Tim Robbins starts our interview for my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side by revealing just what his longest and most successful relationship has been. Clue: It may not be who you think.
In our wide-ranging conversation the Oscar-winning actor also reminisces about some of the favorite films he has made, including working with Robert Altman on The Player and Clint Eastwood on Mystic River and why he doesn’t do sequels (though we agree Bull Durham 2 could have been fun). He also spills the beans on the movie he says had the greatest script he had ever read and why it initially wasn’t a box office hit. Now it tops lists as one of the best movies ever made.
We also talk about the reasons he was lured to co-star in the Apple TV+ sci-fi series Silo, which he eerily compares as similar to what we went through with the pandemic lockdown. In this show, now renewed for a second season that already had been shot, he plays an IT person who craves power in the confined underground society created in a post-apocalyptic world. People obsessed with attaining power is one of the themes that intrigues him most, as he explains in this episode.
Robbins also talks about his own directing career, which brought him an Oscar nomination for Dead Man Walking, plus his 42-year-old — and still going strong — theatrical venture called The Actor’s Gang, which has become another key outlet for his directing talents.
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