Is there a big difference in acting with mainly American actors than British actors?
Yeah, they’re better. Actors are actors. The approach is different. Jeff [Bridges] is extremely focused. Kirsten [Dunst] is instinctive. There are different approaches between different people, let alone different nationalities. How well do you think the movie portrays the British ‘You hate us, we don’t care,’ attitude and American media? The fact is that Sydney goes to work for a man that used to have his same attitude-based on [Edward Graydon Carter], who started Spy magazine, a reverent satirical publication, and who is now editing Vanity Fair, which is far more conventional. I think there are types of journalists like that in America and in England. Our journalists can be quite aggressive, rude and negative. Your paparazzi are worse than ours; they are slightly more invasive. The [media] pounds at the notion of celebrity-it’s everywhere, it’s an epidemic. Why should people see this movie? It’s very entertaining. There is a real journey there, it’s uplifting and it’s the kind of mov
