Joshua Jackson

0:07I miss you guys. Just a couple more sites and I'll be on my way home. You know, thank God I caught you. Moon has gone missing Damascus. Moon was the last time you spoke to her. Six days now. Six days. Well thanks so much for being here, I appreciate it. Thanks man. So what drew you to this part? What did you identify with with Paul? Well, I mean the first thing that drew me in is that the character is kind of a slippery and duplicitous man. And that's always fun to have, you know, to start, you always want to have an arc and to start in one place and then have the character to be something quite other than what you thought it was is enjoyable. And you know, particularly if you're not the leading character, those are always sort of the juicier reveals because you don't have to be sympathetic with Paul for the entire film.

1:02I don't want to get away too much, but I haven't seen you in most people. We'll probably see in the movie about the time this gets up there. Do you like playing the sort of villain, I haven't seen you in many villainous roles, so it must have been fun. It was, yeah, it's fun. I mean I've played several sort of less than upstanding characters and I don't know, ultimately, I don't think of Paul particularly as a villain. I mean villain is a, that's a conscious bad actor in my head, right? Someone who is the antagonist of the film, the one who is choosing to go against whoever our hero is. Whereas I think Paul is just a, he just has a weak character and he has like so many people who are born and raised in privilege. He has the feeling that he kind of deserves whatever he wants.

1:53And then all of a sudden gets confronted with the fact that there are consequences to some of those choices and actions and is totally overwhelmed, doesn't know how to deal with the reality of that. And I like that, I think that's an interesting place. I mean we've all met those guys who, who just are to the man who are born and feel like the world actually owes them everything. And maybe it's just my own personal biases, but it's nice to see that guy get thrown in his face a little bit. How did you and Reuben get together to craft Paul? Well she, I don't take any credit there. I mean the crafting portion was her, I wasn't present, but whatever her process of writing is, these characters are pretty fully formed by the time the actors get brought in, which is not to say that we don't bring anything to them. But that's another thing that was attractive about the story, the script right off the top is that they're very much on the page.

2:46And there's a, there are really strong guidelines. And then what I didn't know, I mean she's incredibly passionate and enthusiastic and very smart, so that was the thing that made me interested. But once I got there, what I didn't know about her as a filmmaker is that she, I guess because it takes her so long and she's so, I mean as a writer, intimately involved in each beat of these characters' stories, that she has the confidence to take in new ideas. It doesn't derail her at all. She knows the story that she wants to tell. She feels like, I'm sure at this point that she's lived all of these characters lives for years and years and years. So you can bring something to it and she's happily willing to experiment. And I did, because most of my work was with Sid, not so much with Marissa, scenes on their feet.

3:35And then they would be like, well you know, here's an interesting thing that might, let's try it down, let's go down this road for a little while. And Ruben was quite happy to indulge in that. And if it was something fruitful, pieces of it would stay. And if not, then we would travel back to the main road, which she had already hewed for us, which is as an actor that's kind of the ideal situation. Before I let you go, we had these on 12, 5 questions, 5 good questions, one word answer. One word. One word. You've been talking to me? I don't do it. No, I know, it's going to be interesting. Well I think you'll be able to give me one word, to nuts or ducks. Nice. Lennon or McCartney? Lennon. TV or film? Film. Roll your most proud of. That I couldn't tell you. Okay, in one word, inescapable. Inescapable.

4:20Thank you so much. Appreciate it. I'm good. Yeah, you too. You chased away all those years ago.