It's a long way from "Notting Hill" to "Changing Lanes"...
It is, isn't it? Yes, they're very, very different films. I try to stay one step ahead of the game and surprise people with what I'm doing, and this seemed to be about as different as I could possibly be from doing "Notting Hill". There probably are similarities between the two films, but I haven't figured out what they are yet!
What can you tell us about your two leading men?
Well, they're both, in their different ways, absolutely on top of their game, and it was astonishing to be able to put them both together in this film of two different worlds. In the film, they come from two different worlds and those worlds collide and the sparks fly. I was very lucky to get both of them.
It must be challenging making a movie like this, when you're trying to surprise people's expectations?
It's good in a way that you have two stories and they hardly ever collide. The two actors only ever meet in, like, two scenes in the movie - the very beginning and the very end - but when you're watching one, you're always thinking about the other, and that gives the film an extraordinarily unique dynamic. It's also a suspense movie, and you really want to know what's going to happen next and you're constantly surprised - but it's a suspense movie with a difference because you don't know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. You're always trying to work that out, and that makes it really interesting.
Do you have a favourite scene from the film?
I like the car crashes. I'd never done a car crash before. I think they're pretty good. There are two of them and I think they're both pretty groovy!
