He had a real joie de vivre and then when it was time to work he was so focused and so prepared that it was different from any other actor I’ve ever worked with. I loved working with him so much that I did The Browning Version, directed by Mike Figgis, purely because I wanted to work with him again. I also worked with Alan Pakula, who was the producer of To Kill a Mockingbird, on the film of a play called Orphans, opposite Albert Finney. That was extraordinary experience for me as an actor.
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Is Full Metal Jacket the film you’re most proud of? I think I love some of the children that nobody ever saw. He said: “Imagine someone going up to Mozart and saying, ‘Wolfgang, how many notes are there in your concerto? Or to Picasso and saying how many strokes in that painting?’ It’s just it’s so rude and who cares? The result is what you should be interested in.” He often said how funny it was that people would always ask how many takes he did.
What he did was create an environment where he was able to explore and experiment.
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He figured out how to be able to work for 20 months and still be financially viable. He was probably the most independent independent film-maker I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. What was making Full Metal Jacket with Stanley Kubrick like? I respect him as a film-maker and then I got to know him as a man, as a father, as a husband. Photograph: ScreenProd/Photononstop/Alamy I wanted to be a part of it, because I want to be a part of solving problems. We just have to be aware of what happened in the past so that we can fix it and move forward. What we’re seeing today is what happens when the walls start to get out of whack, the doors don’t open and the roof starts leaking. We’ve never honestly dealt with that and when you build a country the foundation is very important. In the US, there’s a crack in the foundation of the constitution because “we the people” didn’t include people of colour when it was drafted. As Aaron Sorkin writes in his adaptation, the civil war is yesterday and it will always be yesterday until we deal honestly with that past. The past is not something that’s ancient history. What made you want to play the part of Atticus Finch? The content of the story – it’s specifically about the history of racism in the United States. Married since 1980, he has two children and lives in New York. Next week, he steps into the role of the crusading Atticus Finch, a lawyer defending an innocent black man on a charge of rape, in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird in the West End.
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More recently, he’s best known for playing Dr Martin Brenner, the sinister scientist in the Netflix series Stranger Things. Actor Matthew Modine, born in California in 1959, came to fame in the 1980s, most notably in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987).
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