Ron's a really fantastic actor's director. Howard and did you enjoy working with Tom Hanks? All I can say, it's an odd era we live in. Godfather III didn't get anybody riled up. Is sort of indicative of the era we're living in. Did you ever expect the movie to be such a lightning rod of controversy?
Opus Dei, the secretive conservative arm of the Catholic Church,Īlso has its robes in a knot, as do the Vatican and Christian groups around the world.
I have never referred to him as a monk albino assassin because I imagine people feel very much just like other people, whether they're albino or not. But frankly it's no more a comment on albinos than it is a comment about monks or people who wear sandals. Were you surprised the film earned the wrath of the National It's hard to keep that kind of intensity and energy throughout. I tried to keep the numbers down, and the acting lay in absorbing the pain and building yourself up to hit yourself again, and again. But from then onward, you lose the audience because people get used to it. The first hit is shocking, the second in the same place, is wince-making. You have a choice to do it frantically or more measured, and I thought it would be more interesting to be measured. We've all seen people get whipped in films before. I said to Ron I thought that the acting would exist in the recovery from the hits. We discussed in detail how it's going to be. Require to get the self-flagellating scene? I think he's insane and, at times, it was very pleasant being in his head. I just tried to deal with the damaged part of him that wants a father. In my mind it was kind of taken care of because you're just killing people. How did you prepare to take on the twisted psychology Whipping himself, and shooting and choking people. The reason we didn't go for red is twofold: more often than not, albinism doesn't produce red eyes in human beings and we thought red eyes on the screen would result in people missing a lot of the dialogue because they'd just be going, 'He's got red eyes!' And contacts went in, which were very pale blue. Then she'd put features back into the face and airbrush the whole thing. The makeup artist would then draw in planes and scars. Then a pale makeup on top of that, at which point you're sort of featureless. First they put green makeup on me to knock out all the freckles and the red. I'm pale compared to, say, Antonio Banderas, but it was still a real challenge. The full body was about five hours with three people working on me.
How long did it take each day for makeup to turn you into the ragingĪlbino, who slices and dices his way through Paris, all in the name of Now the 6-foot-3 actor and self-described "fundamental atheist" explains why he said yes to pal Ron Howard when asked to play Silas, a murderous, self-flagellating albino monk, in Paul Bettany is witty and grounded, plays the guitar, lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., still misses London, drinks vodka and quit smoking last year.
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