TORONTO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Belgian film director Michael Roskam says it was an honor to work with the late actor James Gandolfini on The Drop, their big-screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane's short story.
"First of all, [Gandolfini] was a great actor. A great artist and also a wonderful man. It was great to work with him. It was such an honor to be a director and having to see this man, icon, one of the greatest actors of his generation, perform so close to you and to see it happening. You're looking at your little monitor and he's there and then you say, 'Cut!' And he's the great man who's there. It was very inspiring, I think, for all of us. It was just a great honor," Roskam said at a weekend press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival.