![]() “He was there with his cigar, looking at his book, and he didn’t look up once. When I heard he got ‘Spider-Man,’ it couldn’t have happened to a better guy” – or his disastrous audition for Brian De Palma. Schreiber also found time to praise Tom Holland, Watts’ co-star in “The Impossible” – “The most charming kid you could ever meet in your life. As soon as I started to have this physique, all these jobs came.” He said: ‘Why would you throw away that tool?’ I knew that my body was a tool, I just never knew it had to be muscular. I said I thought that actors work out because they can’t act. “Hugh was this beautiful guy who was working out all the time, disciplined, never drinking too much. I went: ‘Let’s do it!,’ ” he said, also mentioning his friendship with Hugh Jackman, which led to the likes of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” But he told me he would give me 20 thousand dollars for walking down the stairs and getting into a car. He had this movie called ‘Scream’ and I didn’t give a shit. “I had a meeting at Dimension with Bob Weinstein. That’s how my first movie happened!”Īfter being cast as Cotton Weary in “Scream,” bigger parts followed. Then, Nora Ephron saw me in ‘Henry V’ and thought it would be funny to have this very big, hairy guy be a transvestite in a comedy about a suicide hotline. “Because of my eyebrows and my Slavic fat pads, people in the film industry saw me as a bad guy. There was me and Michael Stuhlbarg, and we got every major role in Shakespeare plays.” “I had the great idea to be a big fish in a small pond. Later, he became a respected classical actor. I didn’t think acting was a very intelligent career.” “I was studying animal behavior, working on a senior thesis about why dogs bark. But he resisted the acting bug for as long as he could. I thought there was an opening for someone who could do it better,” he said. I played bass clarinet and we played Mendelssohn’s ‘Wedding March’ in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ I was watching all these 13-year-olds doing Shakespeare and I thought they were terrible. “For all her craziness, my mother was into classical things. Schreiber, a Tony winner for his performance in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” also talked about his love for theater. That’s a great lesson too: a lesson in ego, which is important for any actor or any person who exists in the public eye,” he noted. But to do something badly in front of a lot of people is very painful. I was terrified and I really overestimated my abilities, which is something I normally do. The novel in question, “Everything Is Illuminated,” became Schreiber’s directorial debut. I met him, he is 19, and he comes with a shopping bag with a 400-page manuscript. “It was filled with compassion and humor, and I wanted to adapt it instead of what I was doing. He wrote a script about a man who goes to Ukraine to “find out what it’s like to be Ukrainian,” only to come across a short story by Jonathan Safran Foer shortly after. If I forget this person, who I know nothing about, this is going to be really horrible.’ That was the beginning of my creative writing.” When he died, I went to a psychiatrist and had my head examined. “My grandfather never talked about his past or where he was from, never spoke Ukrainian, Polish or Yiddish. As a progressive person, she didn’t believe in school, so she would take me around in the passenger seat, which was illegal.” I grew up with a single mother who was a taxi driver. “My memories don’t start before I was about 24 years old,” he said, also mentioning his beloved grandfather, who emigrated from Ukraine. The actor opened up about his complicated childhood and his memory impediment. ‘I love you and I have your back, but I am not going to talk about politics with you.’ ” Jon and I had a couple of conversations and we agreed we are not going to talk about this stuff, ever. If you learn that lesson, which I did early on, you know to all the other stuff too. ![]() ![]() “You are better off not sleeping with your co-stars. “It was a very American cast – completely polarized,” he joked. ![]() Schreiber also discussed collaborating with such actors as James Woods and Jon Voight, known for their conservative political views. You realize that seven years of work that you were doing for money really moved some people. “I didn’t know that many people loved it. “They let me help with the casting and writing, and directing, and I thought it would be good to be working in front of the camera over and over and over again, every day. ![]()
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