A02. HRN-818
In: 01.17.50 Out: 01.20.01
Sound Bite: Samuel L Jackson
Well you hope you’re always getting it right, you want to be as honest as you can with your feelings because the one thing we don’t know is did we get it right because we see the troops come home, we see them on a tarmac, we see them with there families out there and they get together and they hug, they take pictures and they leave so nobody goes by a week later, you know NBC news doesn’t go by the house a week later and go ‘ so you happy to have them home?’ and they go ‘ well dudes a lil strange I dunno ‘. They don’t ask them that so we don’t really know but in my case I tried as honestly as I could to portray a doctor who has a sense of failure because he couldn’t save enough lives, he couldn’t save enough limbs, and he felt like he didn’t do his job and when he wouldn’t do his job he just cut his fingers off so he wouldn’t have to care who landed on his table. And hopefully I did an honest portrayal for somebody who has to do that and who needs the support of his wife and you know whatever outreach programs he could get because apparently he didn’t have any colleagues that he could talk to about it or anybody that shared that experience that had been in Army medical core or anything else so he had to swallow it and deal with it.