Susan Sarandon & Richard Gere on Reuniting in Maybe I Do & Their Chemistry

Household drama is at all times somewhat chaotic, and the brand new movie Perhaps I Do makes no secret of the very fact. Monica (Susan Sarandon), Grace (Diane Keaton), Howard (Richard Gere) and Sam (William H. Macy) are introduced collectively by their youngsters Michelle (Emma Roberts) and Allen (Luke Bracey), who’re having relationship troubles. Issues take a flip for the awkward when the 4 of them notice they’ve really met earlier than, however underneath wildly totally different circumstances.

On this interview with Collider, Gere and Sarandon sat down to speak about the way it felt to work collectively once more, feeling protected together with your scene associate, and about their favourite traces and scenes from the movie. Sarandon additionally shared what she is most excited for Blue Beetle followers to see when the movie comes out subsequent yr. You may watch the interview within the video above, or learn the total transcript beneath.

COLLIDER: That is your second romantic film collectively, however your characters are clearly in a really totally different place than they have been in Shall We Dance. So I used to be questioning what it was like to do that kind of story collectively once more.

SUSAN SARANDON: Properly, it was… Go forward.

RICHARD GERE: No, after you, Gaston.

SARANDON: Properly, it was a special story. So we felt in another way.

GERE: Really, it is the third one we have carried out. We have found it is the third one. I feel what’s nice about Susan, from my standpoint, is that she will be able to do something, and she or he’s nonetheless a human being. Nonetheless, that weak human being comes by way of. And she or he loves taking part in, as most actors do, taking part in excessive characters. However there’s nonetheless at all times that human being, and I can belief that that actuality is at all times there to play with. And that is nice enjoyable since you at all times have a connection. It is not somebody simply off doing their very own factor, and being flamboyant and chewing the surroundings, however there’s nonetheless that weak human being which you can play with. And from an actor’s standpoint, that is the place the enjoyable is. It is like you might be with a dwelling, respiration human being with all the failings, and all the issues, and the rest, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a dwelling, human being state of affairs.

SARANDON: I really feel the identical manner about Richard, but in addition, I really feel protected working with him, which makes me braver as a result of I do know that he is current, and he listens.

GERE: Yeah, that is level as a result of it is the identical with me. Everybody right here needed everybody to be good, their greatest selves, and to convey out the very best in one another. We have been very nurturing with one another, and taking good care of one another.

As you talked about, that is very totally different from the opposite movies that you’ve got carried out collectively. And I felt like this leaned extra into the comedy aspect of issues versus the romantic. I used to be questioning the way it felt to play that aspect up somewhat bit.

SARANDON: Properly, play is an excellent phrase to say. I imply, it felt playful. It felt, once more, protected in a manner.

GERE: Yeah, protected. It comes from protected.

SARANDON: And that is while you may be playful as a result of I knew he had his factor down, and I might, due to this fact, have my factor, and that he would assist me. I imply, there wasn’t lots of improvisation, however there was some give to how issues got here down and the way we expressed it, and the way we danced.

I imply, that is why you do it, actually, is as a result of all of us need connection. Not a lot to be seen by an viewers, however the feeling … I do anyway. The collaboration of getting a tribe of individuals which can be placing this collectively, and the connection that you’ve got when you’ve a second with any individual, for me, that is extraordinary. So if you will discover different actors which can be ready, so they don’t seem to be thrown in the event you do one thing somewhat bit totally different, that is when it is essentially the most enjoyable.

So you probably did communicate rather a lot about taking part in off of one another, and there are lots of nice duo scenes, trio scenes, early on within the film, however the again half is this sort of madcap Comedy of Errors kind of ensemble piece. So, what have been among the highlights of filming that sort of chaotic power?

GERE: Michael was good at that, really. I feel Michael, the writer-director, Michael Jacobs, was good at working with the 4 of us. And that would have taken eternally doing these scenes with somebody who wasn’t proper for it. And I’ve seen that earlier than. Should you get three characters, they do not know the place to place the digicam. And this was 4 characters, and everybody was studying one thing within the strategy of these scenes, particularly the one the place lastly all the data comes out and everybody lastly is aware of every thing, or nearly every thing. And that was, I feel, nice enjoyable for all of us is that we have been all off stability on the identical time.

Gentle bulbs have been going off throughout the room as folks have been keying into the truth of our state of affairs. That was nice enjoyable. As an ensemble, that is what you sort of reside for, is that and the flexibility to play that, discover the humor in it. [Finding] the loopy bodily humor in that scene was nice enjoyable.

SARANDON: I could not wait to say, “I’m the corporate.” I could not look forward to that second to occur. It delighted me. And his response was a lot enjoyable.

Properly, I hope that this does entice them, as a result of that entire beat was simply so humorous and such an attractive supply. So with Howard and Monica, they’re sort of at extremes the place Howard is chasing that bloom of past love once more, and Monica is probably essentially the most cynical individual I’ve ever seen in relation to romance. I used to be questioning if it was these extremes that drew you to the half, or what it was that appealed to you?

SARANDON: I feel she’s genuine, and she or he’s reasonable about lots of issues that she’s discovered within the deterioration of her relationship, which is fairly tragic. I imply, she is cynical, however I imply, there is a level the place she says, “And when did you first be taught that this wasn’t true? That love did not conquer every thing?” After which explains her philosophy. And I feel she was a believer in some unspecified time in the future.

I feel she was a believer and it slowly slipped away for [a myriad] of causes which can be her fault, and his fault, and youngsters, and no matter. But it surely’s enjoyable to be disruptive. It is actually enjoyable to be that character who says, “What are you saying?” When somebody’s sort of babbling on. So I knew I’d have time. I believed I’d have time if the solid was proper. And I did.

So Susan, I’ve to ask, you’ll be showing in Blue Beetle very shortly, and I needed to know what you have been excited for followers to see there.

SARANDON: My God, to be in a comic book ebook and to be the unhealthy man, that was nice. And I had nice outfits, and I needed to be somewhat bit extra androgynous, however that scared them. So I am somewhat bit extra mild, however that was actually a enjoyable factor too. That younger director, Angel [Manuel Soto], was fabulous. And I imply, we’re gushing rather a lot. It sounds phony, however actually, I like the enormity of it. His entire household is Mexican and so they’re all Mexican actors, and my henchman is Native American. So it was fairly uncommon. It is the primary superhero film that stars a Latino, in order that’s fairly particular, and he is nice. The child’s nice.

Bringing it again to Perhaps I Do, you talked about that nice second of, “I’m the corporate,” however I used to be questioning, aside from that, what spotlight what was your favourite second of the film, your favourite scene, favourite dialog? Do you’ve one?

SARANDON: I imply, I just like the scene the place every thing explodes, however I additionally like after I’m threatening him and he simply takes a beat and says, “That is truthful.” Was that what you say? “That is truthful. That is truthful.” I imply, it is laborious to ship these traces in a manner that basically are humorous. And that second was, I believed, nice. However after all, the explosion of all the data was a enjoyable scene as a result of we have been all collectively. Richard, what was your enjoyable scene?

GERE: I feel I like that essentially the most. I feel I like that essentially the most. After which when everybody left, I just like the scene rather a lot that [William H. Macy] and I performed the place he desires to combat me, and we’re circling one another, and it is–

SARANDON: Ridiculous.

GERE: It is ridiculous. It is ridiculous. And I calm him down, and I give him a hug after which ultimately–

SARANDON: Do not give the entire film away. Come on.

GERE: It is within the trailer! Anyhow.

Perhaps I Do hits theaters on January 27. For extra on the film, try Collider’s interview with Diane Keaton beneath: