Did working with David Fincher live up to your expectations?

AG: They kind of superseded my expectations; I was really scared to work with him.

On the first hand, I'm a fan of his, and I love his films and just to be a part of one of his pictures was an incredibly exciting prospect. But of course you start to hear about all the takes he does, and for some reason that fills you with fear. But you realise it's all for an incredibly valid reason - you get given so much time to make mistakes.

He wants to beat the acting out of you and he wants you to not try, and whatever moments you find, be alive in the moment.

That's what the greatest performances are; great actors do that, they're able to just be alive, and there, and spontaneous, and it's so exciting and dangerous to watch. So I think David wants to engender that in all of his actors, so actually it superseded it in that respect.

And his attention to detail and specificity was incredible. And it superseded my expectations in the way he's so guiding, just so guiding, and he knew the story he wanted to tell so well, and he wanted to get everything in the story simply.

JT: It completely surpassed anything that I could ever have expected. He's peerless as a visualist, but what you really realise is how much of an actor's director he is.

What you really crave as an actor is just specificity. You know, we love to create, and will go off on a tangent and will go to as far a place as we can go. But knowing where we're asked to go, and being asked in a very specific way and also being guided, because there are things that you do that you internalise and you don't know how your body is going to process that as an actor, and to have David be so specific.

I remember him pointing out things that my eyebrow would do, and I remember thinking, 'How the fuck did you see that?' So to have that experience with him, you just felt like no stone went unturned, and also in his process, it's widely known that he does a lot of takes, and I think I was a little intimidated by that walking in, but found it to be a very freeing experience.

Really why he does that many takes is because he wants to afford the actor the opportunity to try everything, and then give himself the time to see things that could make the character even that much more interesting.

JE: They’ve said it perfectly. Exceeded all expectations.