推 bandfshipper:翻譯我來吧XD 感謝p版友提供這麼多相關資訊！ 12/05 21:02
宣傳新電影 Nobel Son 中，所以有不少訪談
(我可以幫忙找，但無力翻譯 :p)。
這篇跟 Bryan Greenberg 一起受訪。
天阿，這篇好長，後面有提到 Dollhouse，以及最近 Buffy 電影化的傳言。
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_16008.html
Eliza Dushku, Bryan Greenberg Interview
Movie Nobel Son Posted By: Sheila Roberts / Source
MoviesOnline sat down with Eliza Dushku and Bryan Greenberg
to talk about their new movie, “Nobel Son.” Directed by
Randall Miller (“Bottle Shock”) and written and produced
by Miller and Jody Savin, “Nobel Son” is a taut thriller
spiked with droll humor that also stars Alan Rickman, Shawn
Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, and Danny DeVito.
In this venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust,
betrayal and ultimately revenge, Barkley Michaelson
(Greenberg) is struggling to finish his Ph.D. thesis when
his father, the learned Eli Michaelson (Rickman), wins the
Nobel Prize for chemistry. But Eli’s past indiscretions
begin to collide with the present. When Barkley is
kidnapped on the eve of his father accepting the prize, Eli
refuses to pay the ransom. So starts a game of intrigue and
deception that proves that payback’s a bitch. Dushku plays
an eccentric character named City Hall who is Barkley’s
quirky love interest.
Dushku is well known for the role of Faith Lehane, a Slayer
much more troubled than the main character Buffy Summers in
TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Though initially
planned as a five-episode role, the character became so
popular that she stayed on for the entirety of the third
season and returned for a two-part appearance in season
four, after which the remainder of her original story arc
was played out as part of the first season of the “Buffy”
spinoff series “Angel.”
In 2000, Dushku starred in “Soul Survivors,” reuniting
her with “Race The Sun” co-star Casey Affleck. She
followed that up with the cheerleader comedy “Bring It On”
with Kirsten Dunst. In 2001, she appeared in “The New Guy
” opposite DJ Qualls and “City by the Sea” opposite
Robert De Niro and James Franco. The latter film garnered
attention from a wider adult audience and very good
reviews. The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a
part of “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” where Dushku
co-starred with Shannon Elizabeth, Ali Larter and Ben
Affleck. In 2003, she starred in “Wrong Turn,” a horror
film; and “The Kiss,” an independent comedy-drama. That
same year, she also starred in a new Fox TV series, “Tru
Calling,” where she played the main character.
Dushku starred in an off-Broadway production entitled “Dog
Sees God” from December 2005, playing Van’s sister, a
character paralleled with Lucy from the original Peanuts
comic strip that the play production is based on. Most
recently, she can be seen in Miller/Savin’s “Bottle Shock
” and the upcoming “On Broadway” filmed in her native
Boston. She has also signed a development deal with Fox
Broadcasting and 20th Century Fox to produce and star in a
new TV series. Under the deal, she is teaming with Joss
Whedon of “Buffy” fame to create a new series entitled “
Dollhouse” premiering on Fox TV in January.
Bryan Greenberg recently starred in the heralded ABC series
“October Road,” helmed by acclaimed director Gary Fleder.
This came on the heels of his star turn opposite Uma
Thurman and Meryl Streep as the romantic lead in “Prime.”
Greenberg was also the male lead in HBO’s “Unscripted”
for George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh,
in which he played a fictional version of himself, a young
actor making his way in Hollywood. Along with 25 episodes
of “One Tree Hill” over its last two seasons, Greenberg
played Scarlett Johannson’s love interest in “The Perfect
Score.” An accomplished singer-songwriter, Greenberg has
played sold-out shows at venues such as the House of Blues.
Currently, he has two films in post-production, the Wall
Street drama “The Good Guy” and the romantic Comedy “
Bride War.”
Eliza Dushku and Bryan Greenberg turn in wonderful
performances in “Nobel Son” and we really appreciated
their time. Here’s what they had to tell us:
MoviesOnline: So how did you find out about this movie?
