Mark Kermode

Yes.

Russell's, Russell's, uh, I love him.

He's, he's become a friend and, but he's, he's an imposing figure.

Um, so that was, that was intimidating.

And he's also, you know, he's Russell Crowe.

Dustin, um,

Dustin's a very sort of gentle, sweet, funny man, but I didn't really know that going in.

I just was desperate for him to...

to like me, to think that I was good at what I do.

So that first date with him was pretty intimidating.

But he's such a generous, he's a very generous actor.

And when someone is that good, they really pull you into their world.

Oh, yeah.

Most of what you see of us in that film is...

improvised he has a thousand stories to tell and he would tell them um and we would have these short scenes of dialogue that would be up to half an hour um takes because we're just riffing and particularly in that van um was where we were able to sort of build our dynamic a lot and our relationship um

Because he just goes off on one, and you don't really know where it's going, but because he's masterful at what he does, it always comes back around in a very buttoned up, sort of perfect way.

feel like the person who's capturing you is just wanting you to behave like a human and you're not sort of shackled by

by anything.

And I think ultimately, you know, Daniel also just loves movies.

So he was able to marry the two incredibly well.