Watchmen - Dr. Manhattan & Ozymandias - Billy Crudup & Matthew Goode (aka Superman Man Of Steel)

Billy Crudup & Matthew Goode (superman) talk to Paul Byrne for www.Movies.ie - Ireland's award winning cinema site.
Here the men behind Dr. Manhattan & Ozymandias talk about the challenges of adapting the acclaimed graphic novel for the big screen.
Bill Crudup will next be seen in Pretty Bird and Public Enemies next to Johnny Depp and Christian Bale
Matthew Goode will next be seen in A Single Man and Leap Year
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[@bigearedmouse17]

great book, great movie, well acted, well cast, well directed well done.

[@ariel8856]

well welled

[@Stantzs]

for picking a pack of unknowns they sure as hell picked some good ones.

[@LonelyBunni3]

The most vivid moment in the movie that I recall from Dr. Manhattan was when he was "publicly" accused for causing Cancer to his once significant others. The slow-momentum, the slow facial expression that shaped anger and discomfort on Dr. Manhattan's face was truly amazing.

[@FoiledCranium]

Dr. Manhattan was perfect in the movie.he had the sadness in his voice like i thought he should have.Billy was phenomenal.

[@TheAwesomeBomb]

ozymandias was my favorite character in the books, and i really like what they did with him in the movie. he looks more like what they describe him as being in it.

[@Dr.Osterman]

I can see why they Casted Jeremy Irons as an Elderly Ozymandias, Matthew looks like a younger version of him

[@protalghulnist4126]

Because the series is a sequel that takes place long after the original story while the film is just a straight adaptation of the story

[@InvisibleInque]

I agree, I absolutely adored him in this role. I found myself caring for the character far more in the film than I had in the comic book, and it was Billy's performance that did it.

[@BaiLong45]

Love this interview, and especially this interviewer. Delves into some deepand rich questions, but not afraid to be brutally honest and funny. You can tell Goode and Crudrup appreciate this as well.

[@tourmalineKey]

Wow, Matthew Goode is HOT. To be honest, I was a bit nervous about seeing Watchmen because of all the violence, but now it's one of my favorite movies.

[@meitalpo]

I’m returning to this now, omg two so talented and beautiful men

[@rayder]

i just love Billy Crudup

[@IRISistibleMakeup]

i love both Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode... too good to be true, damn!

[@Gogargoat]

This movie has quite a lot of different personality types in it, and the key thing i noticed is that all of the characters have sort of gone off the cliff in the very way that their personality type typically does. Dr Manhattan (INTP) becomes completely detached from humanity. Ozzymandias (INTJ) becomes the evil genius. All the other characters follow the same pattern, it's as if the writer read a list of personality types and went straight to the negative tendencies section and magnified them.

[@peridotbaby]

Matthew Goode is very handsome

[@cruzsevilla867]

Great actors and excellent movie 🎥

[@Deepstarr7020]

Billy Crudup did great in Almost Famous

[@ReneeOfTheFae]

Was, and will always be an incredible film! Part of movie magic history.

[@RikkuHighwind]

I just love Matthews accent.

[@thefuckheadsgalore]

I love Matthew laughing at the interviewer guy's comments, like Fantastic Four 'kind of' sucking.

[@elleoneiram]

this is a good interview - the questions for one seem genuine, and of course matthew and billy are great

[@LittleMissyJJ]

i love Matthew Goode!! hes so cute

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: The point is that Adrian looks like a caricature (well, he sort of is) in the novel and transferred to the screen that would have just looked ridiculous, just like the giant squid. The kind of winning charm wouldn't have worked in the movie (caricature again), Goode's version was more realistic. The director decided to give the movie a very realistic feeling and some things just don't work in a movie.

[@Trampadoo]

I disagree. To me his Ozymandias was a scene stealer.

[@Sasukesgurlsakura]

Actually at a later point in the movie they did have Ozymandias explain Bubastis a little. (Obviously not as well as it is explained in the comic book. For there really was no reason for explaining her. She was only a test after all.) For those people who went to the movie and paid attention to everything they said, they would have caught it.

