What drew Richard to acting? Richard was usually reading a book, loves storytelling! Most excited about work from literature!
Loves telling a story! That’s why also drawn to audiobooks!
Theater lets you feel the audience breathing with you, feedback is rare and compelling, but a lot of work and energy!
Likes TV and film, because can piece together a character slowly
Richard wants to adapt Richard III for television. Richard was supposed to read a play on the plane and forgot!
Fascinated by play as piece of propaganda - truth probably opposite of Shakespeare
Playing a bad guy, all start somewhere and course of lives take them in certain direction, most successful idea is someone trying to be good and failing. Trying be noble but being dragged down.
Obsessed with Richard III and Macbeth, trying to do good and failing... “kind of like me”
Dwarves bound themselves together before shoot! Thinking as one!
Can’t just shrink a person to make a dwarf, have to make bigger to make smaller! Needed them to look solid and heavy.
Dwarves very different kind of anatomy, compared to elves, for example XD
Peter and Bryan very unique - a childlike fascination with work they’re doing, very meticulous!
Bryan very much about the physical world. Richard very impressed by kimono, hand painted gown, Bryan tested and color tested, tattoo had five or six manifestation. Sets the bar and makes actors think about greater detail.
Richard knew material through SOTL, one of first movies sat in cinema gripped the seat and really really wanted to leave. Saw manhunter. Aware of show because Hugh Dancy’s face kept coming around on a bus in NYC!
Role came with call from Bryan, talked about the character, told Richard to read it. And That’s right up his street found so much amazing character in it.
Harris is a pioneer in crime writing and analyzing the villain. Start to emphasize with the character and dangerous territory.
Richard really likes to be guided by an author, telling what character thinking and feeling and offer references that you can pick up and evolve. Likes a theme when he’s creating.
Tattoo - collab make up team, Bryan and Richard, printed on tattoo paper and went on in pieces and airbrushed, but needed to be done immediately.
Richard loved scene with Chilton seeing the tattoo, thought it came to life. In Dolarhyde’s mind it was a new skin, the whole thing is moving. Richard likes characters that try to shed their own skin.
Richard studied Blake before, but Red Dragon was new. Uses iconographic art a lot while creating, uses Goya a lot, writers also influenced. Harris into Blake - Richard went to see it, as the character...
Have to ask for painting, pull it out, looking side eye! It looked.... tasty...
Cheers for Rutina !!!
Rutina is amazing, enjoyed each other’s company. Had funny days, cutting pies! Freezing cold day at the zoo. Sat in a car at the zoo and had a good time together, she really was a pro.
Shout out to Saturn Awards victory! Richard didn’t know he won! He needs to get the award!!!!!
*врет как дышит!!!* 
Richard couldn’t get his head around Berlin Station moving to Budapest, but that’s where he shot Robin Hood! Full circle!
Richard has started a production company and is sourcing material! Trying to create shows from literature, big demand for that!
Richard will really binge watch, so he does like to be “strung out and hung on a chain” vs binging.
Richard’s book rec: The Stranger
Richard thinks The Lodge might appeal to fannibals - shot like Kubrick, very slow but incredibly atmospheric! Good film!
Richard is still pretty bemused about fannibals! Same feeling of becoming fans of book. Even before social media, people still connected over common interest, compare to football! But in a way, doesn’t compare!
Real community, rooted in art and literature. Amazing! Richard thinks it will happen, too irresistible! Because of fannibals! Real community, rooted in art and literature. Amazing!
Talking about reprising one of his audiobooks as tv adaptations!
Does Richard remember dwarvish! “Something about your mother...?”
People want Richard to inflict violence on someone or just want to kill him!
Should he take it personally?
Thorin would have handed mantle to nephews and become a recluse, maybe philosopher or back to the forge. But it was a monumental death, incredible scene Tolkien wrote
Dolarhyde always writhing out of his own body, so uncomfortable and dissatisfied, trying to change shape of body. Richard glad never see him inflicting violence, very different.
Richard can’t snap in and out of character, used to go in the corner and stay with the character.
Richard loves Castelvania - character spends his whole life with a hangover. Because of constant hangover, just irritable the whole time. Would love to do a live action
Richard wants to do more work behind the camera, doesn’t know about directing, but looking ahead.
Thorin has great conflict, troubled characterization, motivation and intentions are good, not egotistical but he changes and greed takes over. Aware of it but can’t turn back. Becomes tragic, sees hole and falls into it.
Richard didn’t eat that many paintings - Put Will on a wire to throw him. Created painting on rice paper but it was breaking, down to five minutes before wrap, said look ill just eat paper! He’s eaten paper in the past. Art dept nervous. Let’s just shoot it. Was tasty!
Richard doesn’t like to play characters close to himself. Dolarhyde was most complicated and most troubling, dementing but watchable.
Мне нравитсяRichard did his best Red Dragon voice. AMAZING
Trevor drinks Thorin under the table!
Richard wanted child Dolarhyde at the table, Bryan loved it, wrote and shot scene, collaborated on it, Bryan really listened and worked together with everyone!
Richard may resurrect The Crucible, bring it to NYC? Fingers crossed
Richard loves The Winters Tale!
Richard so awkward with speech, put pie in mouth so wouldn’t have to speak!