How are you like and unlike Jude?
I'm like him in the fact that we both come from England. I definitely come from an English sensibility. I have a slightly cynical take on the world, which Jude definitely represents in the film. Jude is the guy that stands back and you says, "You can lie down in front of a tank to get people get from Vietnam, but it's not gonna change anything." It was important to have that kind of point of view in the film. And I was exposed to living New York for the first time [while making the movie] -- that was exactly like Jude. Me, Evan, and Joe lived in the East Village, and I just had an incredible experience like Jude did -- [it] really felt like a dream when it was all over. We shot the stuff in Liverpool right at the end of the film, and we'd all been together for about eight months, living in New York and just having the best, best time. And it was only really me and Julie and the cameramen and very few people from the original crew that actually made it to Liverpool -- the rest of the cast obviously didn't come because all the Jude scenes were independent of the New York experience. So I remember feeling kind of lost and very alone and oddly, which is very true to the character at the time, so that's definitely a similarity.

NEXT SLIDE