THR: Exactly what do You need?
Thompson: I really like flick. As the I am an early morning person. I’m sure one musical entirely pathetic, however, Used to do a sounds having 15 weeks. 7 shows a week that have Robert Lindsay in the West End, and that i turned medically disheartened in the event I was becoming paid are smiling. However, by the end of evening, you had been prepared to get morphine. Thus 15 months during the, I thought, “I really don’t believe I will do that once more.” Plus, musicals is actually dreadfully hard. I’d zero existence after all. We resided instance a good nun. I didn’t take in. I did not make love. I found myself twenty-four, for weeping out loud. No surprise I was disheartened.
Williams: I found myself really superstitious once i achieved it. About that. In the resting, 
in the sipping and you may sex and dinner. It is more about the power. Whenever i flick, you could lie down otherwise pay attention to tunes. However with theatre, you will find you to energy.
Henson: An expecting whore (2005’s “Hustle & Flow”)? We never ever desired to become a slut, but it’s about shopping for one to mankind, the fresh as to the reasons-she-ended-up-on-this-street. Used to do a very specialized background tale for her. You usually start by this new character’s title: Shug. Brief to own Glucose. Meaning she needed to be the fresh sweetest individual. Which had been one to big attribute that we wished to show. She is actually so wounded. She is actually just like a great diamond on harsh. I recently think of proclaiming that when individuals visited discover that it motion picture, I want them to need to started to from monitor and you will try to rescue the girl. In the place of specific sassy little hooker.
THR: What now ? When A manager Have A separate Sight?
Thompson: If you find yourself coping with an excellent movie director, then they have been particularly a publisher. It allow you to do what you need.
Hawkins: One to power to cam and tune in (is very important). Talking-to your because a person being. A sense of humor.
Thompson: The capacity to feel complicit, and make a plan with you, to experience with you. Ang Lee, the first note he offered in my opinion (with the 1995’s “Sense and you may Sensibility”) is, “Is it possible you do this again, however very painful?” The second mention is actually “Try not to look thus dated.” We regularly shriek which have humor. However, yes, that is very useful. Because the he wasn’t getting mean, he was merely becoming entirely sincere — and then he would not speak English very well.
Williams: He performed one into boys more. With me, he had been really compassionate. He was very gentle; he’d virtually merely hold my give and you will state, “I understand, I know, I know.” He was only therefore beloved to me. In my opinion it was because that is everything i expected. Directly I am timid, and that i perform best when somebody trusts myself. Into the guys, he had been extremely difficult. They might state, “Exactly how is actually you to definitely?” and Ang would simply say, “That has been a” — when they had simply poured the minds out. But that is a director, too, you are aware. Being aware what for each star needs.
THR: Perhaps you have Had Any Dreadful Experiences Having A director?
Henson: I got a manager who wasn’t prepared. He did not know what he was doing. Zero eyes. It was a different. I’m fairly uninhibited, in case Really don’t believe you, I pull back. Handling David Fincher (towards the “Benjamin Button”) try the most amazing second in my field. They explore how many requires the guy really does, (but) at the conclusion of the day, your walk off thinking you did it-all.
THR: Really does Are Well-Identified Reduce Positions You could Play?
Thompson: I am a characteristics celebrity, usually have already been. So i don’t think I have had one to disease. It’s better become a character actress.