PAUL GIAMATTI: GREED IS NOT GOOD

Paul Giamatti plays a greedy wealthy husband with no moral conscious in The Nanny Diaries.

Paul Giamatti stars as Mr. X, the self-centered filthy rich husband to Laura Linney’s Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries.

Paul reunites with his American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini to create a character essentially motivated by greed rather than providing for his family.

“What drives Mr. X? Cold hard cash and the ladies. That’s what drives Mr. X. He’s really a pretty bad guy. He’s pretty much just an evil heavy in the thing in a lot of ways. He’s motivated by greed.”

Paul says The Nanny Diaries is a modern fairytale where the morale of the story is greed isn’t good.

“It’s got this kind of urban fairytale thing. It has these funny Mary Poppins things to it. It’s this kind of funny twist on all those kind of things. It’s also a great New York story which is really nice about it too.”

Paul seems to be on a roll playing bad guys. Next he’ll play another sinister character also motivated by money as the head of an assassin ring in Shoot ‘Em Up.