11/20/2023 0 Comments Alfred molina raiders lost ark![]() ![]() It was a very comfortable couch, I might add. It’s my problem.” We actually got on very well, even though I was sleeping on the couch. In fact, the lady who had taken over my room very sweetly offered to move out and I said, “No, this isn’t your problem. Towards the end of that academic year, I decided to move in I was there until we graduated and then I didn’t have a job, so I went back to live with my mother for about six months but by then, she had rented out my room, so I was living at my mother’s house but sleeping on the couch. My first year at college in London, I was still living at home with my mother. No, the only time I had to do that was when I was a student, and it was almost through choice rather than necessity. ![]() Have you ever been forced to live on someone’s couch or bounce between places to live like George and Ben? I did an interview a few weeks ago and someone suggested that the movie could almost be a dissertation on the state of New York real estate, which is a narrow way of looking at it, but there is an element of accuracy to that. The Normal Heart is dealing with an issue that was so difficult and frightening at the time, and still has a resonance in terms of how things have improved but how things are still bad in many parts of the world. It’s certainly different than seeing you in The Normal Heart and how emotionally devastating that was. Ira Sachs’s Love Is Strange Attains a Strange State of Grace It’s a film about people rather than issues. It manages to touch on those things without becoming too much of a diatribe or polemic. But ultimately, it’s a film about a relationship and it could have been about any relationship, really. Marriage equality, the equality of rights for all citizens, these are cutting-edge issues and the movie is timely. ![]() It will hit home for a lot of people having to deal with the crappy nature of New York real estate as well as the issues with the Catholic Church and its treatment of gay people. When you work on these kinds of films, these low-budget movies, you’re not getting paid in money but you’re getting paid in what Kenneth Branagh calls “gold of another kind,” which is the sense that everybody working on this really wants to be there. But it was a wonderful experience because it was like this little repertory company making this film. We weren’t living high on the hog - we were changing in people’s bathrooms. We didn’t have the peripheral perks you’d have on a big film, no trailers or anything like that. It’s a low-budget movie so we were making do. We shot in various apartments in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. We shot quite a bit in Brooklyn, around Park Slope, Prospect Park. Where in the city did you film Love Is Strange? We caught up with Molina - who’s also starring in the new El Rey television series Matador as a soccer team owner with terrorist ties - during a visit to New York to discuss the film, couch-hopping, his knack for playing villains, his pet peeves about binge-watching TV shows, and his brief but memorable role as Indiana Jones’ foe. The gorgeously understated film tackles some hot-button issues, but focuses on the loving and sometimes strained relationships between the characters, played flawlessly by longtime friends Molina and Lithgow. George moves downstairs with two gay cops who love fantasy epics and parties, while Lithgow’s character Ben relocates to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, his novelist wife (played by Marisa Tomei), and their teen son. Thanks to soaring real estate prices, taxes, and co-op rules, the men are forced to sell their Manhattan apartment and separate temporarily while they find a new place to live. The veteran actors play a gay couple in New York City who, after decades together, finally get married, only for Molina’s character George, a Catholic school music teacher, to get fired because of his sexuality. Octopus, the Sister Christian–loving drug dealer in Boogie Nights, the guide who double-crosses Indiana Jones in the opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark - his role as a husband to John Lithgow in Ira Sachs’ new film Love Is Strange could easily make the most lasting impression. While moviegoers might best remember Alfred Molina’s most dastardly roles - Dr. ![]()
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