Know why executive producer George Clooney wanted Kyle Chandler to play the obsessive Col. Cathcart in “Catch-22”? “Kyle is Jimmy Stewart in everything he does,” says Clooney. “There’s not a moment that you feel like he's not telling you the truth.”
"I did the first take, and they were laughing. And I thought, 'This isn't good,'" Kyle Chandler says of shooting Hulu's"Catch-22."
Hard to argue: Chandler has charmed audiences for more than 30 years in “Early Edition” and “Friday Night Lights,” often as the Everyman protagonist. But as Cathcart, he’s not the guy to root for — as much as the 53-year-old actor may want you to. The Envelope spoke to Chandler — who conducted the interview straddled across a flipped-around chair, affably leaning on the backrest — about finding humanity in absurdity and how “The Graduate” literally drove him toward acting.
It was about sizing it up and making sure that it’s more than what you see. To give him depth. He could read as a stereotype of a cartoon character, almost. So that was a challenge. I had butterflies in my stomach. I did the first take, and they were laughing. And I thought, “This isn’t good.”in that sense. You want to do justice to the severity of what it’s about, but you have to play the absurdity.
I saw [Nichols’ 1967 film] “The Graduate” when I was a little kid. My mom and dad were watching TV and said, “It’s time to go to bed,” and I was like, “What are they watching?” So I got this little portable TV, took it under the covers and watched “The Graduate.” Man, I fell in love with sports cars. And Simon and Garfunkel [who wrote the soundtrack]. And I think that was the point where I probably knew I wanted to be an actor, without saying it out loud.Exactly, it’s all connected.
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