We were seeing and reading other actors through a period of some months. He so exceeded my hopes for the character. Please talk a little bit about the length of the film. It certainly hasn't hurt the audience that has seen the movie. There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie.
Nobody particularly wants that.
Certainly the studio didn't want that. But I think a film has its own organic need to be whatever length the movie needs to be, whether it's 85 minutes or whether it's three hours. Once we test-screened it for the very first time down in Scottsdale any argument on the part of the studio over length just evaporated, because the audience was riveted to this thing, and with it every moment, which was, let's face it, a great relief to me as well. It proved that I wasn't crazy, that this story that Steve King had written was that compelling. In fact, one of my fond memories of that first screening was that if somebody had to go to the bathroom, they got up and ran.