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

\"serious_man_-_stuhlbarg_-_smiling\"A very recognizable face to those in the theater community, Michael Stuhlbarg is now making his mark on film with his first leading feature film role for none other than the Coen Brothers.\u00a0\u00a0 Already a Tony nominee for his performance in \u201cThe Pillowman\u201d, followed by a multiple award winning turn in David Mamet\u2019s adaptation of \u201cThe Voysey Inheritance\u201d, Stuhlbarg is no stranger to the concept of embodiment of a character.\u00a0 And with Stuhlbarg, each interpretation is more dazzling than the last.\u00a0 Now, as the bewildered, bothered and befuddled Larry Gopnik in A SERIOUS MAN, he tackles, and masters, what is destined to become one of his signature roles.<\/p>\n

Larry Gopnik is a physics professor in a quiet suburb of 1967 Minneapolis.\u00a0 A religious man, his community and his life are steeped in the traditions of Judaism.\u00a0 Abundant in his mitzvahs, Larry even allows his unemployed and unemployable nebish of a brother, Arthur, to crash on his couch, listening to him day after day bemoaning the unfairness and unkindness of the world while and night after night hearing the \u201cglug, glug\u201d of Arthur\u2019s mechanical drainage of a sebaceous cyst on the back of his neck, which Arthur likens to the ills of the world descending on him like a plague.\u00a0 But what happens when Larry\u2019s life is turned upside down by his wife announcing she\u2019s leaving him for the paunchy and pompous Sy Ableman and Larry is remanded to the local \u201cJolly Roger\u201d for residency.\u00a0 Spending his nights covered in nightmare induced sweats, Larry questions his faith, academics, mortality and life and he seeks help in becoming a serious man.<\/p>\n

An articulate and humble man with an infectious smile and laugh, Michael Stuhlbarg is nothing like Larry Gopnik.\u00a0 Grateful for the blessings in his life, he welcomes all that the world has to offer and looks forward to each new challenge and gift.<\/p>\n

