Nolan's Batman Begins Star Filmed All His Scenes in Just 7 Days
It is common knowledge that some renowned directors are hard to work with – for example, Sean Penn once recalled that communicating with Oliver Stone on set was like "talking to a pig" while Stanley Kubrick reportedly made Tom Cruise walk through a door 95 times to achieve the perfect take for Eyes Wide Shut.
Christopher Nolan seems to be quite the opposite as Linus Roache has recently revealed in his interview with Coming Soon.
Roache inhabited the character of Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins, and he says that the seven days that he spent working with Nolan were just great.
"The most important thing for me though, as an actor, was working with Christopher Nolan and appreciating how somebody can deal with a mega-budget — like huge moving parts, massive amounts of responsibility — but when it came to your shot, all he cared about was you in that moment," Roache recalled.
The actor described his time on set as "magical".
"Without saying it, he just made you feel like that's all that mattered," Roache revealed, adding that such an approach required truly amazing talent.
Roache said that he spent just seven days on set with Nolan, but these seven days seem to have won him more "recognition or acknowledgment" than many other things he have ever done during his career. Back then the actor did not realize how significant Nolan's Batman will be and what kind of legacy it will leave behind for generations to come.
The Thomas Wayne actor is not the only one to praise Nolan for being a great person to work with. Guy Pierce once shared his memories of what it was like to star in Nolan's movie.
'Wow, I'm really working with someone who's fantastic.' Not just because of how clever he was, and how honest and humble he was, but how communicative he was about what he wanted to achieve," he said of shooting Memento.
"I will take this to my grave, Chris is unique. A very special human being. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life," the actor said in his interview with Empire, stressing that he worked with great pros such as Ridley Scott, Kathryn Bigelow and Curtis Hanson who he described as "fantastic and wonderful people".
Cillian Murphy, who starred in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, Inception, Dunkirk and the Batman trilogy, has also said that working with the director is something special.
In his interview with The Guardian, he said that he would "always turn up for Chris" no matter how bit the offered role is.
Murphy told the outlet that he was happy there're still directors out there who are capable of making "challenging, demanding films within the studio system, shot on film rather than Imax".
The Peaky Blinders star compared Nolan with "fantastic" Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino, saying that Nolan "is flying the flag" for the industry.