Paul Giamatti loves playing stupid: ‘It was actually really fun’
What was it like kind of playing the village idiot at this movie? It was actually really fun playing a not very smart guy, right? Yeah, it really was playing kind of a hapless like you I’m not a bad guy. I’m not a bad guy and I’m a kind of an idiot. Yeah, I enjoyed that actually. I really did. It’s nice. I usually have to play people who are hyper smart and that was actually nice to play the dumb guy. Is it hard to play someone dumb at the moment? Um, no. Not for me it’s not. No, I actually think playing smarter is harder. But yeah, but but it was it was actually really fun. When you read the script, were you like, “Seriously, oh my god, would he be that stupid?” No, I think I was actually really kind of happy to play the guy who was like kind of a sucker and kind of a bit of a schmuck, but not a bad guy. I really was. Yeah. No, I mean, he really screws everything up. I thought it was very funny that this random character that I played once in the series comes in and screws everything up like this. I thought it was kind of funny. I liked Right. Because you do nearly down really kind of Yeah. screw everything up really badly. I know. That was great. Um and uh is it fun to I mean I imagine shooting there. I mean in this gorgeous it’s gorgeous. The grounds are really good. It’s crazy. I didn’t get to shoot there when I did the Christmas show years ago. So I was really psyched to be there. It’s crazy that the guy who was the lord of it was one of the guys that actually who funded the excavation of King Tut’s tomb. So there was supposedly a curse on him and so there’s all this weird Egyptian stuff in the basement. It’s weird. Did you feel uber American when you were there? Yes. I feel uber America when I’m in England at all because of that nature. But do you feel I I almost cuz your accent is to me it’s very New Yorky like almost well like Bugs Bunny like Yeah. what’s going on. Do you know what I mean? Like Sure. Yeah. And I’d probably play that up for this guy, too, cuz he’s supposed to be this kind of like he thinks he’s this kind of high roller New York rich guy, right? But he I like at the end they’re like, “Oh, he’s going to be rich cuz he’s going to he’s going to he’s going to make money off.” But it’s not so dumb. Yeah.
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