I'd be make I've always made the tea for everyone that was like my thing I did and then I got on set in America and I was I mean first just flabbergasted by the production value and how much bigger and more money there was but then everyone's like so your trailers or your rooms over here and I was like on my own like everyone was separated and I hated that I would like knock on people's doors like they would hang out it's really weird to be sitting like in this room on my own now and and I felt like there yeah it was just it was just so bizarre to me that the actors were kind of kept separate it was just odd but but I did really appreciate its its it is wonderful to have more more money for a project I mean the things you can do the more hours like we used to shoot an episode a day and then suddenly we had like a whole month to shoot an episode and I was like I get how many takes to do this this is incredible so yeah I guess I was yeah it was just very different mm-hmm are you you also came from outside and sorry yeah it's just the of the people like I think in France where I started out um you know you're max 50 people same thing you don't necessarily have a trailer or it's like one room for everybody but the quality of the work I think is the same it like I think the luxury is time I think you know we have here I feel like I have more time to do stuff all right curious the life of actors has been changed recently in past five years with the rise of social media and the microscope people are under do you think that social media has made your lives better or worse you quit Twitter so yeah you why did you quit Twitter it ride very little impulse control and I couldn't stop myself from saying something to somebody and then that just you're just adding oxygen to a fire and then right and little Gretl sudden you've got a conflagration and all sudden something that doesn't exist in the real world at all is something that you're thinking about and something that like takes broadband in your brain of something you could so easily be focused on something else so much more productive and it's something that if you just put your phone down it goes away it's gone it's not real it's not anything concrete and it was a waste of time and it's a toxic environment no one goes on the internet to say anything nice it's not the done thing so I thought some people with a measure of celebrity feel that they can use that platform to advocate for things they care about or to do good and people do it successfully that you don't you don't agree with that maybe I just couldn't do it successful I was just really bad how about you Brian what do you think about that well I certainly have gotten in trouble what we have now is a whole new technological advancement of of tools it's just like anything else you should be able to learn how to use the tool and not allow it to use you I think that's what you're talking able to show restraint and and circumspect as far as when you need and want to use this and how to use it but it's like having a nice piece of cake in front of you if you're trying to dye it you don't want to bring it into the house it's you know the impulsivity of factor is is - it's very tempting but it's also permanent it was like getting a tattoo each time you know so you got to be careful do you feel an obligation to speak up on certain issues and use your platform I don't feel an obligation I feel a desire I don't want to be a person with no no opinion especially now with all the things that are going on in our country both you know politically and socially in our industry and and others it's a very trying challenging time but I I am an optimist and I do believe that sometimes even a society has to go through a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough and that's what we're going through we're breaking down now in in many social circle circles and I see the silver lining that that there is hope out there the way we treat other people and and lack of respect now is is keen on on our consciousness and and that's good and to talk about it is is really good and hopefully not only things improve in our industry but in in every other sector what is your take on people who feel that they don't want to speak up on certain issues like particularly the the recent harassment stories that have been out yeah I mean it's on one hand you have a great opportunity but on the other hand you have a great responsibility to handle it appropriately and bring something a horrible situation I think coming forward is a extremely far more complicated than anyone can imagine unless they're in that position so III would bear no judgment on anyone who didn't want to come forward with their story I would hope that anyone who did knows that they can and be supported 100% and I have to say I have never spoken to so many actresses that I've never met then I have in the last couple months things like that and there's such a sense of community which is really wonderful and it's sad that that had to come out of a horrible situation but there is a support network there and and ready and everyone wants to make themselves readily available to support anyone who wants to come forward do you think there will be real change that's lasting you can't say I hope so because everybody says I hope so yes I think so too I think every industry needs to change I mean it's not just the film industry the big revelation for me right now is human resource departments have not been protecting the workers they've been protecting companies and that has to change first and foremost but I think a lot of people are you know using their power to make sure change happens so I hope so but I know so do you know so I don't know so but I feel like we're seeing the change as it's happening all these men are gone and I'm actually amazed how many companies have really said and and separate ties with those men immediately they were get just a slap on the back and they come back so actually that's you know it's happening you find that there's a different atmosphere on sets in the past couple months for those of you only just stopped shooting a couple of weeks ago and it felt like set life to me it wasn't different in the sense that the male actors were scared to talk to any female actors or anything like that no yeah it is a weird industry we don't have an HR department there's a lot of gray area or now in our job and a lot of very intimate situations that you need to make yourself vulnerable to and it changes job by job some jobs are done in six weeks you know like or some jobs go for six months and it is an issue you need to solve at the time there so many variables and it changes so constantly it's difficult to find structure in that sort of environment