{"id":179634,"date":"2023-12-13T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/?p=179634"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:29:36","slug":"paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-pleasure-playing-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/actors-on-acting\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-pleasure-playing-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Giamatti Reflects on &#8216;The Holdovers&#8217; and the Pleasure of Playing a Character \u201cPleased with His Own Intelligence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-356x200.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/paul-giamatti-the-holdovers-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s what an actor&#8217;s purpose is\u2026 make the director&#8217;s life easy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/paul-giamatti\"><strong>Paul Giamatti<\/strong><\/a> said recently at a press conference to talk about his new film, <strong>Alexander Payne<\/strong>\u2019s <em>The Holdovers<\/em>. In the film, Giamatti, who last worked with Payne on the 2004 hit, <em>Sideways<\/em>, plays Paul Hunham, a curmudgeonly New England prep school teacher who must stay on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being friends with Payne since <em>Sideways<\/em>, the timing for <em>The Holdovers<\/em> had never been quite right until now. He explains, &#8220;We had ideas for things that never came to fruition and we tried to do this for several years running, but it just never worked out timing-wise. And then the timing seemed perfect because all these people were available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of Giamatti&#8217;s involvement in the film is that the character of Paul was specifically written for him. When asked about his initial reaction to the character, he gushed about his role, saying, &#8220;The character was fantastic. I mean, I would do anything he wanted me to do. But I thought the story was great, the setting was great, the characters were great. I was excited to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had gone to a prep school,\u201d he continued. \u201cI grew up around a lot of people like this. So, it was kind of like, &#8216;Ooh, this&#8217;ll be fun.&#8217; I can just pull on this deep well of all these memories. I actually did think he was a lot of fun to play,&#8221; he shares. &#8220;He takes a certain delicious pleasure in coming up with the most elaborate insults he can come up with. Like it was kind of a certain sort of free song for him that he could put somebody down in such an elaborate way. \u00a0He&#8217;s pleased with his own intelligence and playing around with his own intelligence.\u00a0 So that was very fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the question of chemistry among the cast, Giamatti acknowledges the importance of taking the time to connect before filming. &#8220;We had a couple of weeks to sort of get to know each other. But any time is more than you usually get,&#8221; he said. \u201cAnd it was this little group of the three of us. I felt like a little chamber play sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the classic Christmas story elements in the film, Giamatti notes, &#8220;Underneath all of it, there&#8217;s a little bit of that classic Christmas story thing. They&#8217;re all a little bit of Scrooge, and they all gotta come to this place where something&#8217;s gonna get over or they&#8217;re gonna heal something or connect about something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI had gone to a prep school,\u201d Giamatti said. \u201cI grew up around a lot of people like this. 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So, it was kind of like, 'Ooh, this'll be fun.' 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