![]() If he feels, ‘Yeah, I’ve done some other stuff, too, you should check it out.’ He’s very nice by all accounts. You'd have to ask Pierce Brosnan if he feels that way about James Bond. If that’s a trap or it feels like a prison for people to just bring up this thing, this character you played a long time ago, that you’ve tried to transcend. At first they may not like the association but over time they usually come around. It’s what you aspire to, which is to make things that aren’t disposable.ĪP: It reminds me of when an actor is still known for a particular role years later. I used to wonder when I was younger and I would meet someone established who was older than myself, whether it was appropriate or smart to bring up some of their work from earlier, or whether or not they would feel like, ‘Well, why are you talking about the thing that I just did instead of that thing that I did 25 years ago?’ Being on the other end of it, I think it’s fantastic. SODERBERGH: I feel great when that happens. What does it feel like to have a piece of work that inspires think pieces on anniversaries? “Out of Sight” was released 25 years ago. I just hope it’s here for a long time.ĪP: Speaking of nostalgia. For all I know, this is creating more interest in TCM, just the fact that it’s being talked about. I hope this last round of engagement with David Zaslav and Spielberg and Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson is legitimately good news and means that TCM is going to continue to do what it’s been doing so well for so long. SODERBERGH: I say this as somebody who doesn’t indulge in nostalgia, but I think that channel/platform really represents an important part of our visual culture and it would be a real loss for that to go away, obviously, or to be turned into something less thoughtful than it currently is. I don’t know, every time I say this, I get attacked for not taking it seriously enough but I'm not afraid of it.ĪP: Have you been following the TCM developments with its layoffs? I’m curious to see if this will have that much of an impact on how people actually do their work. It's early but digital image capture technology is and was seismic. Arguably it might end up being less transformative than some other pieces of technology that we’re using now in the entertainment industry. What it came back with made it clear to me, ’Oh, you don’t really get Harold Pinter.' It’s just another piece of tech. Now combine it with a bison.' ‘Show me a car that’s a combination of a turtle and a DeLorean.’ I did an experiment with it where I said, ‘Write something in the style of Harold Pinter. It’s good for things like, ‘Show me a creature that’s a combination of an ant and a dolphin. And I think the creative community will very quickly figure out what the best ways to use it are but I’m not afraid of it. It has severe limitations as an iterative tool. You know what I mean? Like, it doesn’t know what it means to pretend to like a meal that somebody made. It doesn’t know what it means to wait - like I did yesterday - for 10 hours for your canceled flight to be rescheduled and rebook it. But ultimately, there’s an immutable limit to what it can do, because it literally has no experience. I have a drawer hidden away where I have one physical copy of anything that I’ve done and it goes up to a certain point and then stops.ĪP: You're an early adopter of technology in your work like filming with an iPhone. I very rarely buy discs now for that reason. You go onto iTunes and you look at a movie, they’ve got all the stuff that would be on the DVD. Even in the best case scenario of a film that is well-known, successful and comes out on DVD with extras, the numbers just aren’t great. ![]() ![]() With content being removed from streamers, do you think DVDs might make a comeback? The situation required the actors to adapt to changes and be fluid, which Soderbergh says the cast could handle, with clear communication.ĪP: You've done some re-edits of your work and released those as limited-edition box sets. We worked on the script after we stopped shooting and then did some more shooting." ![]() We were working on the script as we were shooting. “We were constantly working on the script up until we were shooting. It's a story with “a lot going on, especially in the first two episodes but it’s going to land you in a very different place than where you started. “It makes one demand on the viewer, which is that you pay attention,” said Soderbergh. It's a story about the fallout from a botched kidnapping - planned out of revenge - and the secrets that caused it. This is not a show you can have on in the background.ĭebuting Thursday, “Full Circle” features a large ensemble including Claire Danes, Dennis Quaid, Jharrel Jerome and Zazie Beetz. Tuning in to Steven Soderbergh's new MAX series “Full Circle,” you may want to put your phone or tablet down and have the time to focus. ![]()
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