yeah I think agencies and managers need to look at them maybe they play the role of HR because there's been some culpability in the agencies go but don't go alone that they're already telling them there might something you know that they need to be aware of and hopefully that's that's ended that no one should be put in a position of you know being oppressed or feeling in danger of any kind just mutual respect and I do believe that we have seen attorney yeah and I agree with Octavia I don't think it's exclusive to the entertainment business I think this is in academia it's in business since in politics it gets more attention in our businesses because of the people involved but I don't think it's exclusive to us no unfortunately let's talk about your film for a moment it's a revenge film where did you draw upon to play that character you know what I didn't go into it looking at it like as a revenge film to be honest to me this is a movie about grief and a woman's journey of how to find a way to keep going or not keep going you know I prepped this movie for about six months and I ain't sat in a lot of self-help groups of victims of not just terrorism attacks but brutal murder and for sure one of the things that is very remarkable about all of them is that they have a lot of rage because someone was taken from them without them being able to do anything about it you know and if given the opportunity I think a lot of those people would rather go and kill the person that killed their son or killed their husband or whatever I think the strength of this film and the fade is not that it's okay this is what should be done this is what you should do this is this woman's journey and that was her only way to finish that story you know so I looked at it from a very emotional point of view from from she goes through all the stages of grief rage emptiness anger hope you know the possibilities of a new life new child and then that is not possible interesting a question for the group a lot of people ask you know if you could have a dinner party who would you invite I'm curious if you could sit down an interview and really talk to somebody one-on-one for an hour who would it be Barack Obama what would you ask why did you go no I asked him I mean there are things that he has seen and been a part of and and now he's seen where our country is and I would just actually I would like to talk to Barack and Joe Biden and just gain some perspective from people who've been in the job and perhaps say what can we as citizens do when the country is so separated and polarizing so I guess I would talk to both of them oh you don't look at me I don't know let me think about that brian is uh well I've already sat and chatted with bra [Applause] [Laughter] that was that was that was my that was my joy I mean that was what I I did it I was able to sit down with him in the Oval Office for an hour and a half and just really just it was there was a there was a referee there was a moderator from the New York Times the three of us and so this was published it was yeah and and there were times when I forgot who I was talking to in in as much as the President of the United States and he was just a guy he's a little younger than me but he has daughters as I do he is a dad he was very athletic and there were a lot of things that we had in common didn't have a father growing up neither did I and so there were a lot of things that we were relating to and and then all of a sudden I'm going to steal anything his soul you know and and but he has such an ability to to dispel this this sense of you coming in and feeling intimidated he just calms you down and your two guys and you want to take your jacket off yeah can I you know I took my jacket out rolled up the sleeves and there we were two guys chatting that was really really a an eye-opening experience and one I will always remember well thank you Brian I mean it's kind of like a actor and everything but I would love to sit down with Stanley Kubrick he passed away before I got a chance to ever meet or work with him and I think that that would be it would be you know my moment of just being like this is really happening be very quiet that's it you say Brian when you were a kid what did you get in trouble for everything everything I I was a typical kid I got into a lot of trouble I my dad left the family when I was 11 years old and so and my mom took it very hard so she kind of escaped through self-medication and my dad was gone which left a huge cavity for me to go get in trouble and I did I did all kinds of things because I didn't have parental guidance and you know it was I was trying to find my way through and in fact I was my family named me sneaky pete because i was really sneaky and later on years later I developed the television series basically called sneaky beat and using some of those same kind of troublemaking things when I was in high school I had to ID cards one was Brian Cranston and one was Bill Davis bill Johnson actually bill Johnson would be the one that I would whip out whenever I got into trouble that's like Bill Johnson got into a lot of and back then there were things called truant officers I don't know if you guys experienced that back at the back I'm old but there were truant officers who would who would basically do a little kind of an arrest if you're skipping school if you're at the mall if you're there they were all over the place and Bill Johnson got in trouble so often that's sent to the in fact it got to the point where the truant officer started knowing my name Bell we're gonna have to call your parents and I go oh you're gonna call George and daddy Johnson how do you rub butting into trouble yeah flying lots of lying lots of stealing it's weird that's the one of the only detriments that are coming getting any kind of Fame or anything that you can't really lie anymore cuz everyone finds everything out and it's all for when I used to audition for things and one of the main things they used to do is people would always question your American accent ability and so I realized oh if I just go in and say I'm American and make up a whole other character to play the character then they would no longer question and then no one questioned your accent off to his but then after the first Twilight came when I would still say like oh I'm from Denver why you pretending to be someone else yeah it was a harsh harsh lesson to learn that's pretty good yeah you grew up outside the country yeah I moved around a lot I moved probably on average every year to a new place or a new home so it was just general mischief you know like kid [ __ ] you know you just you you start playing with fire you light a few things on fire by accident you know you see like you see like power