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By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a guaranteed good time and mutual admiration society reunion whenever Wes Bentley and I get together.\u00a0 Putting a great deal of trust in me when it comes to his level of candor, we have braved the darkness and the light, talked about demons on screen, personal dragons he has slain and, of course, his ever present career which took a real upward turn with his performance as Seneca in The Hunger Games<\/em>. Over the past few years, with every meeting and conversation, the sun shines ever brighter for Wes Bentley, but never moreso than now.\u00a0 As we sat down for this exclusive interview initially to talk about The Time Being<\/em>, thanks to Fate and a slow, steady burn of glorious opportunities, a cornucopia of riches has opened up for Wes, among them,\u00a0 Lovelace<\/em>, Terrence Malick\u2019s upcoming Knight of Cups<\/em>, Green Blade Rises<\/em> about Abe Lincoln’s formative years, and a real surprise, HBO\u2019s newly announced Ryan Murphy created series, Open<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In The Time Being<\/em>, Bentley stars opposite Frank Langella.\u00a0 Written and directed by first-time feature helmer Nenad Cicin-Sain, The Time Being<\/em> is a moody and meditative performance piece set against stunning visuals that set the stage for the relationship between Daniel, a struggling young artist, and Warner, a reclusive elder benefactor whom Daniel hopes will give him a commission.\u00a0 Instead of the much needed commission to support Daniel\u2019s financially-strapped and emotionally crumbling family, Warner instead offers him curious and specific photo-video assignments that seem more like surveillance than art.\u00a0 At first blush, although strange, Daniel accepts the first\u00a0 assignment as his art is a meld of photography and oil work with the photo serving as inspiration for the canvas.\u00a0 But the assignments become more bizarre, raising suspicion within Daniel.\u00a0 As Daniel and Warner start to build on their business relationship, truths come to light through underlying themes of family, art, sacrifice, selfishness and selflessness, as we come to learn that Warner is neither who or what he seems and that he and Daniel may have more in common than Daniel would like to believe.\u00a0 Almost a cautionary tale from one generation to the next, will Daniel recognize the mistakes of Warner\u2019s life that he is also now seemingly duplicating or will Daniel ignore life\u2019s lessons and a chance for finding his true self before it\u2019s too late?<\/p>\n

Sitting on the 8th floor of a Hollywood hi-rise, the day of our interview delivered a sunny, clear, gorgeous panoramic view of the city below us which, in and of itself, seemed like the cherry on top of Bentley\u2019s life right now, and a picture-perfect setting to talk about movies, imagery and Bentley\u2019s burgeoning career.<\/p>\n

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First, I\u2019ve got to congratulate you on the HBO show, Open<\/em>!\u00a0 Whenever time has passed since we last get together, I sometimes sit and wonder and go, \u201c Wonder what Wes has\u00a0 being doing since The Hunger Games<\/em>?\u201d and the next thing I know, you\u2019ve got the Terrence Malick project Knight of Cups<\/em>,\u00a0 Lovelace<\/em> and this movie, The Time Being<\/em>, which is so beautiful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you, thank you very much.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited about [Open].\u00a0 Did you like this movie?<\/p>\n

Oh my god!\u00a0 I love it. You\u2019ve got minimal dialogue, but your performance!\u00a0 You\u2019ve got this great thoughtful intensity that\u2019s as if Frank Langella is transferring the spirit of his character Warner into you.\u00a0 It\u2019s really wonderful to watch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah.\u00a0 That\u2019s great.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad that YOU like it.<\/p>\n

What led you to this film?\u00a0 Especially since this is another first-time director.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got another film coming up, The Three Nights in the Desert<\/em> which also bodes a first-time director.\u00a0 What is this magical meld you\u2019ve got going on with first-time helmers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s circumstance, sometimes it\u2019s a good script, sometimes it\u2019s that people who have credit believe in them<\/strong>.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t always have to be a director who\u2019s got the experience; it\u2019s the people around him who believe in him.\u00a0 It helps you have faith in him as well.<\/p>\n

What spoke to you about The Time Being<\/em>?\u00a0 This is off the beaten path and not something one would expect to see you jump into you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A couple things.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m a father and I\u2019m an actor, I understand the battles between being the dad and being an artist and [the question of] \u201cWhere do you spend your time?\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 I had a much shorter and much less intense battle than Daniel did.\u00a0\u00a0 I decided right away the focus I want it to be is to be a dad and if my art struggles, so be it.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather be a good dad.\u00a0 But what I found in doing that is that I was taking so much from my son as an artist, too, and I was able to use that [in my acting].\u00a0 It was actually giving me more tools than I had before.<\/strong>\u00a0 I needed him, I needed her, to give me more as an artist.\u00a0 Were I in my 20’s, I would have never thought that before I even wanted to have a kid.\u00a0 I would have thought that was the last thing I needed [laughing], which is kind of the struggle that they are having in The Time Being<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the themes.\u00a0 I thought that was interesting.\u00a0 And it made me a bit emotional.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The line where Daniel says, \u201cI need my family\u201d, hit home.\u00a0 So I was interested in that.<\/p>\n