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\"serious_man_-_michael_stuhlbarg_professor\"Be it karma, or reward for a mitzvah in his life, Stuhlbarg is more than thankful for the six-degrees manner in which he landed the role of Larry Gopnik.\u00a0 \u201cI worked at a little off-Broadway theater company called the 52nd<\/sup> Street Project which is a theater for kids.\u00a0 The kids are from age 8 to 17.\u00a0 They write plays and then they get professional actors and directors to act them out and then direct them. I met Frances McDormand there.\u00a0 She\u2019s married to Joel [Coen]. We became friendly and that was about it.\u00a0\u00a0 Then by chance I got cast in a play with Frances; a workshop of a new play at Lincoln Center.\u00a0 So we get to be friendly there and then she invited Joel to come see me in a play at the Atlantic Theater Company – David Mamet\u2019s adaptation of Harley Granville Barker\u2019s play \u201cThe Voysey Inheritance.\u201d\u00a0 I think they had seen me in \u201cThe Pillowman\u201d on Broadway as well and I got to know them a little bit socially.\u00a0 I always hoped I would get a chance to work with them [the Coen Brothers] but never thought it would.\u00a0 Then I got a call out of the blue to say \u2018come in and audition for the part of the husband in the Yiddish parable at the beginning of the movie.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For Stuhlbarg, auditioning for the Coens was a real experience.\u00a0 \u201cI had to learn that whole scene in Yiddish.\u00a0 So, I went to a tutor and I learned the whole scene in Yiddish.\u00a0 Then I came back and did it for them and they laughed a lot and that made me really happy.\u00a0 Then they said they weren\u2019t sure at that time if they wanted an actor who could learn [Yiddish] or someone who could speak it fluently.\u00a0 They ended up going with folks who could speak it fluently and rightfully so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Undeterred, fate was smiling on Stuhlbarg when the Coens again called him; this time to read for the parts of Larry Gopnik and Uncle Arthur.\u00a0 \u201cI learned three scenes of each.\u00a0 I did all those scenes and they laughed a lot and I was very happy again.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I kept asking periodically if I was still in the running and I kept hearing back, \u2018Yeah, you are.\u2019\u00a0 Then eventually I heard, \u2018You\u2019re going to get one of these parts but they aren\u2019t sure which one you\u2019re going to get\u2019.\u00a0 So I started working on both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not having a preference between each role, Stuhlbarg \u201cwould have been glad to have done either one.\u00a0 It just so happened that they felt I was more right for Larry and that they had found Richard Kind for Arthur.\u00a0 And about six weeks before they started shooting I got a call from Joel saying, \u2018We\u2019ll put you out of your misery.\u00a0 You\u2019re playing Larry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While each of Stuhlbarg\u2019s characters, be they leading roles or stage or supporting roles on screen, is unique unto itself, Larry Gopnik is even more so.\u00a0 According to Stuhlbarg, \u201cI guess in some ways he resonates with everybody in the sense of him going along in his life thinking his life is one thing and then he gets some curve balls thrown at him and he has to make the best of them and sort of go along and do the best he can.\u00a0 We can all empathize when that happens to us in our lives.\u201d\u00a0 Playing a Physics professor though called for a little extra effort from Stuhlbarg, known for his exacting detail with each character.\u00a0 \u201cI knew nothing about Physics, for instance, and I found a physics professor to help me learn about that; to explain Schrodinger\u2019s Paradox, Schrodinger\u2019s Cat, and the uncertainty principle.\u00a0 I asked Joel and Ethan a lot of questions and then found my way into Larry and I guess then tried to put myself in whatever situations Larry found himself in and tried to react and respond as truthfully as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"serious_man_-_stuhlbarg___kid\"Extremely accomplished and acclaimed in the theatre world, it seems rather surprising that after his Tony nomination, Stuhlbarg\u2019s popularity swelled in the worlds of television and film as opposed to theatre.\u00a0 \u201cI guess it just became one of those circumstances where people in another medium of film and television heard about the play, came to see the play and I guess found it provocative and were interested.\u00a0 So some doors opened for me in terms of that.\u00a0 Then I started getting some opportunities that I had never had before and I took advantage of those.\u00a0 In terms of the plays that came around, I became a little more discerning in terms of the kind of work that I wanted to do.\u00a0 Theater is deep in my blood and I\u2019ve done it for a very long time and I take it very seriously.\u00a0 When I devote myself to it, I try to do it 100%.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting older and the amount of energy that I have to expel I am trying to use a little bit more judiciously and I\u2019m choosing my projects more judiciously because now more doors have been opened to me.\u00a0 That\u2019s how its gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be it stage or screen, Stuhlbarg\u2019s approach to every medium is \u201cpretty much the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s my job to bring a character to life.\u00a0 How that character is received is a little different.\u00a0 The person in the back in the second balcony needs to be able to receive what I\u2019m doing in a Broadway house.\u00a0 Whereas if I\u2019m making a film or television show the audience is somewhat smaller and I have to do much, much less.\u00a0 But they really feed off each other in a beautiful way.\u00a0 I know that my film and television work tend to make my theater work more simple and my theater work tends to ground me in a way that informs my film and television work.\u00a0 I want to continue to do all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s well known that at one time in his life, Stuhlbarg envisioned himself as an artist or a cartoonist.\u00a0 While not his primary vocation, Stuhlbarg has still pursued that passion with every character he portrays on stage as prior to a production, he draws a sketch of himself in character.\u00a0 He continued that habit with Larry Gopnik.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a great place for me to start in terms of putting ideas on paper and dreaming that whole wonderful period of time when someone says, \u2018You got the part\u2019 and you haven\u2019t started shooting yet or you haven\u2019t started rehearsing it for a play or whatever.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a dream time when [the character] can be anything you want it to be.\u00a0 Then over the course of asking questions it becomes more and more defined. I find that to be true with my sketching as well. He could look like this.\u00a0 He could look like that.\u00a0 He could wear a sweater.\u00a0 He could have glasses.\u00a0 His hair could be this way.\u00a0 It could be that way.\u00a0 And it\u2019s sort of fun for me to just put it down and then show it to the designers and see if they respond to it or not.\u00a0 Sometimes they do.\u00a0 Sometimes they could care less because they have strong ideas.\u201d\u00a0 And it\u2019s inevitable that something from Stuhlbarg\u2019s sketches find their way into the character.\u00a0 With Larry, \u201chis pallette was somewhat simple, but yes.\u00a0 I think we all had similar ideas about what he might be like.\u00a0 How far those ideas would be, would be dependent upon the collaboration of the artists involved –\u00a0 Mary Zophres who was our costume designer, Frida AradOttir our hair designer and head of the whole hair company who\u2019s fantastic, and Jean Black who is head of make-up, as well as myself and Joel and Ethan.\u00a0 All of us collaborated together.\u00a0 I drew little curls on top of Larry\u2019s head and we sort of determined which way they would go or what it might look like.\u00a0 I thought Larry might have no glasses and I thought Arthur would have glasses.\u00a0 As it ended up it was the opposite. So, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

