'Richard Jewell's Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell and Jon Hamm on Working with Clint Eastwood — Transcript

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1. 0:03hey everyone my name is John Roca I'm
2. 0:06from Collider I'm here with three of the
3. 0:08incredible cast members from Richard
4. 0:10Jewell please excuse my throat I was
5. 0:12coughing all night so but I'm ready that
6. 0:14because I couldn't turn down an
7. 0:15opportunity to view Sam Rockwell Kathy
8. 0:17Bates and Jon Hamm I want to start off
9. 0:19first by saying I wanna start my first
10. 0:21question Kathy you're always playing
11. 0:23these strong no-nonsense women and at
12. 0:25first glance you might not think Bobby
13. 0:27jewel is but she shows us a different
14. 0:29kind of strength you give her the
15. 0:31strength throughout the movie I don't
16. 0:32know what did you strive to bring to
17. 0:35your portrayal of her that you thought
18. 0:37was the most important thing for you
19. 0:38her resilience I would say and her deep
20. 0:42love of her son she's still hurting it's
21. 0:45still very emotional even after all
22. 0:47these what does he just say it was 23
23. 0:49years since it happened it's still very
24. 0:52emotional and even though I'm not a mom
25. 0:54I wanted to glean as much as I could
26. 0:58from her I know she had miscarriages and
27. 1:00he was her only son and so it was you
28. 1:04know and I just wanted to get it right
29. 1:08for her we all I think wanted justice
30. 1:11for Richard okay Sam you're no stranger
31. 1:14to playing these scenes dealing
32. 1:16quote/unquote supporting characters for
33. 1:18lack of better term from guy and Galaxy
34. 1:19Quest to Watson Brian and Richard Jewell
35. 1:21now but there was a freedom that you
36. 1:23gave Watson and I don't think I've seen
37. 1:26you play in any of your roles and I want
38. 1:28to know was there was that something you
39. 1:29brought to it yourself personally or was
40. 1:31it conversations with people around
41. 1:34Richard your lawyer and now like I met
42. 1:36with the real Watson yeah Brian and he's
43. 1:38he's pretty pretty colorful character
44. 1:41he's really interesting that to be
45. 1:43around he's he's very cocky and he's
46. 1:47funny and he's opinionated he's a lot of
47. 1:50things so it was he pretty easy -
48. 1:51there's a lot to draw from yeah
49. 1:54as an actor were you excited when you
50. 1:55met him you're like oh I can play this
51. 1:56yeah definitely definitely
52. 1:58he was boy he's wild yeah he's wild yeah
53. 2:01it comes through certainly John you are
54. 2:03back playing an FBI agent you know we're
55. 2:05a national organization Claire met from
56. 2:07the town it's not easy to play a villain
57. 2:09in these
58. 2:10and a piece like this what did you focus
59. 2:12on getting right with him in your scenes
60. 2:15well you know I think it's it's it's
61. 2:19it's hard it's hard to describe this guy
62. 2:20is the necessarily the villain um
63. 2:22because I don't think there's really any
64. 2:24malice and what he's doing is he's
65. 2:26trying to do his job and he's just he
66. 2:28does it to the best of his ability and
67. 2:29he's he survives on his instinct and his
68. 2:32in the strength of his conviction and
69. 2:34and and he just got it wrong yeah and it
70. 2:38happens sometimes and I think we have to
71. 2:41remember that sometimes that happens you
72. 2:44know I think when when you just take
73. 2:46everything at face value as the case was
74. 2:48here it can sometimes be wrong and all
75. 2:52the evidence can point in one direction
76. 2:53and it can point in the wrong direction
77. 2:55which was the case here and when they
78. 2:57end up finally catching the guy that did
79. 2:58it by that point he had bombed he had
80. 3:02set off four other bombs and planted
81. 3:03several others that hadn't exploded yet
82. 3:06and so that guy's in jail for the rest
83. 3:09of all of everybody's life so that's
84. 3:13that's the important thing to remember
85. 3:14is just that you know the movie isn't
86. 3:16really about an indictment of law
87. 3:18enforcement or media or anything it's
88. 3:20just that let's let's let's think and
89. 3:22before we rush to judgment on things
90. 3:24like that yeah and I think you know
91. 3:26what's great about this film is that
92. 3:27everyone gets to breathe such a part of
93. 3:29a life of these characters I I cried a
94. 3:31couple times throughout the movie just
95. 3:32the emotion of exact member living
96. 3:35through it and then seeing it again all
97. 3:37over again I think the weight and the
98. 3:39gravity and the talent you all brought
99. 3:41to these characters to bring them with
100. 3:42life for us again in a more visceral way
101. 3:45was fantastic when I was one last
102. 3:47question from the three of you obviously
103. 3:49actors talk you all working with Clint
104. 3:50Eastwood like what was the preparation
105. 3:53for all three you maybe separately or
106. 3:55together before you walk on a sabic
107. 3:56leanest food who's known to do one or
108. 3:57two takes and moving on yeah I was
109. 4:06pretty nervous when I did my first scene
110. 4:09with him but he's so gentle and kind and
111. 4:12he's he's an actor as well as a
112. 4:13wonderful director so he knows us and he
113. 4:15you know when I was working on a press
114. 4:18conference scene I was trying to you
115. 4:19know work on my emotion
116. 4:21and he noticed a few people coming over
117. 4:23and he said leave her alone leave her
118. 4:25alone
119. 4:26you know and I really appreciated that
120. 4:28you know because a lot of directors they
121. 4:31just sit behind the video no they and
122. 4:33you it's an adversarial role and he's
123. 4:36right in there with you very engaged you
124. 4:38know I was very engaged in all facets of
125. 4:40it it was really lovely to see that's
126. 4:42awesome but diapers I like it all right
127. 4:44this is John Rocker for Collider with
128. 4:47Sam Rockwell candy beets and Jon Hamm
129. 4:49for Richard Jewell go see this one trust
130. 4:51me you'll love it