(July 9th, 2002)
Jude: Friday, that's right.
D: I don't want to mislead people, it opens Friday, not Monday. But it's going to be an enormous hit, don't you think?
J: It's a good film.
D: Yeah. And tell the folks about your part, your character in the film. How would you describe the person, the part, the character, the man you play?
J: He's a... [pauses] he's a photographer... a press photographer who moonlights as an assasin.
D: That's right.
J: Um, and within the film... the film really concentrates on a father and son relationship.
D: Mmm hmm.
J: And with a backdrop of the gangsters of the 1930s, Chicago... and he's really the reminder that without the family, there's no [searches for right word] there's kind of, there's no hook to get out of the, the world of killers. He's a guy without a past, without a family, without parents.
D: But the deal on your character is that he's a photographer and an assasin. But he's an assasin because he likes to take pictures of dead people.
J: That's right.
D: You sort of supply your own work. [laughter]
J: That's right.
D: Yeah, that's creepy, that part.
J: Well, the first time you see him he's taking a picture of what he thinks is a...
D: A corpse...
J: A corpse. Which suddenly starts to move, and he figures no one else is in the room, so he gives him a little helping hand to finish the job off. [laughter]
D: That's right!
J: To make sure the photo works.
D: [laughing] That's right. A consummate professional. Now, I don't remember, you didn't have the beard the last time you were here, you certainly didn't have it in the movie. Is this, uh, are you...
J: I'm about to start a film in Romania, uh, which is actually set in North Carolina... but we're shooting in Romania...
D: Does that make sense at all? [laughter]
J: You know what? I didn't think it did either, but when you get out to Romania, north of the city of Bucharest, there's the most beautiful, untouched countryside for hundreds of miles. And uh, pine forests and orchards, and beautiful streams, and it, it, it works.
D: Mmm hmm, and that couldn't have been done in the United States? You couldn't have achieved that...
J: [sits up taller in seat and smiles] I think it has a little to do with money as well.
D: Oh! So maybe it's a little less expensive?
J: A little less expensive over there.
D: See for some reason I thought that shooting overseas would automatically be more expensive.
J: No, it's cheaper.
