Website Comingsoon had de kans om even te spreken met regisseur Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) over zijn nieuwe film Youth Without Youth, waarvoor overigens nog geen Nederlandse releasedatum bekend is. De verfilming van het gelijknamige verhaal van de Roemeense schrijver Mircea Eliade vertelt over een professor (Tim Roth) die wordt getroffen door de bliksem, en vervolgens een jongeman blijkt te zijn.

Could you talk about casting Tim Roth? I'm curious what you saw in him as far as playing the role of an everyman?
"I cast Tim Roth because I wanted to cast an actor who would go with me and freeze in Romania for six months for not a ton of money which I didn't have. Also, I wanted to cast someone that I'd always liked in films and felt he'd never gotten a day in the sun. I think Tim Roth is someone we've seen as villains and he's clearly a very bright guy, and a very talented guy, very bright, and very savvy about movies. I wanted someone who hadn't gotten the chance to be the star above the title and to be the romance and to play old and play young. Playing young is really hard. It's not so hard to take a 45-year-old guy and make him eighty years old, but to take a 45-year-old guy and make him be vaguely believable as a 24-year-old guy is very hard. He had lots of challenges and he was very good to give me his time."