"Hi, how are you? Justin, good to meet you. Thanks for coming in."
"So, I mean, the
question of whether Koresh was crazy, or whether he was just this conman and had
a whole group of people conned, do you think that he really believed, truly, in
what he was saying?"
"The biggest struggle I had was was the why, you know?
If I'm gonna play anybody,
let alone someone like this and how enigmatic this cat is.
You have to try and marry yourself emotionally to him, and his belief system
and everything else that goes with that, you know? And there's some things that I
just can't comprehend, you know? I don't understand the Book of Revelation, and the
Seven Seals, and the end times, and the multiple wives and the young kids. I
think like, he grew up with no sense of control, no sense of like, self or purpose,
really. When that abuse kind of went all the way until he moved away at
14, you know, and you memorized the Bible by 17 and then you create this
environment, that you have absolute control over. I just want to
show as much as I can of who he was, because he was more than what was
sensationalized during the... obviously. I'm really proud of that, you
know, that look and there's a shot, that very infamous video, where he's sent it
to the FBI, 'You come to my door with guns and all this, dammit I'll meet you at
the door any time.'"
"So 1993, and you were, you were 12. Yeah, so what was your
awareness of that story then?"
"I think it is just seeing the last visuals of the
compound up in flames, and I don't even know if I'm making that
up. Like, I do remember that, and not having any comprehension of what was
really, where Waco was, where Texas was. I was in my, you know, small town in
Canada."
"I also wonder whether you can really understand his followers, because
it's easy to say, these are stupid uneducated people, they didn't know
better. But, so what is that about"
"Thibodeau's book, and not to plug it, but it's, it
helped. Because his book asked these questions that I had too, of like why
would you go on a bus to Waco, live with no running water, no AC. You're like in
the middle of nowhere, on an anthill. I came to the conclusion of just, purpose.
You know, it's huge for me and I think it's a lot of millions and millions of
people every day kind of struggle to find that.
You want to wake up to something, and that's what Dave gave you."
"One of the interesting things about the story and about the the miniseries is, it's about
this cult, it's about Koresh, but it's also about the FBI. It's also about government,
and the question of incompetence and this handling, and to
this day there's still kind of an open question about whose fault is
it. Do you have an opinion on that, like what really happened?" "I do. I mean, it's
just like, I think, you know, Dave was answering to God, and they were answering
to their bosses, as well in Capitol Hill, you know?" "There's something that feels
really trenchant about it, not that the country necessarily full of cults, but
there's a sense that the entire government is incompetent, number one,
and number two there's so much paranoia, there's so much cultural division.
There's people kind of retreating to their corners, so I wonder if that if that
was something that was on your mind?" "It's definitely relevant, you know, 25
years later. I think we know what they want us to know, a lot, a lot of
the time. And that was no different 25 years ago." "So, you learned guitar?" "I did, yeah.
I play one to four hours a day now. My Martin acoustic is my baby. Yeah, I
love it." "So..." "Are you gonna pull a guitar out right now?"
"No no no, and sing a song for us now!" "So I'm learning, really close to 'The
Weary Kind,' picking that one out, and 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Shit, what's that Johnny Cash one... 'When a Man Comes Around.' It's pretty easy,
but it sounds so fun. And I saw Springsteen last night."
"Oh cool, you saw the Broadway show?"
"Yeah." "Would you say he's your number one
favorite artist, or..." "Of all time, yeah, top three. Freddie Mercury, for me, was awesome.
But, I mean, I still love like Johnny Cash and
those guys. Sturgill Simpson, right now and... David Gray, Metallica."
"So I have
to ask you, I know everyone bothers you about 'Friday Night Lights,' and this
kind of that the legend follows you." "Like a movie or something?" "Yeah."
"I'll never do one, ever." "How come?" "We left it perfectly, in my humble opinion.
I'm 36 now, I don't want to play Riggins grown up. That wouldn't be
scary for me at all." "Right, and this way scary." "Oh my god, yeah.
I almost pulled out a month and a half before." "Oh, let's talk about
that, you almost pulled out, how come?" "Yeah, just, I think I was too deep. You spend
eight hours a day in this thousand square foot apartment in Austin, and
playing guitar, reading about this tragedy every single day, it just started
to really weigh on me. I had no outlet, and I was just probably scared
shitless and panicked." "Yeah. And you weren't eating..." "Didn't get sleep that day and
just,w as vulnerable, and was like, 'Hey, I want to know the process of the
repercussions if I pull out right now, because I don't know if this is a
story I want to tell.'
"Okay, I don't want to tire you out anymore but that was awesome."
"All good, good questions by the way. Thank you."
"Thank you so much."
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