The Rome hotel! Oh the Rome hotel! Give me a scene with no wardrobe and watch me cook (laughs). I’m going to get called for all the sexy parts now. I’ll say the Rome hotel (scene) and stick with that. It’s a great scene and we covered a lot of ground with the characters. You know, these scenes are really impressively written, truly, they were all such fun to perform and navigate and try to find our way through the truth and non-truth.
 
Your characters are professional liars, but do you think they tell the truth to each other at the end?

I want them to! (laughs).

The dialogue is so sharp. Is that easy or difficult to do?

 I love good banter. It’s my favourite kind of way of giving information, with that sort of rhythm. And Tony is a master at it.

Is it hard to separate work from your family life?

No, they’re just not separated like that, they’re both truly ingrained in my spirit and who I am so it’s all one thing to me – life.

What’s next for you?

I have a movie coming out called Fireflies in the Garden with Emily Watts and Willem Dafoe.

If you were being thrown a tribute evening, if you had a choice of five clips to put up on the screen what would they be?

God, we would be here all night if I had to catalogue that (laughs). I don’t think I would be a good judge – I would rather Garry (Marshall, director Pretty Woman) and Mike Nicols (director Closer) and Tony (Gilroy) or Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven) did that, I think that would be a more comprehensive and enjoyable assessment of what I’ve been up to.

You’ve worked with both English and American actors. Is there a different approach?

I quite like them both, it depends on the person, I don’t think English makes the man nor does American but I like Clive. He’s nice and tall which means I never have a double chin, lots of shots of me looking up – in every scene I’m a swan. Well, we all laugh but it’s so true.

Is it easier working with a director who is also the writer as Tony is on Duplicity?

Tony’s a dream. And it’s true, because he has all the answers. And he really does have all the answers, as the writer and director, and if there is a problem he can fix it and it’s just one stop shopping.

When it comes to bedroom scenes, does it help that you have worked together before?

I don’t do them as much as Clive - let’s just say that (laughs). It helps but for me it really has more to do with the fact that we laugh at the same things. We didn’t have all of our clothes off either! Come on, it’s a movie.

You get to wear some fantastic clothes in Duplicity. Did you raid the wardrobe?

(laughs) These shoes in fact. You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style, the way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, It was just terrific.

Check out what Clive Owen had to say about the film and his co-star here

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