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- What about, let's get back to business,
what about Memento?
Tell me about that,
how'd you get that role?
- Carrie-Ann Moss, when we
got back from Australia,
Carrie and I immediately
were cast opposite each other
in a not known movie really.
I forget the name of it but it was
Carrie-Ann and Nick Moran.
And then Carrie-Ann was
cast first in Memento,
and she called me up and she
said there's a part in there
for you, it's great.
So I reached out to my
agent, and I had a lunch
with Chris Nolan, in LA at a coffee house.
I called my agent I said it
went well but I'm not the guy,
he doesn't want me for this.
And it so happened that
their first choice,
was who they went with
but they couldn't make a deal with him.
Most of the great parts
that I've played was after
it was offered to six or seven guys.
- That didn't hurt you at all?
You know, you didn't
harbor any resentment?
- No, not whatsoever.
The fact that I got the job was fantastic.
And that's happened a lot.
Again, Chris Nolan didn't
want me for this, I think
because he believed that
they would immediately think
that I was the bad guy,
and he didn't want that.
He wanted more of an ambiguous turn.
So when the first actor
said no, I did get the job
and as it turned out, what he was worried
about happening actually it
serviced the part even moreso.
And Chris has offered me
several roles in the past
that I didn't do.
In fact, I think he might
even be upset with me
because I turned down the part in Batman,
which was the bad cop,
that ultimately gets hung
upside down and you know,
they needed me for 10 days
over a 10 week period.
And I really didn't want that part.
And the part I wanted was the
part that Gary Oldman played.
And I thought, you know, I
didn't know he wanted to give it
to Gary Oldman, but I
thought, you know, I'm a cop,
I play cop, you know,
I'm perfect for that.
And, you know, when I was trying to aspire
to something better, you
know, and also to play
such an unimportant role,
when I worked with him as
one of the leads, it was somewhat
embarrassing, and for me.
And I just won an Emmy and I was aspiring,
I wanted to be better than that.
You know, I wanna be a movie star too.
- That's your whole life,
you've always wanted more,
haven't you?
- Yes, more was never enough.
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