I Lived In Several Hotels,

I Lived In Several Hotels, Yeah. You Have To Try To Make It Home.

I Took Movement Classes That I Wore My Double-breasted Suits To. I Worked On My Elocution Because People Spoke Differently Then. I Was Really Trying To Toe The Line. I Think That If I Had Spoken Exactly The Way That People Spoke Back Then, It Probably Would Have Alienated People.

When You Really Put Your Heart And Soul Into Something, The Temptation Is To Try To Be In Control Of Circumstances, However You Can, And Looking And Seeing How People Are Responding.

What Is Ultimately Motivating The Character?

I Very Comprehensively Studied Irving Thalberg And His Biographies. He's Who [scott] Fitzgerald Roughly Modeled The Character After. He Worked For Him, As A Writer, When He Was At Mgm. And, Of Course, I Revisited The Novel And The Politics Of Mgm And The Studio System At The Time And Familiarized Myself With The World. There Was A Great Deal Of Physical And Literary Work That Went Into It.