How are you feeling about Americana lastly hitting theaters? I do know you labored on this a couple of years again.

Americana is legitimately my favourite film I’ve ever made, which you’ll be able to print. I’m not apprehensive about any social blowback there. I simply assume it’s wildly unique, the script was so engaging. It was all in regards to the writing, and Sydney Sweeney was simply on the come up the place everybody was beginning to discover out who she was due to White Lotus and Euphoria. After we wrapped, we had been instructed it could go to a pageant. A 12 months later, we had it at SXSW in Austin, and we bought nice evaluations, so we had been like, “Oh, we’re sitting fairly.” Then we had been simply sitting. There was no fairly. We had been questioning what the hell occurred.

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The place do you assume you’re at as an actor when it comes to deciding on initiatives? Do you are feeling you’d discovered the house you slot in or do you may have belongings you’re nonetheless hoping to discover?

There’s a lot I haven’t performed that I need to do desperately. Kevin Costner provided me a component in Horizon, but it surely was one line of dialogue and the character had nothing to them. I don’t must be a chunk of furnishings in anyone’s film. I really like Kevin Costner, and I need to work with him, and it’d be an honor, however I additionally need to do one thing good. The identical factor with Luca Guadagnino, [who] provided me [a role] to play the tennis decide through the huge matches in Challengers. I might inform it was going to be one thing, and I really like Luca, and he’s been nothing however candy to me, but in addition I really feel means too aggressive and means too hungry to eat garnish and faux it’s a meal. I’d reasonably maintain out for the appropriate factor. On the day I’m simply going to be all hungry, after which I’m going to look silly after which I’m going to really feel awkward. In Hollywood, I don’t really feel like I slot in in any respect.

Actually?

No, I’m an outspoken Jesus man, however I can also’t stand Donald Trump. I not dwell in L.A. I’m obsessive about skilled wrestling, and I’ve made considerably of a profession out of that. In a bizarre means, I virtually really feel like I match within the wrestling world greater than I do in Hollywood. I’m a means higher actor than I’m a wrestler, however I simply… I don’t know, after I stroll right into a wrestling enviornment and there’s a bunch of nerdy followers with indicators and autograph stuff, and I really feel like certainly one of them. Whereas, after I’m at a Hollywood operate or a premiere, it looks like that awkward highschool factor [where] there’s a bunch of fairly people who find themselves saying all the appropriate issues, and I’m the one one who needs to actually be some form of unleashed model of themselves, and I really feel very alone in that for some cause.