"when he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul. I could not see it. That knowledge brought its own sort of pain."
".. so I thought of my passion for Armie and I sent him the script. After a week, I heard, "He wants to talk to you." What I didn't know is that he was going to pass.
So he picks up the phone, "Hey, how are you," and it becomes a long conversation. He goes, "I'm scared about this role." Why? "I don't know. I'm scared."
I told him, "If you're scared, it might mean that you want something." Which could sound like a sleazy way of approaching somebody, but the truth is that fear and desire are the polarizing elements of most of our actions.
I think Armie wanted to have that fear and act it out."