There are moments when I’d come over to him and say, “Am I way too big in this thing?” When you question your performance, it’s nice to have an actor’s perspective on it, not only a director. And because of that, he really does understand. I really dig the fact that he is also an actor. And that’s really reassuring when you’re playing someone like Lyle and you’re so far out on a limb. From what was on the set in front of us, to the costumes and makeup, to the whole arc of the narrative, I knew he always had his eye on it. I’m kind of a control freak and a perfectionist myself, so I felt a lot of trust in that. He is obsessed with getting every detail correct. What was it like with Ben Stiller as a director? Not a ton of others are coming to mind, but I don’t think it happens that often. I admire the hell out of Charlize Theron in Monster. When women transform it’s, “Wow, she let herself look that ugly.” They’re always supposed to be gorgeous and glamorous, and when they do something else, it’s brave. Jordan getting ripped for Creed II, but nothing much about when women make these transformations. It's interesting though that people bang on about Christian Bale gaining weight for Dick Cheney or Michael B. I had some good pasta, some beer and some Häagen-Dazs. It was totally key to the part, but I’m not sure I’d want to do it again. By the end of it, it was a costume I was really ready to shed. And then I had to keep the weight on for about seven months. It changes your psyche when you so quickly gain all this weight. You buy different clothes, you walk differently. And the first week it was! But then, your body starts to react and the sweat starts to form and you start to have acid reflux. Lange: You think it would be fun to be able to eat whatever you want. And at the end of the show, he’s one of the only people not dead or in prison, so maybe he knows something we don’t. I think we did a really good job in showing all the positive things about him. I’m sure he’ll have a reaction after the show comes out. When you don’t have to meet the person, it frees you from that judgment. Often when you play someone who is alive, they may or may not be happy with what you think they are. How do you think he will react to your interpretation of him? The writers fleshed him out the rest of the way. You have some license to then round out the character with the parts unknown. He never wanted to meet me, and I respect that. I watched that video a thousand times, I took the audio from the video to listen to in the car, and beyond that, I took some creative license. was really angry at the media for broadcasting what was happening to him and his wife. What we ended up grabbing were the "Austin Powers" teeth. Lange: I went into a makeup store called Cinema Secrets in LA and showed them a video of Lyle and said, “I need to be this guy.” We went to a wall of fake teeth, with all these different options. And in the middle of all of it are these human beings making choices and some of them are horrible, sloppy choices, these are the consequences of these choices. But you still have the family in the background. And then it’s like Shawshank Redemption-it’s about breaking out of a prison. Over FaceTime, Lange discussed how he slipped into character and how he feels the real-life Lyle may react to his skillful portrayal.Įric Lange: What I think is interesting about it, is it's like three small movies: It starts out a prison movie, and you’re in a prison with some tangential stuff to a family outside of prison. for the project, but the media seems more interested in discussing how men gain and lose for award-winning roles. Lange kept the weight on for seven months and even wore fake Austin Powers teeth to get into character as Lyle. Directed by Ben Stiller, it's like Prison Break meets Fargo with a heavy seasoning of tension. Her husband, unawares, just thinks they're growing apart, and he plays the role so purely that you can't help but feel sympathetic toward his Lennie Small-type dweeb. She’s got a crush on inmate Sweat, whom she's boinking in the back of the workroom. for his character, Lyle Mitchell, a bumbling sweetie pie married to Tilly, played by Patricia Arquette.īased on a true story, Escape at Dannemora follows Tilly as she helps a pair of inmates escape a maximum security prison. That's because Lange put on an impressive 40 lbs. You know Eric Lange from his roles on Lost and Narcos, but you might not recognize the 45-year-old actor in Showtime's new prison break potboiler Escape at Dannemora.
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