Bryan: I met with Randy and Jody really early on in the
process, actually for the role of Thaddeus. I wasn’t sure
I was right for that. I could do it but I don’t know if I’
d be right for it. Then a couple of months later they were
auditioning for the role of Barkley and I went in and I
totally sucked, but I knew I sucked because I didn’t have
enough time. I was in the middle of something and I never
do this but I wasn’t as prepared as I should have been. I
convinced them, “You’ve got to let me come back in and I’
ll do it right. Give me enough time to prep for it.”
Because it was a rushed situation. And then I just loved
the script and I really wanted to do something different
like this and I got it the second time around so they gave
me a second chance.
MoviesOnline: Did you guys read together?
Eliza: No, we didn’t. We’ve known each other since I was
14.
Bryan: I know her brother. I went to NYU with her brother
so she used to come up and visit.
Eliza: We used to read scenes in the dorm room – auditions
and random stuff.
MoviesOnline: Eliza, how did you get involved in this film?
Eliza: I auditioned my heart out. I really, really wanted
it. I read it and I loved it and I really wanted it. You
know, you read a lot of stuff. You go in on some things and
go, “Oh, whatever.” But I went in and I brought props. I
brought a supermarket paperback and I brought these two
different masks that I had. One was this weird tin mask
from Venice and then I had strings on them and I put them
on. A rope, a knife. I said I’ll do whatever you want me
to do. Just tell me. My audition was like an hour long. It
was the last one of the day. They said, “Let’s try it
like this and then try it like this.” I did just every
possible version. One was completely different from the
other and we just hit it off and I was psyched.
MoviesOnline: When you first read the script, what was it
about the character that first jumped out at you besides
the fact she was named City Hall?
Eliza: That was a good one. That would be nice to add onto
my little resume: City Hall. I did City Hall. I’d just
never read a character like her and from the opening scene,
she’s so bizarre and twisted and then as the story
unfolds, there was just a lot going on and a lot to work
with. It was super intriguing and once I started working
with Randy and Jody and realized how open they were,
filling her up with these little nuances and things, it was
awesome.
MoviesOnline: What was it like working with Alan Rickman?
Were you in awe at all?
Eliza: It was thrilling and humbling and easy and he’s
just such a dear, dear man. And then we ended up doing
another film together a few months later and now we just
meet up in all these random cities to promote the movie and
we all stay in the same house and we’re just like a little
family. It’s cute.
Bryan: Yeah. I tortured him. I got to know him pretty well.
[laughs] Tell your friends about me. Read about me. He’s
just such a great, committed actor and I’ve been fortunate
enough to have been working the last 10 years and you don’
t come across actors like that too often who are committed
and really stick by their choices, who actually make
choices and don’t just rely on charm and charisma, and
they actually read the script and have passion and care
about their craft. I mean, the guy came in with fake teeth.
He had teeth made in London. He wanted his teeth to be more
shark-like because he thought his character was more like a
predator. I was like, wow, I have so much to learn. [laughs]
MoviesOnline: And he used them throughout the film?
Bryan: Yeah. That’s what I’m talking about – the subtle
details. He cares about them. You know what I mean? As a
young actor, you can learn so much from guys like that and
just the choices that they make and sticking with them. That
’s probably what I learned the most from Alan was making
strong choices and sticking by them.
Eliza: He can do an entire scene with one little raise of
the eyebrow. It’s so extraordinary to watch him and to see
the final movie. I love it.
MoviesOnline: Do you have a scene that you really enjoyed?
Eliza: [laughs] I get to make out with my big brother’s
friend. My childhood fantasy. Bryan’s a hobby but when we
actually shot the scene we were covered in fiberglass. We
were shooting on a roof in downtown L.A. A fiberglass
exposed roof and we were rolling around and he was wearing
a sock and I was wearing pasties and there were candles
everywhere…
Bryan: [joking] …and a sock on my foot. That was awesome.
Eliza: On your foot.
Bryan: One sock.
Eliza: Oh yeah, he was wearing one sock on his foot. And we
had fiberglass all over us and they were like don’t take a
shower because the shower will embed the glass into you and
the way to get it off is to use duct tape.
