Winter Oranges (2015)
““Promise me you won’t hold this against me,” he said as the movie started.
Ben’s facial expression was almost comically solemn. “I promise.”
Like a lot of actors he knew, Jason never watched his own movies once they were finished. The prevailing wisdom of people outside the business—people who didn’t know a damn thing about acting or filmmaking—was that the only way to get better was to analyze your own work. What they didn’t seem to realize was that acting wasn’t about planning out each sigh o...r bat of the eye. It wasn’t about stepping outside yourself and viewing your body as an outsider, wondering if your hair was a mess or whether there was snot coming out of your nose as you cried. It was about occupying the character completely, one moment at a time, and trusting that everybody else involved, from the gaffers to the hairdressers to the editors, would take all the fragmented pieces of art and make them work.
But once the scenes were filmed, why watch them again?MoreLess
Ben’s facial expression was almost comically solemn. “I promise.”
Like a lot of actors he knew, Jason never watched his own movies once they were finished. The prevailing wisdom of people outside the business—people who didn’t know a damn thing about acting or filmmaking—was that the only way to get better was to analyze your own work. What they didn’t seem to realize was that acting wasn’t about planning out each sigh o...r bat of the eye. It wasn’t about stepping outside yourself and viewing your body as an outsider, wondering if your hair was a mess or whether there was snot coming out of your nose as you cried. It was about occupying the character completely, one moment at a time, and trusting that everybody else involved, from the gaffers to the hairdressers to the editors, would take all the fragmented pieces of art and make them work.
But once the scenes were filmed, why watch them again?MoreLess
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