How did you come to this project?
I read the script, watched the movie, and then kind of said, “Yeah, it’s a good deal.” But there was somebody else directing it and I wasn’t that interested in the project at the time. And then when McGuigan signed on to do it, I saw “Gangster No. 1” and I said, “Yeah I really want to work with this guy.”
Can you talk about “Mozart and the Whale?”
Playing a man with Asperger's is a difficult challenge. But playing anybody who is going to represent, in a way, the average person’s idea of what people with this specific disorder or whatever might have is a huge challenge because you don’t want to…it has to be right on. You can’t be over the top. I [would] just always ask this woman psychologist who we had with us every day, “Am I diagnosable? Am I in the right spot?” And aside from that, just trying to create the character in the midst of this love story. This is a true story about him meeting his wife. It’s a big responsibility.
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