How much is he programmed to be like other bartenders? The limits of what that relationship can be push him towards doing certain other things. But obviously the problem is that I’m an android, and although he thinks he’s found another person to talk to, he hasn’t. Well given that it’s a story of a man alone in this place, when he meets me I become someone he can talk to. So how would you describe your role? Is it a robot third wheel? Yeah, he can only exist behind the bar so he won’t be going anywhere else… we think. My consciousness as the character includes that machine now! Even the movements, and it moves very fast, become part of how I physically deal with the character, to make it look like I’ve not been bumping around. You symbiotically incorporate everything in a scene into your character, so I am now part-machine. For instance in that last take I didn’t actually have to be in the machine, I could stand. But even though it’s not the most comfortable thing, it actually becomes part of the character.
But then they were like, ‘now you have to sit in this machine for every scene you’re in in the film’. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I would have to do that. How difficult was it to get you into this contraption you kneel on?Īh well, I think you should all have a go on it! It’s an interesting thing. So that’s interesting to come into scenes and play with that.
So the complexities of the relationship between them is totally new for him. There’s something quite childlike about him, and he’s never had to just deal with one person for a long time, rather than thousands for a short time. So then the fun of it is to play around with the idea that he is learning as the film goes on. Well I think you have to assume that if they can make this spaceship (gestures to the luxury space liner set all around us) that they can make a robot that’s pretty convincing. What did you decide on how robotic he was? Just playing around with the idea of what constitutes a robot at this point in the future? How robotic is he? How human is he? How does that work? It’s like when you’re playing a vampire or a Nazi, you’re aware that you’re taking your place in the cinematic tradition of those characters so just the role itself brings certain kinds of baggage to it, and the fun of it is that the audience is also bringing that baggage too, so you can play around with that a little bit.
ROBOT BARTENDER MOVIE ANDROID
But I suppose with something like this you’re aware that there are precedents for it, the idea of an English accented android on a spaceship so there’s a riff on that obviously.
I’m pretty good at that now! So you have to get that right. So for instance today I’ve just been making a Manhattan, over and over and over and over again. Well there’s the obvious thing that’s there’s his job as a bartender, so I have to be able to do that.
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