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26 M PS E . O R G that time were still freelance—going from studio to studio. GYW: I always worked film to film, freelance style too—you work on something and then move on to the next show. That's how it is at Skywalker, too. We work on 'in-house' projects, as well as 'outside' films. I hope I represent them well. VRS: What are some funny stories you remember working with actors on the ADR stage? GYW: I worked on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Indiana Jones the same year. And they both had Cate Blanchett in it. I went to Australia three times. The first trip was for Benjamin Button. Cate wanted to see the film before she did her ADR so they sent me, with a drive, a laptop with a pair of headphones to her house, so she could view the film securely. I went to the address that they gave me, no one was home, so I poked around. I knew she had kids and I thought, 'This doesn't feel right, no toys.' Then I saw someone on the street who said, "No, no, no, she lives around the corner." I walked to the correct house but she wasn't home there either. But there were toys around. So I knew this was definitely the place. A car pulls up, she's got bags and papers and things and she's got her infant, Iggy. She says, 'Here, hold him.' And pops him into my arms. Okay! While she was having her hair and makeup done, she was listening to the film, you know, one headphone on—one headphone off so she could hear her baby. And then her two other kids came home and it was actually wonderful family mayhem so I was entertaining her kids while she watched the film by skyping with my kids back home in the States— both sides were amused by each other's accents. I worked with Colin Farrell a lot over many, many, many years. Back when he was a scampy, sort of hard-drinking kind of guy. On one project, we had broken for lunch and just settling back on the stage. I was checking the pages for what was up next and I noticed it was getting darker, I turned around and Colin was grinning like a Cheshire cat with his hand on the light switch turning down the lights. He was such a prankster. And then I hadn't seen him for like 10 years. He was on an animated show I was working on [Epic] and the producer said to Colin, 'So you've actually worked with this one before? Do you remember her?' Colin looked at me really hard and said, 'Minority Report.' And he remembered Hart's War, The Recruit—he remembered all those films! So that was very, very, very cool. And we got to reconnect at the nominees' luncheon and he remembered me and all of the films again! I worked with Al Pacino on The Recruit. He says, 'I'll give you three takes.' (I can't do his voice very well.) He does a take and I say, 'Oh my God, that was great!' He'll say, 'Yeah, I got another one for you.' He does another take. 'Oh my God, that was Gwen in Antibes, France, at the Picasso Museum on break from a short film Gwen produced, Ryan, that was in the Shorts Corner of the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.