Tim Blake Nelson says George Clooney felt their SAG playing cards ‘ought to have been revoked’ after “O Brother, The place Artwork Thou?” 

Tim Blake Nelson says O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which he stars in alongside George Clooney and John Turturro, is the film that modified his life.

Sitting down for Vulture's Function Name collection, Nelson remembered that he didn't notice the Coen brothers wished him within the film. As an alternative, he thought that they had wished him to seek the advice of on the script.

"I used to be despatched the script by Joel [Coen] and he mentioned, 'I want your recommendation,'" Nelson mentioned. "And I learn it and misinterpreted what he was saying, considering that he wished me to reply to their adaptation of Homer as a result of I used to be a classics main. After which he mentioned, 'No, we wish you to play Delmar.'"

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The character actor felt he "had no enterprise being a lead in a Coen Brothers film" with Clooney and Turturro. Nonetheless, he mentioned his two costars have been reassuring and beneficiant to him. Turturro, who had labored on a number of Coen brothers movies, "confirmed him the ropes" on set.

Throughout some components of the movie, just like the siren scene, Nelson mentioned the trio went over-the-top with their appearing. The Watchmen actor mentioned he made his face like rubber throughout that specific scene.

"George likes to say that our SAG playing cards ought to have been revoked after O Brother got here out as a result of there was a lot overacting from the three of us," he mentioned.

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Nonetheless, Nelson's efficiency helped introduce his work to wider audiences, a indisputable fact that he credit the Coen brothers with.

"It's fairly simple to ship with that type of writing and that type of path," he mentioned. "And like with John Turturro and Holly Hunter, so many of those character actors whom they've put ahead of their movies and successfully launched to the world, you understand, I get to be a kind of."

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