{"id":12677,"date":"2010-10-22T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2014-11-21T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:55:46","slug":"director-tony-goldwyn-discusses-his-film-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=12677","title":{"rendered":"Director Tony Goldwyn Discusses His Film Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Conviction<\/a>Conviction, the latest film directed by filmmaker\/actor Tony Goldwyn<\/a>, almost didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

The story was certainly compelling enough to become a movie. It focused on Betty Anne Waters, a single parent and high school dropout with two kids who went to school for 12 years to obtain a GED, college and law degrees, all in order to prove the innocence of her brother Kenny, a diner employee convicted of killing a female customer.<\/p>\n

Goldwyn had set the film up at Universal Studios, with Naomi Watts playing the determined working- class Waters. But a shift in studio executives put the project in limbo. Watts eventually exited, leaving Goldwyn with a film he desperately wanted to make, only with no star and no studio. Like Waters, who eventually did get her brother out of prison after 18 years with help from the organization the Innocence Project and newly discovered DNA evidence, Goldwyn had an uphill battle with a film with such serious subject matter for an adult audience in mind.<\/p>\n

But Goldwyn, whose most recent behind-the-scenes work was helming episodes of Dexter, Justified and Dirty Sexy Money, raised the money independently, bringing Conviction home at half the price of a studio film.<\/p>\n

In the process, he got a two-time Oscar-winning actress for his lead\u2014Hilary Swank<\/a>, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress playing the transgendered Brandon Teena in Kimberley Pierce\u2019s Boys Don\u2019t Cry and boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Clint Eastwood\u2019s Million Dollar Baby.<\/p>\n

How did Goldwyn know that Swank would click in the part that is already bringing about Oscar buzz?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I met Betty Anne, I was driving up to meet her and I thought I\u2019d get an outwardly emotional woman and was ready to be intimidated with her,\u201d recalls Goldwyn, 50, from a Philadelphia hotel suite. \u201cI thought she\u2019d be kind of a tough, salty woman with her armor up, maybe because Erin Brockovich was in my head.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen she opens the door opens and she\u2019s this bright light\u2014sweet, humble, funny, super-smart and an incredibly modest person. What you get from Betty Anne is her heart. It was hard to get her to admit she had done anything extraordinary.\u00a0 That said, I thought that was the heart of the film. I needed an actress who had that in her essence, and yet had the steel spine and lion\u2019s heart that this woman had.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew actresses have the ability to struggle or fight without losing their fury. Hilary has all heart. In Million Dollar Baby, she\u2019s a violent boxer but she\u2019s also an innocent girl who just wants to box, but she feels at home in the ring where she\u2019s at peace. I can\u2019t think of another actress who embodies that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goldwyn\u2014perhaps best known for his acting credits as memorable villains in Ghost (as Patrick\u2019s Swayze\u2019s underhanded friend) and The Last Samurai (as Tom Cruise\u2019s nemesis)\u2014says the key to bringing Betty Anne to life was the tone of the performance. \u201cAnother actress would have played Betty Anne in a much darker way,\u201d he says. \u201cThey would play it heavier and that would have been fine, but that\u2019s not Betty Anne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Waters herself, who joined Goldwyn in Philly: \u201cShe (Swank) would have been my first pick. I saw Boys Don\u2019t Cry and Million Dollar Baby. She came to my house with Tony, and I opened the door and we had the same flat turtleneck sweater on and she was wearing jeans. It\u2019s like I knew her for the longest time.\u00a0\u00a0 I remember we were filming the scene about the day Kenny gets released from prison. She was crying her eyes out. She said, \u2018There\u2019s a good side to everything bad that happens, but I don\u2019t get it.\u2019 I had to console her. That\u2019s how compassionate she was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Rockwell<\/a>, also in town, turns in an intense performance as the troubled tough guy Kenny Waters in the film. He recognizes why some people compare Swank and her character to Julia Roberts and her award-winning turn in Erin Brockovich, but sees similarities to other great screen roles as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s more like the leads in Fargo (played by Frances McDormand) or Silkwood (essayed by Meryl Steep),\u201d says Rockwell of Swank. \u201cAnd this is one of the most vulnerable, maternal parts she\u2019s done. She has a soft side here you haven\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

