Joel Edgerton experiences self-doubt every time he gears up to direct a film.
The Australian actor put off his feature directorial debut, 2015's The Gift, for more than a year because he was so "terrified".
"I delayed directing my first film for a good year and a half, two years, because I was finding any excuse to procrastinate. It's because I was terrified of doing it," he revealed on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.
"By the end of the first week, I'd seen a few scenes cut together and I had faith I was making my days and I was enjoying myself. But the fear in that year and half leading up to it..."
Despite having one film under his belt, Edgerton felt the same self-doubt when he came to direct his second film, 2018's Boy Erased.
"Then I get close to making my second film and exactly same fears were there, maybe even amplified. 'Am I gonna be able to do this?'" he admitted. "I'm like, 'I've done it before! I've made a movie before!' Surely, I should have felt the confidence to go, 'I've been through this experience.'"
Edgerton, who also acted in both of his features, added that he is planning to direct a film from his own script late next year. Despite being his third movie as a director, that sense of doubt is already creeping in.
"I'm already filling my head with the doubt of that. Already," he said.
The Australian actor put off his feature directorial debut, 2015's The Gift, for more than a year because he was so "terrified".
"I delayed directing my first film for a good year and a half, two years, because I was finding any excuse to procrastinate. It's because I was terrified of doing it," he revealed on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.
"By the end of the first week, I'd seen a few scenes cut together and I had faith I was making my days and I was enjoying myself. But the fear in that year and half leading up to it..."
Despite having one film under his belt, Edgerton felt the same self-doubt when he came to direct his second film, 2018's Boy Erased.
"Then I get close to making my second film and exactly same fears were there, maybe even amplified. 'Am I gonna be able to do this?'" he admitted. "I'm like, 'I've done it before! I've made a movie before!' Surely, I should have felt the confidence to go, 'I've been through this experience.'"
Edgerton, who also acted in both of his features, added that he is planning to direct a film from his own script late next year. Despite being his third movie as a director, that sense of doubt is already creeping in.
"I'm already filling my head with the doubt of that. Already," he said.