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My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.
I felt like ‘Kingdom’ was earning my bachelor’s degree in acting, and then ‘I, Tonya,’ ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ and ‘Richard Jewell’ feel like I’m working my way toward finishing my master’s.
Cruella’ is its own movie.
Funny people come from all over. I think Michigan has dark humor on lock, though. Michigan, to me, is equal parts beautiful and noticeably dark. Saginaw made me dark, hahaha.
I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.
In my daily life, I’m always struggling to be a better adult, to come to terms with reality. To show up on set for five or six hours and be completely out of touch with reality, or a piece of it, is fun in some sick way that I’m sure a therapist would have a lot of fun deconstructing.
I, Tonya’ is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which I can perform and take characters who could be absurd or fake or unrealistic or obnoxious and try to give some depth and humanity to them.
I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don’t know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don’t know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren’t sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them.
I love The Great Muta and I grew up on him.
Yeah, I feel bad for people who think they have to stay in one place – people that feel loyalty to a fault.
That’s what I love about Richard – he has got this big heart.
I think that if you put me and Sebastian Stan as Ric Flair and Arn Anderson in a Four Horsemen movie, and then you cast Ethan Suplee as Ole Anderson. Then you get someone wacked out of their head like Ben Foster or Emile Hirsch to play Tully Blanchard. It could be really cool.
It doesn’t matter what you believe – and everyone believes something different – but I think there’s something to be said for fate.
I have to imagine playing Cruella de Vil in a giant Disney movie is probably a little scary.
To my knowledge, I don’t believe I’ve taken a role that I didn’t feel I could do when I read the screenplay.
The guys I dreamt of being like Phil Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, those are the guys I was aiming to become, and I think they do have a diversified portfolio with what they do.
I’m a pretty big Jericholic in that sense that Chris is officially one of the Mount Rushmore greats. He just is and I won’t hear otherwise. He’s done way too much and is way too creative and self-propelled to not be in that conversation.
Growing up, I was all about Jim Varney’s character, Ernest P. Worrell, specifically ‘Ernest Goes to Camp.’ I was also obsessed with ‘3 Ninjas,’ ‘Cop and a Half’ and ‘Rookie of the Year.’
I’ve been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day, whether it’s a geographical accent or just somebody with a funny voice who sells you your newspaper and your cigarettes.
Films like ‘I, Tonya’ and ‘Richard Jewell’ show a moment in time that then spurned a whole methodology of 24 news cycle, in which it became more important to fill time and to make money, than to tell the truth.
I’ve been very fortunate to have people pull me aside and mentor me.
You have to call out injustice and not let tribalism win over.
I am very flexible and can kick over my head.
We like to think that because we have a black president that thinks are better and racism doesn’t exist. That’s insane.
Sam Rockwell is an occupational hero for me, the same way that Phil Hoffman or Peter Sarsgaard or Michael Shannon are.
I’ve got to make the movies that I would want to go see.
We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world.
I was a movie nerd, through and through.
A Few Good Men’ and ‘As Good As It Gets’ were the advent of me taking film seriously.
If you watch the movie ‘Queenpins,’ I believe it is the first film in Hollywood to feature AEW in the film.
My go to – if I were on a desert island and there was one thing I could eat forever – I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Obsessed.
The show understands its tone and characters intimately. ‘Cobra Kai’ has smart people doing silly things – which I can’t get enough of.
The hope is that you’re never pigeonholed, but at the same time I would have been content being a guy in the sitcom who walks in and has crumbs on his chest and goes, ‘Where’s the doughnuts?’ I would have been fine with that. It’s an honor to get paid to make people laugh on a sitcom.
