You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. I love doing it and it's not hard for me because I'm really like good at it. You say that acting isn't hard, so what keeps you engaged?įREEMAN: I say that it's not hard. So when he comes in and says, 'I had to take lessons and learn a lot from Morgan.' Say no you didn't. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that and he's good at that. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. I don't think that anyone learns anything. You're going to talk to Jet in a bit and he'll say that he learned a lot working with me, but I reject that. He's a huge star in China and has been for many, many years. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.Ĭan you talk about working with Jet Li and whether you were a fan of his beforehand?įREEMAN: Yeah. ![]() But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.įREEMAN: It was money. The blind don't act any different than you or I. Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. ![]() I put that to Luc and gave him a couple of three weeks to think about it and make sure that that didn't change his concept and he came back and said, 'Good idea.'įREEMAN: No. Blind singers, blind musicians they have that ear. I'm sure that I played on the fact to that Ray Charles had perfect pitch and often the blind can have that. So this whole sensitivity to other people, there was that and then of course he's a piano tuner and so that would help a lot. They blind don't have that sort of thing. They're not deciding to make judgments right now based on what they see. So I needed something temperate and it occurred to me that if he was blind, and well it didn't occur to me, but it now occurs to me that if he were blind the blind are not visually judgmental. But the answer that I'll make up because I've been asked this question is that I thought the character, I didn't think it, Iįelt it, but I thought that the character was too perfect. ![]() So the follow up to that of course is why? Right? I'm getting smarter at this. We've heard that it was your idea to be blind in this movie?įREEMAN: Yes. So you just say, 'Thank you, and everyone gets it and so that's pretty much what I did. I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people. They did it.' So that's as far as I went. They said, 'And the Oscar goes to…' and they said my name and I remember saying to my wife, 'I'll be damned. Wink or scratch your nose.' So you people doing all of this kind of stuff like in baseball trying to talk to everyone. All of your friends have said, 'Do something so that I know. ![]() Can you talk about what Oscar night was like?įREEMAN: You're sitting there and there's a camera on you and so you're really conscious of yourself because there are like, what, however many billions of people watching you're butt.
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