The star joined Tom Hiddleston at the SXSW London premiere of The Life of Chuck. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I would be disappointed to hear that you don't get this a thousand times a day, but I was recently re-watching Children of Men.
00:06My God, that film holds up.
00:07Yeah, no, no, it's special.
00:08What experience that is.
00:09And it makes me wonder, as soon as you tell so many interesting stories since then, what is it you look for now?
00:14What is it the thing that gets you out of bed?
00:16Yeah, that's a good question.
00:18Yeah, no, it's story.
00:20It's still story, you know.
00:21It's story and character.
00:23Obviously, they're often just intertwined, but you find that you have a great and interesting character,
00:27and it's part of a fascinating story or fascinating world, you know, and that always engages me.
00:34You know, I'm just, you know, and in this occasion, it was obviously a brilliant short story by Stephen King,
00:40and Mike Flanagan is creating this world and pulling this world onto the page,
00:44and so I'm reading this screenplay, and I'm immediately down the rabbit hole, you know,
00:48and that's, to me, you know, I think you know very quickly whether somebody's writing on a wavelength
00:53that you're like, oh, I kind of, I want to be part of whatever this is,
00:57and then I couldn't predict where it was going at all, you know,
01:00and it was just, it was entertaining and it was emotional, you know,
01:05and I had a real experience with it.
01:06Mike's obviously known for the scares.
01:08Was it something that attracted you going through the script and not finding those things,
01:12not finding those little kind of breadcrumbs of terror along the way?
01:15Well, you know, when I was first reading it, I didn't know what was going to, you know,
01:19it wasn't that, you know, it wasn't, I didn't know where it was going, you know,
01:23and it could have easily gone a few different ways, and I was quite open to any of it
01:28because I just felt like actually the character's fascinating,
01:31the way the story's being told is fascinating.
01:34It has such kind of depth and meaning to it that, yeah, tell me the story,
01:39whichever way it goes, you know, and I was excited to carry on reading.
01:42I loved where it did go, you know.
01:45Finally, it's a film that seems to celebrate living in the moment,
01:47whether that be the end of the world or not.
01:49So I wondered, when do you feel like you're in it the most,
01:54you're living in the moment the most?
01:55Is it when you're on stage, is it when you're on camera,
01:58or is it doing something completely unexpected?
02:00When do you feel alive?
02:01Well, that's a good question.
02:02I suppose I feel the most alive in the work, you know, if I'm honest,
02:07and that is, you know, that's a good thing and a bad thing sometimes,
02:11you know, that you kind of, that you hope that the answer is,
02:14you know, ah, you know, it's paintballing.
02:16Yeah, exactly, friends, family, those are what I feel.
02:19But, no, I guess if I'm honest, it's really like when I'm in that moment
02:23of discovery, of artistic discovery, you know,
02:26and with people who are in the same kind of,
02:29in the same sort of mode, in the same pursuit,
02:32you know, that's very exciting, you know, it's great.