What was the attraction of playing one of the intruders in "Panic Room"?
The fact that he's conflicted was really attractive to me. It was really interesting to play. He's a guy who doesn't really want to cause any problems; he just wants to take care of himself and his family, and he just keeps getting sucked in deeper and deeper. All of a sudden, it's too late.
The shoot suffered lots of problems. How did that feel?
I was always fascinated with all the different things that would come up. For me, I got to go to work every day, then go home at night. It's unusual. I thought it was great. For him [director David Fincher], I think it caused different problems. There was a moment of uncertainty when the movie shut down, but that's about it. Nicole Kidman's leg was hurt and they had to replace her with Jodie. I don't know how David coped. He was really calm about it.
What else went wrong?
We had equipment failures and we would start having these power blackouts, and the lights would cut out in the middle of a scene. I would just go back to my room, do stuff, talk to Dwight, play with my dog. It was supposed to be the easiest and quickest shoot David would do - because the film had been so planned out. All plans went awry. I had never worked on a sound stage for that length of time in my career. I think I ended up working 140 days, which is really unusual. For any film, that's unusual. But it was more OK for me than others.
What did you know about 'panic rooms' before you started the film?
I didn't know about them until I did some research for the movie. I went out with security teams and they showed me how and where they're made. I learnt a lot about security; a lot of things I didn't know. Underneath grass in people's yards, people have sensors put there. You don't think about things like that. You think of things like beams, but there's surveillance all over the place in certain people's lives.
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