Six Oscar contenders — Austin Butler, Paul Dano, Brendan Fraser, Jonathan Majors, Bill Nighy and Adam Sandler — talk about family, playing real people ... and mortality in latest TheEnvelope Roundtable.
, who plays a dying man looking back on a life not so well lived in “Living” — when they got together one early November morning for The Envelope’s Actor Roundtable.
The group discussed how their directors helped them through — or sometimes created — difficult moments, finding the line between fact and truth when playing real people and thinking — a lot — about death.Brendan and Bill, your movies are about people who realize they have very limited time. Did you come out of those projects thinking differently about your own mortality?I’m not sure. Somebody asked me about how many times a day did I think about death.
Austin, Jonathan and Paul are all playing real people, but with very different acting challenges. We don’t know much about [Ensign Jesse L. Brown in “Devotion”], but your ultimate judge is the family who’s involved in the film — how do you meet that responsibility?Well, I may say something slightly controversial. Having the family’s approval, that’s the blessing, right? That’s the icing on the cake. However, no one knows anybody inside and out, not even family.
And then you’ve got your director on your ass too, so it’s like all these boxes have to be checked. It’s a great responsibility but ultimately, for me at least, it was, “I needapproval.” You’ve been spending so much time with this individual. You understand how he — at least, youyou understand how he moves. When you go inwards, hit that core in yourself, hope that ricochets off of him, and the family goes, “Yeah, that’s it.
I think about that with “The Fabelmans” because it’s [Spielberg’s] version of his father and if you have disagreements with him about it, you’re not likely to win that argument.First of all, I love playing people who have either been alive or who are alive. There is some different kind of contact to make than what’s just your imagination. Steven’s father was an engineer and a computer genius. I looked at it like, let me just build this life. He built stuff.
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