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: I dunno, I never really felt they made Ozy the bad guy. Squid or bomb.. not that much of a difference. I know what you mean because the contrast of super nice and what he does at the end is not so clear in the movie but judging from the many discussions I've see about the movie what they did was very thought provoking. People still argue about whether Adrian was wrong or write, good or bad and wasn't that the point of the novel as well?

[@Daggerfall40]

They weren't as amused with the "gay parade" joke as Jeffrey and Jackie.

[@DendyJungle]

I fucking lived the film. Haven't read the novel so I had nothing to compare it to

[@ApollosGaming998]

Lived wtf LoL XD

[@ariel8856]

me too, the first time I watched the film I thought it was the best thing ever done in a long time, the story, the direction, everything was just great. Turns out it was based on one of the best comic books ever written and it was directed by one the best directors there is. I'm glad I didn't know the comics.

[@thenamesbanana]

Both of these guys are major studness!

[@RonnsMoss]

I love how Ozy almost pisses himself laughing when the interviewer said that Fantastic 4 sucked. lmao

[@markerboy2002]

ah, i like the fact that, yet again, an english person has stared in this film (as a villain / anti-hero). but what a great film!! they look so different when not in costume

[@Pr0x1mo]

The Dr Mahhattan picture behind Billy Cudrup is the picture that i drew.

[@taxibandit13]

Would have been nice if they actually explained his purple tiger, even a little. I've read the book, but I imagine everyone who hasn't was just staring at it like "wtf is that thing and what is it doing there??"

[@OMG1wtf]

He is in fact "A really cool character". He does what he thinks is right in order to save humanity from nuclear war, which seems inevitable. Veidt rocks, but Rorschach rocks more.

[@sassysarsi]

u want to see more of his good-looking studness? check out his other movies "Match Point" "Chasing Liberty" etc

[@sparrowsanzo]

I personally liked him in "Big Fish".

[@Saint_00]

How tf can this be 10 years ago

[@number4366]

Simply Maths really this video was published on the 02/03/2009, and now it 04/03/2019, this Movie came out in 2009, who would believe how fast time has gone.

[@andyb1336]

This guy is an amazing interviewer.

[@sabrinadawson7026]

whos waching this in 2017 :)

[@AndrewRock3431]

Me :]

[@PauloOrtib]

Whos watching the watchmen in 2017? The aliens?

[@AdolfoSierra1381]

meeeee

[@nickcabral216]

2018

[@felynecomrade]

"If only you could perceive time as I do..."

[@siobhaneringde]

i see matthew goode, i click 😔 their voices 🥲❤️

[@AlexArtemisShop]

@AbeSapienFan092386 Yes, Matthew Goode is beautiful. First saw him in Chasing Liberty. Yum

[@krisfrosz133]

Man, this interviewer talks so freakin fast. If I were the actor who gets interviewed I'd laugh in front of him.

[@GameGuru2004]

he jus moved his hand before she fired the gun, he anticipated the action. it wasnt that he moved super fast, he jus new that she would pull the trigger when she did.

[@adelaiderain]

wooow, Matthew Goode looks so much better than in the movie. holy crap.

[@manuelamori8421]

Matthew Goode il mio attore preferito bravissimo!

[@mycardboardcutoutuk]

they are so hot!

[@UncomfortableSilence]

@jravage77 Yeah he said that in every interview lol, except the one with Zack.

[@SpawnRevenge92]

@SpiralOfWhite That's the impression i got by reading interviews and articles too, he's a fucking genius but he should give them a chance, they did some great adaptions from his work.

[@tonyantonellis9983]

when i make a blender animated film about the Watchmen i like to use Johnny Depp as the voice of Ozymandias because Johnny has a good British voice for Ozymandias and i feel like making Dr Manhattan sound like Roger Moore

[@Choungui]

fair enough. And good pointsyou made - lucky you that you liked the portrayal. Obviously novels are like that, you have your own take on the characters, and always some will be disappointed. What I feel is that there were very interesting sides to the character in the novel that weren't explored in the movie

[@Chad0980]

I loved the watchmen movie.

[@SH1N081]

Yeahj i agree. Like rorshach wow the actor looked so different.

