Michael B. Jordan

Well, Bobby and I have known each other, you know, for a long time.

We've done plays together, and he really came over there and supported me.

He's a great actor, and he...

I just needed to ease the barkeep, and I'm the drunk at the barstool who can't stop talking.

And so I needed him.

And Andrew Scott, I didn't know before.

I'd seen him play Hamlet years ago in London.

I wrote his name down in a journal.

I was like, I got to work with that guy.

Margaret Qualley is friends with my daughter, so that worked out well.

I got to use my daughter to make connections.

Use whatever connections you have, right?

Yeah.

There's an interesting conversation that happens in the movie.

It's about Oklahoma.

And your character kind of articulates an artistic vision for theater in a way that he leads in the satire.

He wants theater to be used as a commentary on what's happening right there, mixed with Roger's view of sincerity in the theater and sort of reaching towards that.

Where do you land on that divide?

Where do I land on my judgment of the musical Oklahoma?

Yeah.