So when the Australian actor heard that he and Jones were both circling Train Dreams, he knew he had to seal the deal. “We happened to run in to each other a couple of times when Felicity had started to talk to [the director] about it,” he recalls. “She was drawn to the film for her own reasons, but I was very much like, ‘Can you, like, please, please please?!”
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“It dares to strive to do something a bit different than the typical cinema experience,” Edgerton says. “It’s a celebration of an ordinary life.”
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Parade: How do you describe this movie to people?
Joel Edgerton: I think the violence is on the fringes everywhere. I’ve heard the film described as a neo-Western, which is great.
Edgerton: I do. If we suddenly woke up tomorrow and all of our smartphones and devices were just gone — like a Black Mirror episode where everyone wakes up and every single person on the planet’s cell phone had just vanished and we had to go back to an analog way of life — I think we would adjust very well. We'd be all the better for it.
Edgerton: We'd be happy, and we would talk to each other and connect with each other, and we'd be with the people that we’re actually with instead of texting someone on the other side of the planet.
Edgerton: I’d pick my Nanny Cam.
Edgerton: Listen, I didn't have an email address until the year after I finished high school. I consider myself a person of moderate intelligence. But I wonder how distracted and therefore uneducated I could have become if I didn’t have access to the Internet. I'm not talking about frivolous things — like the discovery of stuff you love that you would have to go to a library for or meet someone extraordinary or weird or strange. I don't know if the Internet would basically have made me a better or worse student or a better or a worse person.
Edgerton: Yeah, we get to go hunting together. Felicity, do you want to go hunting?
Edgerton: I feel like Covid became my cabin in the woods with my relationship. Yes, there was still the distraction of the Internet, and we could watch television and use our phones. But we hunkered down together. I can happily say that my relationship got better, and I realized not just that I love my partner, but I really liked her as well.
You’re both parents as well. Do you bring that real-life role with you when you film a movie like this?
Jones: Our children are similar ages to the child in the film, so you can't help but draw on your own life.
Edgerton: I mean, every film is its own machine. And films like this feel more bespoke. There's a greater cadence to the momentum of shooting. This was a five-scenes-a-day kind of movie. On the bigger ones, they're going to be lighting for three hours, so I better bring a good book to read. You work out how you fit into the machine. There's something about a fast moving, smaller machine that suits me. It reminds me of the first movies I made in Australia. We were just like, “Come on, guys, there's a bear chasing us down the street!”
Edgerton: That's a really good point, actually. If you could work on a big scale thing with the director and still care about the interpersonal relationships, then it doesn't feel like you have been swallowed.
Now that you’ve spent so much time together, what have you learned about each other?
Jones: You don't want to be having big, long conversations about what you're doing! I’ve also learned that Joel is a laugh a minute.
Edgerton: The beauty of being an actor is that transformational aspect. I didn’t want to just play, you know, middle-class Australian dudes.
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