Congratulations on becoming a father! But we have to say we never imagined you as a dad.
Well, it’s definitely my greatest achievement. I now feel connected to something a lot bigger than me. And it’s beautiful. I’m born to be a father, really! I’ve been looking forward to this all my life. And unlike my character in Brokeback, I’m very expressive, and in touch with love. And my girls.
Yes, we hear you‘re spending a lot of time being a helpful hubby.
Yeah, happily! What else am I gonna do? After the birthing process, I realized how stupid and weak men are. I might as well not have been in there, I was that useless! So now I’m at home doing dishes.
You and Michelle play a couple that’s drifting apart in the movie, but you were falling in love in real life. How strange was that?
If anything, it just made it all the more interesting. I think it would have been boring if we were falling in love on screen. It would have been easy and obvious. We were working against the odds! What happened between us was out of our control. It was just something very beautiful and deep.
Although you marry Michelle’s character, I’s Jack (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who you really fall in love with. Jake said kissing you was a very ‘exfoliating’ experience.
Um… yeah. I mean, it was certainly…. Rough!
Ang Lee said your concern about getting intimate with Jake made your performances more real.
Yeah. He’s right. I was a virgin to the situation, like my character was. So I kind of just used that. I was like, why hide it, when this is what it should be?