«Electrifying» Jimi Hendrix and his turntable in 1970
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders is one of the greatest coming of age films of the 20th century. He and his cast of stars before they were stars accurately capture life on the wrong side of the tracks, but to get into character the actors had to go more method than they wanted to.
While speaking about the film with Kelly Clarkson, Rob Lowe revealed that the actors had to spend the night with strangers in order to find their characters. He says that he and a young Tom Cruise ended up on cots in a basement, Lowe still sounds annoyed:
Tom and I ended up in the basement in two cots and we’re like, ‘We don’t know these people
When we were doing The Outsiders, we’re 18 and 19 years old. It’s Francis Ford Coppola, the director, who directed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. and in his effort to make us more authentic as greasers, as sort of tough Tulsa, sort of wrong side of the tracks guys, (he) found a bunch of different actual greasers who were now grown-up adults and made us go spend the night and live with them. ‘ I mean, who vetted them? Really? Do you think Francis Ford Coppola spent a lot of time vetting these people? I can tell you, he didn’t. He was with an espresso and watching some fancy Fellini movie and went, ‘Yeah, yeah that sounds great’ and went back to his espresso.
The glamorous Elizabeth Taylor, 1956
We don’t often think of Elizabeth Taylor as a «method» performer. Sure, we know about her marriages and her work as Cleopatra, but it’s hard to think of her digging deep into a character. However, that’s exactly what she did on some of her biggest films, although it wasn’t always easy to get out of the role.
She notes that while filming Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with her then-husband Richard Burton the couple had to work out a system of getting out of character so they could make sure they had a pleasant evening at home rather than continuing to tear each other’s heads off:
We’d get it all out on the set and when we got home it was like taking off and overcoat and leaving it at the studio. Continuar leyendo: “«Electrifying» Jimi Hendrix and his turntable in 1970” →
Publicado el 25/3/2022 Categoría mature dating reviews.
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