I did something different, which is that every day, each boy read an article with me from The New York Times. The exercise was meant to teach us how to write, but also how to think and talk concisely. And if your paragraphs didn't pass muster as a coherent argument, then you had to write it again. We wrote five paragraphs every week that were graded pass or fail. You know, everybody says that, but it's true. The way George takes anything: good-naturedly. Let's just say it was not the way that she wanted to meet George Clooney. And that was my wife's introduction to George, as well as my six-month-old son's introduction to George. Our boy was just six months old and he projectile vomited all over George Clooney. My wife came on the set with our now-22-year-old. Speaking of the Coen brothers, O Brother Where Art Thou? recently turned 20. So I guess that's a long-winded way of saying I don't have a favorite. This is a character actor who plays lead roles exquisitely. A great piece of character acting from a lead actor. I thought it was just remarkable and so exposed and honest and devoid of vanity and somehow both self-reflective and outside of himself all at the same time. And I love the performance that Tom Cruise gave in Magnolia. He's a leading man, but you can't look at Daniel Plainview or Bill the Butcher or Reynolds Woodcock and not see a character actor in there. Even Nelson didn’t know the full scope of his character at first.Īnd then I think the greatest lead actors are character actors. "But it's also an intimate story about a father trying to raise and protect his son." Soon it’s clear that nobody is quite who they seem, including Henry himself. (The Tulsa, Oklahoma native’s own drawl has long since disappeared: "When I went to graduate school, it was pretty much beaten out of me by speech and voice teachers who would always say, ‘Come north, come north.'") But this role is a darker variation on that theme-and a lead part that gives Nelson plenty of room to stretch.Ī taut film from director Potsy Ponciroli about a farmer and his boy who take in an injured traveler with a bag of cash, Old Henry is what Nelson has taken to calling a "micro Western." "Yes, it's a meat and potatoes, violent, unapologetic, old-fashioned Western with all the thrills that that description entails," he explains. Yes, it finds him with that familiar twang in his voice again. The veteran character actor is currently working on edits of his first novel, which is set in Los Angeles in the days before the pandemic, and promoting his new film, Old Henry, out October 1st. Nelson, 57, is speaking to me from his apartment on the Upper West Side. Pendanski in Holes, and the titular singing cowboy in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. To name a few: Delmar in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Dr. "I know that sometimes the knock on me is, 'Well, he's playing another hick,' but each one feels different to me," Tim Blake Nelson says.
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