Dave Davies

Being in the movie business can mean you're away a lot, and this daughter is also a successful actress herself.

There's an obvious parallel here to your own life.

I mean, you're in the movie business, and a lot of your children are actors.

I know you've been asked this a lot, but to what extent when you read this script, did you identify with this character?

I read that the director, Joachim Trier, you talked about this, I guess, a year before you started shooting.

And he kind of crafted the script for you.

Is this true?

Yeah.

Is he a bad guy, Gustav, your character?

No, no.

Right.

And the gulf between Gustav and his daughter is bridged as the movie eventually reaches its climax.

It's quite well done.

You know, I don't have a clip to play from the film.

For an American audience, a lot of the film is not in English.

But the other thing that I realized when I was looking for audio was that if you listen to audio versions of dialogue in this film –

There are maybe longer pauses than usual and it occurred to me when I watched the film for the second time that a lot of the acting here is, you know, you're responding with your face and your eyes to what other actors are saying.

Is this a Joachim Trier technique?

The camera isn't just following the speaker.

It is following the listener.