Envelope Directors Roundtable: When a scene doesn’t work
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What does a director do when a performance just isn’t working? Recasting the part could be ‘calamitous,’ one filmmaker says.
How honest should you be when a scene -- or an entire performance -- just isn’t working? Do you go with honesty is the best policy or soft-pedal the hard truth a little?
For one director, it all comes down to this: ‘Don’t cast a brain surgeon to play a brain surgeon.’
At the Envelope Directors Roundtable, Ben Affleck (‘The Town’), David Fincher (‘The Social Network’), Lisa Cholodenko (‘The Kids Are All Right’), Ethan Coen (‘True Grit’), Darren Aronofsky (‘Black Swan’) and Tom Hooper (‘The King’s Speech’) addressed those questions, with some often entertaining answers.
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