VENICE: 'The Master' Press Conference; Cruise & Anderson Still Friends

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by Matt Mueller
September 2, 2012 10:56 AM
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'The Master'

On Dodd's attraction to Quell, Hoffman referred to the two men as "wild beasts... One of them has tamed it somehow and is trying to teach other people how to do that. But he just wants to be wild like Freddie is and there's this real attraction there.” Hoffman also got the biggest laugh of the afternoon when claiming that he thinks most people dream of indulging their basest impulses. "I think we wake up every morning going, 'Fuck, why can't I run naked through the streets of Venice and just eat shit? Why can't I do that and have it be okay? Is it possible I can have sex with everyone I see today? I know I can't but I wish that was possible.'"

Anderson wrote the script for "The Master" with both actors in mind for their roles, and was especially delighted that Phoenix finally said yes to him: "I've asked him to be in just about every other movie I've done and he'd said no because it's a little bit of a pain in the ass… But he said yes this time. And thank god he did."

The conference wrapped with an amusing anecdote about the porcelain toilet that Phoenix shatters in a sequence where Dodd and Quell end up in adjoining jail cells. Smiled Anderson: "I'm not fucking joking about this... That was a historic toilet because it's in a San Pedro jail cell which is a historic monument and when they heard that we broke their toilet seat, they were really pissed off. We could only shoot that scene once."

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