Since there are just four actors in the film, casting was crucial. How did you cast the four actors?Since there are just four actors in the film, casting was crucial. The first to be cast was Jodie. She wanted to do it right away. Next was Kate. We got together and that was it. Then my agent, who happens to also represent Christoph, said, “This guy wants to see you.†I was locked up in house arrest or let’s call it “my sabbatical year.†I said, “Yes that will be very interesting if he comes to visit me.†That would be much more interesting than the chief of Bern police – who also came to have tea with me.
Christoph and I started talking about the play because I was working on the adaptation. The last one (to be cast) was John. It was a difficult role to cast. I had a very good casting director, Fiona Weir. She suggested John. I was really lucky to have four people not only of such great quality as actors but they also liked each other. That doesn’t happen every day.
Were you very specific in your instructions to the actors or did they adapt to you?I gave them notes, told them what I wanted, but they very quickly understood the way everyone should be. I heard them say that I did not direct much but I didn’t need to. In one of my films, an actress thought that I didn’t like her. I can’t remember who it was. I did not give her any directions because she was perfect.
Was it Faye Dunaway?No, no … oh my god.
Do you keep in touch with the actors in your previous films?Those I have a good relationship with. I saw Adrien (Brody) a couple of weeks ago. He was in Paris after a long spell. I see Harrison (Ford) every time he comes. Jack Nicholson used to visit quite a lot. But I haven’t seen him for a good couple of years. I saw Mia (Farrow). But she now lives far from the madding crowd.
What do you miss about Hollywood?In the beginning, there were certain things I missed. But nowadays … if you go to a studio here, you see technicians using the same methods and machinery. In Hollywood, there’s the connection with the people who finance the films because you lunch or dine with them, whereas here, you never see them. Other than that, I miss friends. I miss Nate ‘n Al Delicatessen.
What other films do you want to make?I would like to do a period film of the pre-war times, on the psychology of aging. Plastic surgery, creams and pills – it has become a total craze. I’d like to do this but not in today’s era, because it will become a comedy. I’d like to set it in a period when you don’t have these tools. It will be about how one person, a woman, goes through the stages of life and deals with it. It’s something that I observe. There’s a total obsession with aging nowadays. --http://entertainment.inquirer.net/
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