“Rather than evolving it, we’ve just not been doing it over the last few years.”
“I just love this character,” he adds.
“I felt so connected to him from the very beginning.
Andrew Barth Feldman in ‘No Hard Feelings’.Macall Polay/Columbia Pictures
I need everybody to like me and when they don’t, I get defensive.
I have all the makings of the same kind of person.
Feldman gravitated toward such connection at a young age, finding it on the stage.
Andrew Barth Feldman and Jennifer Lawrence in ‘No Hard Feelings’.Macall Polay/Columbia Pictures
Feldman saw the production as “this route to another world.”
“I would do crew and lights and write music.
It was like a second home for me.”
Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman in ‘No Hard Feelings’.Macall Polay/Columbia Pictures
“And just knowing that I’m enough [to play] this character.
My instincts are enough.
My heart is enough.
And same with Percy.
And if I hadn’t done that, I don’t think I could have done Percy.”
The two still keep in touch despite living on opposite coasts.
“She texted me to congratulate me on [No Hard Feelings],” Feldman says.
“I was starstruck by her long before the ‘Drivers License’ of it all.
He played a student trying to get into the class of Driver’s well sought-after college professor.
“There’s a point in the movie where my face is in the background.
I had lines and they all got cut, and it’s okay!
I did not take it personally at all.”
Such news is hardly a blow when it comes while on set with Jennifer freakin' Lawrence.
“I was so scared to do it,” he says.
“It didn’t look real because I was so afraid.
That one [take] in the movie is maybe the only take that looks at all real.”
“When Gene presented it to me, I was so excited,” Feldman says.
“I got to arrange it myself, actually.
“It’s not about me sounding good.
“It’s about Percy revealing himself for the first time.
It should be messy and imperfect.”
He’s not necessarily in any particular rush to do so, though.
As he says, “It’s not going anywhere.”
“I’m always making.
I’m somebody who makes,” Feldman says.
As with Percy and his other roles, though, it just has to connect.
No Hard Feelingsis in theaters now.
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