Simon Mayo

Did you know when you signed on for the movie that it would be Dustin Hoffman?

Okay.

And you've played with some very big stars.

Is it more scary to act with Dustin or with Russell Crowe?

I got the impression that he was in charge of every scene and that he also could have gone off and got... In fact, maybe he did go off on tangents and you just had to follow the tangent.

So when you're doing scenes like in the van or in his house, are you on your metal all the time?

Does he improv?

How do those scenes go?

I wonder if the director is Daniel Roa, is his Oscar winning, because he was the man behind Navalny, but is his first...

story which he's telling and I wonder if actually a background in documentary making was ideal for those kind of scenes where he just keeps rolling you know there's no script he's filming a documentary so maybe that's how he felt when he was doing those scenes yeah I think the two went hand in hand I think it was really freeing as a performer to feel

The other behind the scenes guy, uh, to mention, I think, I mean, I, I being an audio person and a radio person, I've always like it when a movie sounds fantastic and the sound designers, Johnny Byrne, uh, zone of interest that was in, but particularly sound of metal.

Um, so the, the way we hear what you are experiencing, uh,

that there's jazz music and there's classical music and then there is incredible noise which leads to great distress.

Johnny Byrne has done a fantastic job.

Yeah, which I think people will admire very much.

So your character, Nicky, comes from where?

What is the accent that you have to master for this?

Okay.

How difficult is that?

What's the most difficult accent you've had to do?