Also, I met with Nenad [Cicin-Sain] and he wanted to make a very artistic film.\u00a0 He wanted everything to look like a painting.\u00a0 I thought that was cool<\/strong>.\u00a0 I thought that would be interesting to see and he definitely did that.<\/p>\n

It does look like a perfectly framed and posed painting.\u00a0 You could lift almost any frame out of this film and have it as a stand alone image.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which is very cool.\u00a0 I had a battle about where my shoes should go in one scene.<\/strong>\u00a0 I thought I would fall asleep in the chair with my shoes on.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done that.\u00a0 It seems normal.\u00a0 Why would you take your shoes off if you\u2019re just sleeping in a chair?\u00a0 But, he was very adamant.\u00a0 He wanted the shoes sitting on the ground, [indicating] over here.\u00a0 I argued but was like, \u201cOkay, whatever you want.\u201d\u00a0 Then I saw it later and I got it.\u00a0 It looked like a painting.\u00a0 He was just trying to place his piece in the painting.\u00a0 I apologized to him for questioning him<\/strong>.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t really a fight.\u00a0 It was just a questioning.\u00a0 But he was so adamant, it felt like, \u201cOh, okay, he really wants this.\u201d\u00a0 Then I saw it and it was \u201cI know what your doing.\u201d\u00a0 He did that so much in the film.\u00a0 So, I liked that idea [the visual artistry] and I was intrigued by it.\u00a0 I wanted to be a part of that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Since Daniel is an artist who blends photography and oil painting, did you have to speak with anyone or undergo some training in brush stroke technique, camera operation?\u00a0 You\u2019re working in two mediums – oil and still photography.\u00a0 Your physical operation and movement in each discipline is very believable, especially with the painting be it with brush strokes or holding the brush, dipping the brush swirling it in water or turpentine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, that\u2019s nice.\u00a0 That\u2019s great.\u00a0 The two painters who helped us on the film [Eric Zener and Stephen Wright], I worked with them for a couple of days.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a painter and I never have been, but they showed me the basics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re acting is actually like a painting.\u00a0 You paint your own canvases with your performanc<\/strong>e!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right [laughing] that\u2019s right.\u00a0 But don\u2019t give me a brush!\u00a0 It won\u2019t look like that! [laughing] But they showed me how to do that and being an actor I was able to take it on.\u00a0 They showed me how to build a painting from the back so when we made the paintings it was a back and fort<\/strong>h.\u00a0 I would do a bit on the camera and then one of them would come in and start working a bit on it while we shot something else.\u00a0 Then I would come in and do more and then he would show me something else to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m quick to pick up on it so I was lucky to have these two guys show me how to look like a real painter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very convincingly, Wes.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing to watch.\u00a0 The more you got into the film and then when you\u2019re working on the big piece and you\u2019re actually sketching out with the charcoal.\u00a0 Everyone can see – it\u2019s actually you filling in the paint and\u00a0 some of the subject details which so often you don\u2019t get in a film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was me.<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re right.\u00a0 We were lucky.\u00a0 They did great stuff for the film in editing but like I said, Eric Zener, [with] that painting he was very detailed with me.\u00a0 I\u2019m a very reactive actor.\u00a0 I react quickly.\u00a0 So, if someone gives me a direction I usually can do it, \u201cBang\u201d, right away.<\/strong>\u00a0 But, if I think too much about it, I give them too much time with it, I can over-think it, I can kill it.\u00a0\u00a0 So, Eric was on set which was great.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t just have to have time with him before the film, which we had, but him being on set, giving me that direction sometimes off camera, I will react to it well and I will do it.\u00a0 I was lucky to have him there.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got two really significant relationships on-screen.\u00a0 One, your scenes with Sarah Paulson, especially the gallery scene, are extremely emotional.\u00a0 And then the whole dynamic with Frank Langella.\u00a0 What kind of rehearsal time did you have, particularly with Frank, to develop this great rapport.\u00a0 I noticed these beautiful little inflections to the performance, like whenever he comes into a room and you\u2019re sitting, you would stand; a respectful symbol that I think is not only very elegant but adds another layer to the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t have much time together before the film started.\u00a0 I spent a day with [Langella] when he got into town, spent a day at his house and we just talked.\u00a0 We just connected as people.\u00a0<\/strong> We didn\u2019t have to do much work because we really connected as people.\u00a0 I really got along with him<\/strong>.\u00a0 While we were shooting, his house – the one that he stayed at in town anyway –\u00a0 was across the street from the house that we shot at for the mansion.\u00a0 It was a great house.\u00a0 I would go over there early.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t even go to my space to [get ready].\u00a0 I would go over to his place.\u00a0 He\u2019d cook breakfast.\u00a0 We\u2019d eat some, we\u2019d run the lines or work on the lines and then we\u2019d watch YouTube videos or something and just talk and hang out.\u00a0 So, that connection was there and my respect for him personally was already there.\u00a0 That led me into Daniel\u2019s respect<\/strong>.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t in the film or in the cut, but I saw Daniel as an abandoned child, either emotionally or literally, and didn\u2019t have that father figure there which is why he\u2019s not very good at it himself and also why he attaches himself to Warner and he has that immediate respect for him, so he fills that void for a bit.\u00a0 In one way he\u2019s respectful to him, in other ways he\u2019s defiant with him which is good because there\u2019s a bit of a father figure there.\u00a0 Artistically there\u2019s a father figure there.<\/p>\n

