{"id":1577006,"date":"2026-01-17T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1577006"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:22:46","slug":"dwayne-johnson-michael-b-jordan-and-the-actor-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/dwayne-johnson-michael-b-jordan-and-the-actor-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan and the Actor Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe seven men who gathered for THR\u2018s Oscar season Actors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/roundtable\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roundtable_1\" data-tag=\"roundtable\">Roundtable<\/a> \u2014 Frankenstein\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jacob-elordi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacob-elordi_1\" data-tag=\"jacob-elordi\">Jacob Elordi<\/a>, The Life of Chuck\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mark-hamill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mark-hamill_1\" data-tag=\"mark-hamill\">Mark Hamill<\/a>, The Smashing Machine\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dwayne-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwayne-johnson_1\" data-tag=\"dwayne-johnson\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a>, Sinners\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/michael-b-jordan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-b-jordan_1\" data-tag=\"michael-b-jordan\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a>, The Secret Agent\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wagner-moura\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wagner-moura_1\" data-tag=\"wagner-moura\">Wagner Moura<\/a>, Jay Kelly\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-sandler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-sandler_1\" data-tag=\"adam-sandler\">Adam Sandler<\/a> and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jeremy-allen-white\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeremy-allen-white_1\" data-tag=\"jeremy-allen-white\">Jeremy Allen White<\/a> \u2014 don\u2019t share very much in common.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1cov_actors_RT_Hi_res-2025.jpg?w=336\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"435\" width=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFive are American (Hamill, Johnson, Jordan, Sandler and White), one is Australian (Elordi) and one is Brazilian (Moura). Their ages span from 20s (Elordi, 28) to 70s (Hamill, 74). Some shot to fame on TV (Elordi on Euphoria, Jordan on The Wire, Moura on Narcos, Sandler on Saturday Night Live and White on Shameless), another in movies (Hamill via a little film called Star Wars) and still another in, of all things, wrestling (Johnson).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut as they sat down together at The Sun Rose West Hollywood in mid-November amid a wave of mutual admiration \u2014 \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to meet you,\u201d gushed Johnson, one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars, to Hamill, whom he first \u201cencountered\u201d decades ago as Luke Skywalker \u2014 they all shared two things: (1) Each gave a career-best performance in a 2025 film, and (2) None has ever received so much as an Oscar nomination. For at least some of them, the latter will soon change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Dwayne, nobody before you had made the jump from pro wrestling to A-list movie stardom. Was a pivot to acting always planned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>DWAYNE JOHNSON <\/strong>I think it was planned by something more powerful than me, but also, I wanted to grow and to challenge myself, and transitioning into Hollywood was something that I definitely wanted. With my first movie, The Mummy Returns, we were shooting in the Sahara Desert, and I was so sick \u2014 I went over there and probably ate something that I shouldn\u2019t have \u2014\u00a0and it was 110 degrees, but I was freezing and wearing a blanket. Stephen Sommers, the director, comes over, \u201cYou okay?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cYeah!\u201d I\u2019d never acted before. He calls \u201cAction!\u201d We have our scene. And when he said, \u201cCut!\u201d I went, \u201cThis is what I want to do for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Dwayne Johnson styled by Ilaria\u202fUrbinati; Dolce &amp; Gabbana suit; Falconeri sweater; Maor necklace; David Yurman ring; IWC watch; Tod\u2019s loafers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Michael, when you were 19 years old, you came out to L.A. to try to break into movies, but there wasn\u2019t any interest from the agencies. How did you get past that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MICHAEL B. JORDAN<\/strong> At that age, you take rejection personally \u2014 I did, anyway, and used it as a healthy chip on my shoulder to motivate myself to continue to work hard and stay locked in. But also, it fortified this belief that, \u201cWhat\u2019s for me is for me,\u201d you know? I didn\u2019t know exactly where I was going to end up, but I was on the right path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Mark, how did you wind up in L.A. at 17?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MARK HAMILL <\/strong>My dad was in the Navy, so we were constantly moving \u2014 I went to nine schools in 12 years \u2014 and the last place we got transferred to was Yokohama, Japan. I graduated from Yo High and then came to Hollywood. I\u2019d known for as long as I can remember, \u201cThat\u2019s the business I want to be in.\u201d I\u2019d seen the black-and-white King Kong, and I didn\u2019t know how they made dinosaurs come to life, but I wanted to be in the business where you make dinosaurs come to life. I figured early on, \u201cIf it turns out that I\u2019m not a good actor, I can cater. I don\u2019t have to be in the show. I want to be near the show.