"According to Nelson, Clooney joked at the time that all of their SAG cards should've been revoked "because there was so much overacting from the three of us," but it was Turturro's advice when shooting began to always give the Coens more than they asked for. Ultimately, to Nelson, the broadness of their performances juxtaposes with "passages of real sadness and poignancy" to deepen the comedy."
"Nelson calls O Brother, Where Art Thou? "the movie that changed my life," because he's been working consistently ever since. This fall, he co-stars with Ethan Hawke in Sterlin Harjo's new FX series The Low Down (premiering September 23), leads the independent film Bang Bang (out September 12), and wrote both the Off Broadway play And Then We Were No More (running September 19 through November 2) and his second novel, Superhero (out December 2)."
In 1999 Tim Blake Nelson was an unknown character actor when Joel Coen asked him to read the script for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nelson expected to provide feedback because his classics background at Brown connected him to the material, but Coen offered him the lead role alongside John Turturro and George Clooney. Nelson appears in nearly every scene, including baptism, siren seduction, and the "Man of Constant Sorrow" sequence. Clooney joked about the trio's overacting while Turturro advised always giving the Coens more than requested. The film changed Nelson's career and led to ongoing acting and writing projects.
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