This Is How J.K. Simmons Prepared For 'The Bachelors’

Actor J.K. Simmons played the role of grieving widower Bill Ponder in 'The Bachelors’ who was struggling with depression. He said that his 'life experiences with grief and depression' prepared him for the role. The actor also thanked people close to him who have also dealt with those issues in helping him preparing for his role.

"As far as playing the reality of it, I felt like I had enough life experience to inform what I was doing," said Simmons. The Worlds Apart actor his approach to prepare for his role was two-fold, trust his director and trust himself. He added, "I knew that Kurt [Voelker, the writer-director] had done specific research in terms of ECT [electroconvulsive therapy, which is used as part of his character's treatment for depression] and the technical details of how things may or may not be treated and how they're portrayed."

He hopes that the film generates some discussion. "I hope audiences walk away feeling that they've been entertained and amused and maybe enlightened a little bit and maybe even with a discussion about whether the path that Bill, my character, found himself directed toward was the right direction or whether he should have done something else," he said. "I hope that there's at least a little bit of a kind of debate going,” added the 62-year-old.

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