Q: Have you finished your part?

Freeman: I haven’t finished. I’ve got one more day. I travel all the way to Hong Kong to do it.

Q: Who do you play?

Freeman: Lucius Fox. Lucius Fox is the designer of Batman’s toys – the Batmobile, all this utility stuff that he has, the cape which in the movie is really something.

Q: In Feast of Love with Alexa….

Freeman: Oh, you want to talk about what’s current.

Q: Do you have to put younger actors at ease.

Freeman: I don’t know if you have to. I have a maybe unfortunate habit of… I go on set just like I walk into this room, you know. Nothing special going on here. It’s just me and us. Because there is a tendency in us to maybe revere flesh and blood and always be like, “Oh my God, it’s…” and it’s not conducive to ensemble work. You want the person you’re going to be working with on the ground, not floating up here because they’re in the presence of something that may or may not live up to the expectation. So, yeah, I work on making everybody at ease, you know. I mean we’re not here to commit brain surgery. We’re here to have fun. We’re here to make a movie. Nothing in this world can be more fun than that.

Q: Do you get the “Oh my God, it’s Morgan Freeman” thing a lot in your personal life and on the set?

Freeman: I got on the elevator one day and a lady I thought she was going to lose it right there. Her expression was “Oh my God, Oh my God! Oh my God!” and then she started to laugh. “Oh my God, Oh my God, I can’t believe it’s you. I love you! I love you! This is my husband. I love you.” “Thank you very much. You’re very kind. How very sweet of you.” I can’t wait for the doors to open so I can get out of there.

Q: You talk about how much fun you have working, how you enjoy working in ensembles. Are there any movies over your career or even something you’ve just shot that when you think back you say, boy, that was such a great time?

Freeman: Yeah. I do.

Q: Anything you’d like to share?

Freeman: Both movies that I did with Clint Eastwood. I just finished one with Jack Nicholson and Rob Reiner. “Feast of Love” working with Benton, Greg, Jane Alexander – a complete, wonderful ensemble. Every day you wake up is “Oh, we’re going back to the set.” It’s not like, “Oh, when’s this going to be over.”

Q: I just want to make a comment. It’s not a question. I was at a piano store earlier today and I mentioned that I was interviewing you and the manager said he was really good friends with your best friend, a guy named Dennis.

Freeman: My best friend? A guy named Dennis? Okay.

Q: There’s no question or anything.

Freeman: I understand. Notice I haven’t gone anywhere with it.

Q: Is there a role you haven’t played in your career that you would like to play?

Freeman: Yeah, lots of them. I was asked this question just a little while back. There was a character, a historical and true character, whose name was Bass Reeves who was a deputy marshal in the 1870s and 80s, Oklahoma Territory, worked for Isaac Parker, the hanging judge, cleaning up Oklahoma Territory and making it safe for settlers, notwithstanding it was supposed to belong to the Indians. He was a very interesting character and the most interesting part about it to me is the fact that in all of the Westerns that you see, none of them seems to indicate that anybody was anything but white people and Indians and the Indians were always the bad guys except of course in “Dancing with Wolves.” So this would be an opportunity -- and I have been working for close to 15 years on it -- to at least be inclusive. One of the problems that we have as a nation is we don’t really know who we are because our history has largely been misrepresented. We all learn quite a lot of it by going to the movies or watching television. And I don’t care what you say or think, as a youngster, you buy it.

Q: What do you like to do on your sets when you’re not shooting scenes?

Freeman: Well I do different things. Right now, just not recently, I’ve taken… I was going to be – you know, you’ve got that sweater on that says Je t’aime – I was going to be facetious – but I’ve recently taken up golf. If I’m not working, I’m somewhere with a golf club in my hand chasing a ball off into the woods.

Q: How’s it going?

Freeman: Really bad.

Q: I’ve never met a golfer who doesn’t think it’s going really bad. Do you have a golf clause in your contract like Sam Jackson?

Freeman: Yeah, somebody told me “Oh, you’ve taken up golf. Well, you ought to be like Sam.” “What do you mean like Sam?” “Sam has a clause in his contract, wherever he goes he gets golf privileges. Oh yes, yes, it’s there. One of the things they always offer you is a trainer for your physical fitness, physical conditioning. Golf is better than having a trainer so they’re happy to accommodate you.

Q: Beside Hong Kong, what other films might you be doing later this year?

Freeman: I might be doing a very nice little film with William H. Macy called “Lonely Maiden.”

Q: Perhaps.

Freeman: Perhaps.

Q: Thank you.