The Hollywood Reporter is unveiling the actors roundtable in the latest episode of Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter. The program hosted by Yvonne Orji is set to air on SundanceTV and features Andrew Scott of 'All of Us Strangers,' Colman Domingo of 'Rustin,' Jeffrey Wright of 'American Fiction,' Mark Ruffalo of 'Poor Things,' Paul Giamatti of 'The Holdovers' and Robert Downey Jr. of 'Oppenheimer' who all join THR's Scott Fienberg at the table.
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00:00 If I wasn't an actor, I would be doing hard time.
00:03 The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable is about to drop,
00:09 and we're giving you a special preview.
00:11 The latest episode of our signature Roundtable series, Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter,
00:16 features Coleman Domingo of Rustin, Robert Downey Jr. of Oppenheimer,
00:20 Paul Giamatti of The Holdovers, Mark Ruffalo of Poor Things,
00:23 Andrew Scott of All of Us Strangers, and Jeffrey Wright of American Fiction.
00:27 The thing that I have come to value above all other things in this stuff that we do,
00:34 and it's the collaboration. It's the people that I have the opportunity to do it with.
00:40 All the time where I wasn't sort of more, what's the word, I suppose recognizable,
00:44 I never felt like I was failing, really. I was always just so delighted to be working.
00:50 And then I suppose when you get a bit more choice, I never really think that I was winning.
00:57 You have your dreams, and then those start to become realized, but they're not what you
01:02 thought it was going to be. At some point, it gets away from you.
01:08 During the hour-long sit-down moderated by THR's Scott Feinberg,
01:11 the actors cover everything from their latest film projects...
01:14 For me, it was the story of this man who's all of a sudden burdened with the responsibilities of
01:21 family. You guys have talked about how these things affect... My mom passed not too long
01:27 before I got that script. And so it was the caretaking. Honestly, there's those roles that
01:35 I don't know if we wish for, but we hope for, that we were able to give everything.
01:41 And I know that I've given everything in the 32 years that I've been in this industry,
01:46 from regional theaters to off-Broadway to writing to directing, you name it, it's in this film.
01:50 ...to their most notable and favorite roles.
01:53 Because there was no real surety that this was even going to take off, Iron Man was like a
01:58 second-tier hero, they kind of let the lunatics run the asylum for a little while. And so it was
02:05 a completely in-indie approach to a genre movie to begin with. That was the strange fulfillment
02:11 of a deep dream. Seriously?
02:13 To be an orangutan, to be an ape in Planet of the Apes.
02:16 It was.
02:17 Was. If that had been it for me, I would die happy.
02:20 Well, this is where I'm kind of going.
02:21 I couldn't believe I was going to be able to play a talking orangutan.
02:24 And my agents were like, "Don't you want to be a human so they can see your face?"
02:28 And I was like, "If you tell them I want to be a human, I'm going to burn the agency."
02:32 Off-Script with The Hollywood Reporter brings the film industry's top creatives together for
02:37 inspiring and surprising conversations. Check out the full Actors Roundtable when it drops
02:42 on THR.com and YouTube.com/HollywoodReporter on Thursday, January 11.
02:47 And for all the latest Roundtable conversation
02:50 and awards season coverage, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.