Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable - Trailers [Uploaded for archival purposes]

Clooney knows something about the actor’s ego. “What happens is, you get a modicum of success and then it becomes about the weirdest shit. I am from Kentucky, OK. We try not to live in trailers. We don’t brag about being in a double-wide. And all of a sudden—I’ve seen this happen—someone will come onto a set and they’re upset because their trailer isn’t the right size. And you go, take my trailer, because honestly that’s not something to brag about.”

Fassbender says the first time he got a big trailer, “I thought, ‘They gave me money to get a flat!’ And when I saw the trailer I was like, ‘Damn, I should have just saved the money and slept in the trailer. This is amazing.’ I was like, ‘Wow, it’s got everything I need in here. TV. Shower. Bed.’”

Swinton, as always, has a different take. “But it feels to me like the trailers are not really for the actors. The trailers are for the production to know that the commodity of the actor is being protected. The second we sign the contract and we’re in the trailer, we belong to the production. And we are a thing that gets moved onto the set. I mean, I’m speaking as someone who very, very often doesn’t have a trailer … It is not about the actor, it’s not ‘Oooh, I’ve got a big trailer, then I must have a big cock.’”

“Leave him out of this,” Theron says, turning to Fassbender.

“There are exceptions,” quips Fassbender, turning red.