Matthew participated in a panel about ‘The Offer’ as part of the Television Critics Association virtual winter event on 1st February.
? MrWillWong.com
Matthew Goode tells us about playing Producer Robert Evans.
Goode: “I would suggest that Bob Evans was pretty well known. I found it quite terrifying when Dexter and Nikki gave me the job. I felt a lot better when I was doing my scenes with Marlon Brando (Justin Chambers). That actually gave me a lot of comfort. I was like, ‘I’m up against him, but let’s see what you’ve got pal!’. There’s an awful lot you can find on the internet. As Bob himself said, ‘There’s always your version, the other person’s version and then the truth.’. Even just the foreword of his book by Peter Bart, there’s a really interesting idea to play a character we don’t really know much about, which I thought Josh (Zuckerman) did brilliantly. Even in the foreword it gives you quite a bit of information. I found out a lot by talking to people in Hollywood and they’d go, ‘Hey, he used to go to the same hairdresser as me, this, that and the other…’. All the stories, considering there’s a lot of contentious stuff about his history, most of these people would say ‘He was the nicest, he was the kindest, he was the most generous’, and perhaps his downfall was due to his more angel side than his darker side.”.
From MrWillWong.com
Alex Zalben from ‘Decider’ also tweeted from the session:-
Matthew Goode didn't understand why they wanted him to play Bob Evans in THE OFFER, given he didn't look anything like him. Happily, lockdown gave him the opportunity to really study Evans and get a sense of his character. #TCA22
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) February 1, 2022
Dexter Fletcher responds to the idea of whether everyone is doing impressions on the show, saying that Matthew Goode isn't doing an impression of Bob Evans. "It's about getting the essence of a person." #TCA22
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) February 1, 2022
Matthew Goode talks about Bob Evans' eyeglasses, calling them "iconic." Juno Temple had a friend who bought a real pair of Bob Evans' glasses that had "bite marks, all up and down the arms." Goode took advantage of that, and will bite glasses in moments of stress #TCA22
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) February 1, 2022