Christopher Walken & Sam Rockwell

0:00What? Not to be in the move? I always get told to do things. Well, you're probably large. I think. I'll cut back here. Is that what's happening right now? Oh, it's a shoulder. It's a brush holder. Thank you. Big shoulder guy. Well, thanks so much for doing this, guys. I appreciate this. Yeah, sure. I am always... Hasn't happened yet. Take two. Thanks so much for doing this, guys. I appreciate it. I think you're doing great. Tell me about how did this rule come to you, guys? You were doing a play with Martin. Did he bring it up to you during a be handing? Not at the time. But I found out last night he said that he had written this before... Before actually he had done it in Bruges. Isn't that what he said? Yes, that's right.

0:45That he'd already written his script. But... Probably more ambitious. Nobody knew that. And what is it two years since we did the play? More? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Before the play I never kind of dreamed of even approaching Christopher about anything because he was such a god to me as an actor. But I guess after getting to know someone you feel a little bit easier about approaching someone. And Sam I know for a little bit before, so I thought that was a great idea too. So what kind of relationship did you two develop together doing the play? It must have been a lot easier on this film to work together. Absolutely. And with Martin, you know, because he was there every day. And when you know people, and it really, you know, it shows.

1:36All sorts of unconscious stuff. And what drew you to this role? Is it because Martin was doing any ask you? Or is there something you identified with with these characters? Yeah, Martin and Sam and all the actors are great. It's kind of a no brainer. You just get, I mean, it's all the elements are there. It's it'd be crazy not to do it. Yeah, you have this one great cemetery scene. Yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah. Tell me about doing that one. Well, that was like a monologue. You know, I worked on it months ahead of time. I'm trying to memorize it. I hear you do some stuff very monotony to a tape recorder and then decide how to. Yeah, I think Chris does that too. We, it's a, it's a, it's just a basic technique that people just to learn it by road. I think sometimes you is under estimated, you know, under, under used tool.

2:27Where did you pick that up? I studied Meisner training and that's where I got it from. You as well? Well, you study was still there. No, it just makes sense. Oh, wow. It does make sense. I think Jerry Stiller did it and Paul Muni did it too. Did you know that? He used to tape his line. He did it one of the big records. This is true. Yeah. Yeah, but it's just, yeah, it makes sense. You know, you just learn it by road and you get it in your head. There's a quote that I wrote that I'm glad that the two of you are together. Because it's from Roger Ebert. Sam seems to have become the latter day version of Christopher Walken. When you need him, he's your go-to guy for weirdness. So is Chris for someone you've always looked up to and wanted a career like his? Well, the, we, we're, we love to be weird. Well, there must be more fun.

3:13Well, I certainly like to get weird and I know Chris does. But he's so many other things than that. He's so complicated and so complex. But not weird. Not, you know, not weird. No, I don't think you're weird, but you tend to play some roles that are a little coo-care. And it must be more fun to be the character actor and be able to do all these things. Yeah, and I think, you know, if you're an actor and you're lucky enough to work, you kind of, especially in the movies, you kind of get a ball rolling. You know, there's the guy who gets the girl, there's the best friend, there's the funny guy, there's the villain, you know. And if you do something and it works, there's a good chance you'll be asked to do it again or something like it.

4:01But he played Romeo. Yeah, and people. Very weird though. And Hamlet, he played Hamlet. People don't know that. Of course Hamlet is a weird Hamlet. Hamlet is a weird Hamlet, yeah. He's a weird Hamlet. Hamlet's already a little weird. Yeah, did you take your particular rhythm of speech into Hamlet? That would have been interesting to see. Yes, and I was absolutely criticized. Seriously, it's in their places. The homework you've been... Come on in. We got to get this dog off the street because it's a kid in that romaniac. Dandy. I like it. It's got layers. The life for an eye leaves the whole world blind. No, it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy going to take out the eye of the last guy left?