Jake Lacy talks male escorts and Donald Trump as president

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Jake Lacy stars in Miss Sloane as Robert Ford, a handsome, oft-shirtless male escort, unlawfully hired to fulfill Sloane’s needs. In one scene, Ford confronts Sloane for treating him as less than human, but a rare moment of vulnerability is swiftly discarded, as the film refuses to bow to Hollywood’s need for bleeding heart sentimentality See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00For me, I really responded to Ford, my play, Robert Ford, existing by choice on the outskirts

00:17of this society and then still having his own personal code of ethics and he has a sense

00:26of right and wrong that maybe the rest of DC does not, even though he is not above board

00:34in a lot of ways.

00:41I think a lot of films have a forced romantic element, male-led or female-led, but often

00:47in both cases the burden is put on the female, you know what I mean, like if it's a male

00:52driven thing, you have a woman who's playing a role that is one-dimensional and you're

00:56like, boy, that sucks man, that sucks that that's the role that has been written for

01:03you essentially, or in a case where a woman is the lead, then it's sort of like, we have

01:09to have a man complete your story, so just find a way to make this work, you know, like

01:12again the burden is put on the woman.

01:16I think it's again a credit to Jessica's performance, to Johnny the writer, to John as the director

01:22that we really do follow this character, Miss Sloane, through her world, on her terms

01:32and that that is the defining element of this film and of this story, that it's not cluttered

01:38with sort of Hollywood tropes.

01:47Well yes, I mean the answer for me is that those nerves exist.

01:50They exist because they come out of fear and self-obsession and as soon as they're

01:58addressed in those terms, in my experience, they're gone and you can get that needless

02:05cluttered garbage out of the way and actually be present with another person and work on

02:11the material and so every time I start a project I always get very, a week before I'm like

02:18grumpy.

02:19I'm just like ornery and kind of salty and my wife is like, here we go, like it's gonna

02:25be fine, you're gonna be good, you're gonna be this, you're gonna be that, you know, and

02:29at some point I recognize that it's just fear and that goes away and you dig in.

02:36Also the fear is that no one's gonna like you, that people are gonna be mean and you

02:40wind up on set and 99% of the time people are gracious and prepared and kind and you

02:46know what I mean?

02:47The number of people I've worked with where I was like, oh boy, it's so, so few and you

02:53see that those people, that's their problem.

03:01I'm at a loss even to how to describe it, disappointed, embarrassed that that's the

03:14person who represents our country to the rest of the world, complete disagreement with

03:21almost every stance that he's taken, every opinion he's expressed, every action that

03:26he's taken, every tweet he's sent out, like I just am absolutely ashamed that that's what

03:33our country has decided, you know, that the majority of our population was behind this.

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