![]() I learned how to, I tried to, I mean I didn’t learn how to sing but I tried to get as good a voice as I could because I’m not one of nature’s singers. For “Fiddler on the Roof,” it’s singing lessons or dancing lessons. You just do the work that’s required in the script you know. So how do you prepare, which you’ve probably have answered this question, how do you prepare for a role such as Doc Ock versus a role such as Tevye on Broadway? I was so terrified of not working so I always kind of, a job came up and I would always say yeah I’ll do it. I mean my big thing was never being out of work. It looks kind of chaotic to me but I kept busy. And when I look back now, forty years as an actor, I look back now and there is a kind of crazy quilt of a career. I’ve never had a game plan, I never kind of worked things out like, by the time I’m thirty, I want to be doing this or by the time I’m forty I want to be doing that. So as jobs came up, I just said yes, I was free. You know, my criteria is always to kind of keep busy you know. All I do is I just try and work as much as I can. I think that the answer to that, I think other people have gotten to that one. So it was hard work but it wasn’t in any way punishing, it was kind of exciting.įew actors I would say, that have had such great success in so many acting forms but you’ve had success in film, TV, on stage, in drama, in musicals. “Raiders” was state of the art in 1979, 1981, but 2003, 2002 we were doing “Spider-man,” that was a completely different beast and it was so big that you just had to kind of surrender to it. I mean I thought “Raiders” was a big movie but in comparison to, by the time “Spider-man” came along, the technology had improved. I’ve never done a film that was quite so big. But, and the physicality was kind of, you know, it was, I was into it. Well it was kind of a bit of a gift really because it meant that I was having to kind of work on different levels all the time and it was well-written and there was plenty to think about in terms of the character and the fact that he became a villain almost reluctantly. How did you get into a character that would be so physical but also have such a depth of emotion? So you’ve done several action films including “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” but you’ve also played one of the most iconic villains in Doc Ock from “Spider-man 2.” Now I understand that was a very physical role for you to play. There were so many iconic lines throughout that film. A wonderful thing for me because it was my first movie so to be involved first time ever with such a hit was fantastic. I don’t think anybody really, I mean, it was a successful film but the way it became this incredible sort of blockbuster, I mean it practically invented the blockbuster formula, you know, the franchise and so on. I don’t think anyone really understood how iconic a movie it would become because I actually remember in the middle of shooting, having a conversation with Steven Spielberg when he was talking about sitting on a beach with George Lucas and talking about this movie he was about to shoot called “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and seriously wondering whether he made a terrible mistake. I was as green as cabbage…And I just turned up and I was learning on the job and no one really knew. I actually didn’t know anything about preparing for roles. The truth is that was my first movie and I’d never done a movie. So the first one’s about “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and how did it feel preparing for that role not knowing what an iconic film it would eventually become? I’m here with the great Alfred Molina and I have a couple questions that I’m sure you’ve heard a million times before but if I don’t ask them my editor will kill me and so will my children. ![]() ![]() So this is Jim Land with Irish Film Critic. ![]() Molina and talk to him about his acting career which included “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Spider-Man 2.”Īre you recording here with all this noise? The legendary Alfred Molina was in town recently as the USA Film Festival paid tribute to the man who has been in the industry for over forty years.
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