Seeing you go toe-to-toe with Donald Sutherland in The Hunger Games<\/em> and now toe-to-toe with Frank Langella, it\u2019s wonderful to watch you with these iconic elder statesmen.\u00a0 You bring this tacit respect into the performance that I think so many other actors might fight.\u00a0 You have this easy natural grace with them and adds so much to your characters.\u00a0 I saw it in your performance as Seneca when we talked about The Hunger Game<\/em>s and now again.\u00a0 It\u2019s lovely.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m lucky. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Of course, I see The Time Being<\/em> right after seeing Lovelace<\/em>.\u00a0 Is there anybody who didn\u2019t want to work on Lovelace<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughing hysterically] Okay! I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so!\u00a0 I was only there one day so I don\u2019t know how the entire filming went\u00a0 but it was cool to hang out.<\/strong>\u00a0 I was there the same day as other people.\u00a0 There was a big group by the trailers, actors you respect and just hanging out and talking about nothing, just bullshitting. It was just cool to be around that whole group of actors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Wes<\/p>\n

Was it the whole mystique of Deep Throa<\/em>t and Linda Lovelace that led you to want to be a part of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, and I loved that Amanda [Seyfried] was going to play her because I like Amanda a lot.\u00a0 I think she\u2019s a fine actress.\u00a0 I was looking forward to seeing what she was going to do with it, even though I only had one scene with her.\u00a0 It was that, the cast was building up, the director I like.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s the mystique of [Linda Lovelace] and the legend of Deep Throa<\/em>t that really made everyone want to be a part of that.\u00a0 You can\u2019t miss out on that!<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the performances are so incredible and I think it\u2019s one of the greatest and most fortuitous of Hollywood events with Lindsay Lohan being pulled from the other Linda Lovelace production Inferno<\/em> back in 2011 and then have it announced that Amanda Seyfriend was cast as Linda Lovelace in Lovelace<\/em>. Amanda brings this great naivete to the character that I don\u2019t see coming from Lohan in any version of the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah.\u00a0 I would say that\u2019s true.\u00a0 That naivete?\u00a0 It\u2019s true.<\/strong> I\u00a0 haven\u2019t seen it myself yet so I have no idea how it is or I am.<\/p>\n

I saw an early press screening here in LA and I admit, I was hysterical with glee.\u00a0 And watching James Franco play Hugh Hefner is delicious.\u00a0 There is nothing that he can\u2019t do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m hearing good things about [the film].\u00a0 James is great!\u00a0 It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m beginning to think there\u2019s nothing you can\u2019t do.\u00a0 Watching you go with these chameleonic roles – and you\u2019re not just physically chameleonic, you\u2019re emotionally chameleonic as well.\u00a0 You have not allowed yourself to get pigeon-holed into anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I want to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to get pigeon-holed.\u00a0 I\u2019m lucky to have the opportunitie<\/strong>s.\u00a0 When I didn\u2019t work in my 20’s, there was this other stuff, too, but part of it was that I was getting pushed and a lot of the stuff I was seeing was vampires and dark stuff.\u00a0 So, I started to say, \u201cI\u2019ve got to back away.\u201d\u00a0 It gave me an excuse to back away anyway and made it all okay to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad now.\u00a0 I knew in my 30’s it would be different and luckily it has been.\u00a0 The stuff I\u2019ve done recently that\u2019s not out yet is more of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting opportunities to do things – I\u2019m surprised.\u00a0 Everyday something comes across and I\u2019m so happy that people are thinking of me this way.\u00a0 It\u2019s really opening up now.\u00a0 It\u2019s always what I wanted as an actor.\u00a0 To me, that\u2019s what I wanted to do.\u00a0 I wanted to be a bunch of different things and I couldn\u2019t, so I became an actor so that I could be a little bit of a bunch of different things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just seeing what you\u2019ve done since your re-emergence with There Be Dragons<\/em>, it\u2019s astounding to watch your growth as an actor, and the performances, and importantly, the roles that you\u2019re picking.\u00a0 You\u2019re not taking just anything out there that comes along.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. No, not, I don\u2019t want to [take just anything].<\/p>\n

