Michael Shannon Says Working with M. Emmet Walsh on A Little White Lie Is Such a Dream

A Little White Lie stars Michael Shannon as Shriver, a struggling handyman who is mistaken for a famous writer who vanished 20 years prior. The film also features Kate Hudson, Don Johnson, M. Emmet Walsh, Peyton List, Jimmi Simpson, and Zach Braff. In an exclusive interview with Collider, the actor shares his experience working with veteran actor M. Emmet Walsh and resuming filming after the pandemic.

Shannon was ecstatic when M. Emmet Walsh joined the project. For him, it was such a dream. He grew up watching Walsh, and now he got to work with him. He said, “That was kind of a dream come true. I’ve been watching him for years, and much like when I got the opportunity to work with Christopher Plummer in Knives Out, it’s just… You know, getting an opportunity to work with someone with decades of experience and someone so firmly etched into the cinema landscape, you know.

He continued, “I couldn’t believe I was sitting on a park bench improvising with M. Emmet Walsh. It’s definitely one of those pinch-me moments. ‘Pinch me, I must be dreaming.’”

The actor was impressed at how the veteran actor is still active in the industry despite his old age. He added, “But it’s just incredible the longevity that some people have. I hope I’m still kicking around when I’m that age. It’s hard to imagine, but I’m over here in Ireland right now and we got Anthony Hopkins on the stage next to us. Somebody said he’s 85, 86 years old. Just blows my mind, but I guess that’s one of the great things about acting is you can just keep doing it.”

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Michael Shannon Was Anxious to Return on The Set of A Little White Lie

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The filming for A Little White Lie started way before the pandemic hits, and it was temporarily halted due to COVID-19. The cast and crew already finished the majority of production, and they were onto the last days of photography when lockdown took place. A year later, the production resumed, and Shannon admitted it initially gave him anxiety. He said, “You know, when we got shut down, and I knew that that was gonna happen, I initially was very anxious about it.”

He continued, “I thought, just because I had no point of reference really, it’s not anything I had ever experienced before, and I thought it was gonna be impossible. But it kind of surprised me, frankly, how easily I clicked back into it. I guess it just goes to show that all this work is kind of lodged in your subconscious somewhere. And I had the experience, in theater, of doing plays more than once, like years apart from one another. ”

A Little White Lie is now available to rent or purchase digitally from Amazon and Google Play.

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