Post by domenicaflor on Jun 30, 2004 10:21:30 GMT -5
Here's an article which was run yesterday in The Australia Daily Telegraph. However, it is unclear to me if the interview was recent or not, given D'Onofrio's statement about 3 more years of LOCI.
I'm sorry to see D'Onofrio feeling trapped ("velvet prison", "golden handcuffs") but I am glad to see that he does get some satisfaction from playing the role of Bobby Goren.
Domenica
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Sign of the crimes
30 JUN 2004
By Eleanor Sprawson, The Daily Telegraph
STANLEY Kubrick may have given him his big break but Vincent D'Onofrio has mixed feelings about his success.
If at times it seems that Law and Order: Criminal Intent's Detective Bobby Goren is going mad, there is very good reason for it.
The actor whose hand-waving, stammering portrayal of the character has weirded out the nation, is trying to stay sane.
"If I get bored, then it's death," says Vincent D'Onofrio, who has been playing Goren since 2001.
"It's a really hard thing to sustain. To stay interested and interesting you have to constantly reinvent and reinvent, create and create, put variation upon variation."
For this rather exhausting method of working, D'Onofrio blames legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick established the Brooklyn-born actor's whole career by giving D'Onofrio his first-ever film role.
D'Onofrio had only worked in theatre when Kubrick cast him without ever having met him as the scene-stealing Private Gomer Pyle in his 1987 anti-war classic Full Metal Jacket (being screened on Sunday as part of SBS's Kubrick retrospective).
"Oh, I was so scared," he recalls.
"But it was thrilling at the same time. I mean he was this icon.
"And there was so much going on. It was my first film, I had to put on weight, like about 60lb (about 27kg), and I had to learn how to march and use a rifle, so it was really scary."
Kubrick's method of directing was to leave it up to the actor. If a character wasn't working, he wouldn't suggest a different way of tackling the role. He'd just sack you.
"I never knew if I was pulling it off or not. I knew that I didn't get fired, but that was all," he says.
D'Onofrio turned up at the film's premiere when it was released with very low expectations.
"I had just thought we were shooting a lot of stuff and I knew that my part was only about 30 minutes of the film - but I didn't think it was going to be the whole 30 minutes. I thought it would be mostly Matthew (co-star Matthew Modine).
"So it was confirmation for me. I remember thinking 'Wow, he really must have dug what I did. He kept it in'."
Kubrick was also responsible for setting up the actor's very intense, very internal, style of acting.
"It did change me," D'Onofrio says. "I expect a lot from myself, you know. But Stanley did it for me, in film. Ever since he cast me in that part, he set my whole career up. I haven't stopped working since."
D'Onofrio has very mixed feelings about the role in Criminal Intent.
Playing Goren has fixed him in the public's mind after years as a character actor.
"I didn't expect it to be so popular," he groans. "So I have to be careful.
It could be a velvet prison. At its worst it's like I'm in golden handcuffs. But at its best it's just straight-out fun.
"But three years from now, it's going to be over and I'll never go back. Right now though, it's as it's as interesting as hell, you know. He's this bizarre character. And he's going to keep changing."
* Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Sunday, Ten, 8.30pm.
Full Metal Jacket, Sunday, SBS, 9.30pm
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I'm sorry to see D'Onofrio feeling trapped ("velvet prison", "golden handcuffs") but I am glad to see that he does get some satisfaction from playing the role of Bobby Goren.
Domenica
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Sign of the crimes
30 JUN 2004
By Eleanor Sprawson, The Daily Telegraph
STANLEY Kubrick may have given him his big break but Vincent D'Onofrio has mixed feelings about his success.
If at times it seems that Law and Order: Criminal Intent's Detective Bobby Goren is going mad, there is very good reason for it.
The actor whose hand-waving, stammering portrayal of the character has weirded out the nation, is trying to stay sane.
"If I get bored, then it's death," says Vincent D'Onofrio, who has been playing Goren since 2001.
"It's a really hard thing to sustain. To stay interested and interesting you have to constantly reinvent and reinvent, create and create, put variation upon variation."
For this rather exhausting method of working, D'Onofrio blames legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick established the Brooklyn-born actor's whole career by giving D'Onofrio his first-ever film role.
D'Onofrio had only worked in theatre when Kubrick cast him without ever having met him as the scene-stealing Private Gomer Pyle in his 1987 anti-war classic Full Metal Jacket (being screened on Sunday as part of SBS's Kubrick retrospective).
"Oh, I was so scared," he recalls.
"But it was thrilling at the same time. I mean he was this icon.
"And there was so much going on. It was my first film, I had to put on weight, like about 60lb (about 27kg), and I had to learn how to march and use a rifle, so it was really scary."
Kubrick's method of directing was to leave it up to the actor. If a character wasn't working, he wouldn't suggest a different way of tackling the role. He'd just sack you.
"I never knew if I was pulling it off or not. I knew that I didn't get fired, but that was all," he says.
D'Onofrio turned up at the film's premiere when it was released with very low expectations.
"I had just thought we were shooting a lot of stuff and I knew that my part was only about 30 minutes of the film - but I didn't think it was going to be the whole 30 minutes. I thought it would be mostly Matthew (co-star Matthew Modine).
"So it was confirmation for me. I remember thinking 'Wow, he really must have dug what I did. He kept it in'."
Kubrick was also responsible for setting up the actor's very intense, very internal, style of acting.
"It did change me," D'Onofrio says. "I expect a lot from myself, you know. But Stanley did it for me, in film. Ever since he cast me in that part, he set my whole career up. I haven't stopped working since."
D'Onofrio has very mixed feelings about the role in Criminal Intent.
Playing Goren has fixed him in the public's mind after years as a character actor.
"I didn't expect it to be so popular," he groans. "So I have to be careful.
It could be a velvet prison. At its worst it's like I'm in golden handcuffs. But at its best it's just straight-out fun.
"But three years from now, it's going to be over and I'll never go back. Right now though, it's as it's as interesting as hell, you know. He's this bizarre character. And he's going to keep changing."
* Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Sunday, Ten, 8.30pm.
Full Metal Jacket, Sunday, SBS, 9.30pm
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I love this show, and this show won't work without him.