I first heard that this was taking place it's it struck me I now see think
inspired partnership at the time I thought it was an unusual partnership
because to make it a very crude distinction I think Aaron Sorkin is
famous as a word guy and you're famous as a as a visual guy you are after all
the guy who directed the London Olympics and and which I thought would have been
funnier I seriously and we can talk about this consumer is really tough in
those big ceremonies humor is really really been given a script with that
much dialogue if you are anything but just know I know I mean and you told me
you told me the other night that there are no the wind in the screenplay that
you're given their no stage did not really there was like this is the first
and this and they're all in Syria day continuous and so it is a provocation is
that because you're basically not trying to direct you just try and I your
writing it and saying he's a team player he has a reputation has been not
difficult to text you know careful about his work
collaborators who can deliver this stuff otherwise you just write a novel you and
just let people but you wanted to be heard and seen and sure I don't know
even if even if I were capable of writing a novel I don't think I am i
power I don't have power subscription I don't think I want to I like what
happens
dialogue on there I've read some of them with which is just literally just
dialogue from the beginning to any June an amazing the way you want it to be
public as we all do that's the business we're in we wanted to be in some sense
share
hadn't heard and criticize them and like all those kind of things as part of our
because I was in the rehearsal room with us for every single moment I mean you
really there was no moment when I don't think he was there when you were smoking
outside of going to eat more bread goods you think I didn't notice you eating I
know you did how did you get involved in the first place
well I had heard I have the story he bought no not at all by the way there's
an extra part that I can you have quite like to know what happened before I came
along by the time so I heard I was in Australia working on a different film
this is just at the end of last year really not very long ago at all
coming to the end of that she knows coming up on got a nice big break in a
busy few years and had a baby and so was coming just looking forward to some
downtime and hair makeup artist who was on that film is a brilliant originally
croatian makeup design and Iran Iraq and I'd worked with her on the reader and a
few other things and we were just chatting as you do and hair and makeup
trailer and she came in one morning all buzzing and shit now in Hostos of shut
the make up for any exciting things happened overnight had an email from
Scott rooted everywhere from Scotland and we did it do that Steve Jobs film
and Danny Boy things quite keen you might fly down for meeting in this kind
of goes on and going wow that's amazing so I think Michael Fassbender is
probably gonna play Steve Jobs been written by Aaron Sorkin I'm going oh my
god this is fantastic
shootin' San Francisco they start in a month it's really fast turnaround this
goes on at a couple of days go by and I said to get the latest installment every
morning in the
the same deal shut the door I get these sort of things going on and then finally
after three or four days of hearing about what's going on with her gay guy
finally say what's it about as she then described how it was constructed in
these three scenes and then I found myself saying what's the girls part
because of course I knew there had to be one and the clutch my shoulders I went
okay and we don't have started cooking up this plaque in the honestly in the
middle of nowhere with no wife in Australia of how somehow we were going
to get somebody to send me the script and so I knew at that point actually
that their part was on offer to somebody else and I just thought I had to leave
it alone
bide my time luckily she turned it down full so I made the most of this of this
this moment and I understand through my hat in the ring and just let it be known
that should they feel like sending the script my way I would be delighted to
have a little look and I'm lucky that they respond in the correct way and sent
me the script that got the picture of you in the wake ok got sent the picture
to me that was my plan
with with no tests just the picture and I thought was that Scott had found an
old picture of a young John Hoffman and I i just wrote back call Scott wrote
back to me do you know who that is and I Robert of course and who wrote back I
don't think you do and I wrote back its Joanna and he wrote back its Kate and I
wrote back that's Cate Blanchett got wind of what you hear one thing actually
after John are the roadrunner Hoffman saw the film she she sent me a very
lovely email saying how much she had enjoyed this and wanting me specifically
to parcel to Michael Fassbender how wonderful it was to see the real steady
and his war and so that's one thing that you know I wish I could never met her
yeah you know it that's for me that's the whole point of why this story our
story is different to previous ones or documentary as you know it does give you
access to a side of Steve Jobs that I think people really didn't know was
there because of how he has been so talk about it being notoriously difficult to
work for perfection is intimidate grand Magus etc but he wasn't he was a father
he was a human being and you wanna the character gives you access to that world
and and Daniel Michael
I spend a lot of time we all spent more time rehearsing every single scene but
focusing a lot on the physicality between the two of them do because we
wanted to make sure that it felt tangible you know we we set to Joanna
said before launching what would happen to have these frantic last five minutes
let's say for example what would happen to him well I mean mostly I couldn't
find him but then when we did you know and I think it would be a high five
hugs always you lots of hugs and so that was kind of a moment then realized that
you know that there were no boundaries between the two of them and actually
that opens up a whole platform for a relationship that can be in a much more
tactile and an unreal and and and I am rooted in you know and love and
affection you seem to be a Tony Award away from receiving the elusive come
back to Broadway if we could look forward to seeing you want
ok you do it I'll be in it and then I'll try when one of those but just when you
thought I would love that the Grammy you would think would be the most elusive I
put away from