\u201d But I was very lucky. By the end of the year I got here, I had an agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Adam, you started doing stand-up while you were a student at NYU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ADAM SANDLER<\/strong> I did stand-up and then got on SNL, and I wanted to do what Eddie Murphy did, and started doing movies too. In the back of my head, I was like, \u201cIt\u2019d be fun to do a serious movie someday\u201d \u2014 my grandma used to say, \u201cYou\u2019re the next James Caan!\u201d And then Paul [Thomas Anderson] wrote Punch-Drunk Love for me and kind of invited me into this world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Adam Sandler styled by Jeanne\u202fYang; Brioni suit, polo, belt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Wagner, you were very successful in Brazil before becoming internationally known via <\/strong><strong>Narcos<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WAGNER MOURA<\/strong> Narcos was a big thing \u2014 everywhere I\u2019d go in the world, people would go, \u201cPablo Escobar!\u201d But I never wanted to come here and \u201ctry Hollywood.\u201d What makes me different and maybe special for films is the fact that I\u2019m not from here. I never understood actors who would try to lose their accents. I\u2019ll never be like, say, Jeremy \u2014 I\u2019m a Brazilian actor and I represent a bunch of people who live here in this country and speak with accents. But when I started coming here, people would ask, \u201cWould you be able to play this character with a standard American accent?\u201d And I was like, \u201cNo.\u201d First because I\u2019m not able to (laughs), but second because I thought that\u2019s kind of wrong. I\u2019m a Brazilian actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Jeremy, you were going to be a dancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JEREMY ALLEN WHITE <\/strong>I transferred into a middle school that specialized in performing arts and joined the dance program there, but I didn\u2019t think the teacher was taking dance seriously enough, so I joined the drama program. There was a wonderful teacher there, John McEnany, and he took things very seriously. I liked that as a 12-year-old \u2014 it felt fun to commit myself to something in such a serious way. I then went to a performing arts high school. I thought my life was going to be in New York doing theater and a Law &amp; Order every once in a while to pay the rent. But I got really lucky. I auditioned for this show [Shameless] with Bill Macy for Showtime, a John Wells show, and moved to L.A. when I was 18, right out of high school, and had this 11-year training camp with great actors and great writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>We have a sports injury to thank for Jacob being here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JACOB ELORDI <\/strong>I did Seussical, the musical,when I was 13, as a way to deal with rambunctious behavior \u2014\u00a0they put me into this thing \u2014 and then I realized acting was a way you could find some kind of peace. Where I grew up in Australia, you weren\u2019t really a person unless you played sports, so I did that and enjoyed it enough. But then I broke my back when I was 16 \u2014 we were lifting weights too early \u2014 and I remember laying on the floor and kind of laughing because I\u2019d been doing rehearsals for a play at school at the same time, and the rugby coach and I had just had a conversation about me needing to choose one or the other. I was kind of like Troy Bolton in High School Musical. (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Wagner, 20 years after meeting someone at the Cannes Film Festival, that same person wrote for you and directed you in the part of a lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MOURA <\/strong>I met Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho in Cannes when I was there with Lower City, a Brazilian film, and he was there as a critic. We hit it off, and then I went back to Brazil and saw that he was directing short films, and those were great. Then in 2012, I saw his feature Neighboring Sounds and said, \u201cThis is one of the greatest Brazilian films ever! I have to work with this guy!\u201d But it took a long time. What really brought us together was politics. Brazil from 2018 to 2022 was in a very bad moment, and whoever was vocal against what was going on suffered consequences. We both were. I myself directed a film about a guy who was the leader of the armed struggle in Brazil, a film called Marighella, which premiered in Berlin in 2019, but was censored in Brazil. And Kleber faced that too. We got together and were like, \u201cHow can we react to what\u2019s going on here?\u201d And then The Secret Agent [which is set in the \u201970s but speaks to recent Brazilian history, too] happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Wagner Moura styled by Ilaria Urbinati; Thom Sweeney suit, shirt; IWC watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Jacob, you were off playing a POW in the limited series <\/strong><strong>The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/strong><strong> when Andrew Garfield dropped out of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s <\/strong><strong>Frankenstein<\/strong><strong> just nine weeks before it was to shoot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>I was in the middle of shooting these death camp sequences when I heard about it, but when Guillermo sends you something, you need to respond immediately. I read it and talked to Guillermo, and then there were six excruciating days when I had to keep shooting and didn\u2019t hear back from him. I like what Michael said about, \u201cWhat\u2019s yours is yours and what\u2019s not is not.