It’s like they think people will immediately turn a film off because there isn’t a cut every two seconds. But you never see two people talking on screen in the same shot. Or the way that I’m talking and you’re talking. But now it has been butchered for coverage.
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“It’s frustrating sometimes because you watch a movie and you’re thinking that the scene coming up was so brilliant.
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It’s like doing a very small play, in that, on the day, you still have an audience plus you have to be able to convey things on a very microscopic level. “There’s a bit of guilt there over being away from it.
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After graduating from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, he made his professional stage debut in a Minnesota production of Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues and founded the Malaparte Theatre Company with actor friends Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard in 1991. He was considering enlisting in the marines when a school trip to London, and the West End production of Les Misérables, convinced him otherwise. He wasn’t what people usually think of when they think about organised religion.”Īt high school Zahn excelled in speech and drama, becoming a two-time state champion at public speaking. He quoted World War I poetry in his sermons.
“My dad was a really fascinating dude,” he says. He was born in Marshall, Minnesota, to Zelda, a YMCA administrator, and Carleton, a Lutheran minister. All the other times it’s lights and a studio and there are tons of people standing around eating Cheetos and you’re pretending that they’re not there.”ĭespite his Hollywood career, Zahn has never been a city boy, exactly. This is maybe the only time I’ve worked in film that represents what I thought making a movie would be like before I started making movies. You’re on a horse and the mountains are right there in front of you. “It’s peripheral to the love between the father and son but I loved that it’s something of a western with a poignant, timely subject matter. “I’m very attracted to stories in which the environment or nature is as much of a central character as the people involved,” says the 53-year-old. But the required trek towards the Canadian border provided an additional appeal. That was reason enough to call up the director. Zahn cried when he first read the script. I only use an alarm when I’m working on a movie. I get up at 5.30am and I’m in bed at 9.30pm. Horses and dogs don’t care if it’s Christmas. I’ve only done two or three crazy off-the-wall comedies like Strange Wilderness. “It’s interesting that people think of me as this comedic actor. I still have people come up to me and say: 'Oh, you're that stand-up comedian'. And you do things and people get ideas about you. "But then I did a play and I was funny in it and I had long hair and I was kind of a burnout.
"After I trained with the American Repertory Theatre, I went to New York and I thought I'd be a leading man," says Zahn. Certainly, he's a funny man: just not by trade. Speaking via Zoom from his horse farm outside Lexington, Kentucky, the actor bemusedly ponders the confusion. But even the Wikipedia entry for Steve Zahn lists “comedian” as his profession. Maybe it was the series of (very different) stoners, deadbeats and ne’er-do-wells he has played in Out of Sight, Riding in Cars with Boys, and You’ve Got Mail. Maybe it was the Generation X branding that came with the cult slacker movie Reality Bites.
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