The British actor on Quentin Tarantino, coping with grief and working with female talent like Dutch director Désirée Nosbusch and her debut film Poison
The British actor on Quentin Tarantino, coping with grief and working with female talent like Dutch director Désirée Nosbusch and her debut film Poisonwave of British cinema of the 1980s. Alongside Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Daniel Day-Lewis, he was part of a corps dubbed the Brit Pack by the now-defunct Face magazine in 1986.
“It was raw cinema, but it was also quite blokeish,” Roth says. “I remember very clearly talking about this because we were all lefty types. And what seemed on the surface to be a very male-dominated world had all these incredible women producers behind it. Margaret Matheson, in particular, was extraordinary. She was the producer of the first thing I did – Made in Britain – and then went on to run Central Television for a while.
“The script, when it arrived, was very powerful, even though it still had a theatrical quality to it, which we worked through when we were preparing. I was completely taken with it. My only worry was: who am I going to be playing off? Then I met Trine – and she’s one of the funniest people and as tough as they come. She has such a spark. It was a fantastic experience.”
“We discussed what the film was about and what he thought about me doing it and all those things,” Roth says. “We would talk sometimes when I was filming. It was a brief shoot, about six or seven weeks. I was in and out, so I could be back with him. It was difficult at times. The subject matter felt close to me. But it felt important. And at that time we were feeling a real positivity about him getting through. In a way he helped me make it. And he wanted me to do it.
“Those are all things that appeal to me. Everyone has to start somewhere. It never bothers me in the slightest if someone is directing their first film or they are not on my radar. All I care about is if they are good or not. I worked with James Gray on his first film. I worked with Quentin.” “Twenty pages into Reservoir Dogs I knew he was a rare talent,” Roth says. “Twenty pages in and I was reaching for the phone. The dialogue was extraordinary. He had done all your improvisation for you in the script. We didn’t know what was going to happen. Me and Quentin were counting the walkouts in cinemas. But the reaction was mind-blowing.”
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