'It’s what I enjoy most in the theater, when something happens and people aren’t sure how to read it. Some are reading it one way and others read it differently. The audience is at war with itself a little bit. That’s fun.'
In other words, Driver, 35, is hard to pin down or pigeonhole.The former Marine and Juilliard graduate shifts easily, playing charming and selfish or quietly reserved or endearingly goofy or smug and temperamental. Top directors across generations have noticed: Driver has worked with Clint Eastwood , Martin Scorsese , Steven Spielberg , Jim Jarmusch , the Coen brothers , Steven Soderbergh and Noah Baumbach .
Driver is humble but engaged while talking about his acting career. He'll repeatedly return to a question to provide an answer that doesn't sound generic, and when a publicist gives Driver the high sign about returning to rehearsal, he explains that he arrived five minutes late so he doesn't want to shortchange the interview.
Every night, there’s a new theme that I think of. Every time I listen to it now, I notice how much it’s a play about work. And there’s an opera theme — everybody in this play has an aria. Every well-written play is always relevant, with a theme you can latch on to, even if it’s not why you started doing the play: What I initially loved about the play was the theme of loss.
Sometimes people laugh in strange places, when it’s an emotionally charged moment, for instance. Does that ever throw you off?
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