How does it feel to be opening the London Film Festival?
It’s tremendously exciting, it is a big honour to be opening a festival like London first of all, and secondly it’s a London movie and as an outsider making a London movie, I’m concerned that a London audience will react well to the film, so I’m very intrigued to see how that goes. Are you heading off afterwards, or will you be able to hang around for the festival? Oh, that’s the problem when you have a film at a festival, you never get to see any of the films at the festival, as much as you’d like to. Viggo Mortenson’s prison tattoos were fascinating, and very Cronenbergian – telling a story via marking the flesh – but I hear they were his idea, is that true? That is true, the tattoos were mentioned in the script, when his hands were on the steering wheel and Anna notices them, but they were never the central metaphor that the ended up becoming. But for an actor his body is his instrument, so anything that touches his body or is on his body is of great interest too him, it’s not vanit
