Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world - he comes from advertising and architecture - he's extremely easy-going and very calm. He's extremely detailed, but a very generous and fun director to work with. He really encouraged me to find the fun in the part and to have fun with it.
James FrainThat was one of the things I hadn't really put together. Since the first movie and this movie, the rest of us have been living that revolution, largely engineered by people who were Tron fans. That's pretty deep, man.
James FrainActing isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
James FrainThe Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
James FrainI was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.
James FrainWorking with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.
James FrainYou know, what I didn't know was how many people in the tech world the original movie had such an impression on. That's really interesting to me because a lot of the people who created this technological revolution that we're all living through were kids when Tron came out, and they saw Tron and it impacted them.
James Frain