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MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE PRESS JUNKET Q&A
Magazine / Source: Exclusive, July 2004 |
On what attracted her to this project:
I've admired Jonathan Demme as a director for a long time and I wanted to work with him. And I thought I was going to work with Denzel, but we have one scene where he sort of shoves me into some potted plants, but other than that, we were ships in the night. And Liev Schreiber is an actor I really admire, so I was
attracted by the cast and the director, but the script is fantastic.
On her role in the film:
I play a loving mother and things go wrong, horrible wrong but it's not for lack of best intentions.
On her character's aspirations:
This character is lit up by her ambition, and her belief, and her optimism, and her gung-ho, “Say, “yes," can-do feeling about what she feels is right for the country, and that involves a very capable, in fact brilliant candidate, which is her son.
On Liev Schreiber:
Liev is a very accomplished actor. He's extremely bright. And this was a really hard role, I mean, so was mine, but his was really hard because he never knew when he was being controlled by forces other than his own self-generated will. And it was a really interesting thing to see [this] sort of, this self wrestle down this other influence that came from an artificial source. I think he does an amazing job. You can really literally see the two forces at war behind his eyes and I think he's amazing in the part.
On Denzel Washington:
Denzel, as a actor, brings such size and a sort of broken dignity to this role that I think a lot of the work that other actors huff and puff to do, he just sort of walks in with it. It's a great quality, it's star quality.
Many thanks to David from Pro Marketing for submitting this interview