[@RonnsMoss]

Yeah.

[@CPUT99]

at around 0:50 seconds when the interviewer (or someone off-screen) laughs am I the only one that got scared and thought someone was in the room lol... weird audio balance on that one

[@SpiralOfWhite]

@55batmanandjoker From everything I read Alan Moore just does not like something made out of his work no matter what it is. He wants complete control or at least to voice himself when he does not have the control to stop it. He sees his comics as his own creation and does not want it to be anything else. I respect that but I do think its a bit much.

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: You need to read some more interviews of Moore, seriously. XD Read up on what he said about Adrian. Are you aware that Moore meant Marooned is an analogy to what Adrian was doing? I should have probably written what Adrian did was not portrait as good by Moore (Adrian himself is indeed not evil). There are no good ones in Moore's Watchmen. It is a common mistake that some people think there is a hero or the good and the bad.

[@Carlos6194]

Is the guy on the right the one that acted as Adrian Veidt.

[@ficklemcpickle]

Jesus that guy talks fast!

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: I think I even remember an interview with Moore where he makes it quite clear that Adrian was the evil one. But you never know with Moore, sometimes he contradicts himself.

[@jravage77]

What is it with this guy and the out of hand gay parade?

[@LonelyBunni3]

hmm good point.

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: Of course it works in the novel! But you can't transfer it 100% onto the big screen. I just don't get why some people can't see and enjoy the same thing in two very different media? I enjoy both the novel and the movie. Both got flaws and genius moments and I am glad I didn't spoil either of it for myself by being tight arsed about the lack of muscles on one of the actors. It works the other way as well. Some found the novel boring and the squid tacky as well. *shrugs*

[@55batmanandjoker]

alan moore has issiuse with this movie right can someone please tell me what exactly bothers him in this movie please.

[@ejvaldes]

as I watch all these watchmen interviews I realize none of the actors paralell their characters in real life LOL

[@corcor44]

i think those 2 would be such a cute cuople!! (take no affence) xxx

[@trakkaton]

Schwarzenegger as Dr. Manhattan - now THAT would've been awful.

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: And I don't see why all that bulk would have been important. No amount of muscle would have made him that fast, quite the opposite and as long as they show Adrian as someone sort of obsessed with an immaculate appearence and body I am fine with that version. You remind me of a cousin of mine who ruined Lord of the Rings for himself by whining about that character not looking exactely like in the book or that character being cut out even though it made the movie better.

[@movi3srock]

i just realized both of these guys have done a romantic comedy with mandy moore. i wonder if they swaped makeout stories lol (and i think billy dated her as well)

[@alicedetocqueville5029]

I'm very sure M. Goode didn't. He's been with the same woman since 2008, and has 3 kids now (Sigh) Actually, l think that makes him even more sexy, 'cause intelligence and knowing who you are, and loving are where it's at!

[@movi3srock]

@@alicedetocqueville5029 they still have makeout stories cuz they both did romantic comedies with her. Lol

[@alicedetocqueville5029]

I checked when Chasing Liberty was made: 2004. He was single then, so quite possible you're right!

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: I don't see how the movie changed the basic meaning of the ending of the novel tbh. That giant squid would have been ridiculous on screen and it doesn't really matter whether John or the squid provide the impending doom that scares the shit out of mankind for the next decades to keep peace. And you just can't use all the characters from the novel in a movie.

[@thegr33nbastard]

i'm going to watch the movie tonight its gonna be sick!

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: Yeah, both the novel and the movie definitely make for neverending discussion material. So many morality conundrums! Haha, I agree about Laurie. Maybe she had a purpose I missed but I think he was just a plot device to wake Dan from his lethargy. And to have something to oogle at. XD They sure used her like that in the movie..

[@johnstube123]

wow the guy who plays Ozymandias looks really differant here

[@FirstnameLastname-my7bz]

6:47 what, Jerry Bruckheimer? The Pirates guy? Whyyyyyy?! What kind of question is this?!

[@senube]

Ozzymandias is so different XD.

[@Trampadoo]

@LordMalice6d9: And so far it looks like the USA is closer to crumbling than Western Europe and that doesn't even take into account violent crime rates, rape, teen pregnancies, free speech and cutural expression etc.

