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Its demanding, but I like it, he says.
I dont want to disappoint myself or anybody else.
I like nutritious cinema, he says.
Im still trying to excavate from him what the heck its about, he says.
What, to you, is this movie about?It felt like an X-ray of the American landscape.
Its a bare and ugly, cheap, faded affair, whistling in the middle of the cosmos.
Anyway, I liked it.
I wanted to be part of this thing, even if I never figured out what it meant.
Thats what the book said, and I thought,Hey, this is our story.
So I was unflappable in some ways.
Although when I looked back on it, there were elements of darkness and subterranean challenge.
I went to a suburban school outside Pittsburgh, it was not an entirely rosy kind of thing.
It was a funny kind of place.
My school was a kind of drab place: conventional, shut up and sit down.
Shes hauntedand haunting, very powerful and frank.
Shes giving me plenty.
Tye Sheridan … yeah.
[Grimaces and glowers the way Sheridan does in the film.]
Thats not nothing either.
Hes a very rich, full actor.
Earlier you compared yourself to a hummingbird.
But I enjoyed working with him.
He left it a little organically undone.
Hes not a Hitchcock or a Wes Anderson I love Wes Anderson hes more, Lets find it.
He had to find his way.
Id say, Do you want to hear this and this?
And hed say, Yeah, maybe.
Id say, What if I did this, this, and this.
Hed go, Uh-huh, oh, ooh, not that, but that, what you just said …
Wed all just tweak it a little bit like that.
Im trying to seduce, in my own unconventional way, this lady, and let off some steam.
Ive got many hidden aspects of traditional masculine roles that have burdened me that I need to unburden.
So, theres much drinking, some dancing, et cetera.
Did you choreograph it yourself?I did that little thing, I came up with that.
They were good steps.You liked it?
Are you a dancer?
Youre a bit of a Tommy Tune, I can see that.
If we do another movie, you could play a young me.
Your character in this movie also spends a lot of time complimenting people on the film stars they resemble.
What would he say if he was trying to pick up Jeff Goldblum?Young Jeff Goldblum?
Do you know who that is?
And Id say, Yes, as a matter of fact I do.
Wasnt he inAfter the Fox?