MoviesOnline: I don’t understand why there was all this
fiberglass?
Bryan: It was on a roof. This is what happens when you’re
making a film. The sites aren’t always prepped the way
[they should be]. Well, you just didn’t think. Nobody
thought there’d be fiberglass.
MoviesOnline: Was it just blowing onto you?
Bryan: Yeah. We’re on a roof and it’s like the insulation
was exposed everywhere so it was just… There was this
mattress on the roof. I never really understood why there
was a mattress on the roof, but whatever. We’ll get into
that later. [laughs]
Eliza: City Hall had a reason. [laughs]
Bryan: With City Hall, you can take a lot of liberties. We
walk in and there’s all these candles lit and there’s
matches there. I love movies! It’s just something probably
nobody thought about and why would they [expect] that there
’d be fiberglass everywhere. And it’s just one of those
things that you realize when you’re rolling around on
sheets. That’s not sexy.
MoviesOnline: What about that scene where your character is
being interrogated by Bill Pullman?
Eliza: I’ve had a crush on Bill Pullman since I was six. He
’s just so cute. I don’t know, there’s just something
about him. I told him the first day of shooting. It’s kind
of a Kurt Russell thing.
Bryan: He’s got that cowboy thing going on.
Eliza: He’s sexy and he’s just a love. He’s such a
lovely guy. And that scene was so funny. It was very like a
scene from a Spanish soap opera. My character is totally
crying and going through it. I mean it was a blast. It was
weird and bizarre and thrilling and fun like the whole
movie.
MoviesOnline: In a movie like this, where there are so many
plot twists, is it filmed sequentially for you guys and how
do you keep track of what your character knows at that time?
Bryan: Wow. That’s a really tough thing to do on a movie
like this. I’ve never shot anything that’s sequential.
Unfortunately, with indie [films] you just gotta go when
you can get these locations and we shot this thing so
quick. And this was like one of those scripts where, as an
actor, you really need to count on your script supervisor,
like where am I, what just happened, because there are so
many twists, there are so many turns. Even reading this, it
took me like three times to get it. That’s how thick and
dense it was. All these characters are very shady and
slippery and you’re not sure who’s screwing who over and
at what point how much this character knows. The end
especially was really hard for me because there’s a twist
and my character takes a turn and another character, my
mother, is privy to it and I don’t know when she knows and
when she doesn’t know, and that was a really hard dynamic
to play out and to figure out. This was one of the harder
ones to keep in your mind. There’s a lot going on.
Eliza: And then in addition to a great script supervisor,
we have the ultimate advantage that our director was also
the writer so they knew exactly what was going on. Randy
and Jody are the DIY masters. They wrote, directed. They
edited this movie from their house in Pasadena with their
two kids running around and all the promotion and every
resource, and they knew the characters and the script
inside out so every day was actually very smooth because
they were like, “Oh! This is the scene for this and this
just happened.” They’re just so full of enthusiasm and
they’re so on it and so creative. So we just showed up and
had them and they were steering the ship.
MoviesOnline: Do you recall any funny moments on the set
where things didn’t go quite as planned?
Bryan: There was just tons of stuff. I remember shooting
that beach scene where Mary (Steenburgen) and I are on the
beach and it was like 40 degrees and the sun was setting.
That was crazy. I thought Michael Ozier, the DP, did a
great job with some of this. (to Eliza) Remember that scene
where you come and find me?
Eliza: Yeah, where you’re laying on the grass. That was
the same day.
Bryan: It was like raining.
Eliza: It was a hazy, rainy scene and I come lay on top of
you.
Bryan: I guess that’s not one of those funny things, but it
’s amazing when I watch it how it turned out. I can’t
believe we got that.
MoviesOnline: Eliza, can you talk a little about what you’
re doing now? I know you’re doing Dollhouse with Joss
Whedon and that starts next month, doesn’t it?
Eliza: We air Friday, the 13th of February. It’s awesome.
We’re on episode 7 of 13 and I’ve already played 20
something different characters and underneath these clothes
I’ve got bruises galore. I’m so proud of them. I’m
riding motorcycles, bow hunting, rock climbing, river
rafting, moi thai fighting 6’5” dudes, like just
everything.
