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As a successful actor,Justin Therouxdoesnt need to carry around a business card.
When we did that scene, I found it hilarious, Theroux says.
It was really funny.
Have you ever carried around a business card?
It was very funny while we were shooting it.
Where was your career at the time of shootingAmerican Psycho?
Then I found out she was adaptingAmerican Psycho.
No one quite knew how would depict a lot of the violence in it.
I was headed to New York, though.
Why was 30-year-old Justin such a good Wall Street yuppie?I wasnt.
None of us were.
Is this a horror movie?
Is this a psychological thriller?
She did get a very good group of actors to play all the parts.
Obviously Christian, but also everyone would be filling out those roles.
I was certainly not anywhere near that world at the time.
Once you started filming, what was the vibe like?
I think they were all brought out of warehouses of designers of the time.
The sets were bizarre because theyre spaces that none of us has ever lived in.
The giant loft spaces with spare furniture.
Rewatching this the other day, I felt Bryce looks older than you do today, 25 years later.
Do you think theres anything to that?
They look like theyre in their 50s.
The model looks like someones mom, but shes probably 24.
Its that weird hairdo people get and then keep their entire lives.
Part of the plot relies on how interchangeable these Wall Street types are.
Characters constantly mistake one suit for another.
The business-card scene speaks volumes.
Its a distinction without a difference.
Do you think of Bryce as a better person than Patrick Bateman?
Theyre all equally awful.
Hes not a murderer, but I dont know.
Theyre all the same bullshit shade of gray, and none of them is very interesting.
Those guys are all hard-charging.
They probably read Lee Iacoccas book and are stags at the glen.
DoesAmerican Psychohold a special place in your filmography?Absolutely.
Its a New York film even though, of course, we shot the majority of it in Toronto.
Its just one of those special films at a special moment in time that Im very proud of.
Its of course being memed to death, but I like that.
I like that it has a place in culture and made an interesting comment on that culture.
Getting an axe and a clear trenchcoat.
In bro culture, he became sort of a hero, and I find that deeply disturbing.
Wanna take a picture with me?
Same thing with Gordon Gekko, the Greed is good guy.
Its as relevant today, just a shift in form.
The guy might be wearing a baseball hat or Lululemon.
That was a worry for this movie: Is this gonna fetishize violence toward women?
It would be a very different movie without her.
I remember her talking to Cara Seymour, a wonderful English actress.
Mary was shooting the scene where shes getting murdered when Patrick drops the chain saw.
I remember her being extremely touched by that performance: Shes so wonderful, your heart breaks for her.
What do you think the rest of Timothy Bryces life was like?
These guys get on rails that they rarely get off of.
I dont think he would be at an ashram in India discovering himself.
Maybe its a perfect time to retell that story.
Whenever you get more time away from an era, you have more perspective on it.
The truth or the lies come into more relief, so it might be easier to satirize.
Final question: Do you think the food at Dorsia was worth the fuss?No.
A smidge of jam and some foam on it.
I waited tables and got some good research in.
I love that in the movie, no one really eats the food.
And then the food would be taken away.
Presumably because we were on so much coke.
