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As an actor, you've long perfected the cinematic art of the unravel
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And in The Surfer, your character endures this never-ending supply of misfortune
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How did you work to pace out this unraveling? Well, that's a good question because some thought did go into it
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And I wanted to make that distinction very clearly in the beginning
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that what appears to be a fairly well put together normal man with a job and a son
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a teenage son and a nice Japanese luxury car, slowly unveils a kind of little holes in his
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personality and also his life where, oh, wait a minute, his wife is no longer with him. And oh
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by the way, she's getting married again, and she has a baby on the way
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and his son wants nothing to do with him, and now he's lost his watch
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and now he's lost his car. All these things were carefully graphed out
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but for me as an actor, I wanted to incorporate how much it would affect my voice, like the sunlight, the dehydration
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and like the scene where you really hear the change in the voices
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outside the car with Julian's character Scali when he's tormenting me with the burger and with
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the beer. And I'm talking more like Julian. And so, and then he's just kind of a humiliated
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puddle of tears and weeping. And I wanted it to be so far removed from the guy we
