and demanding that he do more to intercede with these children. |
Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that. |
Angelina had wanted a stronger male character to play opposite her, and I think one of the other advantages in that was a sense of competition. |
As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. |
At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting. |
At the end of the day what matters is that you do your best in every job you do. But of course you would rather your movie does well. You want it to be as critically well-received as possible, and you want it to do as well with the public as possible, because it means that they're getting what you're doing, or what you're trying to say, or appreciating your work. |
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. |
Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks. |
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. |
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons. |
He goes on the dirt at home and he has raced on the dirt in Dubai, so he knows it, |
He will dictate if we go at the weekend and where we go, |
I always find stuff in my characters to relate to. |
I felt like retiring after The Phantom. |
I had never done that before-singing while trying to give a cinematic performance. The temptation is to open your mouth and belt it out and do something theatrical, which would just be ghastly because every time you open your mouth it's 30 feet wide on a big screen. |