[@Milkshakeguy]

@johnstube123 everyone does.... especially rorschach

[@Pr0x1mo]

Fucking real, dude.

[@carolbiggs722]

like billy crudup

[@grace-yz2sr]

4:08 - 4:22 lol

[@Pr0x1mo]

thats what i just thought. I saw him, and i was like "who the fuck is this guy?" and it took me a long time to realize it was adrien veidt.

[@Trampadoo]

@LordMalice6d9: As for anarchism.. even minarchism, it would always lead to chaos. *shrugs* Not that the US would not already walk into that direction but when I imagine a society without compulsory education.. get ready for the torch and pitchfork solution to our problems like back in the "good" days when society was still devided into the privileged and the ones who could not afford education or had parents who didn't give a fuck.

[@SgtAndrewM]

interviewer is coming thorugh my right speaker, interviewies are coming through my left. wierd.

[@Trampadoo]

@LordMalice6d9: Dude, you are American, you have no clue about our politics and what the people think about them. Socalled left-wing extremists in my country do have a nice face-off with a couple of neonazis once or twice a year and the rest keeps whining about the good old times of DDR and gets laughed at by the politicians who actually have power. I have yet to encounter any of the stuff you mentioned at a university. XD You shouldn't read that much propaganda rubbish.

[@KevinKosmoArt]

I thot it was james franco

[@missun19951]

you are too mainstream :)) Matthew Goode is that special dish you have to ask for because he is off menu.

[@LygarZro]

@trakkaton we already did. we just called him Mr Freeze.

[@certifiedchillin420]

I have to agree with DenimZero. Mathew Goode was to young to play ozy, just didnt have the same effect for me. Goode did keep that sense of pretentiousness though. And also, Billy Crudup I think just didn't have a square enough face for me as well as too soft a voice. I always just envisioned dr. manhattan as statuesque and Crudup's face is a little too soft. Also, his voice, the pitch is a little too high. His tone and his sense of emptiness were on point though.

[@Froodrook]

it bothers him that he dident write it to be watched, he wrote it to be read.

[@njahmoon89]

It's not that the movie wasn't good, but rather original graphic novel was too good to imitate on screen.

[@amdnovello]

neither do i! why are they so strong? it's not human maybe it's made for the movie

[@duffmanthegreat]

Hah! These two are the only ones who didn't chuckle when he said gay parade.

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: I can't really see that as being badass, it's stupid and egoistical and like you said, black and white. Dealing with the whole thing like Dan and Laurie for the greater good, with the burden of knowing the truth, THAT would have been badass. Oh well, I think we both agree that there is tons behind the novel and movie and that it went way over the head of many readers/watchers.

[@spiderjerusalem4009]

i'm wondering if commenting like that would get a notification back at the day

[@alexnumunoonea]

lol. did they mean for their outfits to be like.. the same-ish colors?

[@bustermk2]

Yeah and I thought Dr Manhattan would have blue skin and be all glowy.

[@0Amour0Musique0]

lol they look like they're about to nod off at the beginning.

[@CAteen69]

wow Ozymandias looks so different compare to Matthew Goode. A lot of the actors and actresses in real life looked a lot different compare to the movie. Like their looks and stuff lol.

[@lovetownsend]

Ozmandias looks different in real life.... no one sees the 700 foot blue man in the background and then the 6 foot white male in front of him?

[@heroxlink]

Good eye mate lol

[@lapetitesinge]

OK, his "gay parade going out of hand" comment was funny the first time, but he uses it on every interview and JDM's the only one who really laughed.

[@tyaafatiya6065]

Declan!

[@Trampadoo]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg: Moore might have a fascination with anarchy, but he despises conservative, facist, right wing politics and he's an advocate of gay rights so Rorschach is not someone Moore meant as a hero. It was quite annoying and amusing at the same time to see how exactely the kind of people Moore criticises thought Rorschach was so cool and whatnot. He's some sort of hero for ppl Moore practically makes fun of and they don't even notice.

[@DjAkatzuki]

@filakia89 omg i would have laughed so fvcking hard