- "What They Had" is an intergenerational love story
about a family dealing with caregiving
for the matriarch's Alzheimer's and struggling
with what to do with her.
And that sort of prompts a reckoning,
a coming of age, in all of them,
But in particular, the character that Hilary plays,
forcing her to sort of reckon with the decisions
that she's made and the person that that's made her
and is that really the person she is
and wants to be for the future?
It's sort of a falling in love with herself,
that you'd say in a way.
(serious music)
- [Burt] She was trying to go home.
She thought she saw a little girl
and she came for you all like she's stuck here.
- Who's that?
- Aww, what is that?
- You know who that is?
- He's my boyfriend.
- See.
- [Interviewer] How do you feel, like your job
as a movie star, has changed over the years?
- Good question.
- Oh, I'm not a movie star.
Listen, I'm an actor.
My father once told me, "Bob,"
as soon as I did my first picture,
which was Reflections In a Golden Eye,
he said, "You're never going to be able
"to walk into the grocery store again."
And I am still walking into the grocery store,
the 7-Elevens, and all that.
So I don't consider myself a movie star
of any sort, but I have enjoyed my life tremendously.
It's been 52 years of taking shots
and this is maybe the best shot I have ever had.
The material is beautifully written
and I felt very comfortable when I first read it.
This is, no question about it, the best thing
I have ever been in.
- Aww, stop it!
- Oh!
- Oh, it's true, yes.
Listen I felt like I was speaking,
when I read the script.
I am a father.
I'm a father over 200 years,
if you count up the ages of my children.
- You know what it's lonely?
Looking over at the man
you've been married to
for the last 20 years, and thinking,
"He must be feeling the same way I am."
- Love is commitment.
- I don't have what you have.
- You know, it's interesting, like you said,
the idea of being a movie star.
I just, first and foremost, consider myself an actor.
I knew from the age of eight that I wanted to be an actor,
and I realize what a gift that is.
Because I think there are so many different things
that are so exciting that one can be,
but to know what you want to do and to have
that drive and that passion from such a young age,
to tell stories that enrichen your life
and make you think bigger.
I think I've had, in my 29 years of being an actor,
such an incredible opportunities playing people
who have challenged the way we all look at things,
and blow up in our blinders of how we walk in the world.
I just feel really blessed to be doing something
and collaborating with people that make me go deeper,
and be better and as, not just talking as an artist,
but as a human being.
It's incredible to now be 44.
I just turned 44 last month and I'm,
I feel like I still have so much to do
and learn and experience.
I feel like I'm, strangely,
only scratching the surface somehow.
- [Interviewer] Before you guys got into your career
and what you're doing now, think way back.
What was the oddest job you had?
- I would do like transcribing, like listening to things
and trying to transcribe.
I got fired from that job.
They didn't think I was a good enough writer.
Well, here we are.
- Say your words.
- Loser!
- You were turning their words into something better
and they didn't like that.
- Yes. Thank you.
- [Interviewer] We ought to call them now.
- Yeah!
- [Interviewer] Look at you now.
- It's okay, this is good.
- Yeah, yeah.
- They didn't realize what they had.
(laughs)
(clapping)
- [Interviewer] On that note, you guys,
thank you so much for coming back in again.
- Thank you.
- [Interviewer] Congratulations on another festival
and thanks for making time for us.
We really appreciate it.
- Thank you.
- [Interviewer] Great.