A true professional, Stuhlbarg knows the importance of collaboration on a project, particularly when assuming the look of each character in context with the psychological characteristics and traits.\u00a0 With A SERIOUS MAN, \u201cMary Zophres, the costume designer, had created for everybody, these amazing clothing boards covered with pictures from the period in Minneapolis exclusive to the communities in which we were working.\u00a0 So when we showed up on the first day to meet her, all our work was done for us.\u00a0 She is brilliant at what she does and the stuff she found was so easy.\u00a0 When we put it on, it just made us feel like we were there.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t do anything, really.\u00a0 The constraint of the pants and the glasses.\u00a0 We had books to look at.\u00a0 We talked a little bit about the social [activities], what was going on at that time.\u00a0 It\u2019s mentioned briefly in Mrs. Samsky\u2019s \u201cThe New Freedoms\u201d that she brings up.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fascinating time to find yourself in in terms of dreaming on or thinking about what our country was like at that time.\u00a0 The conformity or perhaps, the beginning of the lack of conformity, and how a work day professor, how his life can sort of veer off and change in some ways; what that means with the context of the political situation in the time of the history of our country.\u00a0 This journey kind of mirrors it a little bit.\u00a0 Sort of like a rough turn, so to speak; a new adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of his career,\u00a0 thus far Stuhlbarg has worked with the likes of Sam Mendes, John Crowley, David Mamet and most recently, Martin Scorsese on HBO\u2019s \u201cBroadway Empire.\u201d\u00a0 Now, along comes Joel and Ethan Coen, who prove to be a very different experience.\u00a0 \u201cThey are very hands off and very respectful of everybody.\u00a0 From the person who moves a cord from here to here, everyone is just a part of the team.\u00a0 As far as the actors are concerned, they are very discerning in terms of trying to find the right actor for a role.\u00a0 But once they do that they really love to get questions from the actors.\u00a0 So I asked them a ton of questions.\u00a0 And then they just let me do my thing.\u00a0 If they had another idea about possibilities, that was great.\u00a0 \u2018Wow, here\u2019s another idea.\u00a0 It could go this way, too.\u00a0 Let\u2019s try this.\u2019\u00a0 So I would do that.\u00a0 It was all very collaborative and easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key to A SERIOUS MAN is the authenticity of the entire film and subject matter.\u00a0 For the Coens, that meant shooting in a small Jewish community and enlisting the aid of local Hebrew schools and synagogues for not only physical sets, but calling on congregations as extras and participants in religiously significant scenes and rites.\u00a0 The authenticity \u201ccertainly makes our job easier.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to do anything in terms of thinking about, \u2018I have to pretend I\u2019m in a synagogue.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And as often happens, reality often lends a little humor to a situation.\u00a0 \u201cWe were rehearsing the bar mitzvah scene, when Danny comes down from the pulpit after his bar mitzvah and he\u2019s got his kiddush cup in his hand and the whole congregation breaks in with \u2018Adonai Elohaynu\u2019, that hymn we were all singing.\u00a0 And everybody knew it.\u00a0 They were actually all members of the congregation.\u00a0\u00a0 All of a sudden they said, \u2018So, you guys all sing Adonai Elohaynu.\u00a0 Do you know it?\u2019\u00a0 And the whole congregation jumped in.\u00a0 It\u2019s like you\u2019re back in synagogue.\u00a0 It was crazy.\u00a0 I just had flashbacks of my bar mitzvah.\u201d\u00a0 Of course, the big question is did anybody drop the Torah at any time during shooting these scenes?\u00a0 Thankfully, no.<\/p>\n

For Stuhlbarg it was important that Larry Gopnik wasn\u2019t \u201call geek.\u201d\u00a0 He got to have some physicality, including climbing on a roof to adjust a tv antenna, a memory that brings smiles to his when he talks about it.\u00a0 But perhaps the most joyous, exciting part of filming for Stuhlbarg is that he got to be stunt man for a day during a car accident.\u00a0 \u201cI would have done so much.\u00a0 I was actually in the car when it was hit.\u00a0 That was more scary than being on the roof because I was sort of stunt man for a day.\u00a0\u00a0 They said, \u2018Just get in the car.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna do something.\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019ll be fine.\u00a0 Just keep your seatbelt on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Reflective and penitent, A SERIOUS MAN speaks to the very heart of Michael Stuhlbarg.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe quote at the very beginning of the movie has a lot of resonance both for me and for the little Yiddish parable in the beginning as well as the rest of the film.\u00a0 \u2018Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.\u2019\u00a0 It\u2019s a Talmudic scholar, Rashi, who is quoted.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a good place to start in terms of understanding what the film is exploring and also a way to live one\u2019s life.\u00a0 I just enjoyed it for its individual nuances.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t look for a meaning behind it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t look for a message.\u00a0 I just found it to be so funny.\u00a0 I just kept laughing and that\u2019s a huge kind of Geiger counter for me in terms of how I respond to stuff.\u00a0 If it makes me laugh, you got me.\u00a0 That\u2019s where I live – a sense of humor.\u00a0 It saves me from everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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