“She’s a cold, cold woman,” “The character was written strong in the first half and then just dwindled away when it had gotten more serious so I basically said, ‘Look, think of me as a guy.’ From the middle of the movie to the end, I would change things and he was totally open to it, and that was so liberating, because it’s his material. He just said, ‘All right, this is your character. I may have written it one way, but I want you to do what you want.”