The scene of overlapping dialogue with Halle in Gothika, was it improvised or scripted?
I don’t think you can get better than having a loose idea of what the scene is. Like I remember TWO GIRLS AND A GUY, Toback basically was too busy at the OTB to fully write the scenes and we improvised and we were all in a good space and it was really kind of the best of both worlds. But then, sometimes there is a higher order and it goes back to if something is well written and you rehearse it to the point where it goes back to being spontaneous again, it’s really cool. And it also depends if you’ve got a great actress, you can make things seem really natural, interacting with her or him. How did you feel after breaking Halle’s arm? How did I feel? I felt like Oh, God. I felt like I’m so glad that I was sober when it happened or everything on earth would be my fault. You know what? It was just a really weird thing because things had been so tense on the set for days before. You don’t have to injure yourself to be injured. I believe in some method acting, but I don’t know that De Niro
