B.L. You gave a very heartfelt and convincing performance in Hart’s War. Was it a tough role to play?
T.H. Yah, because I don’t have any experience being that honorable. My uncles used to call me the dirty rotten scoundrel and scound-booger and all of that so I feel like a hypocrite playing such a beautiful person.

B.L. Well you pulled it off all right. What was it when you read the script that made you say “I’ve got to play this guy?”
T.H. Actually I read the script and I said, “I can’t do this guy.” They kept trying to get me to come in and read and I was like, “no I don’t know where he’s from. I don’t get this guy.” They saw a lot of actors for the role and then the casting director called me and said, “please Terrence. Please come in.” So I came in and I said, “well I’m not going to read. I’ll come and talk to you guys about it just to keep up face.” Greg Hoblit, the director somehow in the middle of our conversation he made me call to mind an experience in my own past and he said “this is why you should be playing this character.” So I couldn’t resist anymore after that. Trust me though, I did everything I could to sabotage it. I didn’t want to be in it. Now I am glad that I did. You don't want to go through what he went through.

B.L. Absolutely not. Your performance is so moving and there's a lot going on with his situation. I was wondering because your character is virtually isolated for most of the film because of his race, did you feel that to stay in character you had to separate your self from your fellow actors? How did it work for you?
T.H. I felt like the only black man in the world at the time. I was really only one of the only black men on the set. Most of the people on the set were Czech and they just came out of communism eight or nine years ago. Back in their day, days of Communism, if any of them were caught talking to a Westerner their next door neighbour would have to turn them in and tell on them. So, on the set that’s how I felt because they weren’t readily open to me. They didn’t know how to talk to me. Then the other actors, because they were in character, they wouldn’t talk to me. So you are talking five months of not wanting to talk. That’s hard.

B.L. So how do you go home at the end of the day and be Terrence? Must have been really tough?
T.H. I didn't find Terrence again until six months after we were done. Terrence needed some therapy after that movie.

B.L. Yeah, I can imagine. Is it hard to watch yourself up on that screen or have you even seen the film?
T.H. No I haven’t actually seen it yet. I am kind of frightened to watch it.

B.L. One of the only actors that you probably did spend time with on set was Colin Farrell seeing how most of your scenes were with him. What was it like working with him and what makes this guy so unique?
T.H. When we were in Prague I wanted to take one of his rings just to keep it with me because he became such a good friend to me. He became such a close companion. In the bible it says a friend is someone who sticks closer than a brother. Well Colin Farrell is now my friend. He’s closer than any other brother that I have ever seen in my life, even my own brother. That’s Colin, and everybody feels like that to him. Everybody is special to him.