. With a smile that can suggest goofy cluelessness, endearing compassion or scary, snake-like cunning and menace, the 52-year-old actor has a charm that’s equally fit for empathetic dramas and taut genre fare, and as he’s illustrated throughout the course of his decades-long career, he brings an intensity to the screen that’s second to none.
I had an idea, I put it on three times, we settled on the look, and then the first day comes, and I felt like, okay, I’m starting to feel who this person is. Now I’ve got the jacket on, and I’ve got all these guns, and oh, that’s really fucking uncomfortable! How does that work? Okay, well, I have to loosen this holster up.
However, it wasn’t just the movies that I watched; I also watched a lot of interviews with John Wayne or with James Arness, and I would try to find Alan Ladd or some of these stars who had done interviews, just to see what they were like outside these characters that they played. How did they move, and there’s an elegance to them, and there’s an exposure to stories and the people that they were around.