You Consciously Look After Yourself, Whatever That

Yorgos Lanthimos Said, "what About If He's A Bit Soft?" And I Said, "yeah, I Think You're Right." He Just Comfort-eats A Little Bit Too Much. He's Just Asleep In His Own Life And Has Let Himself Go. And The Mustache, I Don't Know If It Was Him Or I Suggested It. But I Remember My Sister Was Watching Me Eat And She Was Like, "god, Does He Have To Be Fat?" And In Retrospect I Couldn't Think Of David Being Any Other Way Because It Affected The Way I Moved. It Really Did. It Slowed Me Down In A Way That I Felt Was Conducive To Kind Of Tapping Into The Spirit Of The Character.

On "[total] Recall" Also [sets Were Extraordinary], But This Was Next-level. They Built Two Or Three Blocks Of Midtown Manhattan In 1926 And It Was Inhabited With 400 Extras And 24 Model Ts And A Train System And All That Kind Of Nonsense. It Was Madness. You Would Walk Into Shops And They Would Have The Goods From That Period, It Was Just Huge.

You Have A Certain Objectivity, As A Member Of The Audience, And You Can Come Away Maybe Being Provoked Into A Certain Discourse Or A Certain Arena Of Questioning, Regarding How You Would Deal With Things That Your Character Has To Deal With. Whereas When You're Doing A Film, Once You Start Asking, "what Would I Do?," You're Getting The Distance Greater Between Yourself And The Character, Or You're Bringing The Character To You, Which I Think Is Self-serving, In The Wrong Way. The Idea Is To Bring Yourself To The Character.

I Personally Just Want To Do As Many Different Things As I Can Do, Whether It's Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Horror, Narrator... You've Got A Documentary, I've Got A Voice. Animated Films. Big Films, Small Films.

I'm Enjoying [my Career]. If Anything I'm Aware That The Pressure Of The First, I Suppose, Six Or Seven Years I Was In America - I Mean That Energy Of Having Such A Rapid And Ascending Celebrity - It's Not There Anymore. It's The End Of That Chapter And Now I'm Just Enjoying The Work Probably More Than I Ever Have And Yet I'm Simultaneously Less Attached To It I Think, Which Is Kind Of A Strange State Of Grace To Be In.