\u201d But this was the first time that after reading a screenplay, I was like, \u201cNo, this has to be mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Jacob Elordi styled by Wendi\u202f&amp;\u202fNicole; Bottega Veneta suit, shirt; Cartier jewelry, watch; Celine shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Dwayne, you were the highest-grossing actor in the world in 2013, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. You\u2019re the fifth-highest-grossing actor of all time. The 40 films in which you\u2019ve starred have collectively taken in slightly less than $14 billion worldwide, or an average of $349.7 million. And within the past year, you had two movies open at No. 1 at the box office in the same month, something no other actor or actress had achieved in 27 years. But for a number of years, you\u2019ve felt frustrated with your career. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>(Sheepishly) Lunch is on me, boys. (Laughs.) I\u2019ve had a lucky career. But I reached a point seven or eight years ago where I had this little voice behind my rib cage. I think we all have it \u2014 sometimes it whispers to us, and sometimes it\u2019s really resounding \u2014 and that voice for me was asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s more?\u201d I\u2019m obsessed with the idea of trying. Yes, \u201cWhat\u2019s yours is yours, what\u2019s not yours is not yours,\u201d but also, I believe in setting an intention and taking a step toward the thing that you want because the universe has this way of meeting you halfway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JORDAN <\/strong>Correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>The big movies are fun to do. They\u2019re hard work, and when they hit, it\u2019s great \u2014 a lot of people around the world like \u2019em. But I had this obsession to do something for me. I started asking myself, \u201cAm I living my dream, or mine plus a lot of other people\u2019s and entities\u2019 around me?\u201d I met Mark Kerr in the late \u201990s as he was becoming \u201cthe Smashing Machine,\u201d and I saw his [2002] documentary [of the same name] and thought it was really moving. Here was this guy who looked invincible, and in many ways was, but at the same time he was broken inside. I let that be my guiding light creatively, and it allowed me to tap into an artistry I was looking for \u2014 to challenge myself: \u201cOh, there\u2019s the cliff? We don\u2019t know what\u2019s on the other side? Let\u2019s fucking jump!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Jeremy, Bruce Springsteen had never cooperated with a narrative film about his life before he authorized Scott Cooper to make one, and they both wanted you to star. Take us into how you processed that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE <\/strong>There are some actors who feel like they can do anything, that they can show up and figure it out. I wanted to make sure I was the right guy. The odds seemed stacked against me. I mean, Scott wanted me to do all the singing in it, but I\u2019d never sung before. He wanted me to play the guitar for it, but I\u2019d never played the guitar before. And we had just six months to prepare. I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know if that can be done.\u201d So I took a couple of days. But then it was that thing of, \u201cAm I going to shy away from this challenge or am I going to jump and see what happens?\u201d It was a leap of faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>Jeremy, did you feel \u2014 because I felt this on The Smashing Machine \u2014 added pressure inhabiting the skin of one of the greatest ever?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE <\/strong>For sure. One of the greatest ever, and also, people have their own understanding of Bruce Springsteen, and I felt like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to interrupt that understanding.\u201d It\u2019s so pure and powerful, and he\u2019s adored, and I just didn\u2019t want to mess with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Jeremy Allen White styled by Jamie Mizrahi; Louis Vuitton jacket, jeans and boots; vintage tee; Lizzie Mandler ring; Allen\u2019s bracelet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JORDAN <\/strong>Did you find it helpful that you had the resource directly at your disposal, to kind of pull from him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE <\/strong>In the beginning, I spent a lot of time with Bruce \u2014 he was very gracious and generous with his time. But then he was on set almost every day, which was something that we did not speak about prior. And I was just like, \u201cOh, nooo.\u201d (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>I saw pictures of that and felt for you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>I get vicarious flop sweat just thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>Did you ever feel like you could have an argument with him and say, \u201cI don\u2019t think he would do it that way?\u201d (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>For three of you, your 2025 films were reunions with filmmakers you\u2019d worked with before. Michael, you\u2019ve starred in every one of Ryan Coogler\u2019s features going back to <\/strong><strong>Fruitvale Station<\/strong><strong> and through the <\/strong><strong>Creed<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>Black Panther<\/strong><strong> films. I assume that reteaming brings an added level of comfort?