Paul Guilfoyle has been a well-known face to audiences for many years, whether or not it’s on the massive display in movies like Air Drive One and L.A. Confidential, or as Captain Jim Brass on the long-running hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In his newest movie, Any Day Now, Guilfoyle stars as Marty, a person who pulls a younger night time watchman named Steve (Taylor Grey) right into a prison world full of oddballs, misfits, and misplaced souls as soiled because the Charles River. As Steve wrestles with whether or not this can be a likelihood for change or a harmful mistake, Guilfoyle delivers the type of complicated, character-driven work he loves most. He spoke with me about what drew him to the movie, working with first-time director Eric Aronson, his dynamic with Grey, and even shared a narrative about working with Harrison Ford. This interview has been edited for size and readability. Watch the complete dialog within the video above or on our YouTube channel.
You may have the very best opening line in a movie that I’ve heard shortly now, “The f**ok you need?”
Paul Guilfoyle: That’s a superb one, you’re proper. I bear in mind Harrison Ford having this in Air Drive One. I wrote about it within the New York Instances. I used to be in that image, I used to be one of many guys telling him how unhealthy we had been off.
How was it working with him?
Paul Guilfoyle: He’s a beautiful man. He’s an actual, actual exact actor. Actually exact. A lot enjoyable to be with him and he actually is aware of precisely what he’s going to do. He informed me as soon as; he’s by no means been late. He exhibits up, he’s there, he’s prepared. I appreciated working with him.
I really like character pushed dramas and possibly simply because I’m an actor, however this completely drew me in.
Paul Guilfoyle: Nicely, Lance, for me, you’re the promised land. Everybody, , as an actor desires character-driven drama. I imply, that’s why I received concerned in it.
It was from these motion pictures of the seventies, these neo-realism motion pictures that I watched with Jack Nicholson and Bob De Niro and Al Pacino. I imply, these guys delivered this kind of sense of character and was all the time barely on the sting of the unknown.
I liked these characters and that’s all I cared about. I didn’t care the place they had been, the place they had been going subsequent. 5 Simple Items, Jack Nicholson goes from an oil rig to this place in New England the place individuals play classical music, however he would keep the identical man, nonetheless unsure and disdainful and barely smug and displaced.
Some individuals suppose we will go to Paris and every thing will probably be superb. No, since you’re going to carry the identical character with you to Paris. I really like that and I noticed that on this film and noticed that within the actors and needed to do it.
This was Eric Aronson’s directorial debut.
Paul Guilfoyle: That’s proper. And aim was to do the identical factor we simply talked about, construct a personality pushed drama.
Was there ever any trepidation about working with a first-time director? Did you meet him and like to ensure he’s not some kind of schlub or one thing first?
Paul Guilfoyle: Oh, certain. You’ve received to ensure he’s not some kind of schlub. We don’t need to spin our wheels. And also you don’t need any person who has an amazing want to regulate every thing and to make use of you want some type of meat puppet. You need to be sure that we’re all going to collaborate as a result of that’s the one approach something good occurs. As a result of then everyone’s placing their greatest stuff in it on a regular basis. And so they’re invested.
I needed to drop a few favourite scenes that I actually appreciated. And Eric talked to me, he stated, and we shot them, however he stated it made it too straightforward for me to govern, Steve. Nevertheless it was a scene the place I steal Johnny Money’s guitar, and I give it to him to cement the deal.
However Eric, to his credit score, was proper. So, he was economical, which is what you must do.
The entire forged is nice, however the dynamic between you and Steve, Taylor Grey, it’s simply actually what made the movie for me. How did you two work collectively? How was that on-screen relationship shaped?
Paul Guilfoyle: These are the issues that you simply work on in a really delicate approach. It’s a must to be open to need to develop a relationship, ? I imply, now we have to construct one thing collectively and then you definitely simply hope it goes effectively, and also you put money into that barely. And by doing that, you let the character put money into it completely. And also you as an individual need to.
And he’s a simple man to get together with. He’s a really curious man and he’s a type of a throwback the place he himself desires to do performing just like the performing of Lee Strasberg. So, he was nice, and he was open to that and it type of developed over time. We shaped a pleasant relationship.