Judy Greer on How Alexander Skarsgard's 'Weird' Facial Hair Inspired Their 'Eric Larue' Performances

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00:00Yeah, well, it's I mean his his facial hair was weird and he

00:08Like and it helped a lot. I think it helped both of us be like, oh

00:14But I remember vividly we were at this bar, I think it was called satellite

00:18Satellite bar in Wilmington. That's like the place we always went to and I was there

00:24with Mike and Brett Brett and I view the screenwriter and

00:28Alexander showed up. It was like it was daytime definitely because there was so much sunshine everywhere

00:33And I remember he walked into the bar. It was kind of like an indoor-outdoor bar and he walked in and

00:39he was wearing a white t-shirt and white shorts and white Converse and

00:45he just looked like a god like he was so tall and handsome and

00:50He had this big open smile on his face

00:54and I was like

00:56Like how can that be Ron?

00:59and then

01:01the

01:03transformation

01:04like the transformation like just into this

01:09Character, I don't know. I I've just like blown away by him

01:13I mean, I've been a fan of his for a long time

01:16but like seeing what he did with this character and just God how he just like it was so effortless and

01:24And like I think he really cared for Ron and he made a comment in an interview about how

01:31Mike he really knew that Mike would take good care of Ron and I don't know

01:35It was really it gave me a lot of compassion towards him. And I know that in the movie

01:41It doesn't seem like Janice has much compassion for her husband. I mean she doesn't but like I

01:49Think I think Janice is like jealous of him

01:53That he can

01:55So easily explain it away and in and so easily like find this outlet

02:02For himself, and I think that's what she's looking for clearly, but he just gets it and she doesn't get it

02:11But

02:12Yeah, it was hard not to

02:15Like in those scenes not to be more compassionate towards this character

02:21Because I did see him as such a big love and Alex such a love

02:25Yeah, I think you know, I think like a lot of I think a lot of couples grow apart

02:32I mean, I don't know

02:33I I think what happens to Ron and Janice is a testament to sort of like a lack of foundation in a relationship

02:42and

02:44So I think that's pretty clear and I think that a lot I don't know if you have kids

02:51but like there's so much like

02:54Just like a train that's like going down a track when you have kids that

02:58You like are like you have this thing that you're always dealing with that. You're always talking about you're always

03:06like managing and

03:08Things pop up that you have to deal with constantly and I think that like when that is taken away, you know

03:14Usually it's like the empty nest that we hear about and talk about like what is left like what is in this space?

03:21That was once you know, not just taken up by a human but by activities

03:26and so I think

03:28Probably Janice and Ron like we didn't really I don't have a memory anyway of us like breaking down a backstory

03:34But I imagine that they were dating and it was like well we date or we break

03:38I mean we get married or we break up now like now what you know, Mike had that plan from

03:43second one, um

03:45well

03:47I think that

03:49uh, I think Janice was free of

03:53Of trying to get over it. I

03:55I don't know. I I think that the end of the movie is about how there is no end to grief and pain

04:02and you can't tie it up with a bow and

04:05Like you go on

04:07But I don't know if you move on

04:09I I think like I had a hard time. I loved shooting it and I love it visually

04:15But when we were making the movie and leading up to this

04:18I always had a hard time with like but what what what and you know what like sometimes there are no answers like

04:25There was no answers for Judy Greer

04:29To figure it out and that's like

04:31And that's like so meta because then i'm like, oh because it's about how sometimes there's no answers

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