Buscemi only has two scenes in the film, and during one of those, we only hear his voice. In the one scene where we see him, his character is on his deathbed, so to speak -- he's in the hospital, he knows he's dying, he's making his last request. So I try to ask Buscemi about it, and this is part of our exchange:

Me: "So tell me about your deathbed scene... What was it like to shoot that?"

Steve Buscemi: "Oh, I don't want to talk about that scene..."

He talks about the director, Bette Gordon, his castmates Aidan Quinn and Campbell Scott -- who he did not have scenes with ("That's OK, I know them, I don't want to work with them, they're both big hams," he jokes. "I'm kidding! I love them both"), everything but his scene. I try again.

Me: "But you usually have such flamboyant death scenes. What was it like to do something more reserved, more subtle? How did this rate?"