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Envelope Directors Roundtable: Actor-director relationships

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Being a director, it seems, means being half filmmaker and half therapist to a cast of actors. Some of them you can let go and watch them fly, and some take a lot of hand-holding. Either way, you do whatever they need to be free, even the ones that make you want to pull out your hair.

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 issues -- in the video clips above and below.

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The trick, they say, is to have your anxieties privately until you see what it is the actor is doing, but even then, you may have to recast the role.

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-- John Horn

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