We spoke to the actor. Michael Beach Amidst release I will be thereHis new independent film, in which he plays an old friend of the film's heroine, Edie Falco, is a loving, platonic relationship between two middle-aged, good-natured people, a different dynamic from the secrets and lies of his other new project, The perfect couplewhich premiered on Netflix. The series also stars the excellent Liev Schreiber, who has a real, hilarious relationship with Beach. It may not be the same “loving” relationship he had with Falco, but it's a hilarious one.
“Lev was a Yale student, and I was a Juilliard student,” Beach explained. “And when Lev found out, It immediately became like a rivalry, this rivalry in play.Because I don't think it exists anymore. But in the past, [the schools] “We were considered rivals, we didn’t go to school at the same time, I’m a little older than him, but it was funny,” he added.
“It was fun because when we were on set… there was a scene where at the end, you’re not sure what the button is going to be — is it going to be his last line or my last line? Every once in a while, he’d get the button; every once in a while, I’d take the button. And then, when you’d say, ‘Cut,’ Lev would say, ‘
Oh, you got me there, Julliard! I was like, “Oh okay, yeah, I see you, I see you!”
“So, yeah, it was fun.”
big budget The perfect couple In exchange for his new independent song
The perfect couple The film features an all-star cast alongside Juilliard and Yale rivals, including Oscar winner Nicole Kidman. “It was great working with Nicole,” Beach told us. “I mean, she's really good. We had some one-on-one scenes together that were really great. It was a really good experience.” It was a good experience and a bit different, this was a show with a lot of money“.”
Beach Follow:
“And then, when you come back to something like
I will be there
Where the money is tight, but the materials, and again, the people – I work with Edie Falco, you know, and I have Bradley Whitford and Michael Rapaport – [are top tier] “I think in different ways. Because you have Netflix, the king of streaming, and then you have this independent film that you’re going to struggle to find a distributor for, right? You know, the value and the quality and the experience of watching it is still amazing.”
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