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 Still, Hopkins never thought he would actually make the film. "It was a fantasy that I'd make the film, but it was all very diffused, I never would even think about, and then one day as I was reading it I thought, I wonder if it's even possible to film this. And so I sent it to Emilio Estevez to see what he though. And he said to me, 'Yeah, it's going to cost a lot of money, all the special effects' and I said 'Well what special effects? All the jumping and cutting will be in the editing.'" Actors love a director who understands them, so since Hopkins was one of them, he was able to assemble a great ensemble cast. "Some of the actors, like Michael Clarke Duncan, said, 'Well, I have no idea what this is about,' and I said, 'Well, don't worry about it.' Christian Slater got the hang of it very quickly. How on earth I got these great actors together I don't know, I sent them the script, they seemed to want to do it and have some fun with it. We were in the desert for three weeks, it was very hot. And so the first day when we were starting, I just said to the crew, 'Watch out for the rattlesnakes and the scorpions, don't rush anything, don't get careless, it's only a movie. That's how important it is.' Nobody was getting much money, so I said, 'Let's have a good time and enjoy it and have some fun with this thing.' And that's how we started." "Let's just enjoy ourselves" seems to be a common mantra for Hopkins. Apparently, if you accept that life is an illusion, things don't seem quite as important anymore. "It's not really meant to be a joke against actors, but I do have a philosophy that I think we all as actors take ourselves a bit too seriously," he says. "There are some wonderful actors who take themselves seriously, but I'm tempted sometimes to say, C'mon. It's not that important. And I do say it to students in UCLA when I do an acting class there, I say, 'You know, it's really interesting, if you never acted again, the world would not stop. If I never acted again, the world would not stop. It will go on, inexorably on, for millions of years to come. That's how important acting is.' So my little joke is ... |
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