She recognizes the actor's face but can't place his name. William Sadler, one of the most familiar character actors in Hollywood, says he gets that a lot. I've never worked with these kind of special effects. Now I get it a lot more, mostly from teen-agers. He had a very successful, steady film career going.
People go back and forth all the time.
Not so, Sadler says. For a recent scene, Sadler's character is literally disappearing, thanks to the enemy aliens among them, and he's trying to tell his son that he loves him. In one take, Sadler nails the emotional scene with his TV son, Nick Wechsler. I can remember whole days spent on getting one scene perfect. You had the luxury of time to get it right,'' he says.