Terry Gross
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's not uncommon for talented artists.
Oh, and River Phoenix, who you worked with, died of an overdose.
Oh, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Yes, right.
It's not uncommon for talented artists to have a self-destructive side or a need for the kind of medication that they believe the addiction provides for.
Do you feel like you understand why those two things so often go together?
Well, first off, I think...
Larry Hart?
So River Phoenix, you made your first movie with him, The Explorers.
So he died at age 23 in 1993 of an OD of morphine and cocaine.
Was that a warning for you?
You know, like, don't touch this stuff?
Like, were you ever...
Were you ever seduced by the relief of addictive drugs?
I don't know.
I want to ask you about time.
The film Boyhood was shot, directed by Richard Linklater, who just directed you in Blue Moon.
It was shot over 12 years.
And as this family aged, as the children and the divorced parents aged...
The actor's age.