Particularly [alfred] Hitchcock, Who Takes His Time

The Script For 'infamous' Was So Poised Between Tragedy And Comedy. It's A Dream Part. One Reads Those Scripts With A Sense Of Melancholia. When You Read A Script That Good I Remember Thinking, 'oh, This Script Is Too Good. They'll Never Give It To Me.'

Hitchcock Is A Big Ask. I Am Playing Someone Significantly Older Than Me And Someone Significantly Bigger Than Me. The Stuff I Find Very Interesting Is Why Certain Physical Things Have Come About. How Can He Be Light On His Feet When He Is So Big? How Can His Weight Vary So Much? Where Does This Rather Beautiful Voice Come From?

I Went To Meet Joe Johnston, The Director, And He's Charming. I've Been Very Lucky. Most Of The Directors I've Worked With Are Charming. But Joe's A Particularly Charming Man, And He Showed Me Lots Of Designs And, Rather Memorably, Welcomed Me To The Marvel Universe.

If You Ever Have The Good Fortune To Meet Tippi Hedren, She's An Amazing Woman. You Can't Quite Believe She Is The Age She Is.

But I Think The Children Of Actors Share A Certain Pragmatic Approach. One Is Denied Some Of That 'running Away With The Circus' Element Of Being An Actor.