Q: And the material was good in each case.

Jeffrey: Yeah, the material was great in each case and they were so vastly different.  The problem was the line would blur sometimes because I’d be a little bit tired, and I’d kind of forget—John would get a little soft and have a little Denny thing, or Denny would you know want to shoot a doctor.  So it was just lack of sleep talking.  Yeah, it was exhausting but it was great.  And what an opportunity and look what’s happened now.

Q: Can you talk a little bit about the first time you put on the costume.  I’m going back to “Watchmen”.

Jeffrey: I know you are.  Every time, I know. 

Q: Could you talk about putting on your costume for the first time and seeing everyone else in costume?

Jeffrey: It was awesome to see everybody in their costumes.  You know—mine is…I got the coolest costume, I’ll say that.  Like to look at, my costume’s insane but it also takes the longest to get in and out of.  Michael Wilkinson, the costumer who designed the…again very true to the comic book, maybe updated a little bit but so true to what you see in…and Comedian is spot on to the book.  Spot on.  His costume is exactly like it is in the graphic novel.  But seeing everybody in their super hero outfits is well, I mean for one it’s hard to stop laughing initially because everyone’s running around trying to be a super hero for God’s sake.  How can you not?  It’s really cool that experience, I mean for me as soon as I put on the outfit and stuck a cigar in my mouth, I’m him.  You don’t even want to talk to me anymore.  I turn into the character.

Q: Have you filmed the Vietnam sequences yet?

Jeffrey: No, not yet. That will be coming up after I leave here.

Q: I was just going to say “Watchmen” is committed to Vancouver before the Canadian dollar went up.  Do you think they still would have committed to Vancouver?

Jeffrey: I’m not entirely sure now. You know, that’s a really good question.  I’m not entirely sure.  I couldn’t answer that being that I’m not in that—that’s not my area of expertise. I don’t know.  I know a lot of stuff is still shooting there.  There’s probably benefits of shooting there of which I’m not entirely sure.  I know for a while they wanted to shoot it in New York because again they had to build this very elaborate set of New York streets and it probably would have been easier to go to New York for that but you know, they also got tons of empty stages which I know they didn’t have in New York if we were to shoot there.

Q: You need a lot of sound stages.

Jeffrey: Yeah, we’ve got a whole row of them.

Q: And you, for one, like working there.

Jeffrey: That’s right.  I can’t get enough of Vancouver.

Q: I was going to ask what’s Zack been like.  Has he been able to maintain the enthusiasm every day?

Jeffrey: Yeah.  You met him.  He’s not only incredibly passionate in staying true to the graphic novel but he’s also like a little kid.  I don’t know where he gets his frigging energy but we’re putting in some long hours and a lot of nights and God, every day he’s running around and smiling through all of it and not only that he’s just an amazing director.  He’s drawn out literally every frame of this movie before he shot it.  I don’t know if I’ve ever worked with anyone more prepared.  He’s got a copy of the graphic novel in his hand all the time.  It never comes out of his hand.  He’s constantly referring to it.  He’ll set up a shot looking at the novel.  It’s insane.  It’s crazy.  I mean, again it’s one of those things that I’m going to have to process when the whole thing is over and I’ll sit down with you and I’ll give you an in depth interview because it’s just so kind of mind boggling right now that I think I need to step away from it for a little bit and be able to kind of put into words because I’m still kind of blown away by it.

Q: Back to P.S.  Do you play guitar?

Jeffrey: I didn’t.  I didn’t.  I didn’t sing, I didn’t get naked, I didn’t do dialects.  I didn’t do any of the things I did in this movie before I did it.

Q: You were lip-syncing that song?

Jeffrey: Oh I sang the shit out of it. I played guitar and I sang.  Now mind you, I think they used someone else’s voice in the final cut, but after a couple Guinness’  I thought I was sounding pretty good on that.  I was like you know this is alright.

Q: Any dreams of being a rock star?

Jeffrey: Of course.  Yeah, are you kidding me?  Actually that’s not true.  They went away the minute I got on stage.  Any dreams I had of being a rock star went away when I saw the people and their expectations of me to be able to play guitar and sing.  They all dissipated and that was the end of it.  It’s one thing by yourself in front of the mirror, which I’m really good at but not so good at in front of folks.

Q: What was it like being in Ireland?  Had you ever been there before?

Jeffrey: No.

Q: What did you do in between the shooting?

Jeffrey: We spent a lot of time just walking around the city of Dublin.  I’m not going to lie, we had a couple of beers, got a couple Guinness went to a couple pubs, but we walked around a lot.  Then we went antique shopping.  Lisa and Gina and Gerry and I spent a lot of time just hiking around all over the city.  We had a blast.  It was the most fun I ever had doing a film as far as just fun and being goofy that was it.  We had a great time.  Great cast.  I can’t say enough about Ireland.  I can’t.  I’d move there.  I loved it. I loved it.  The people were just so sweet and generous and you know I loved it.  Architecture, God it was just insane. It was just beautiful. It’s just completely unlike America.  It actually has a history to it.  You walk down the streets and you know God shit happened here.  You walk down the streets here and you’re like…nothing. 

Q: I wanted to know if you’d had any scenes yet with Jackie playing “Rorschach” and what that experience has been like?

Jeffrey: No, I haven’t. There you go. 

Q: When do you wrap on the film?

Jeffrey: Well, the schedule is changing right now all the time because of weather so I think mid-February.

Q: And are you prepared for going to Comic-Con next year?

Jeffrey: Someone else asked me that.  I don’t think so.  To be honest with you I don’t think any of us are going to be prepared.  I think we’re just going to do it. 

Q: I think Zack’s premiering footage at Comic-Con in front of 7,000 people.

Jeffrey: That’ll be it.  That’ll be the first time everybody’s sees it.

Q: So you’re definitely going though?

Jeffrey: Oh yeah, I’ll be there. I just don’t know if I’m prepared for it. Oh I’ll be there.