In THR’s Actor Roundtable, Nicolas Cage, Peter Dinklage, Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Majors and Simon Rex share their fears about showing vulnerability, their sense of responsibility when wielding guns on sets and a connection over a horse named Rain Man
Just holding your performance in my head, you’re in mourning. Is that fair to say?I don’t think mourning has a gender. Ambition has no gender. Love has no gender. Revenge has no gender.
“There’s no real style of acting. It’s almost like a mixed martial art. You can combine, you can create your Jeet Kune Do with acting. Don’t get trapped in a style.”, Three of you around this table are working with directors who were making their first feature — Nic with Michael Sarnoski, Jonathan with Jeymes Samuel and Andrew with Lin-Manuel Miranda, which is an interesting leap of faith.I had the luxury of them, Michael and Vanessa [Block], writing just a script that sung to me. I knew I had the life experience, the dreams, the imagination, to be able to be Rob without forcing it. We didn’t do more than one or two takes.