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FILM INTERVIEW: ALFRED MOLINA

23.09.11

. That's the first thing that occurred to me as I was reading the script. No, seriously, it's all those things. One of my students asked if I ever had a plan, if there was a plan to do a certain kind of work at a certain time. I always say no. My first overriding plan was always to stay employed, so I've said yes to a lot of stuff that maybe I shouldn't have said yes to over the years, but that's neither here nor there. But one of the little things I've always tried to do is make each job, hopefully, as different from the last one as possible. When this came up, I read it and I thought, yeah. There's something here. I think I can do something with this. The enigma of this guy who you think is a good guy but he's clearly got issues -- does he have something to hide? And then, as that reveals itself slowly through the story of the movie, I thought, yeah, this could be something you could get your teeth into creatively and explore. Plus, it was the fact that I'd be getting a chance to work with people I hadn't worked with before. John Singleton and Taylor (Lautner) and Lily (Collins), as well as working with a new generation of actors. When you get to my age, there's something rather invigorating about hanging out with young actors because their energy and their drive is what reminds you of why you became an actor in the first place. 

Source: Buzzine