MoviesOnline: Did doing Buffy help you with the martial
arts part of that?
Eliza: We have the same stunt coordinator, Mike Gunther. He
’s awesome and he was also on Angel so I’ve had 6-page
fight scenes that I did with him years ago. Yeah, it
helped, but even on Buffy I was kind of like that crazy
17-year-old kid that showed up on Buffy and I grew up with
three older brothers and I showed up from Boston and said “
I know you have a stunt double here for me but how much can
I do? I want to fight. I want to get into it.” And they
would just teach me the stuff and that, to me, is really
fun. It’s really exciting.
MoviesOnline: So the premise is you’re playing 20
different people?
Eliza: It’s about a group of people that can be imprinted
with any personality basically for hire.
MoviesOnline: Does your personality totally change?
Eliza: Yeah. We’re human beings that volunteer for five
years of our life. As the story unfolds, there are
dollhouses all over in cities around the world and there
are these underground private organizations that take
people, wipe their personalities clean, and house them in
these beautiful, Japanese Zen garden/underground dorm lab
and then they put us in a chair and literally put a wedge
in the chair and can imprint us to be anything that anyone
wants – fantasies, bank heists…
MoviesOnline: It sounds like an actor’s dream come true.
Eliza: Yeah. The last episode they surgically implanted
cameras into my eyeballs and sent me into a cult compound
as a blind woman. It was cool.
MoviesOnline: Do you have a single injury that’s your
biggest badge of honor at this point?
Eliza: Yeah, my neck that I can’t turn. [laughs] I have a
really good bruise right here (points to her leg) and a
really good one right here (shows her arm) that I’ve been
showing off a lot.
MoviesOnline: Bryan, what do you have coming out?
Bryan: Yeah, well I’ve been working on my music a lot. I’
ve been on tour for that.
Eliza: He’s like a rock star. Totally. I’ve seen you. You
’re good.
Bryan: I’ve got a song in the movie actually which is kind
of cool. I’m doing that. I’ve got a movie coming out next
month that’s called Bride Wars with Kate Hudson and Anne
Hathaway. I just finished a pilot for HBO that Mark
Wahlberg and those guys produced. It’s called How to Make
It in America and I’m really excited about that. We’re
going to find out what the fate of that is. I just finished
that a month ago. I’ve got another movie called The Good
Guy, an independent film that I did. You know, I’m working
on the music and waiting to see what’s going on with this
pilot and Bride Wars. That’s pretty much it.
MoviesOnline: What’s the name of your band?
Bryan: Oh, it’s just me. Bryan Greenberg. I’m a
songwriter as well. I’m going out right now with a couple
other artists, Graham Colton and Michael Tolshare (??). We’
re all songwriters. We’re kind of doing this intimate
evening and we’re all telling stories and playing on each
other’s sets and we just played Austin two days ago and I’
m going to New York and D.C. and Philly this week and North
Carolina, so it’s been fun. It’s been a lot of fun.
MoviesOnline: Do you like music better than acting?
Bryan: I like them both. That way neither one feels like a
job. When I’m working on a movie, I’m in my trailer
playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and
think of…it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need
both. They help. I become a better actor. After I step on a
stage in front of like 500 people when it’s just me, a
microphone and my guitar, you don’t get as nervous walking
into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or
to walk on a set. You gain confidence. I don’t know. And it
’s great the interaction you can get with an audience. It’
s totally separate from the thrill you get from being in a
scene. But I love them both. I don’t want to choose.
MoviesOnline: Did you bring a song to Randy and Jody and
they liked it and put it in the film? Or did they ask you
to do a song?
Bryan: It’s kind of like how it usually goes. People want
to know who are you? What are you doing in your trailer
making all that noise? I’m like, well I’m a musician.
Well, do you have a CD? I give them a CD and then they
listen to it and then I guess it doesn’t suck as much as
they think it sucks and they’re like oh, we should use
this. So I think I get by a lot on just the low
expectations of being an actor/musician. [laughs]
MoviesOnline: Where is your song in the film? Is it during
the credits at the end?
Bryan: I don’t know. I think it’s in a scene where it’s
real low. It’s in the coffee shop scene in the background.
