 virtually when  rehearsals were beginning. When he first read the script, he found  the character infuriating, thinking: "God, do I want to spend so  much time in this characters head?" He remembers, "Then I started  making excuses... I said, this is such a negative script, I dont  like this and that." His wife finally told him he was "frightened of  this script and chances are because youre frightened you should do  this part"; his response was that he "knew, really immediately, that  she was right."