SUBMITTED BY Scooby
March 6, 2002 — Paul Fischer interviewed Guy Pearce. Here's a clip:
It was the original George Pal film that partially led to Pearce's decision to step into Rod Taylor's memorable shoes, he adds. "Being such a fan of the original was certainly a factor, as well as getting back to the child within oneself was also something I found quite appealing, really, because this is not normally the kind of film that I would be drawn to doing".
Though Pearce had never read Wells' novel, he was drawn to the themes of the 1960 version of the story, responding to "that notion that as human beings you tend not to want to concentrate on the present moment. We would always rather fantasize about the future or dwell on the past, or actually allow ourselves to feel anxious about what possibly could happen in the future, or dwell on the sort of negative things that have happened in the past. That's just our ego trying to create some sort of identity for ourselves. We allow guilt and fantasy and all those kinds of things to identify us, when really we would do ourselves a much better service if we could actually just exist in the present moment".
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