I need to make any situation an extremely sexual one. That’s sort of what I’m known for. On the set of Lady in the Water I said, “Let’s make my role more sexual,” and it was so. There’s a scene, I think it ended up on the cutting room floor, where Henry, my character, does an extremely naughty thing with Jeffrey Wright and an ailing spur-winged goose. I won’t be so indiscreet as to go into details, but let’s just say M. Night Shyamalan wept for the best part of an hour. Whether they were tears of joy or of horror, that wasn’t quite clear. They might have been tears of discovery: I didn’t know that sort of thing was possible with a spur-winged goose either. With a Hartlaub’s duck, of course, or a ruddy shelduck, fine, but with a spur-winged…I just need to make any situation extremely sexual.
