She'll appear next in Christopher Guest's latest, For Your Consideration. "I’d never done improv so to learn essentially how to do improv with Christopher Guest is not something that a lot of people can say they have done. You know, it’s terrifying but so amazing."
Keaton also enjoys challenging himself and trying to chart new territory. As he says, "If I do a character that even speaks the English language twice, I feel like I'm doing the same thing." His work in both Jackie Brown and Out of Sight as narcissistic ATF agent Ray Nicolette marks one of the few (if not the only) times one person has played the same character in two films that were not sequels.
That's like a weird little thing that I wanted to do just because I thought, 'I don't think anybody's ever done this.' I'm always looking for something different just to keep me interested...I'd do it again. I'd like to create this thing, like..."Oh, yeah, there's Ray Nicolette again. He had a haircut or he's a little heavier or whatever."
In the end, Game 6 strives to transcend the slings and arrows of life as a Red Sox fan to make a larger statement about the tragedies of life in general. Says Hoffman, "To be a Red Sox fan is really to be a human being because you're living in a world where you're gonna love this thing no matter how much it makes you suffer." Keaton adds, "It's not really a baseball movie at all, which I think is great. And it's not really a theater/show business movie. It's really a New York story at the end of the day." But in a world where the Red Sox have actually won a World Series since 1918, will the film still have emotional impact? Dunne confirms, "We talked about that but no, it still is about having something you really love not work out."
Game 6 opens in limited release on March 10th.
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