Watch this person coming, its Vanessa.

Hello Vanessa. Nice to meet you!

A Golden Globe, a SAG Award, now the Oscar nomination

wow it's really impressive, congratulations. Thank you!

It feels good, thank you! How do you feel when you wake up in the morning,

just knowing you might take you first Oscar home.

I haven't really thought, I haven´t put myself there

I don't put myself in that - imagine that position

I'm really enjoying this whole

approach to it in this whole award season I've been going around

supporting this this film that took 20 years to make

and we got it made and now

its at a time when it's getting a light shine on it

you know for picture for editing for performances and that's something I'm

I'm proud of and I'm proud to be sharing it and I'm gonna

I'll be able to better answer that after

the season's over whether I win it or not

Honestly, when I first read about this movie and I saw your pictures how

much weight you lost

I thought, why would anyone do that for role,

and then I saw the movie and now I get it. Bravo!

it was truly worth it this movie, right?

It was an obvious responsibility that I had

to go play the character,

if I didn't do that, I really wouldn´t have worked.

I would have been embarrassed, I wouldn´t have been doing my job.

So it was very clear to me, it was never a question

going into it that that wasn't necessary.

I didn't know how much I was gonna loose, I just knew

there was a certain place I needed to get

to best represent Ron Woodruff

How did playing this character influence your day-to-day life?

I'd say then and still

I'd definitely challenge authority more aggressively

than I did before, politically

on a government level, on many levels

challenge authority. Don't just take someone's word for

things as easily as maybe I did before

I always question, what actually did Ron Woodroff

at the end he doesn't go that court and win

he goes there and looses. But what did he do?

And I would say, to the best of my knowledge,

his shook the tree and made enough noise he was obviously making enough noise that the FDA

came down and shut him down three times so he was obviously

important enough and it was on their radar as you know

a criminal and we gonna shut this guy up and so what do I think probably happened

well, you know the congressmen and senators who had their special-interest staced up on

their desk

I think he got, you know, the people with HIV and how do we better treat them

that move from the bottom of the list closer to the top

And so I think he helped fast track; what he did

help fast-track the government doing research about the thing, there's a better

way to treat people with HIV.

You shot this movie in 25 days.

That must have been a challenge because thats not a long time for a movie like that.

No, it#s not. It was a challenge, but in hindsight, I also call it a privlege

because you didn't have to reset

in the day, you almost didn't have to reset at night or at the end of the week.

It felt like the camera was always rolling

so there what happens when you know that you're under the gun

one: you're forced to get creative. Number two:

you don't warm up into the scene. You show up that morning and you're hitting it

because there's not gonna be time to warm up. You don't get in a scene and kinda find it

which you have the privilege of doing in more considerate films

we have more time which those are nice as well but this was like boy get outta bed

I'm on. Everybody better be on,

until they tell us to go home we're not shooting anymore, ever.

Which came after 25 days. Thank you so much. it was great to talk to you.