MoviesOnline: With Twilight being such a big hit, the rumor
mill is buzzing about the possibility of a Buffy movie. Is
that just fans’ wishful thinking or has there been real
talk about it?
Eliza: I can give you Joss’ number and you can call him.
[laughs] He’s over on the lot right now. I don’t know.
MoviesOnline: Would you ever want to go back and play it
again?
Eliza: You never know. That’s what I’ve learned.
Bryan: Keep it open.
Eliza: I mean that show is just such an international
phenomenon. There are like college courses now that dissect
the world of Buffy. It’s just a testament I think to what
an extraordinary creative genius Joss is and I just love
the guy. He’s a hardcore feminist, he’s funny, he’s
dramatic, he’s twisted, and he’s just dear. He’s my
friend and my hero and people gag because we get really
lovey dovey.
MoviesOnline: Did you ever do the conventions or anything
like that?
Eliza: Yeah, girl. I did. [laughs] And people would show up
and be like hey, can we take a picture of our matching face
tattoos, and I’d be like, uh, that was a decal. And you
watch the color drain from people’s faces and they’d be
like I got that tattoo so we could be lifelong sisters and I
’m like, sorry. They’d show up with vampire teeth and
stuff.
MoviesOnline: After you film the 13th episode of Dollhouse,
are you going to be looking at film scripts to try to
squeeze in during a potential hiatus?
Eliza: I just launched a production company with my
brother. It’s called Boston DIY Productions and we have 3
films that we’re about to do, one of which is with Randy
and Jody. The first one is going to be a biopic on Robert
Mapplethorpe and my brother is going to play Robert and we
have an awesome cast and an amazing filmmaker, Ondi
Timoner, who did a documentary called Dig! It won at
Sundance a few years ago. She has another movie that just
got accepted at Sundance. She’s just awesome. So we’re
going to do Mapplethorpe. Jody is actually going to direct
and they’re going to write this movie we’re doing
together. Then I have a big budget, working class Lara
Croft crazy studio thing we’re going to do too.
MoviesOnline: How are you enjoying being a producer and
taking a break from acting?
Eliza: Like Bryan said, it’s nice because it gives you
something else to do. As an actress, sometimes you go to
your trailer and you’re like what do I do? Do I watch Tyra
Banks on TV or what? Boredom is just not an option now. I
mean it’s really cool. And I’m also a producer on
Dollhouse because Joss and I basically put the thing
together. I never really wanted to be an actor. I kind of
tripped and fell into it and it gives me a chance to feel
like I’m doing more than just being…I get to be involved
in more of the machine and the operation and yeah, like
walking into a room, there’s a different kind of
confidence when you feel like you’re actually a part of,
as opposed to being rated. So that’s cool. I love it.
MoviesOnline: Bryan, since you write your music, would you
like to have a production company of your own?
Bryan: I don’t know. I’m working on something with a
friend. We’re in the preliminary process of it. I don’t
know. There’s just so much I want to do as an actor.
Eliza: [teasing] I’m available in February.
Bryan: [laughs] I’m trying to get it done. We’ve got the
first act done. I don’t know. I’ve got a lot of artistic
energy but there’s only so much of it though. You don’t
want to spread yourself thin. But I’m trying it out. We’
ll see.
MoviesOnline: What do you think about the potential actors’
strike?
Bryan: I think it’s bullshit. That’s what I think. I
think it’s stupid. I don’t support it. That’s me
personally. I love SAG, I love my union, but I just don’t
think it’s a smart decision. I think what matters most is
getting our foot in the door with new media and I think that
’s on the table and I personally believe we should take
it. I don’t think DVDs are something to fight over. I
think DVDs are like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
That’s my personal opinion. It’s like arguing over laser
disc rights. DVDs are not going to last much longer. I
think DVDs are going to be around 5 years at the most. It’
s already going. You’re going to have a hard drive.
MoviesOnline: Oh, I see, just download them from the
internet.
Bryan: Yeah, it’s already happening. Like Netflix, you
just stream it. That’s my personal opinion.
“Nobel Son” opens in theaters on December 5, 2008.
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