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Leslie Bibb & Thomas Sadowski On ‘Take Care,’ SXSW [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]
Leslie Bibb and Thomas Sadowski star in the new indie movie Take Care, which follows the lives of an ex-couple when Bibb’s character has a serious accident. Both actors were drawn to the film’s off-beat material. “That’s why you make an independent film, right?” Sadowski told Uinterview in an exclusive video interview. “You can actually do something that’s interesting with characters that you aren’t entirely sympathetic with but at the same time by the end of the movie you find yourself totally rooting for him.”
Bibb, who is well-known for her role in Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, opposite Will Ferrell, has also appeared in Confessions of a Shopaholic, Miss Nobody and the Iron Man movies.
Sadowski, who is a respected stage performer, has gained famed recently with his role on HBO’s The Newsroom.
The actors had to learn to navigate the film’s awkward sex scenes. “‘Okay, we’re gonna hump each other; this is gonna be weird, and we’re in front of 25 other people,'” Bibb laughed. “It’s actually really sweet and gentle,” Sadowski said.
LESLIE BIBB: I remember during the scene when we’re in the bed and we were and I was like ‘Liz, I stink so bad!’ and she was like, ‘So do I! It’s so hot in here!’ I was like okay we’re besties I don’t care and she was like ‘I don’t care!” That to me is quintessential like.... at its best. Because the way they shot it, the scene is scripted as a 18-minute scene and she’s like we’re going to have to cut it up, and I saw the version when she cut it and I was like, 'Oh my god it’s like apocalypse now!' She actually did a great job.
THOMAS SADOWSKI: That's precisely I think what drew me to the script is that it was challenging for me, like thatâs why you make an independent film, right? Thatâs the whole point you just sort of rehash the same role, romantic comedy thing you can slag through that swamp yet again. Or you can actually do something that's interesting with characters that you aren't entirely sympathetic with but at the same time by the end of the movie you find yourself totally rooting for him. And it is offbeat and it's weird and its sort of the different story when looking at this, this genre and that's thrilling, thatâs exciting. That's why I wanted to do this so much.
LB: Yeah, I feel like, last night at the screening I just said this when Michael Stahl-David made the comment about when people ask me for help its like they're literally sucking the air out of my lungs and there was, we had this great laugh, but Tom sitting there with like a nervous laugh like, âOh my god that's kind of how I feel!â And there was an honesty to that, and an honesty to those people who complicated, I like complicated characters because when I feel like I don't really fit into a mold of like people who may look at me and say, we all say that, we all kind of look at around and say, 'This is your life. This is your life. This is your life.' And I don't think that's how life is and I loved how like what a brat Franny was and like kind of in her entitlement that people should be taking care of her and how she wanted to stay in her house. I was listening last night. I was like, âYou are such a brat!â Like you were putting everyone out of your way but when you're in it, it does make sense, so you do feel sorry for yourself. So I don't know I felt like it just, it felt honest and I thought there's going to be a fun job at taking people who could be considered unlikeable, unsympathetic and make people root for them.
LB: There's a sex scene in it and usually sex scenes are like this, they're so nerve-wracking like they're not fun and they're like, 'Heh heh! Ok, we're going to hump each other this is going to be weird in front of 25 people!' And I remember we were like, 'Jesus Christ how many times are we going to do this? How many, we got it!' And I was like I don't know what she's - I have no idea what she's going to do!
TS: Yeah. She shot so many different angles so many different ways in like...
LB: I did love that sex scene!
TS: It was so great!
LB: I love it.
TS: She made it look very sweet and gentle.
LB: Oh it's so funny!
TS: It's funny.
LB: I love it I think it's like, I find it very charming.
TS: Yeah.
LB: And I can't believe I'm saying that, I'm such a douchebag for saying that! But I really see it every time and I think for this moment I get swept up in these characters and Iâm like, 'Oh God! There's something tender about it and I really go for it.
LB: I think that’s where activating it and so for me my homework, I do a lot of homework on my scripts anyway like a serial killer, my scripts look like a serial killer, but it was about— there’s writing everywhere.
TS: Tabs everywhere.
LB: Tabs and crap everywhere, and this really, and this for Liz and for our DP a lot went into the color pallet of what you’ve been looking at, so I remember going up to Harlem and sitting there in a bed and them doing the color cut, and I didn’t quite understand it. But now when I see the movie I’m like ok it made sense that these colors were better than maybe gold blues and stuff. It was all very thought out and then I think activities.
TS: Yeah and most colors were a lot better to look at repeatedly.
LB: Yeah and I think activities helped and coming up with things that made it... and the evolution ... There was impediment work, there were also works on drugs, because she was taking a lot of Oxy and trying to find like the realism of that.
LB: You know it's funny, my boyfriend had hurt his leg - no it was his shoulder, his, like, elbow boxing - so he was going to this amazing physical therapist. And I said - I kept saying to Liz do we have a physical therapist, and she was like no this was really important. So I called her and said, 'We have no money would you please - can we come?' And she really, she was like, 'This is what you do. This is this. This is this.' She came up with the way we climb the stairs and do this, and so I really worked with her do come up with, each step of the way, with each new contraption on the body, because it was really important that when she saw the movie that she wasn't like, 'Oh Christ that Leslie Bibb really screwed that up!' But it's so constrictive it's just so tight, like it helps you because there is no give and you are in a vice grip, like everything, that it helps with the impediment. There was one leg thing that I was kind of a little looser and i was like I'm going to screw this up unless I have like a broom popping my leg out. But it was kind of fun, like in that, you start to become more imaginative because you really are in it. And I became this person that had half a cast on, by the first week if you hit my arm I would say, 'Oh! And I was like, 'Ok, Jesus, I put down some weird method - because you're holding it so much. And then you would start jumping like, 'I'm sorry!' before even people kept doing that.'
TS: And it was really weird because I was getting really protective of her, when people would walk by with like and they wouldn't be paying attention to where they pulled things if they got anywhere near her injured leg I'd be like, 'What are you doing dude? Look out! And you had to catch yourself and be like, 'Oh my God, she's just acting Iâm so sorry!' You know what I mean it became so strange.
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