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00:22:33 Look what you're getting, just from his eyes.
00:22:36 ...they'll ask you to recommend
two team members.
00:22:42 I think this is one of the things
that separates wonderful screen actors...
00:22:46 ... from truly great screen actors...
00:22:50 ... what they're able to express
and communicate without dialogue.
00:22:36 ...they'll ask you to recommend
two team members.
00:22:42 I think this is one of the things
that separates wonderful screen actors...
00:22:46 ... from truly great screen actors...
00:22:50 ... what they're able to express
and communicate without dialogue.
00:22:58 We made it!
00:31:42 Oppenheimer used to say, "A genius
sees the answer before the question."
00:31:45 You knew Oppenheimer?
00:31:47 This is an exciting night.
Both actors had rehearsed...
00:31:50 ... when they were both
Academy award nominees for best actor.
00:31:53 Ed for Pollock, Russell for Gladiator.
00:40:36 Isn't that a great dress? She wears it beautifully.
00:40:38 Rita Ryack was our costume designer
and did a great job...
00:40:42 ... with all the actors, as she always does.
00:40:46 - Do you?
- No.
00:40:50 I don't believe in luck.
00:41:16 My own personal relationship
with this scene was a tricky one.
00:41:20 I loved it the first time I read it on the page.
00:41:23 I really appreciated
what the actors did with the scene...
00:41:26 ... but I just wasn't sure how effective
it was going to be.
00:41:31 By the time we were in the editing room...
00:48:42 Well, I met a girl.
00:48:44 My favorite kind of scene to direct.
00:48:48 Good writing. Good actors.
00:48:53 They were loose.
These guys just had great screen chemistry.
00:48:59 That behavior that you see Russell doing,
that little mannerism...
01:11:37 So, emotional scenes like this
came after weeks and weeks of filming...
01:11:44 ... having been through
difficult emotional scenes already.
01:11:48 Of course, this is a scene that the actors
were looking ahead to for some time.
01:11:54 We'd rehearsed it.
It had gone very well in rehearsal.
01:11:56 I then didn't want to touch it.
We didn't discuss it.
01:12:30 Not in terms of the dialogue,
but the tone, the intensity...
01:12:35 ... the interaction.
01:12:38 For someone who loves to direct actors,
it was a really fascinating day to work.
01:12:43 They're keeping me here
to try to stop me from doing my work.
01:12:47 You have to get to Wheeler.
01:28:05 ... were Russell's idea on the night,
and we didn't have enough rifles.
01:28:08 I thought it was a great idea
and Roger Deakins loved it.
01:28:12 But we didn't have enough props
for the actors playing the soldiers...
01:28:16 ... and Tom Allen, our property master said,
"Don't worry about a thing."
01:28:20 All the rifles used out there in the background...
01:28:28 Of course, looking at it, you say, "That'll work."
01:28:31 But on the night, here you are,
making a Hollywood movie...
01:28:34 ... and your actors are standing there
with cut-out plywood, painted black...
01:28:39 ... and a flashlight taped to it.
01:28:41 And you say, "Well, I guess we are
just putting on a show after all."
01:41:00 She played it beautifully.
01:41:02 Another really exciting day for me as a director.
01:41:07 Not that I had to drag these performances
out of these actors, not at all.
01:41:11 But it was extraordinary
to create the environment...
01:41:13 ... and let them do their work.
01:42:30 ... worried all of us a great deal.
01:42:32 And that is the makeup. Always difficult to age...
01:42:36 ... actors convincingly onscreen.
01:42:38 Greg Cannom had worked closely
with Russell on The Insider.
01:42:42 I had worked with Greg Cannom on Cocoon...
01:42:58 We did lots of tests.
01:42:59 We tested every age...
01:43:02 ... where the actors were going to have to change.
01:43:04 Again here,
we're going to play with point of view.
01:43:07 He doesn't hear, he doesn't look over.
01:43:42 As a director, you often find that.
01:43:44 During rehearsal, you believe, you hope.
01:43:47 But every once in a while, you see
the actors really beginning to click in rehearsal.
01:43:52 This was one of the days where
I felt it was going to add up to something.
01:43:57 And Russell and Josh did
a great job with this scene...
02:00:29 ... which is always what's necessary...
02:00:31 ... to do something that complex and important...
02:00:34 ... with makeup on actors.
02:00:36 ...what truly is logic?
02:00:39 Who decides reason?
02:01:29 It was moving for all of us,
watching the takes unfold.
02:01:33 Thank you.
02:01:42 The actors, particularly Russell and Jennifer...
02:01:46 ... had to really expose themselves emotionally...
02:01:52 ... to do their work in this film.
02:01:53 They had to delve into areas
that were difficult, exhausting...
02:01:59 ... sometimes maybe even frightening.
02:02:03 Both actors are very professional.
02:02:07 As we went through the production...
02:02:10 ... I could obviously see that they were tired.
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