Here’s a summary of the interview-it was pretty short (3-4 minutes) but still very good! Starts out with clips of Montreal and where different shots from the filming of the movie took place-then goes to the interview with Hayden.
Hayden: “Stephen is a journalist….he’s very young for the amount of attention he is getting in his industry and kind of feeds off of it”
Clip from the filming of the movie — Stephen is talking to a blond girl ( you only see the back of her head so I don’t know who it was): Stephen: “Look, it’s my parents, okay? I mean, if I don’t go, they won’t let me be a journalist any more” Blond girl: “Let you? You’re 24 years old Stephen”
Hayden: “To really succeed as a journalist, he felt like he really had to go above and beyond what his family would expect him to acheive- and that sort of is what incurs all of the lies and deception”
Another clip from filming:
Blond Girl: “You’re writing for the New Republic, isn’t that good enough?”
Stephen: “Not in Highland Park. I’m sorry, okay- I know it’s ridiculous”
Blond Girl: “Stop apologizing for everything — I was the one looking through your mail — you should be pissed at me”
Hayden: “It’s hard to really figure out what makes someone perpetrate that level of deception — and so I just sort of broke it down to the amount of pressure he felt from his family and just really kind of loving the taste he got from the first success of his fabricated article and that’s kind of what kept him going I think.
Another clip from filming — this time Stephen is at a desk and someone walks in (you don’t see who the other person is — perhaps Peter Skarsgaard?):
Guy: “You got a minute Stephen?”
Stephen: “Hey, yeah. What’s up?”
Guy: “Do you have phone numbers for all your sources on that?”
Stepen: “Of course, but they’re at home”
Guy: “Can I get them?”
Stephen: “Uh huh…Did I do something wrong? Are you mad at me?”
Guy: “No, I just need the phone numbers”
Hayden: That was like the difficult thing to do really — play someone who’s insecurities and lack of self confidence, coupled with my own unease in playing a character that was new to me — I never really kind of touched any of the sensibilities that I was trying to find in Stephen — and so the two of them together did not make for a very good combination. By the end of the filme I was really ready to leave Stephen just because, you know, I’m going to work every day I’m lying through my teeth. I don’t really ever get to have that sense that I connect with something honest here.
Clip showing Hayden and Billy Ray (Director) discussing how a scene should be played out.
Hayden: “Something to get my head around at the beginning of this film was — did I really want to take all of his lies and put them on a video shelf for him to see every time he went to the movie store? But, he did it and I think that everyone should be held responsible for their actions — so I don’t really feel bad about it — I also greatly sympathize with him.
Clip showing Billy Ray talking to Tove on the movie seting to Tove on the movie set.
Tove: “It is such an interesting combination of someone who is potentially pathological in his neuroses and at the same time a bit of a genius. It’s a very complex character which I really think fascinated Hayden”
Hayden: “It’s nice to be able to relate to someone, in a creative environment, that you also trust with all your heart — which I don’t think you can really find outside of family in this industry” ……talking about Tove.
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