People Always Ask Me What

If It Was A Biopic About Glenn Greenwald, I Would Have Immersed Myself More Fully In His Personal Life And Gotten To Know Him As Much As I Could, But Because It Was Much More About His Relationship To This Particular Situation, To The Guardian, To Laura Poitras, And To Ewen Macaskill, And Edward Snowden, I Was Able To Really Learn A Lot About Him From Reading His Book And Reading His Many Articles And Accounts Of That Time.

I Feel Like That [the Role In Star Trek] Is A Prime Example Of, Yeah, I Got That Role And It Was Awesome, Because It Changed A Lot For Me Professionally, But Then Creatively, It Became A Whole Other Thing, With J.j. [abrams] And Chris [pine] And The People I Got To Know. Now I Just Feel Like It's Our Jobs To Be Open And To Keep Moving Stuff Forward. I Don't Know What That Means. This Is The First Time In A Long Time That I Have No Idea What's Happening Next. As Scary As That Is, And As Anxiety-provoking As That Can Still Be, It's Also Really Exciting.

While We Were Shooting The Movie, We Shot In The Actual Hotel In Hong Kong Where It All Went Down, The Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras Was Coming To Hong Kong To Do A Screening Of Citizenfour, And She Ended Up Staying At The Mira Hotel. It Was Her First Time Back In Hong Kong, And I Ran Into Her In The Elevator. Literally I Had Just Finished Shooting One Day, And I Came Back To The Hotel And She Was In The Elevator.

There Was No Other Concern; There Was No Other Focus [in The Governor's School]. It Was Simply There To Learn And Grow And Perform, And That Was Pretty Amazing And Informative. I'd Say That Was A Big Pivotal Moment For Me.

I Was Aware Of It But I Think I Was Aware Of It Abstractly, Theoretically. You Know I Understood Who Edward Snowden Was And What He Did But I Didn't Really See The Relevance That It Bore In My Life And Doing Film Changed That Tune Pretty Quick.