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JORDAN <\/strong>There\u2019s definitely a shorthand that you develop that is extremely important. But also, Sinners is the first movie I\u2019ve done since directing for the first time [2023\u2019s Creed III], so I had a new set of eyes on set, trying to spot ways that I could be helpful to Ryan. And he\u2019s helpful to me \u2014 he knows me very well and knew that this one was outside of my comfort zone but thought it was a challenge that I needed and knew that I was looking for a challenge. The fact that he wanted me to play twins \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>That\u2019s a crazy cliff, man. You were so good, brother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JORDAN <\/strong>Thank you, man. That comfortability between me and Ryan \u2014 being able to talk through things and push each other \u2014 brought the best out of me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Michael B. Jordan styled by Jason Bolden; Todd Snyder suit, shirt, tie; David Yurman jewelry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Mark, ever since the first <\/strong><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><strong> trilogy, you\u2019ve gravitated toward things that allowed you to show other sides of yourself, including collaborating with Mike Flanagan on the 2023 limited series <\/strong><strong>The Fall of the House of Usher<\/strong><strong> and now this film. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>When you do something well in Hollywood, they want you to do that over and over again because it\u2019s a proven entity. I went to Broadway because I knew that there were open auditions. It wasn\u2019t like they were saying, \u201cPlease come here and do theater!\u201d When I got into voiceover, I thought, \u201cWhere has this been all my life?\u201d Because they cast with their ears, not their eyes, and you\u2019re able to play parts you\u2019d never get in a million years if you were on camera. And I got really spoiled \u2014 I got to the point where I thought, \u201cI don\u2019t care if I ever do on-camera again.\u201d But I was a fan of Mike\u2019s before he contacted me for The Fall of the House of Usher \u2014 he has these wonderful ensembles, and I love ensembles because the weight of the picture\u2019s not on your shoulders \u2014 and we just clicked. The second time he called me, he said, \u201cI have something you might be interested in that\u2019s based on a Stephen King novella.\u201d Based on Mike\u2019s reputation and Stephen King\u2019s, I was expecting the supernatural epic of all time, but The Life of Chuck is a life-affirming portrait of a young man at four different stages of his life. I was knocked out by it. If it weren\u2019t for Mike, I think I\u2019d still just be doing voiceover because the older you get, the less you care \u2014 this is something you all have to look forward to! (Laughs.) I shouldn\u2019t put it that way. You do care, but you don\u2019t sweat the small stuff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Mark Hamill styled by Michael\u202fFisher; Brooks Brothers suit, shirt, belt, socks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhotographed by Beau Grealy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Adam, Noah Baumbach said he wrote the part of movie star Jay Kelly\u2019s sweet manager for you because the character reminds him of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>SANDLER<\/strong> I became very friendly with Noah after The Meyerowitz Stories. I love him. He\u2019s funny as hell, a meticulous director, very thoughtful, wants you to get it right, gives you time to get it right \u2014 he\u2019s not moving on until everyone\u2019s happy. He\u2019s a great man. Then he told me he was writing another movie for me, out of nowhere. He for some reason thinks I\u2019m a wonderful guy. I\u2019m like, \u201cI\u2019ll take it, man. I can be a good guy.\u201d He doesn\u2019t see the sickness \u2014 or he chooses to ignore it! (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>It\u2019s a beautiful performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>And really the heart and soul of the film because the toll Jay Kelly takes on your character is tragic, he just takes you for granted. It made me think, \u201cHave I treated my people the way they should be treated?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>I watched it with my manager. We were both crying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Adam, you\u2019ve said that with <\/strong><strong>Hustle<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>Jay Kelly<\/strong><strong>, part of the draw for you was getting to play a character who cares so much about someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>SANDLER <\/strong>It feels good to be on the set and be that person. And then, even when you go home at night, you\u2019re going, \u201cI\u2019ve got to be a little bit more like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON<\/strong> That\u2019s the beauty, I think, of what we do. It forces us to look at ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Several people here spent a significant amount of time in a makeup trailer for their 2025 film. I\u2019d love to hear how it shaped your performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>It gave me the freedom to be completely expressive. There were things that I could do in that makeup that I\u2019d never get away with in a regular film. When I spoke to Guillermo the first time, he said, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a prosthetics process. It\u2019s going to be the sacrament. It needs to be holy. It\u2019s, \u2018The Father, Son and Holy Spirit,\u2019 and then you step into the church. The time that it takes is what you need to become this thing that\u2019s other.\u201d When the Creature is newborn, from head to toe was about 10 hours. When he has clothes on, it was five hours. If you could have 10 hours every day to get ready for the day, it would be the greatest blessing. You learn the screenplay inside out, and then you can put it down and spend another three hours thinking about it, and then not thinking about it. And then all of a sudden, you look up in the mirror and you are gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>I didn\u2019t have five or 10 hours. We were four hours every day in the makeup chair \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>Only four hours! (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>But to Jacob\u2019s point, it does allow for this absorption of the role, of the screenplay, of what\u2019s happening. I\u2019d look up every 30 minutes and something would be different. And by the time I walked out of the trailer, I was Mark Kerr. The first day I walked on set, the air changed. You felt it. There was a version of Mark Kerr that could have required six or seven hours, a complete transformation. I was prepared to go that route. Benny [Safdie, the director] said, \u201cDo you feel like you\u2019ll discover something about yourself playing this role?