Matthew Beard: Yeah, I always wanted to be a journalist when I was younger. It would have been even more artificial. Daniel Radcliffe is doing the same thing at the moment. But in terms of having them there, I think it would have been strange to do our bits individually with blue screen or something. Did you have any nerves to overcome on your first day of filming? We decided quite early on that you could react to their sort of feel because, through their words, you could look at them and you could make eye contact with them. © 2001 - 2020 IndieLondon.co.uk | Terms and Conditions | Privacy | RSS Feed | What is RSS. So, I am excited. Interview by Rob Carnevale . How did you enjoy dealing with the coming of age scenes? We tried to play with the online/offline world and make the offline one a bit more gritty. How was working with Aaron Johnson? So, it’s a different dynamic and it’s really strange to follow and to try and to try and work out the psychology because it’s all there in text. If you look at someone like Orlando Bloom, he’s doing more or less every blockbuster around. We asked whether we could look at each other, or react to gestures and feelings. And I guess a curiosity, I’m very nosy - I get told off when I go to people’s houses and start looking through their bookshelves and asking them lots of questions. No one on this film was walking around with a big pair of shades on, or had loads of people following them… Jim will sit there in the corner with a paper. Matthew Beard: Yeah, little bits of TV and stuff. And he’s always thinking. Now, it’s like: “Oh God, I’m going to get found out now!” When you’re on set this [the release date] is very far away and you don’t really think about it.

It was difficult because you had a lot of things to think about on this film.

How was working with Jim Broadbent? Q. You’ve been acting since the age of five, though… Matthew Beard: I’m just in my last year and I have a couple of terms left at uni, so that’s a bit insane at the moment. We’re a similar age. He was in Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer and he was the youngest ever Hamlet. Was Jim a particularly easy character to inhabit? And then, of course, a national treasure in the passenger seat! You’re not thinking: “Oh, I’m going to regret this in a year’s time when the press say ‘Matthew Beard handles this scene terribly when he does this..’.” You’re not thinking about that, you’re just having a good time with the people you’re with and trying to focus on the character. Ben Whishaw is another one. Read about our approach to external linking. I had already read quite a lot of Freud - so we share that. Matthew Beard: You’re right, it’s a very different kind of nerves. We’ve been very lucky with the places that we’ve been filming. How would you describe Max’s relationship with Oskar? I’d only had two lessons. Hopefully, once I finish uni I can get properly cracking with it. She’s really warm and special and you get a feeling on some sets where you can see yourself turning up there every day for the rest of your life and I would happily do tiny parts for Lone for the rest of my life [laughs]! So it’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time.

I could just relate to having a father that’s quite impatient. I also hate the film poster because it’s got my head plastered right in the corner! That was enough for me really – just to meet them was an event in itself, especially since I was sat in a waiting room with Colin Firth look-alikes. How did you get on with your on-screen family? I didn’t study medicine, I studied English Literature, but a disproportionate amount of my thesis had a Freudian tilt - or at least a psychoanalytical angle. I didn’t know anyone was in it when I took the part, I just said ‘yes’, but it also has Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess and Rafe Spall and all these people. Matthew Beard: I can definitely see why people are attracted to it. I’ll catch myself saying it sometimes… I’ll say “Colin” to someone I know and they’ll ask: “Do you mean Colin Firth?” But they’re so utterly normal. And yet you look at someone like my favourite actor, Paddy Considine, and he seems to be struggling for work sometimes. He’s managed to mix the blockbusters with the roles that matter to him a bit more. I went to see the Egon Schiele, I went to visit the Adolf Loos buildings and tried to get a feel of what was going on in 1906. I’ve had some of the best times of my life on film sets and people I’ve met have been the best friends I’ve ever had, so I definitely wouldn’t swap it. But if I had some more significant help that I needed I wouldn’t turn to a chatroom. He’ll be doing his crosswords or looking up at the cieling and you’ll be wondering what he’s thinking about. So, I have two lines or something – if you go to the toilet you’ll probably miss me [laughs]. The first thing I did was to sit down with the scripts but then to sit down with Freud also as it’s a crucial part of the show and what Max is interested in. So, he had to command the set basically, from the first day. So, in a way you have to be quite self-conscious about your performance and how you’re acting, because that’s how someone when they’re typing thinks… they’re consciously shaping themselves in the role when they’re typing. You can see how they’re so desperate to prove themselves [outside of a franchise] because they probably are all brilliant actors. Matthew Beard: I did. We had to decide our own rules essentially when we first sat down. You can scroll back and see where this person came on and where they are now… you can follow their story. I want to be an actor, for sure, but I’m also aware that it doesn’t always work out. I think Max and Oskar’s working relationship is a classic buddy relationship that you see in many films throughout history. It was odd because the handbrake turns and figure of eights that you think would be difficult were really quite easy, maybe because it was on sand. Even the greatest actors in the world can not do anything for a while – either because they haven’t got a pretty face for that film, or whatever. One day it would be nice to write a script. But I try and avoid it. Matthew Beard: Fingers crossed, I hope so. But you must be incredibly delighted with the way your career is working out? Is it a different kind of nervousness now that the release date is approaching and people are starting to see the film? People aren’t going to be screaming Ben Whishaw over Orlando Bloom but people want to be him. But it was difficult to do during the time. But they always reinvent themselves. I suppose what is an interesting twist on it is that I’m an English actor and Juergen is an Austrian actor and sharing a sense of humour or sharing a joke - these things which are supposed to require a really sophisticated level of language, but actually I think we’ve found ways to enjoy each other’s company and we really enjoy the banter with each other on screen and I hope that comes across. That’s really weird at first.

I think I would be good at solving murders… I think my friends would probably say more likely to have done the crime than solve the crime but yes, maybe… I don’t know. I’ve had ideas but I give up too early. You’ve just finished The Hippie Hippie Shake… It was such a long time ago as well that it almost seems alien to see everyone again [on the press tour]. But somehow I got it and I was really happy.

I’d be waking up in the morning knowing I’d have to cry for 12 hours and that’s difficult… you can’t get happy. I just kept smiling but I couldn’t help it.


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