There's No Shame In Somebody Who Doesn't

As Uta Hagen Would Say, There's The Representational Actor And The Presentational Actor. My Sister [maggie Gyllenhaal] Came Up To Me Recently After She Saw This Movie, Southpaw, The Movie I Did, And She Thought There Was This Exploration Of That Type Of Presentation, And A Bit Of Representation As Well, If I Could Be Totally Honest, Where She Was Deeply Moved.

When I Was Younger, I Did Work With Coach. I Went To This Place Called Actors Space In The Valley. I Was Pretty Young, And We Were Doing Acting And Improvisation. But No, No I Didn't Go To Rada, I Didn't Do That. But I Do Now Work With An Acting Coach, Primarily For The Initial Intellectual Connection To The Material.

'brokeback Mountain' Takes All Your Conceptions Of America, And The Western, And Cowboys, And Sexuality, And Love, And It Stirs Them All Up.

I Wasn't Really Quite Sure Where Heath Ledger Came From, And I Think That's The Feeling Most People Got When They Were Around Him And Why He Was So Extraordinary.

My Mum Raised Us On Classic Movies And A Lot Of Musical Theatre.