First of all, he gets to act with the fabulous Lauren Bacall, among others, he also gets to play a gay man, and lastly, he has a full head of hair in the flick!

Director Paul Schrader talked to HX Magazine about Woody's dislike of his performance as Carter Page III, a gay man who spends his life gossiping with, and accompanying around town powerful women in Washington D.C. Then there'sa a murder and potential scandal.

"His agent told me he doesn't like himself in it," Schrader said. "I think he wanted the character to be a little more fey than I did, a little more comically fluffy, and I didn't see the character that way."

Q. I'm not sure how I feel about the relationship between Carter and his boyfriend—maybe it was the chemistry, or the radical differences between them as characters that seemed off.
A. I think the relationship of Woody and Moritz is probably the weakest thing in the film. What I was more concerned with was the social world and that relationship with the Kristen Scott Thomas character, which is so full of sadness and yearning and loss. That interested me more than Carter and his boyfriend. So I guess, unlike Brokeback, where Ang Lee set out to make a film about a male romance... I made a film about this guy and his relationship to these dames. That was my main interest.

Q. What might we see on the DVD extras of The Walker? Any extra- hot tongue kissing action between Woody and Moritz?
A. No, I think that kiss [we shot] goes into the column of what we call a "one-er." [Laughs] I don't think Woody was particularly eager for a retake.