[Having known Sofia for much of his life, Schwartzman had a few insights into how she works on the set.] She's an incredible director, ... One of her strengths is that she talks to each actor differently and works with them specifically. She is like Steve actually in that she's very precise in what she says and she's a great observer and connector of emotions and truths and memories. We have so much personal history and a well of things to reference that we were blessed for her to be able to come up and say 'It's kind of like that' and I know exactly what she's saying and no one else maybe would even understand it. It was helpful. |
He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something. |
I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me, ... So a lot of my character really [Schwartzman's character] Jeremy's skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden. |
I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me. So a lot of my character really [Schwartzman's character] Jeremy's skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden. |
I thought it would be good for me to do something bigger, more bombastic, more physical. I had a blast making the film. |
It looks like fish tank rocks, |
It looks like fish tank rocks. Chocolate rocks! ... If you catch the pun. |
It was tricky. I was nervous, |
You feel like a grown-up, but I've felt like a grown-up since I was 17, so I don't know ... But, I like it. |