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"FacebookPinterest\n\nFor Poseidon, director Wolfgang Petersen built a five-story section of a cruise ship. What did it feel like to walk out on set that first day\n\nWhat Wolfgang did is very interesting. Do you know the song \"Thus Spake Zarathustra\" It's the music they used at the beginning of 2001. The first time we walked onto that set, he played that song as loud as you possibly could on this extraordinary sound system, and there really was the sense of being part of this epic, brilliant madman's vision.\n\nThere was a TV remake last year. Did you see it \n\nYeah, it was horrific.\n\nYou play a poker player in the movie. \n\nIt's funny, I had to teach the screenwriter the game and how to play poker and how to write it. He'd written something\u2014I swear to God, it was like Go Fish.\n\nAre you a big poker player \n\nI play in a game called Big Money Wednesday. The game itself has been going on for twelve years. I've been playing in it for about ten. It's a group of guys primarily from the South who all moved to New York or met around the same time in New York.\n\nDoes the game live up to its name How much money are we talking \n\nThe game has changed because people's lives have changed. It used to be that the most you could ever lose was your rent, and all of us paid very low rent because we all lived in small places. Now it's changing. There's been a little bit of a disconnect in the game. Some people are making money, some people are not. So those people making money can be a bit more ruthless, and they are.\n\nWhere do you play \n\nWe used to do it in the basement of a friend's place, and his wife was like, Get the fuck out. So we rent a space in a music studio. You can be nutty and out of control until five o'clock in the morning. The game includes a lot of funneling of drinks. There's a keg. The game includes a lot of drinking, to be honest with you. It's part of the rules. We have thousands of rules.\n\nWhat kind of rules \n\nIf you hit someone, there's a 25 penalty. That's called an \"aggression penalty.\" There's a \"minor aggression penalty,\" where you throw chips at someone. That's 15. If you throw cards off the table, that's 5.\n\nDo the guys see your movies \n\nSometimes. It's a very humbling place to go to, to say the least. And it's a game where there is no real respect or patience for neuroses. The second I talk about a movie, they're like, \"Actor boy! Actor boy!\" There was this ridiculous rumor recently that I was dating Jessica Simpson. I sent them a text message Because of the paparazzi, Jessica and I have had to hole up at the Four Seasons. I'm sorry I can't make it tonight. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that game. The rest of the night must have been chaos.\n\nSo where were you that night, if not with Jessica \n\nI was actually with my mother.\n\nYou dated Salma Hayek for about a year. What happened \n\nIn this business, people are very dedicated to what they do. It's violently competitive, and it's much tougher on women. And women of a certain age oftentimes feel they need to stay on the treadmill\u2014the figurative treadmill. If both people are working, it's a problem. In the case of Salma and I, she was in South Africa doing a movie and I was in Australia making Stealth, and with the time that we spent apart, invariably we broke up.\n\nDid you ever think, I should quit this movie \n\nI swear to God I wanted to quit Stealth. I really did. That is the thing about the business The choices you make and the movies become human life choices, in terms of \"What does this mean for my life\"\n\nAre you looking to get married \n\nYou can't search for a wife. But you do attract a kind of woman when you're fucking around and another kind when you're not. Part of the response to my breakup with her was to just start fucking around. I've had my very fun, very playful share of it. And I've enjoyed it, without a doubt. I'm not dismissing it by any means. But I'm at a point in my life where, yeah, fucking around is a bit boring, honestly. There is a point where you start to see your life and you say, I think there's a greater level of experience and depth that I haven't known.\n\nWe photographed you in western clothing. But that's what you wear all the time, right \n\nIt's what I'm most comfortable in. Jeans and western shirts is kind of where I'm from. It's cozy comfy, it's really relad and strong, and there's not necessarily a statement of wealth or fashion involved in it. But I had my Brokeback moment today. I'm like, Jesus, this is looking very Brokeback. Maybe I'm fishing-trip gay and don't realize it!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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