Ben Kingsley's king director
30 July 2008
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Sir Ben Kingsley has branded Martin Scorsese "the king".The veteran actor has teamed up with the director on 'Shutter Island' and says the experience was a "joy".He told Empire Online: "On top of the brilliant script, you have the King - Martin Scorsese. "It was a joy to work with him. He elevates joy. Every frame of every film to him is a diamond. Everything is important to him. Everything is beautiful to him. "He can't stop talking about the films that he's restored or seen, naming the cast of something made in 1949 made by some little British director or the Powell-Pressburger films he's addicted to."Speaking about his character, Ben - who portrayed a psychiatrist in 'The Wackness' - said: "I'm playing another psychiatrist."He runs a top-security asylum on an island for the violently criminally insane. It's set in the McCarthy era in the 50s, so not the Giuliani era of 'The Wackness'."I'm a psychiatrist with a very important relationship to Leonardo Dicaprio's character .
"It's an examination, from my part, of unconditional love. This psychiatrist will not let this patient down until the patients are out of his hands. It's quite wonderful."
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