\u201d I said, \u201cWe haven\u2019t even shot a frame of film yet, and I feel like I\u2019ve already discovered a lot about myself.\u201d And he goes, \u201cIf that\u2019s the case, I\u2019m going to make sure I can see your eyes and still see Dwayne in there somewhere. When you discover stuff about yourself, I want to feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>The soul of the character is there, but I see yours as well, which is the fucking greatest part about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MOURA<\/strong> Because you\u2019re not Mark Kerr. It\u2019s the way you see him. That was very well thought out. You have to be there too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>When on your 2025 film did you feel most in danger of failing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE <\/strong> Every day. I don\u2019t think I ever feel totally certain on any job, but for this one, I never felt as if I was on real firm ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>SANDLER <\/strong>When you see in the script that your character is crying out of control, you go, \u201cFuck, man.\u201d I don\u2019t get excited for those. In real life, I think I\u2019ve cried once \u2014 I\u2019m just not a guy who cries a lot. But there were like three or four of those in this movie. The week before I\u2019d go, \u201cFucking Wednesday\u2019s going to suck. I\u2019m going to let everybody down. How the fuck am I going to cry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>The final scene of Frankenstein is meant to be full, operatic emotion, forgiving the father. I thought we\u2019d shoot it at the end. But much earlier than that, Guillermo said, \u201cTomorrow we\u2019re going to do the forgiveness scene. The set is ready.\u201d This was going to be the first time I\u2019d acted with Oscar [Isaac, who plays the Creature\u2019s creator]. I hadn\u2019t figured out how to emote as this thing. And I didn\u2019t know what the voice was yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>No pressure! (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>I was like, \u201cIf I think about this, I\u2019m not going to go to work tomorrow; I\u2019m going to be in the hospital or something. I\u2019m going to freak out.\u201d So I just didn\u2019t think about it, and then I just did it. If I\u2019d obsessed over it for the next eight weeks, it would have been a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MOURA<\/strong> Sometimes I feel like we don\u2019t need the amount of preparation that we all think we need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE<\/strong> It\u2019s just to make us feel better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MOURA<\/strong> Sometimes, just show up and do it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI<\/strong> I think it\u2019s because it\u2019s an intangible thing, whatever it is that we do, so you have to pretend that there is a business structure to it. Like, \u201cI did this from nine to three, so I must be good to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Which of your lines is most often quoted back to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>WHITE <\/strong>\u201cYes, Chef.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>SANDLER <\/strong>I hear \u201cJackass\u201d a lot. I forget it\u2019s from Happy Gilmore, so people scream \u201cJackass\u201d at me, and I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat the fuck?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON<\/strong> It would have to be \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome\u201d [the song he sings in Moana].<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MOURA <\/strong>\u201cPlata o plomo?\u201d [A Spanish line from Narcos that translates to \u201cSilver or lead?\u201d]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>ELORDI <\/strong>I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever had a line quoted back to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHNSON <\/strong>I predict it will be, \u201cI will make you bleed\u201d [from Frankenstein].<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>HAMILL <\/strong>Mine is, \u201cMay the Schwartz be with you.\u201d Thanks, Mel Brooks! (Laughs.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAn abbreviated version of this story appeared in the Jan. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscriptions.hollywoodreporter.com\/site\/thr-subscribe\">Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hollywoodreporter.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<em> \u2018O artigo anterior pode incluir informa\u00e7\u00f5es divulgadas por terceiros\u2019<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Alguns detalhes deste artigo foram extra\u00eddos da seguinte fonte celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven men who gathered for THR\u2018s Oscar season Actors Roundtable \u2014 Frankenstein\u2019s Jacob Elordi, The Life of Chuck\u2019s Mark Hamill, The Smashing Machine\u2019s Dwayne Johnson, Sinners\u2019 Michael B. Jordan, The Secret Agent\u2019s Wagner Moura, Jay Kelly\u2019s Adam Sandler and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere\u2019s Jeremy Allen White \u2014 don\u2019t share very much in common. 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