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Trailer excerpt: \"Barney's Version\"AP TelevisionLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Giamatti/Actor, on awards buzz for his lead role in 'Barney's Version':...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e1. Trailer excerpt: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Giamatti/Actor, on awards buzz for his lead role in 'Barney's Version': \"The best policy is to just go with it and not get too carried away by it. Because you know, there's nothing you can do. It's fun and it's flattering.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"You get a new suit.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"I get a new suit and that's always good for me. But you know, it's a wonderful thing. With something like this, it's particularly good because it is a smaller movie. And that means people will see it. And that's the best aspect of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e3. Film clip: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosamund Pike/Actress, on what she learned from Giamatti: \"It just felt very natural and easy. I mean I have learnt -- if I ever have to play a middle-aged, drunk man, I have quite a good insight into how to do it. But you know, I have a few kind of tricks for when I have to get my voice gravelly with cigars.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"Excellent. Play drunk? ďż˝ Actually smoking the cigars helps.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"Yeah, yeah. He makes you want to drink whisky. He's very good at selling that.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"Selling that enjoyment of whisky.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e5. Film clip: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Giamatti/Actor, on incorporating his personal life into playing his character: \"It's inevitable - it covers so much emotional territory and so many of these things that everybody goes through. You know - birth of kids, death of parents, marriages. So you know, it's inevitable that it sparks something off. I try not to let it get in the way. I've got to play the guy. Not let it be me, but yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e7. Film clip: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Giamatti/Actor, on whether his personal experience benefits his performance: \"Probably it does. Probably unconsciously it does. Hopefully it does. Hopefully it contributes something.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"I think life experience goes in strange ways. But I never really buy the idea of consciously using your own life when you're doing a film.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"No, that I could not do. That would actually distract me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"If you're playing a scene with somebody and they're actually remembering something other - they're remembering something to drum up the emotion, I find that to be fake.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"Unconsciously things would go into it. But I agree. If I - it has to be the scene with the characters, what's going on between them that has to be what's happening, for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"But obviously where you are in your life.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"It's going to inevitably happen.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRosamund Pike/Actress: \"Sort of comes in probably in ways that you're completely oblivious to, which is more interesting. Yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti/Actor: \"Yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e9. Film clip: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 7 January 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Minnie Driver/Actress, on redeeming aspects of Giamatti's character: \"I don't think there are any. I think he's lucky that he gets dementia and everyone feels sorry for him. He's dreadful! He's dreadful! OK, the redeeming characteristic of Barney Panofsky is that he gets to experience true love in his life. He really does love that woman. But he is completely incapable of honoring it in a way - of not messing it up. He is as tangled and messed up as everybody. I think that's why it's interesting, is because we're not all heroic people. We have heroic moments. Everybody does rubbish stuff. He doesn't have to be nice. I don't think he has to be redeemed. But ostensibly love redeems all of us, so I think it does Barney Panofsky too.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSony Pictures Classics\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e11. Film clip: \"Barney's Version\"\u003cbr/\u003ePaul Giamatti is again in the awards hunt. \u003cbr/\u003eThe acclaimed 43-year-old actor scooped up over 20 honors in the last decade for his roles in the TV miniseries \"John Adams,\" and in the films \"Sideways,\" \"American Splendor\" and \"Cinderella Man.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNow his star turn in \"Barney's Version\" - based on the 1997 novel by Canadian author Mordechai Richler - has garnered a new set of nominations. He'll be at the Golden Globes this weekend.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The best policy is to just go with it and not get too carried away by it. Because you know, there's nothing you can do. It's fun and it's flattering,\" Giamatti says of awards season. \"I get a new suit and that's always good for me. But you know, it's a wonderful thing. With something like this, it's particularly good because it is a smaller movie. And that means people will see it. And that's the best aspect of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGiamatti plays Barney Panofsky from when he's 20-something to falling ill in his 60s. The film, directed by Richard J. Lewis, also stars Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver and Canadian actor Scott Speedman.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd what did Pike learn from watching Giamatti work? \u003cbr/\u003e\"If I ever have to play a middle-aged, drunk man, I have quite a good insight into how to do it. But you know, I have a few kind of tricks for when I have to get my voice gravelly with cigars,\" she said, laughing. \"He makes you want to drink whisky. He's very good at selling that.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePanofsky is married three times in the film, and has moments of generosity but is largely bitter and jealous of the people around him - friends and lovers alike. Giamatti says he found himself flashing back on his own life while filming. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's inevitable - it covers so much emotional territory and so many of these things that everybody goes through,\" he said. \"You know - birth of kids, death of parents, marriages. So you know, it's inevitable that it sparks something off. I try not to let it get in the way. I've got to play the guy. Not let it be me, but yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePike said she felt the same, but tried to avoid paying attention to her personal memories while playing her character, Panofsky's third wife with whom he falls in love-at-first-sight.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think life experience goes in strange ways. 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