‘Thunderbolts*’ Star Lewis Pullman Has Become Hollywood’s Go-To Bob

I only had three days to prepare for the screen test and hearing, which was a long time as I would like. So I tried to go as wide as possible, and then shrink it and go as specific as possible to find and discover where I, like Lewis, I can relate to this character.

Where did you get?

What was so exciting and scary was how much related to this character. In terms of the parts of mental health, anxiety and depression, I have a good health dose of OCT, and only doubts and that negative internal dialogue that can paralyze it. I am lucky to have come from a great family that was very proactive and ingenious to help me solve everything. And so, to try to inhabit someone who did not have that, he was close enough of those alleys to see how it would have been if he had not had those.

Have you had sincere conversations with people in your own life about mental health?

I was social work at the University in North Carolina, so I had many conversations about these issues. Upon entering this project, it was obvious that it was an important issue. But it was never our goal to make this a PSA, it is still an incredible movie successful movie and a large scale. But when a flashlight shines, it becomes more real. In many ways, my anxiety is something I am grateful for. It is a protection mechanism. Not only do you make a movie about it, and then the conversations. I will talk about that until the drainage surrounds. And that is something that I have become well and hug.

Do you also have personal experience with depression?

That is something that is less a force consisting of my life. It comes in waves. But it is something that is deeply in my marrow because, when you feel that, it is very difficult to forget it. I was able to take advantage of that in a safe way, with therapy, and then friends and support.

I follow the therapy in the same way as I act. I guess I never know anything, that there is always something to learn. I did a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy in high school, and now I am in conversation therapy. I have realized that the moment you should continue with the therapy is when you think you are doing the best without him. That is a mental game that I have fallen a couple of times.

Why do you think the character has resonated with people?

That oscillation between this wedding feels, with this true belief in yourself, is very resonant. That is something important about Bob: hey to be for use, but the leg told his whole life that when he tries to get involved, things always get worse. Many of us have said that, in one way or another, in one way or another. And so, seeing this very real person between these surreal and extraordinary circumstances is what makes it so resonant.