![]() Jason Clarke as Jerry West, presented without context. I'm seeing it at the big Lincoln Square AMC. Speaking (again) of the caped crusader, I tell Clarke that I have a date with Battinson right after our call: at a press screening of The Batman. Out of all his movies, Inception to Tenet, and his Batmans. "I love that he always goes after it and there's intelligence, emotion in there. "I'm very, very happy to work with Chris," Clarke says. Nolan is notoriously secretive when it comes to his projects, so even Clarke, who offers a paragraph or three for every question I lob, slams the brakes. Clarke won't budge when I ask if he can tease his role. Robert Oppenheimer, who was widely considered the father of the atomic bomb. What the film community missed was that a topic was taken and put in celluloid before even the writers and the journalists got hold of it and it came out."Īs for what comes next, Christopher Nolan recently enlisted the actor in Oppenheimer, his mysterious historical drama about J. I think there's just that difference of the broader community and then the film community. "I think it's a much-loved film," he says now, as the film nears its 10th anniversary. At the time, critics accused Zero Dark Thirty of taking a pro-torture stance-mainly due to the scene where Clarke's officer uses waterboarding as an interrogation tactic. The film, which nabbed five Academy Awards nominations, starred Clarke as a CIA intelligence officer working on the manhunt for Osama bin Laden following 9/11. The closest he's come to Hollywood controversy was the maelstrom surrounding 2012's Zero Dark Thirty. "I'm just a white dude from Australia, the son of a sheep sheerer, and I've been around the world and I've seen a lot of things," he dryly quips of himself at one point. He can go from John Connor to Chappaquiddick-era Kennedy, and both ways, he immediately becomes the one person you remember from that thing you just watched. BLACK," but definitely before he imagines out loud what it must be like to lose your arm somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, he gets to talking about, you know, his career.Ĭonsidering the blockbusters he's headlined ( Terminator Genisys, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and the historical figures he's taken on (Ted Kennedy, The Great Gatsby's George Wilson, who half-counts as a historical figure, right?), it's a wonder that Clarke has managed to maintain such a low profile. Sometime after Jason Clarke belts, "JOKER CRASHES THE PARTY. The actor, who has two young children, offers some advice to someone still in his pre-parenthood years: "Take your time." Warrick Page "Is it just the pandemic, or is something going to fundamentally be damaged in us, or changed?" The energy was off: empty buildings, a relatively quiet commute into town, the feeling he used to get when he saw the skyline, gone. The trip, he says, "felt a bit sad." First time he's been to the city since hell rained down. The actor has just returned from a trip to New York, where I live, to promote Winning Time. Enjoy yourself first, because it is intense.") That hole just gets bigger, I guess.") Clarke asks about my relationship. ("He didn't know how to function without an idealism or a romanticism. ("Fucking watch it straight away.") Anthony Bourdain is on his mind. ("My wife was kicking me, like, "Jason, enough, enough.") He recommends the 1987 British comedy Withnail & I. Keep eating, keep weeping!" in the middle of the Sunset Tower. And as we're about to add a third candle on the pandemic birthday cake, I'm finding this all incredibly endearing.Ĭlarke is talking about the time he couldn't stop impersonating LEGO Batman during a date with Will Arnett and Taika Waititi. ![]() Really, if the names Jerry or West never came up in the conversation, I think he would've been just fine.
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