Video: John Hawkes on \'The Sessions\'

In Ben Lewin's film “The Sessions,” opening today, John Hawkes portrays Mark O'Brien, a journalist and poet who contracted polio as a child and spent most of his life in an iron lung. This is one of several memorable roles in independent films that Mr. Hawkes has taken on in recent years. In the above video, he discusses the challenges of a role that requires a restricted amount of movement. A review of “The Sessions” can be read here.