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June 18, 2006
The nerd and the madman: Chris Doyle on Lady in the Water
Ben Walters of Time Out catches up with Heineken poster boy Chris Doyle on the eve of his new pic with Manoj Shyamalan: "I think what we are doing in Asia is more fun, I think partly because we are finally reaping the rewards of our labours, and secondly because we do live and work like this. When I work in the West I realise how much more valid what we are doing in the East is to me personally – there is something more gut-felt, much more intimate and intense to what we are doing in Asia. 
We are all friends, we do live in a certain way, we do hop on the plane to each others' screenings, and we are used to hearing a number of languages every day. So I think that the films do reflect the more cosmopolitan aspect of the way in which many of us, especially the middle class of Asia, live." Was it a very different dynamic working on Lady in the Water? "There is a lot more money in Philadelphia! There are similarities because it was an exercise in tolerance or patience and trying to step back further than usual to accommodate this new experience, which happened to be Fruit Chan in one case and M Night Shyamalan in another. It is a bigger playpen and there are more expensive toys. We worked well as a team because we are opposites. I won't use the words 'nerd' and 'madman' but if you want to it's up to you…"
Posted by Ray Pride at June 18, 2006 12:37 PM
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