![]() He”s looking for some sort of male symbol of what he wants to be.” He”s also in a place where he”s looking for a father. You know, I think it”s not a wholly conscious thing. “And maybe there”s some money there as well. “I think he sees two very beautiful people that are adventurous and something is different than the other tourists,” Isaac says. In the early moments of the film, Rydal could walk away from Chester and Colette at any moment, but Isaac says it's that spark that gets him sucked in. ![]() He notes, “I thought that was a great little piece of information for an actor to play with.” Isaac says one of his biggest inspirations for the character was a line from the book, which - paraphrasing - is that Rydal would scan every person that walked by him and see if there was an adventure in their eyes. At least this is someone who is aspiring to be what Chester is or Chester is a warning of what he could become. “I thought that was an interesting choice on Hossein”s part because it further illustrates how similar, these two sides of one coin. “He's not skimming money off tourists,” Isaac says. In the book, Rydal is not a small time operator and is closer to Chester's level of corruption. None of that modern day conflict seeps its way into the film, but fans of Highsmith's novel should know there are some notable changes. I got back to the hotel and found that a lot of the workers from the hotel were out front picketing and on strike. In fact, at one point after shooting from set and suddenly there was this huge cloud of tear gas coming towards me, and then a line of protestors running the opposite direction. There was a lot of strikes happening as well. And so it was a little bit of an intense environment. And clashes between protestors and the police. “That was pretty wild because at the same time that we were shooting there were riots going on,” he recalls. Isaac says the visit was certainly memorable, but not as a vacation spot. You'd assume they were in the city for weeks, but it turns out they crammed in a tremendous amount in only two days. A good chunk of the film takes place in Athens (one scene has Rydal acting as tour guide at the Parthenon). As you'd expect, it is very picturesque, having filmed on location in Crete, Istanbul and London. “Two Faces” isn't necessarily a tearjerker, but it features strong performances across the board, a wonderfully dark Highsmith storyline, beautiful cinematography and classically tempered direction by Amini that suits the material. So I think it”s OK, because, you know, your judgment”s a little bit impaired.” “But, you know, I think every movie that I watch on a plane - no matter what it is - I cry. “This is the first time that I”ve done a movie where it”s on a plane before it actually premieres ,” Isaac jokes. It's a slightly unusual release pattern for an English language production (although “Snowpiercer” is a contemporary example of the same extended release schedule) and Isaac finds it somewhat humorous. In fact, this pundit first saw the movie on a plane back to the states over the summer. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February to positive reviews and by June had already opened in major markets such as Germany, France and the UK. But Chester and Colette (Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst) are not what they seem and soon pull Rydal into their web of deceit and troubles. An expatriate pretty much getting by as a small time con man, Rydal's world changes after he meets an intriguing married American couple visiting Greece in the middle of a long European vacation. At this exact moment, however, Isaac is taking a few hours after a long day of shooting “Episode VII” to discuss a film he's quite proud of, Hossein Amini's “The Two Faces of January.”Īn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel, “Two Faces” finds Isaac playing Rydal, a twentysomething living in 1962 Athens, Greece. The cast has another few weeks of filming, but Isaac is taking a well deserved four day vacation before moving on to his next project, David Simon's HBO mini-series “Show Me A Hero.” Somewhere during that production Isaac will fit in press and, likely, some awards season events for his December thriller “A Most Violent Year.” So anyone who was afraid Hollywood wouldn't find ways to utilize the “Inside Llewyn Davis” star needn't have worried. Heads up everyone: Oscar Isaac's last day shooting “Star Wars: Episode VII” is this Friday, Sept.
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