![]() I’ve been found out.” I came blazing onto the scene with a bit of moxie and a bit of Irish this and that - “Fuck, I don’t give a shit about it!” I was 23. And then after that, yeah, I did question. I didn’t ski, but I realized I could wear a mask and a beanie, and I did that for three days. I wasn’t going to give them their $20 million back, but … I found myself in a place where with everyone I met I wanted to say, “Have you seen Alexander? If you have, I’m really sorry.” I’m not even joking. The reviews came out, and I remember someone going, “Oh God, it’s not good.” And my publicist going, “It’s really not good.” I was like, “Well, what do you mean ‘not good’?” There wasn’t any Rotten Tomatoes then, so they had all the printed reviews, and one after another was telling me to pack my bags, I’d been found out: “Alexander the Dull,” “Alexander the Boring,” “Alexander the Inarticulate,” “Alexander the Weak.” I was like, “Holy shit.” I thought, “What can I do?” I felt so much shame. This is a sure thing.” And then it came out. We were all like, “Right, lads, we’re off to the Oscars. When I say “expectation,” we all had our tuxedos ready. It took us six months to shoot, on three continents. So, as grand as it was, as global as it was, as political as it was, as thrilling as it was, as violent as it was, and as sensual as it was, it was really personal - to Oliver and to me. ![]() Alexander was a story that Oliver Stone had dreamed of since he was in college. QUAN So being here is beyond anything I could’ve imagined.īRENDAN FRASER Well, get used to it because you have courage.įARRELL Expectation is a dangerous thing. It’s OK to face those rejections when you’re younger, but to do that when you’re a middle-aged man is something else.ĬOLIN FARRELL If I had a vote, I know where my vote’s going - what a journey! So I had a conversation with my wife: “Should I do this?” As you all know, it’s tough to be an actor. It was really then that I said, “Ah, maybe I should try acting again.” I was 49, about to turn 50, and I was so worried that I’d reach my 60s and look back and have regrets. It felt so distant and far away - until a movie called Crazy Rich Asians came out, and I realized that Hollywood had changed dramatically, that they were giving more opportunities to a wider group of people. I didn’t think that one day I’d revisit that dream. The difficult part was saying goodbye to the dream that I’d always had, but it was just difficult to be an Asian actor at that time, so I went to film school, graduated and then started working behind the camera and was content doing that. I spent the majority of my late teens and early 20s just waiting for the phone to ring, and it rarely rang, so I had no choice but to step away. KE HUY QUAN It just went downhill from there! ( Laughs.) For the longest time, I couldn’t get a job. You started as a child actor in films like 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1985’s The Goonies. Ke, this is your first film role in 20 years. I’d like to ask you each to discuss a moment when this moment may have felt furthest away. As for Butler and Pope, two of the year’s breakthrough performers, they were just in awe of being at the same table as some of the actors they grew up adoring. “We were just like, ‘Holy cow, we’re on a movie set! There’s craft services?!’ “). And Fraser and Sandler reminisced about working together early in their careers on 1994’s Airheads (“I wasn’t thinking about stuff like this back then,” Sandler said with a chuckle. Fraser and Quan hadn’t seen each other since working together on 1992’s Encino Man (“We’re still here,” Fraser greeted his fellow comeback kid, who was visibly moved). ![]() ![]() Farrell’s son was accompanying him for the festivities. Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle awards, and Farrell having earned Venice Film Festival, National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle prizes.Īnd while that undoubtedly accounts for some of their excitement upon gathering at THR‘s offices in late November, there were other reasons too. And some already have wins tucked under the belts, with Quan having scored Gotham, L.A. Farrell, Fraser, Quan and Butler received both Critics Choice and Golden Globe noms and Pope landed the latter and is, like Quan, nominated for a Spirit Award, too. 24, especially given that their 2022 performances already have been recognized with major nominations. That will almost certainly change for most - if not all - on Jan. From left: Ke Huy Quan, Adam Sandler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Austin Butler and Jeremy Pope.
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