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The lighting was interesting. I think Peter Deming is a phenomenal [Diretor of Photography]. He?s really phenomenal, and the production designer is great. On all levels, it was a very creative environment, including the process that they edited the film and did the effects. It was very organic and very much like crafting something. They were crushing moth wings and blood on negatives and blood on my outfit and coffee stains and hopefully not urine, but things that were very reminiscent of urine.

And it had a real artist?s feel to everything, which is wonderful. So it was cool. It was pretty inspirational.

How many hours would you spend in that jacket?

It depends. I mean, I?m sure we did lots of days with lots of overtime and there are sequences? Nothing will be more difficult than ?The Pianist? because ?The Pianist? had like a six week slot with no other actors. It was a tremendous amount of pressure and it was all day with Roman [Polanski] and myself and a crew, and it?s a whole movie in that time period basically you can shoot. And it?s relentless. Roman never even liked using the stand-in so I was there from morning to night on set doing everything. I learned probably more than I could learn in any filmmaking class from that experience. But it?s made everything else kind of easier in a way, you know? Easier than it would be. But [that?s]] not saying it was not difficult. It was difficult. There were long days of being restrained on a metal gurney in a cold, damp Scottish prison.

Speaking of Roman Polanski?

I love Roman, I love Roman. I think he?s a genius. He?s one of the most passionate people I?ve ever met. He knows more about everything than anyone I ever met. He thinks he knows more about everything than anyone I?ve met, and he knows most things more than anyone I?ve met.

Your ?The Jacket? director, John Maybury, seems to think he knows a lot about everything as well.

John? Well, opinion - that?s true. Roman really does come from experience. Roman is really kind of supernatural. I don?t know, not supernatural, but superhuman in a way because he?s endured more pain and suffering than anyone I know and yet he has this kind of passion and enthusiasm and lightness and sense of humor and philosophy and youthfulness. I mean, the guy jumped out of a building because I was like, ?Has anyone done this??

They were going to have me jump out of a building. They were going to shoot at me, I was going to fall off of this building, and fall on this mat, this little blue mat on the floor. I was in a real building in Warsaw and I was like, ?Okay, has anyone done this?? And he says, ?Aah, I show you.? And he jumps up, ?You want to see, I show you.? He jumps on the building and slides down the building like Harrison Ford and does it so well I go, ?Oh, okay,? and he goes, ?There. Somebody did it. Now do it!? in front of the crew. That was like day two and I said, ?Okay, you got it,? and then I had to be better than him, so I went down face first and bruised my ribs and everything and it was good. It was worth it.