The American West is a terrible place and time. Everything out here that is not you
wants to kill you. Angry drunk people, hungry animals, outlaws.
The doctor!
-I couldn't save her. -She had a splinter.
Doc, what the hell were you supposed to do?
First of all, congratulations on playing an amazing, strong empowered woman. What drew
you to want to play Anna?
You know, I think in general for me, it's narrative. I just want to be in good stories.
I don't think I've ever taken a part, a movie because of a part. I think I've always thought
of myself as a lover of storytelling, and whenever I fall in love with a story. It's
however I can through a character service that narrative. That to me is much more important.
I don't know. That seems more important to me.
Bigger picture.
Yeah, I want to make movies that I want to go and see, and I don't necessarily want to
make only just characters. Who goes to see a character? You go and see a movie.
That's true. Unless it's a Tom Cruise film.
Oh, okay. I didn't know that.
It's all about him. So this film cannot be accused of shying away from certain things.
It's got swearing. It's got sex noises. It's got flowers going in places. When you read
the script, did that naughty element kind of attract you?
Yeah, I mean, I think if you know Seth's work, you kind of know what to expect, so it wasn't
kind of from left field. I think he kind of comes with a certain brand, and he stays true
to it, and it's a brand that I am a huge fan of.
Please don't shoot us on sex night.
You beat this guy at a gun fight, you're going to be a real hero.
He's the most vicious gunfighter in the territory.
I'm going to teach you how to shoot.
And he credited you with kind of getting him through this, his first big acting part. He
said you were amazing. Did you guys get quite tight?
He's just such a gentleman. It's not true. There's nothing about him that to me felt
like a first timer on this, and I think it made me realise that when you create a character,
just because it's not on screen, doesn't necessarily mean that it's anything different than when
you are on screen. So if anything, he's had way more experience than I have, and working
with him was just really easy and effortless, and he's just really talented, really talented.
He seems like a genuinely nice person.
Yes. He is really salt of the Earth. He's really lovely, yeah.
He told me on this, the temperatures got off the scale boiling. How do you and Amanda Seyfried
still look amazing throughout?
Well, we had a little bit of that, and then we had really cold and then we had hail and
then we had monsoon. We had roads washing away, and we had incredible wind and stuff
like that. We had a little bit of everything. It was quite biblical.
Maybe the frontier's not so bad after all.
Hey, it's the sweet young couple. Can I interest you folks in a miracle cure?
And I quite like that you and Seth have a modern romance. It feels quite funny in a
different era. If Charlize Theron had to exist in a different era, where do you think you
would fit in best?
I mean, I've always just had a secret love affair with either the 20s or the 70s. I don't
know why. Like that kind of Al Caponey, when booze was illegal. And the 70s just because
I think it's my favourite film era. I just love movies from the 70s.
Can you tell me a bit about working with Amanda? Because I completely love her. She's amazing.
She's fantastic. The whole cast is really, really great. She's just lovely. She's one
of those girls that just like you can have a bad day and walk up to her, and she's just
going to change it.
And it seems like it was quite a lovely set, but was there one part in particular that
was quite difficult or something you found quite challenging?
You know, I think the material was challenging just in the sense that it was written very
well, and there were very long scenes. And you kind of really had to come prepared, and
also you want to kind of try different elements and different avenues and so that was really
beautifully challenging creatively I think for all of us. And then just being in that
environment was just really nice, you know. It was a really easy go lucky set to be around
and animals and great actors, and it was just really great.
And very quickly before I go, what is your favourite line from the film?
I can't say it. It's really that disturbing. Yeah, that's how disturbing it is. I did it
the other day, and the person just went, "That your favourite line?" So I decided I can't
say it anymore.
Can you say it with beeps?
No, I can't say it anymore. I learned my lesson once. I'm not doing it again. Don't make me
do it!
You're behaving. Okay, that's fine. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you.