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In 5ive Days to Midnight, Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid plays Detective Sikorski, a cop who investigates a murder that has yet to happen. We took a few moments to get his thoughts on time travel, acting and more.
Your character needs to be convinced that Timothy Hutton's character has information from the future. In the real world, if someone said they knew the future, how would you want him to prove it?
Assuming I believe it could happen? I'd say, "Well, what's Intel going to do tomorrow?" And if he was right, I'd ask him again the day after that. I'm interested in stocks, so that's something I can relate to.
Do you think the future is set, or that things can be changed?
I think it can be changed. If you're active, things react to your actions. If you sit around on the couch all day for the rest of your life, your fate is pretty much set. But if you're out there living your life, things are going to happen that will affect the outcome of where you'll be five minutes, five days or five years from now. A lot of it is a result of what you're bringing to the table.
You've played cops before. For Sikorski, did you use any of those roles in creating this character?
No, I don't even think about those other roles. If the part's well-written, it's completely another character — he may have the same job, but as human beings there's a big difference. I use basic research; I've ridden with cops, and over the years I've acquired a lot of background information I could use. But I never try to stencil some aspect of one character into another character.
You've had roles as everything from a drunken crop duster to an Amish bowler to the president of the United States. Is there a role you haven't tried that you'd like to take up?
Well, I've always wanted to play a Pentecostal preacher, a full-out tent revival character. I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side they present to the world. Those are good characters.
Let's say you could send on message back in time to Randy Quaid as he's starting out. What would you tell him?
Wow, what a great question. I don't know what I'd say to him! I really wouldn't tell him much of anything. Just to keep doing what he was doing, because it was working.
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