What drew Goldwyn to Conviction was the fact he saw it as a love story.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about the people,\u201d says Goldwyn matter-of-factly.\u201dWhat drew me first was I was moved between the relationship between Betty and Kenny. When I heard about this on the news, I didn\u2019t think this is material for a movie, look at what this person did. What blew my mind is that she spent 18 \u00bd years on an act of faith. And what is that about and what is that relationship about? She had so much faith in her brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heart of the film, this relationship between a brother and sister, is its emotional core. It\u2019s about the transcendence in love. I really didn\u2019t have an interest in making a great legal drama or courtroom drama. That wasn\u2019t the appeal to me. The emotional entry point is the two of them (Betty Anne and Kenny) and that\u2019s how you draw an audience in. In this case, fact is stranger than fiction. You can\u2019t make this up, and I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conviction marks another interesting turn in Goldwyn\u2019s show business career. The son of producer\/distributor Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard, and grandson of legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn and actress Frances Howard, Goldwyn seems comfortable in many facets of entertainment. Currently on Broadway singing and dancing as the heel Mr. Sheldrake in Promises, Promises with Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth, the Brandeis University and London Academy of Music Art graduate also has extensive dramatic stage credits, including a turn in The Sum of Us, for which he won an Obie award, and an acclaimed run in Tom Stoppard\u2019s The Real Thing.<\/p>\n

Goldwyn\u2019s screen performing career began with a role as a victim of the hockey-masked murderer in 1986\u2019s Jason Lives!: Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part VI, but it was his attention-grabbing role as Patrick Swayze\u2019s scheming business partner Carl Bruner in Ghost that really jumpstarted his acting career.<\/p>\n

With his brown sandy hair and slim good looks, Goldwyn says he was thrilled to get the part of in the hit film and wasn\u2019t afraid of being typecast as a villain. \u201cI didn\u2019t have any fears after Ghost was released,\u201d he says. \u201cI was just so grateful to be part of that movie. Before that, I was happy to get a job. To be in a big hit like that was great for me. To be honest, I\u2019d rather be typecast as a villain than as a more all-American guy. You play the hand that you\u2019re dealt and you make the most of it. If it\u2019s a big commercial movie, I don\u2019t have a problem playing villains.\u201d<\/p>\n

After steady work in TV shows like Designing Women, L.A. Law Murphy Brown and the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon in which he played astronaut Neil Armstrong, and more high profile screen assignments in The Pelican Brief, Nixon, Kiss the Girls and providing the voice of Tarzan in Disney\u2019s animated feature, Goldwyn got a shot behind the camera in 1999, helming A Walk on the Moon. \u00a0The underrated drama (penned by Pamela Grey, who also scripted Conviction) \u00a0focused on a married Jewish woman (Diane Lane) who has an affair with a young blouse salesman (Viggo Mortensen) in the Catskills during the summer of 1969. He went on to direct such other films as the 2001 rom-com Someone Like You\u2026 with Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear and Hugh Jackman and 2006\u2019s The Last Kiss with Zach Braff.<\/p>\n

Goldwyn, a New York City resident with two daughters by his production designer spouse Jane Musky, claims he never really had an interest in directing. \u201cI was interested in initiating projects, so I figured I would be a producer and actor,\u201d he says. \u201cI got into directing because I was too afraid to give projects to anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his style as a director, Goldwyn\u2019s works have been unobtrusively directed and straightforward in their storytelling technique.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I cater my style to the way the film feels,\u201d reflects Goldwyn. \u201cFor example, maybe the films I\u2019ve done have a commonality of style because they\u2019ve been intimate character studies. Then I look at the television I directed and the style is much different, and I\u2019ve adapted to that. The material drives it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy style tends to be \u2018I never want my work to be front and center.\u2019\u00a0 I\u2019d rather the directing be more invisible, so the characters and world seems very real, so I\u2019m not creating a style between the characters and the audience. So that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not doing some cool shot, for me it has to be organically motivated and serve a storytelling purpose. Some directors create a whole universe of their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just not how my brain works, maybe because I\u2019m an actor first. My directing hero is Mike Nichols<\/a>, because his films are always about the people, yet some of his films have incredible style. They\u2019re unadorned, but he\u2019s about the people. And I idolize him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did Tony Goldwyn glean any gems of wisdom from the legendary family members who has been through the show business loop?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main thing I learned was there isn\u2019t much they can help you with,\u201d says Goldwyn, surprisingly.
\nI discovered that you have to forge your own way. It\u2019s an intuitive understanding\u2026it\u2019s about the work. \u00a0It\u2019s a survivor\u2019s game and it\u2019s about endurance, not about the brass ring, winning an award or having the big hit. If you keep a workmanlike attitude towards what you do, success will come. You have to reinvent yourself with every last project. And I learned I had a real gift for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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