As a character, you’re living two lives, which has to be exhausting. As an actor, you’re in just about every scene of this show. Are you equally as exhausted?
JASON ISAACS: I am. I fell asleep during Cherry Jones’ close-up yesterday. I felt very guilty since she’s one of the greatest actresses on the planet. She called me on it, and I tried to bullshit her and pretend that my character was closing his eyes. She went, “No, I saw you fluttering.” I’m physically exhausted, but that’s fine. It’s fun. I go to work at five in the morning and I go home at nine or 10 at night, most days. It’s mentally exhausting because I don’t have an awful lot in my life that parallels this.
Most acting is, “What if?,” acting. It’s pretty easy to find something in your own life that vaguely approximates what your character is going through. You go, “Oh, this is like when my cat died,” or “This is like when I lost my child in the supermarket.” But, I don’t have anything to draw on for, “What if I didn’t know what was a dream and what was real?” So, it’s that much harder to place myself in his shoes, which is all acting is. It’s, “What if I was this guy, in this situation, with these things happening?”
And Britten could be the only person in the world that has this affliction.
ISAACS: Yeah, that’s true. The only reason that I wanted to do this show, and that I hope people find it and like it, is that it’s completely universal. Although he has a unique situation, through that prism, we can explore what it’s like to be a father, what it’s like to be a husband, what it’s like to reboot a marriage, if you didn’t get it right the first time, and what it’s like to explore your subconscious. We’ve all got a subconscious. We’ve all got dreams. We all have fears, anxieties and hopes. In one of those worlds, those are made manifest. He just doesn’t know which one. Hopefully, there’s something very universal, as well as unique, about it.
Source: Full interview @ Collider
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