I don’t do a lot of face to face interviews these days — loitering around hotel lobbies has lost its allure — but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to meet the legendary Max Von Sydow, who Rick Moranis once told me is an awfully funny guy. My fairly lengthy
appears today in The Post. The 78-year-old Von Sydow calls himself “lazy” despite appearing in three films thsi year: his Oscar-worthy turn in “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” as well as “Rush Hour 3” and “Emotional Arithmetic,” which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Theater has been important to me all through my life,” Von Sydow told me. “But I’m getting lazy and I don’t want to get stuck in one place for a long time. Theater is a tough discipline. But if I had to choose, I would choose theater, because it’s a more interesting discipline. Nobody comes in and edits your performance, and you get to tell the story from the beginning to the end…”