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What is it that speaks to you first when a script comes to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I should be fair to the truth.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been lucky to have these films.\u00a0 They\u2019re getting better and better every year as I\u2019m building back up my career.\u00a0<\/strong> I have a family so a lot of times there are things that I do that aren\u2019t as complete as I would want them to be or they\u2019re not quite the things that I want them to be.\u00a0 And you don\u2019t get paid the same way you did in the 90’s in films [laughing] so you\u2019re sweating it out from one film to the next wondering, \u201cAm I gonna get something after this because it\u2019s double scale and I gotta do it.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve been lucky that in those things that are falling into my path, they\u2019re just getting better and better and they have been diverse; I mean very different.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been lucky that that\u2019s happening.\u00a0 So, it hasn\u2019t always been me with a selection of things and choosing them.\u00a0 In a way, they\u2019ve been choosing me and I\u2019ve just been lucky that the people who are doing that are in the positions to choose me or picking for things that have variety or are helping me grow as an actor and at the same time feed my family.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right after or since The Hunger Games<\/em>, have you seen a greater influx of offers coming in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah, I did.\u00a0 I think the movie, Gary [Ross] picking me for that movie, said to other people, \u201cI trust him.\u00a0 I trust that he\u2019ll be there, he\u2019s got it together and he wants to work.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just like \u201cBam\u201d because I did that, that all this big stuff came.\u00a0 It\u2019s been slowly growing with bigger, more complete stuff and I think my quality is getting better, which I want.\u00a0 I want this slow burn<\/strong>.\u00a0 I had the bang at 20 years old and I don\u2019t want that again although I could have dealt better with it this time.\u00a0 I want that slow burn.\u00a0 I want to slowly build up that trust with an audience and build up that trust with myself and other artists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now tell me, what can we look for with this HBO Open?\u00a0 Is it a mini-series, full series?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a series.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pilot for now, I should say.\u00a0 Ryan Murphy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very cool project.\u00a0 I can\u2019t say too much about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s about open relationships.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great character for me because, like we\u2019ve been talking about, it\u2019s different from this sort of quiet thing that I do in a lot of films, which I enjoy doing<\/strong>.\u00a0 This guy [Evan Foster] has no filter.\u00a0 He\u2019s all out, rude, but entertaining.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of these guys that you just say, \u201cOh my God, I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re saying this and you\u2019re saying it loud around a bunch of people but it\u2019s hilarious!\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s funny and it\u2019s rude.\u00a0 I don\u2019t play guys like that often so I\u2019m really excited about it.<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m talking to Ryan about what direction he\u2019s gonna go and it\u2019s very cool. I love HBO.\u00a0 We all know this but I just want to say it, HBO is really doing something that\u2019s amazing.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have a place like this where you go and it\u2019s not all about the numbers that are coming in.<\/strong>\u00a0 They want to win awards.\u00a0 The way you prove yourself in these cable shows is you win awards.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about the ratings, it\u2019s not about who the sponsors are and all these things or how many episodes you\u2019re gonna do.\u00a0 It\u2019s about how are we gonna impress people<\/strong>; not necessarily win any awards, but that you want to.\u00a0 You\u2019re raising the quality.\u00a0 I think the long form narrative has saved our performance art because without long form narrative, in all these procedurals, we\u2019re not filling out characters and characters are actually what we\u2019re interested in, at least a lot of us are interested in.\u00a0 I just thank God for HBO and I\u2019m so happy I\u2019m on a project there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My buddy Scott Speadman is doing it with me, too<\/strong>.\u00a0 Scott\u2019s amazing. We did a film years ago called We Are Built.<\/em>\u00a0 It\u2019s a silly film but we were able to improv each other, feed off each other.\u00a0 He\u2019s a great friend.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna be able to click on this as well.<\/p>\n

Wes, I have held off for years paying extra money for HBO since I spend the bulk of my time screening films and now, because of you, I am now going to get HBO just to see your show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s awesome!\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful. I\u2019m so happy to hear that.\u00a0 Yeah, I know you do lots of movies.\u00a0 But, it\u2019ll be a awhile.\u00a0 We\u2019re not shooting for a little bit, but go ahead and get it now!<\/p>\n

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