Jason Isaacs

So when you're looking in other people's eyes and they seem to be your children, this person seems to be your wife. And luckily, thank God, we're one of the shows that's still on a real location before AI makes it all happen in a computer. So anything that helps you trick your imagination

So when you're looking in other people's eyes and they seem to be your children, this person seems to be your wife. And luckily, thank God, we're one of the shows that's still on a real location before AI makes it all happen in a computer. So anything that helps you trick your imagination

is of use because that's what acting is just imagining you or someone else in another situation but 99.9 of it is mike's ability to dream up full and human worlds i think well let me ask a different way then is it was it then fun different answer josh

is of use because that's what acting is just imagining you or someone else in another situation but 99.9 of it is mike's ability to dream up full and human worlds i think well let me ask a different way then is it was it then fun different answer josh

That's a very perceptive question because he's really unhappy. I mean, I experienced as much as I could. I know it's pretend acting, but when you're very, very angry, you come away with your cells, you know, carry the anger. If you're crying all day, which I've done films with, kids get killed and stuff. I did a film called Mass, which was all about losing a son and hanging onto the anger.

That's a very perceptive question because he's really unhappy. I mean, I experienced as much as I could. I know it's pretend acting, but when you're very, very angry, you come away with your cells, you know, carry the anger. If you're crying all day, which I've done films with, kids get killed and stuff. I did a film called Mass, which was all about losing a son and hanging onto the anger.

You know, we cried for weeks. It was incredibly stressful being him. And yes, you're right. I love that. All actors love that. We like vicarious, extreme experiences. So I get to, you know, I've been in war numbers of times, but they're not real bullets. So as close as I ever want to get, I do. And this is as close as I ever want to get to my world falling apart and being broken. Yes, it is fun.

You know, we cried for weeks. It was incredibly stressful being him. And yes, you're right. I love that. All actors love that. We like vicarious, extreme experiences. So I get to, you know, I've been in war numbers of times, but they're not real bullets. So as close as I ever want to get, I do. And this is as close as I ever want to get to my world falling apart and being broken. Yes, it is fun.

The more extreme, the more fun. Although I shat myself, to be honest, when I read the script to start with, I thought, oh, wait, I've got to raise my game, and I've got to, can I pull that scene off? Mike's written something really extreme, and I've got to make it truthful and emotional, and those things are demanding. I mean, you can't always get there, but it did feel like it was scary biscuits.

The more extreme, the more fun. Although I shat myself, to be honest, when I read the script to start with, I thought, oh, wait, I've got to raise my game, and I've got to, can I pull that scene off? Mike's written something really extreme, and I've got to make it truthful and emotional, and those things are demanding. I mean, you can't always get there, but it did feel like it was scary biscuits.

Two things, one, having some big acting, and two, having to hide a secret for many episodes without words and in ways that aren't boring. That was also a challenge.

Two things, one, having some big acting, and two, having to hide a secret for many episodes without words and in ways that aren't boring. That was also a challenge.

And at least- Everyone being a dagger to the soul for me, every single, every time someone thinks or says that, I know, I mean, there is a cliff coming at me at a million miles an hour and there's no way to avoid it. And so I had that always in mind. And as an actor, what you want is secrets. You're desperate to have secrets. To say one thing and mean it is really nothing and feels like nothing.

And at least- Everyone being a dagger to the soul for me, every single, every time someone thinks or says that, I know, I mean, there is a cliff coming at me at a million miles an hour and there's no way to avoid it. And so I had that always in mind. And as an actor, what you want is secrets. You're desperate to have secrets. To say one thing and mean it is really nothing and feels like nothing.

But all the time that the dialogue's going on around me and all the stuff that he's created and structured on purpose is the stuff to make my world worse. All he does is tighten the vice on my heart. And I don't know how much the audience get of it. I was trying to feel it and think it, and I hope that they sense it in me, because I'm not talking very much.

But all the time that the dialogue's going on around me and all the stuff that he's created and structured on purpose is the stuff to make my world worse. All he does is tighten the vice on my heart. And I don't know how much the audience get of it. I was trying to feel it and think it, and I hope that they sense it in me, because I'm not talking very much.

Yeah, I mean, the writing's too complex for it to be either one of those things or the other. It's both. At the same time, it's thinking, how am I going to cut? What am I going to do? I cannot imagine a life without it. I'd equate it to someone going into rehab or going to AA or something. Like, I cannot imagine a life without this, but I have to, or I'd rather die.

Yeah, I mean, the writing's too complex for it to be either one of those things or the other. It's both. At the same time, it's thinking, how am I going to cut? What am I going to do? I cannot imagine a life without it. I'd equate it to someone going into rehab or going to AA or something. Like, I cannot imagine a life without this, but I have to, or I'd rather die.

And so there's people who do go into recovery, the people who go decide they want to live. Or people who are forced by a court under DUI to go to AA. They don't want to be there. They get there and they go, yeah, I could... So he's not one of those people who's gone to Thailand and gone for a Buddhist meditation retreat and thinks, you know what, I should reevaluate. He's got no choice.

And so there's people who do go into recovery, the people who go decide they want to live. Or people who are forced by a court under DUI to go to AA. They don't want to be there. They get there and they go, yeah, I could... So he's not one of those people who's gone to Thailand and gone for a Buddhist meditation retreat and thinks, you know what, I should reevaluate. He's got no choice.