tools and all sudden I I got in trouble when I was like four or five for drilling a bunch of holes in a car like this is possible ten whole Zune I was like oh this is really bad wipe this off you know mister you know yeah you get you you just you have a lot of energy and you don't have a direction to focus it on and it can eat you alive and I love how he said we I lit things on fire by accident with the lying thing - definitely not an accident in these jobs you you get to meet odd and interesting people and Barack Obama excluded who is the most interesting person that you've met can I read you met Charles Manson I did his place where he was hanging out with his hippie crowd was called the Spahn Ranch which rented horses go horseback riding my cousin and I would go every once in a while in the last time we went I was ten I think unless she was 11 and we are renting horses from the old guy and some guy comes running into the office going Charlie's on the health Charlie's on the hill and then it startled us so much you look you go don't worry about it don't worry about and we look out the window and there's about eight to ten guys men and women jumping on their horses gathering them together and galloping down the trail Wow about 20 minutes later we see that trail of horses coming back now the width of this trail was was less than this table so you're passing by very close to each other and there were a bunch of horses and then there was a guy in the middle sitting on a horse but he wasn't holding his reins the person in front was holding his reins and the this guy was short black hair down to here dark black eyes and a beard and he was just moving to the undulation of the horse like this and and we're coming by and passing by and we're like staring at him all the way and not saying a word they pass and my cousin turns around she was in fresh eagles that must be we didn't think anything of it we didn't even tell us was before the murders its but I'm a year before the murder okay and then the murders happen they capture him and I had forgotten all about that incident until here's the face of the guy we just arrested and I just about spit out whatever I have in my mouth that's the guy I immediately went back oh my cousin called me it was crazy yeah other than murderers any interesting first thing you've met I wish I had someone that jumped out try to beat that when I meet people all the time I met a guy who was a yo-yo world champion producing why did you meet the yo-yo champion no we were shooting Lone Ranger and it was one of those things where they just had a massive budget and Tom Wilkinson had to do a thing where he pulls out a pocket watch and flips it around and it comes and lands and opens on his hand and it was like a cool little trick so they're like let's bring in the yo-yo world champion Wow and he was like that's not a yo-yo they go yeah but can you help him do it he goes yeah you pull it out of your pocket you do that and Tom go Oh like this click and he's like yeah just like that and then he was with us for the rest of the movie this is gonna sound crazy but I'm like total serial killer nerd and John Douglas I read his book mind hunter and like 15 years ago I got bumped up to first class and the flight attendant said his first and last name like what he would you like chicken or fish oh my god I love you and I talked him all the way from Los Angeles to Atlanta but he was kind and do you think you were a serial killer was actually impressed that I like could talk to him about that type it's kind of crazy so this year I decided to make my motorcycle license in deep Georgia so that was a culture shock to say the very least I'd never turn on a motorcycle there was me and 20 harley-davidson guys it was pretty awesome like that was barbecuing in the parking lot on night I just not that they were crazy but I was completely fascinated I had never met anyone like this and they thought I was nuts really is what they thought they were like what is this goat they're like you gonna drop the bike you're gonna drop the bike and I kind of did but they like picked me up it was like awesome I'm like still in touch with that so huh watch out if you ever see me I was recently doing a film in the director asked if everyone in the crew could write down the craziest thing that's happened to them in their lives and then it was released on the last day everyone handed out and you had to pick whose story matched up with you so you didn't put your name on it you just wrote you just write the thing and then ever had to guess who it was it just reminded me that like fascinating people are everywhere everywhere the things like someone has been engaged to the princesses ends about someone else's being in a plane crash with only ten people survived and they were one of them like people had the craziest things and and it just reminds me there's they're fascinating stories everywhere everyone has a story every story I once found a and no one guess that this was me I found a human foot on the beach in Nicaragua once okay I want to thank our guests I wanted to personally use it as a doorstop thank our guests for this episode of close up of The Hollywood Reporter let's do it hi I'm Margaret Bryan Cranston Robert Pattinson John boyega Sam Rockwell Willem Dafoe Emma Stone Allison Janney Gemma LaVon thank you for watching thank you thank you for watching thanks for watching The Hollywood Reporter how we would report a Hollywood Reporter on YouTube on YouTube

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Length: 59min 11sec (3551 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 06 2018

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[u/brayshizzle]

Armie Hammer was created in a fucking lab.....beautiful bastard.

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I’m really happy Armie Hammer has found success recently. He had a bad stroke of luck with JL: Mortal being cancelled and then the Lone Ranger flopping....

[u/Bokuto-san]

AND Diane Kruger! How could you forget about such a perfect creature?

[u/KatanaAmerica]

This is a really hot roundtable. And they say such interesting and insightful things as well!

[u/dave-a-sarus]

One of the best roundtables they've done. These are so much more enjoyable when the guests aren't interrupted constantly by the host. Really loved Bryan Cranston's stories too :)

[u/rayQz]

Am I the only one that felt it was like the Bryan Cranston show, don’t get me wrong I really like him but I felt like there was a little too much of him and less from the others.

[u/Ilovecharli]

I know it's shallow and lame and creepy and trite by this point. But seriously, how is Margot Robbie possible?

[u/Gravityislikeaids]

It's weird to me that there's an audience there