The Good News, Bad News No Country
An interview with star Tommy Lee Jones.
Categories: Westerns
By: Henry Cabot Beck 01/02/2008
Was it ever like that?
No.
Maybe for some people who had come out of the war, a Depression, those pictures made things easier to bear.
Yeah. Sure enough.
I was talking to Garret Dillahunt—[who plays Deputy Wendell in the film.]
What a good young actor! A good young man too.
He was telling me that Javier Bardem was asked to have an accent for the part of Chigurh, and that the accent couldn’t be Spanish. Since Bardem is from Spain and doesn’t speak much English, it was daunting for him.
I don’t know how tough it was. You can’t tell if anything’s tough for Javier because he makes everything [look] easy. He wound up with some kind of accent—he could have been a Spaniard or a Serb. What the part called for was some kind of nondescript slight foreign accent. I think his work is impeccable and he did just the right thing with the accent. And I don’t think that Javier would be inclined to speak to degrees of difficulty. But I can’t imagine Javier being intimidated by anything.
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super super movie..much more engrossing than the original..kinda like it has been fleshed out and filled in..keeps you on the edge of your chair...