His wry sense of humour comes through as he describes the external factors that helped his performance. Giamatti, who rustles a sweet wrapper on the table throughout the interview, would rather sell himself short. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a fine performance, the movie is interesting, and I think the guy who plays Robert Oswald is really good in it.” I don't think I gave a good enough performance like that. When told that Landesman feels he should get another supporting actor nomination, he says: “That's nice of him to say, but I don't think that's true. The experiences have seemingly left the actor weary of awards talk. He would finally receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination in 2005 for his turn playing boxing manager Joe Gould in Cinderella Man. “I didn't expect to get nominated so it was like everybody else was way more disappointed than I was, so that was really weird, talking to these people and not knowing what to say to them to take their disappointment away that I didn't get nominated.”
“That was an odd dilemma to be in,” he says. He's so far from perfect, he's human.It was a major surprise when Sideways director Alexander Payne and cast-members Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen were nominated for Oscars, while Giamatti, the star of the show, was ignored. He longs to be a published writer, longs to fix his golf swing, and he longs not to be alone. To his credit, Giamatti's Miles Raymond longs to and does meet the right girl, a woman who understands the complexities of the thin-skinned, temperamental Pinot Noir grape. He gets drunk and calls her at home, which is always endearing.īaby-boomer men are supposed to relate to this chump? No wonder our sons have a new film hero in Napoleon Dynamite.
He steals money from his mother but, really, who hasn't? He can't get over the fact that his wife left him. He's too "negative." He looks like that guy who works in accounting. He has a minor drinking problem, which only manifests itself when he is around wine, which is about all the time. But we're not supposed to be focusing here on winners.īack to Miles.
No man has truly lived until he has picked up a married biker waitress and left his wallet in her home only to be pursued by her naked, tattooed husband. Miles has a good heart, but in the end, who gets the really hot woman? The cheating fiance - who also gets his nose busted and leaves his wallet in the home of a married biker waitress, that's who.
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