“That’s another thing about this, to not be scared of being disliked. Particularly in the scenes with my wife. Those scenes on the phone, there’s a certain — ” he takes on an aggressive harshness, “tone that I speak to her in that is horrible. It’s a way of speaking to someone that people will very much dislike. And I dive straight in because I thought it was important to understand. But then, when we see them alone, how much she means to him is conveyed, and that all ties into his PTSD.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times