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 Thomas Haden Church
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo Thomas Haden Church didn’t say much in his interview and he’s the first to admit that perhaps on this day, he’s not the loudest in the bunch. “I love being so boisterous this morning and now I’m just a mouse,” he says. His talent speaks for itself, though. After his breakout role in Sideways, Church became comic book villain Sandman in Spiderman 3 and now he’s playing Dennis Quaid’s slacker adopted brother named Chuck in Smart People. The film is about a widower named Lawrence (Quaid), his dysfunctional family, and his tentative romance with a former student named Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker). Get Church talking about the new movie and this “mouse” starts to open up. “I think that even before I read it I could appreciate the literary irony that was intended, because it was [producer] Michael London that sent it to me and we did Sideways together,” he says. “So I knew there had to be a healthy measure of comeuppance all the way through the movie for all of the characters and then it would all be bundled up at the end in some kind of life-enriching, hope-inspiring, life-affirming way and it is and it was, but in a very subtle way which to me that’s the smartest attribute of the script.” He also loved the flawed, complexity of all the characters. “It just kind of sneaks along and sneaks along and you’re just like God [Lawrence] is really messed up and [Chuck] is so simplistic and contented when the world is going on around him and [Janet] has dedicated herself to a career of helping people and yet is kind of horrifically dysfunctional and the only one that calls her on it is her gay doctor buddy and then you have the daughter and the son who are so disaffected in their lives,” he says. “It was that complicated to me; it was like how to fix all of these broken instruments.” Smart People director Noam Murro also gave Church the opportunity to adlib during some scenes. A scene where Quaid’s character goes to wake up his brother took a particularly risqué turn in one of the takes. “I did one [take] that was frontally nude to Dennis,” Church says. “Dennis and the camera enjoyed that!” Church certainly has no problem teasing his co-stars. When asked what he thinks of rising star Ellen Page, who plays Quaid’s over-achieving daughter in the film, Church says, “I was saying that she’s Meryl Streep but now I think she’s Marlon Brando!” He also jokes around with Sarah Jessica Parker, who’s highly anticipated Sex and the City movie is being released in May. “Wait what’s next for you?” he mockingly asks. “Do you have anything in the can?” "Sex and the City?!" he says, faking surprise. "They made a movie?!" Church does reveal what’s next for him, though. “I start shooting a movie in June with Kate Hudson about Walter and Margaret Keane—a biopic,” he says. We can't |
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