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"FacebookPinterest\n\nRelated photos: See the best-dressed men at Sundance.\n\nActor Sam Rockwell&amp;amp;#x2019;s memorable roles include a cloned space miner (Moon), a troubled gunslinger (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and an exuberant water park manager (The Way, Way Back). Now, in Laggies\u2014an incredibly funny, sweet and thoughtful gem directed by Lynn Shelton, which premiered last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival\u2014Rockwell charts new terrain as a divorced single dad, whose teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) befriends a woman in her late 20s still trying to find herself (Keira Knightley). Complicated romance ensues.\n\nWith the shaggy beginnings of a beard (necessary for an upcoming role) and a mischievous twinkle in his eye, Rockwell eased onto a Park City bar stool this weekend and submitted to our interrogations\u2014which, we&amp;amp;#x2019;ll note, are not of the typical festival-circuit variety. Before heading to Sundance, we harangued friends for questions they&amp;amp;#x2019;d want to ask a stranger sitting next to them\u2014deep questions, silly questions, anything to dig past superficialities. The results, put to our first victim.\n\n\n\nGQ: OK\u2014so when was the last time you cried?\n\n Sam Rockwell: Oh, probably watching a car commercial. But you know what \u2014 Tom Hanks made me cry in Captain Phillips. And I think he was fucking robbed of an Oscar nomination. That last scene, where he&amp;amp;#x2019;s with the nurse, ripped me up. I think he was fucking robbed, and you can quote me on that.\n\nHow are you, really?\n\n I&amp;amp;#x2019;m a little toxic from being at Sundance for two days, and all the whiskey. The Laggies after-party was fun because a couple friends showed up \u2014 Elizabeth Banks, Ben Schwartz, and Phil[ip Seymour] Hoffman. Ben got along with Phil and it&amp;amp;#x2019;s always nice to see your friends get along. And the screening beforehand was awesome; the response was amazing.\n\nDo you have a nickname?\n\n &amp;amp;#x201C;Big Cock.&amp;amp;#x201D; That&amp;amp;#x2019;s what my friends call me. &amp;amp;#x201C;B.C.&amp;amp;#x201D; for short. Nah, I&amp;amp;#x2019;m kidding. They just call me &amp;amp;#x201C;Sam&amp;amp;#x201D; or &amp;amp;#x201C;Sammy.&amp;amp;#x201D; Sometimes &amp;amp;#x201C;Rock,&amp;amp;#x201D; or &amp;amp;#x201C;Rockwell.&amp;amp;#x201D; Nothing fancy. Casey Affleck always coined great nicknames for me, the kind that aren&amp;amp;#x2019;t annoying but actually feel kind of cool. His favorite thing was calling me &amp;amp;#x201C;The Rock.&amp;amp;#x201D;\n\nHow often do you go to the dark side?\n\n I live in it, baby. It&amp;amp;#x2019;s like Mark Ruffalo says in The Avengers:&amp;amp;#x201C;I&amp;amp;#x2019;m always angry.&amp;amp;#x201D; The darkness is always there, you&amp;amp;#x2019;ve just got to monitor it, keep it under wraps. But get a few hard ciders in me, you never know.\n\nWhat&amp;amp;#x2019;s the best advice you have?\n\n Keep a cool head and a warm heart.\n\nWhat&amp;amp;#x2019;s the hardest decision you&amp;amp;#x2019;ve had to make?\n\n There are so many. I remember once I had to decide about doing a production of American Buffalo in Ireland. That was tough\u2014it would&amp;amp;#x2019;ve taken me away from my girlfriend at the time, but I really wanted to play the part of Teach. I kind of regret not taking the part. These kind of hard decisions happen all the time\u2014usually when I have to decide between two films shooting at the same time. Recently, I had to decide between two movies and it was fucking torturous. It went on for a week, this agonizing indecision. And then when you do make a decision it&amp;amp;#x2019;s both a feeling of relief but also of sadness, of leaving something behind. You don&amp;amp;#x2019;t really know if you&amp;amp;#x2019;ve made the right decision until the movies come out, or sometimes even years later.\n\nWould you rather fight ten duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?\n\n I&amp;amp;#x2019;Il go for the ten duck-sized horses. I think I could handle myself. And they really might just want someone to pet them. The horse-size duck [laughs]\u2014now, that&amp;amp;#x2019;s dangerous. I don&amp;amp;#x2019;t want to go there. You ever see that science-fiction classic from the &amp;amp;#x2019;70s, Food of the Gods? They feed the animals this super-food and they grow into six-foot chickens. Forget it, I don&amp;amp;#x2019;t want to tangle with a giant duck. I guess if I was super-hungry, I might battle the duck\u2014take it down, grill it up, have food in my freezer for a month.\n\nIf you could make something socially acceptable that&amp;amp;#x2019;s currently not, what would it be?\n\n Yawning. I don&amp;amp;#x2019;t know why that&amp;amp;#x2019;s perceived as rude. You&amp;amp;#x2019;re just breathing.\n\nWho is your favorite person?\n\n My girlfriend, Leslie Bibb. We&amp;amp;#x2019;ve been together quite a while now.\n\nDo you want to eat some popsicles in my basement?\n\n [Laughs] Depends who&amp;amp;#x2019;s asking! Jeffrey Dahmer? Buffalo Bill? Henry Kissinger? If it&amp;amp;#x2019;s [Laggies director] Lynn Shelton, I&amp;amp;#x2019;ll eat popsicles in her basement any day of the week. Or Ben Schwartz\u2014 I would eat popsicles in his basement. I just hope he asks.\n\nAt age 10, what did you think you might be doing at the age you&amp;amp;#x2019;re at now?\n\n Pumping gas or in jail.\n\nHave you ever been arrested?\n\n Yeah, twice. In high school. I had a probation officer for a bit. But it was never anything serious. One time I was buying beer with a fake ID. Another time, me and my friend Jason were outside one of our other friends&amp;amp;#x2019; houses, heckling them, shouting stupid stuff at their window, and the cops saw us and came after us. We jumped in a car and tried to lose them. When they finally pulled us over, we actually did the same thing that happens in Laggies\u2014we switched seats and I got in the driver&amp;amp;#x2019;s seat, and Jason got in the passenger seat. I took one for the team to save my buddy&amp;amp;#x2019;s ass. At first the cops thought the car was stolen, and they had us handcuffed and everything. I think they were just trying to scare us. Eventually the car&amp;amp;#x2019;s owner showed up and we straightened it all out.\n\nWhat&amp;amp;#x2019;s the title of your someday autobiography?\n\n Sorry I&amp;amp;#x2019;m Late\u2014 I Had Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation With a Bottle of Tequila and We Lost Her. You know what that&amp;amp;#x2019;s from? Robert Redford said that in [1979 adventure film] Electric Horseman. If you see him at Sundance, tell him thanks for giving me the title of my memoirs.\n\n\n\nDavy Rothbart is the author of My Heart is an Idiot, a book of personal essays, co-director of the documentary Medora, and the creator of FOUND Magazine. Follow him on Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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