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"  Autumn in Brooklyn Heights, late morning. Two men at a table on the patio of Teresa&amp;#039;s Restaurant. The balding guy with black-framed specs and crooked teeth is Paul Giamatti -- America&amp;#039;s finest little actor. Raab, the other one, is a fat magazine writer. Raab: You&amp;#039;re between jobs right now? Giamatti: I guess I am. I just finished a bunch of jobs in a row. I did Fred Claus, then I did this John Adams miniseries for HBO. R: What do you do between jobs? G: I go nuts. I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;m happy not to be doing anything, but I&amp;#039;m also just going out of my mind a little bit. Have you eaten anything?  R: I had a kielbasa omelette. G: Oh, that&amp;#039;s the way to go, yeah. Comes the waitress. G: Can I get a cup of coffee and -- could I get a BLT? W: What kind of bread? G: White? The waitress goes. R: Who decided who would get the male nude scene in Sideways? G: Oh, I don&amp;#039;t think there was ever any question who was gonna be nude in that movie. I don&amp;#039;t think he was actually supposed to be nude. I think he wanted to be nude. G: I don&amp;#039;t know. A lotta people at that time started asking, &amp;quot;Does it bother you that people call you a character actor?&amp;quot; and I&amp;#039;d go, &amp;quot;No.&amp;quot; And then the next guy would ask, &amp;quot;Does it bother you that people call you a character actor?&amp;quot; and I&amp;#039;d go, &amp;quot;No.&amp;quot; And then the next guy asked me, and I said, &amp;quot;Well, now it does, because everybody keeps asking if it should bother me.&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t know what it means. I guess it just means paunchy bald guy with crooked teeth.  R: Do you mind talking about acting? G: I don&amp;#039;t mind. I don&amp;#039;t have anything interesting to say about it, but it&amp;#039;s interesting talking about it. R: Fuck it, then. I gotta go. G: That&amp;#039;s up to you.  R: I gotta catch New Jersey Transit back home. G: Split. Go back to Jersey. I don&amp;#039;t blame you. R: You normally a BLT man? G: Nah, not usually. R: You a blintz guy? I wanna split a blintz with you.  G: Really? Well, we could have a berry blintz for dessert if you&amp;#039;d like. I usually go with the savory blintzes if I&amp;#039;m gonna have a blintz, a spinach blintz or something. R: If you don&amp;#039;t want a blintz . . . G: No, no -- I&amp;#039;m fine. If you want a blintz, that&amp;#039;s fine. R: I want this story to be good. And forcing a blintz on a character actor is good. G: Is that a Cleveland Indians tattoo? R: Yep. G: I used to love the Indians. I remember they had Joe Charboneau, the guy who could open beer bottles with his eye socket. R: You remember that? G: Absolutely. Super Joe Charboneau. [Points to Raab&amp;#039;s tattoo.] What do they call that guy? R: Chief Wahoo. G: Wahoo, right. Wahoo. R: Chief Wahoo. He&amp;#039;s not just any member of the tribe.  G: It&amp;#039;s a great logo. It&amp;#039;s just unfortunate. R: When I&amp;#039;ve been with real Indians, nobody has objected. G: You spend a lotta time on reservations? Giamatti eats his BLT.  R: Did you ever plan on this career? G: Not really.  R:You&amp;#039;re a pretty good actor. G: Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I kinda have to be, because, y&amp;#039;know . . . look at me.  R: Any actors who inspired you? G: There&amp;#039;s lotsa guys, like Alec Guinness. When I was a kid, it didn&amp;#039;t matter what the hell I&amp;#039;d see him in, and I wasn&amp;#039;t thinking I&amp;#039;m gonna be a great actor some-day, but I just couldn&amp;#039;t get enough of seein&amp;#039; that guy. Kind Hearts and Coronets -- a great fuckin&amp;#039; movie, and he&amp;#039;s amazing. Or I&amp;#039;d see Bob Balaban in some movie, and I&amp;#039;d be like, &amp;quot;Ooooh, that guy&amp;#039;s really interesting.&amp;quot; It always astonishes me when I see Midnight Cowboy and there he is. That guy&amp;#039;s been everywhere forever -- and he&amp;#039;s fantastic. When I did Lady in the Water, the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban -- I couldn&amp;#039;t leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. I love all those character guys like that. I worked with J. T. Walsh -- it was one of the best experiences I ever had -- a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did -- The Negotiator -- he died a couple of months after that. R: Who starred in that -- Denzel?  G: Uh...Sam Jackson. R: Good for me, huh? Maybe I&amp;#039;ll get another tattoo, of Uncle Ben.  G: Jesus. Hey, look -- it took me a minute, too. R: But I saw the movie. G: Yeah? Well, I was in the movie and I had to think about it. &amp;quot;Was it Denzel?&amp;quot; Jesus Christ . . . R: Should we get a blintz? G: I actually want a little something more, so I&amp;#039;d get a blintz.  Comes again the waitress. R: Could we get a blintz? Like a dessert blintz. But not too sweet. Something fruity, that we could share. Like two men.  G: Yeah. Fruity&amp;#039;s fine. W: Our fruity stuff is a bit sweet, at least for my taste. G: That sounds fine. W: But the cheese are not sweet. G: A fruity one&amp;#039;s fine. You all right with a fruity one? R: Fruity&amp;#039;s good. W: I will give you a cheese mixed with the fruit.  Comes the blintz -- cherry-cheese. G: I&amp;#039;ll just split it in half. They eat the blintz. R: Man, that&amp;#039;s good. G: That was good. Not too heavy. Alan Arkin -- that&amp;#039;s another guy.  R: I&amp;#039;m a big fan of Alan Arkin. G: You gotta do an Alan Arkin thing. Alan Arkin I think people would care about.  R: That&amp;#039;s a good pitch. I just don&amp;#039;t know if I could ever sell it. [Not true. Go to esquire.com/alanarkin. -- Ed.]  G: I&amp;#039;m amazed they took to me. I can&amp;#039;t imagine why anybody would be interested. R: I&amp;#039;m not surprised. You&amp;#039;re a giant. G: God bless you, sir. Do I stick you with the check? R: Yes. G: Esquire pays for it, right? R: No -- it&amp;#039;s coming out of my son&amp;#039;s 529 account. But that&amp;#039;s how much I adore your work. G: God bless you. R: No -- God bless you. G: No. You. For more of this interview, go to esquire.com/fullgiamatti. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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