LAURA LINNEY LEARNS ABOUT MEN

Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play brother and sister in The Savages.

Laura Linney stars in Jindabyne in an already troubled marriage to Gabriel Byrne when she discovers that he has done the unthinkable, left a dead woman floating in the river while he continued his camping trip with his buddies.

Laura says it’s interesting to explore the differences between how men and women make decisions when confronted with the same problem.

“Is there a difference between men and women? When you’re confronted with things like this how will you behave? I mean I know that if it was me exactly how I would behave. There’s just no question. Oh I’d report it immediately, immediately. I’d be scared to death and I’d report it immediately. There’s something interesting with men at times that I think they’re not, that the insistence on not being afraid, of not absorbing the things in a situation I think is part of what comes into play.”

Laura says discovering your spouse isn’t the person you thought you knew is even worse.

“And the thing that’s the most, that has the biggest repercussion is when you learn something about someone that just shocks you. When you cannot believe that this person who you know, who you trust, who you are intimate with behaves in a way that just makes no sense to you at all. You go, ‘who are you?’”

Jindabyne opens today in theaters.