I wanted to ask about working with Rosamund Pike. I really like her as an actress. I mean, especially seeing her in Gone Girl and some of her other projects, I just think she’s amazing.
Oh, she’s amazing. But, Rosamund, at the same time, the easiest and the most difficult person in the world to work with. No… I know, this is bad. It’s what I’m saying. No, she’s 70% extremely easy and 30% very difficult. And I will explain why. Rosamund does not have any skin. All her nerves there at the surface are great, because as soon as they give her information, she absorbs everything, with all her body. But somebody who does not have a skin, she’s also very sensitive. If you touch her, you can hurt it extremely quickly. So, you have to be very careful about her because she embraces so much the role, that she becomes the role. So it’s kind of tricky. You have to be very protective of her. But then, what she gives you is so big. It’s so dedicated. It’s so much that it’s worth every second that you have protected her. So yeah, if I could make all my movies with her, I would make all of them. I think she’s great. And on top of that, and I cannot say that about lots of actors, she’s truly, truly a nice person. She’s kind. She’s a kind person.
“…she’s 70% extremely easy and 30% very difficult.”
It is kind of rare to find a truly nice person. You know what I mean?
I mean, and even in the normal lifetime in kind and loyal people, there are not so many, but among actors, it’s even less, I would say. But she’s kind and she’s loyal. Yes
That’s fantastic. And I just have one more question. And because of how huge this movie is, this just has a huge scope because you have the life of Marie Curie and then you go into the effects of what her inventions have. How much research would you say that went into this project?
Darling, a lot, because between the moment that I had the script until the moment they actually did the movie, it was about 15 months. And I think every single day of my life, I mean, from the research about her, and then you read biographies and each biographer has his, or her own point of view… So, I start reading the correspondences, I started reading all the diaries and all of that, to going and watching whatever about nuclear physics, about chemistry, about this, about that, like everything. Because you’re talking about something that truly existed. And as much as I know that you have to cheat a little bit with her life because I’m making a film and it has to be beautiful and you have to have drama, blah, blah. And at the same time, I really think, for me, it was very important to remain faithful to her spirit. So if you want to remain faithful to her spirit, you really have to know what you’re talking about. And I also thought that if I’m making a movie about the scientist, I better know what her science is about. I have to understand what she’s doing because I have to say to the other people what to do, so I have to know what I’m talking about. So I made lots of science (research).
That’s a monumental undertaking. And I think that you did a great job and I loved the movie. I thought it was fantastic.
Thank you, Lorry
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