Fifty-year veteran Gere ('Oh, Canada') reflects on choices he made while decade-plus performer Jones ('The Brutalist') gazes toward what she might like to do.
Felicity Jones stars as Erzsébet Tóth in The Brutalist alongside Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce and Gere reteamed with Paul Schrader for Oh, Canada.has been a bona fide movie star for nearly half a century. But he didn’t necessarily set out to be.
Strangely, I was a philosophy major, and I was minoring in ancient Greek. Don’t ask me why, but that’s what I was pointed toward. I got involved with the acting school, and somewhere in my sophomore year, I went with an actor friend of mine to an audition in Boston for the Eugene O’Neill Provincetown Playhouse, and I ended up getting the job.
I think it was a subconscious choice on my part to step back. I said, “Enough. I don’t really like all this attention.” And I reacted like a wild animal. “I don’t want to be looked at.” I made some choices, not that I’m ashamed of it, but there were choices not to be in the big game, they were to be in a smaller game. I’ve never done anything and said, “Nah, fuck it. I’ll just take the money and walk through this.
“It is an industry that doesn’t conform to many rules, so you just never know,” Jones, who earned an Oscar nod for her showing as Jane Hawking in, says of the movie’s awards buzz. “You have to have a certain amount of peace that when you make the decision to do something, you give it everything. And what will be, will be.”
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