Was Bob Yari (producer and distributor of the film) involved very early on in the process?
Fergus: No, he was involved more to the tail end. We had a bunch of other scenarios, which I’d forgotten. People came and people went, and it was getting exciting, but you’d also get exhausting because it would get exciting and then not happening. He came in sort of a year and a half before it started going forward. He was totally cool with me. I gave him my sales pitch about myself and then it was just a matter of finding the actor and putting it all together, which was a million planets having to line up. It’s a miracle that anything gets made. I’m just amazed by it. CS: I thought that Guy Pearce was pretty amazing in this, so how did you know he could pull off such a character and how did you connect with him in terms of getting him your script? Fergus: He was always someone on your dream list or wish list, I’d never seen him do anything quite like this before, but I think he’s capable of anything, especially this year, he’s done “Factory Girl” and this and “The Proposition” and the
