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The Consultant Star Nat Wolff on Learning from Christoph Waltz's Style
Nat Wolff (Which Brings Me to You) spoke with us about how working with co-star Christoph Waltz on The Consultant helped improve his acting.
Article Summary
- Nat Wolff discusses his growth as an actor by working with Christoph Waltz.
- Waltz's effortless and relaxed acting style has influenced Wolff’s approach.
- Wolff shares experiences of bonding with Waltz, including watching classic films.
- The series 'The Consultant' is based on Bentley Little's work and is available on Prime.
Nat Wolff is always looking for new opportunities to improve as an actor since his debut in The Naked Brothers Band in 2005. Despite landing memorable roles in 20th Century's The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and Paper Towns (2015), Netflix's live-action adaptation of Death Note, and Paramount+'s The Stand, he's still looking for ways to expand his repertoire and skillset. One such opportunity fell into his lap in the Prime Video series The Consultant (released February 2023) as Craig Home, playing opposite Christoph Waltz's Regus Patoff. While promoting his film in the Decal rom-com Which Brings Me to You, Wolff spoke to Bleeding Cool about what he's learned from the Academy Award winner and his relaxed nature, discovering a new love of cinema, and how it led to helping him take the role in the Peter Hutchings film. The series, based on the Bentley Little work of the same name and developed by Tony Basgallop, follows Regus Patoff, a mysterious consultant, who comes to the rescue of CompWare, a mobile gaming company, after the murder of its CEO, and seemingly starts running the company.
How Nat Wolff Learned a New Approach from His 'The Consultant' Co-Star Christoph Waltz
Bleeding Cool: What's it to work with Christoph Waltz?
Wolff: First of all, it's one of the most incredible experiences of my life. There's nobody I've learned about acting more than Christoph. One of the reasons I approached 'Which Brings Me to You' in such a relaxed way is that there's something about his approach to acting that is so effortless and relaxed that it leads to so much discovery. Also, we've become good friends, which has been amazing. He taught me how to smoke a cigar because I had never really smoked a cigar. I didn't know that it takes like an hour and a half. I've gone over to his house a bunch, we smoke a cigar, and then we watch a Criterion movie. We watched 'High and Low' (1963), which I never saw the [Akira] Kurosawa movie. He's turned me on to a lot of great films and a lot of great stuff.
Could you elaborate on his relaxed approach?
It was the level of relaxation he intelligently approached things before shooting. In the moment, he is present. In that show, he never went off script, and it was word for word. In terms of the blocking, the movement, and the props, everything was changing from moment to moment. He has an effortlessness from doing it for so many years. There's a calm and an effortlessness I aspire to.
The Consultant season one, which also stars Brittany O'Grady and Aimee Carrero, is available on Prime. Which Brings Me to You, which also stars Lucy Hale, Britne Oldford, Genevieve Angelson, Alexander Hodge, and John Gallagher, Jr., is in theaters.
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