John Lithgow, as some of you know, is well known for his work in films Footloose, NBC sitcom 3rd Rock From The Sun. He won the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for his work in Showtimes's Dexter. On the stage, Lithgow appeared in the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success, for which he won the Ton Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

With Crave Online, Lithgow sat for an interview to discuss his roles and to promote his new film, Love Is Strange, which opens this weekend. During his interview, Lithgow also mentions his work in Interstellar, but like everyone involved with Interstellar, he reveals nothing. Lithgow, though, talks about Christopher Nolan and his co-star David Oyelowo.

Here is the excerpt from the interview:

Christopher Nolan is so mysterious and secretive, when you do a small role in his film, do you get the whole script or just your part? 

He did tell me the whole story. He didn't give me the script but he told me the story. I was in the happy position of him persuading me to do it and he had to tell me what it was to persuade me. So I knew it.

Was it difficult to follow, another complex story like Inception?

Well, I can’t tell you a word about?Interstellar.

I know, that’s why I was wondering vague things about it.

It is complex. You can certainly follow it but it's very, very complicated. A fantastic story. I’ll tell you a wonderful fact. Do you know the great actor David Oyelowo? He’s in it in a one scene part and he flew up to Calgary to do his one scene part. I said, "Come on, David. I'll take you out to dinner.” I had already been up there for a few weeks. He knew absolutely nothing about what he was going to do. He knew the scene which I can't even tell you what the scene is, but it was a very simple and familiar sounding scene. He didn't know anything that happened around it, and I said, "David, I can't believe nobody has told you. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I will tell you the story." And I had him on the edge of his seat because I gave him a 15-minute version of the entire film. He said, "Oh, God, I had no idea I was involved in anything so great!" That’s the wonderful culture of secrecy about a project like that.

Source: Crave Online

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