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Lena Waithe On Acting

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Waithe’s advice to actors going on an audition is to understand that what makes you unique might be the missing “it factor” that the casting directors and creators might not know that they’re missing. She reveals, “Bring whatever you have to the role, rather than trying to fit into whatever that role is because you are going to be like everybody else that come in for the role that day and you aren’t going to stand out. For Aziz and Alan, they were like, ‘We kind of like your take on what this is, because you obviously aren’t straight, you’re obviously not this straighted-laced girl, but there’s something interesting about the fact that you aren’t any of those things and we now want to change the character.’”

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Mustafa Shakir On Acting

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Shakir explains that in order to play Bushmaster, he engaged in cultural research on the character’s Jamaican background to gain an understanding of Bushmaster’s and motivations. But even then, he was not comfortable in the role until the first week of shooting. He explains,

“For me, my first order of business was to scour as many film documentaries, interviews, what have you, about Jamaica and Jamaican accents, to just really inundate myself with the culture. I did that for a bit. I listened to a lot of Nyabinghi music, which is Jamaican gospel. And for some reason, more than anything else, that sort of brought out this feeling and this vibe about who this character is about. All of that prep, that research and what have you, was cool, but the first day of shooting I was still [uncertain]. Until you do it, you just don’t know it.

It was about the fourth day and the first scene when something just clicked, and I remember feeling it internally. Lucy Liu [who directed the season premiere], she was like, “Yay!” And then [showrunner and creator Cheo Hodari Coker]comes over to me all casually and he’s like, “Hey, whatever you did in that last take, keep that.” And I was like, boom. It’s that subjective feeling, you know? That vibe. But that’s what you see when you see Bushmaster.”

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Mishel Prada Talks ‘Vida’, Creating a Backstory

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Did you create any sort of backstory for her to fill out things for you?

Mishel Prada: Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I started within my own life, and I had to do a lot of searching of, “Okay, well, what do I think I’ve moved past and need to readdress?” And that was kind of just a nugget of where that started. And then, kind of going from there and meshing Emma’s life, growing up in Boyle Heights, and putting herself through college, putting herself through grad school, and just kind of moving on and what that feels like. And then, Tanya and the writers’ room also already had a very rich and detailed backstory for their character. Tanya originally started as an actor, then she was a playwright. So, it was really great, because when you add these characters who have so much subtlety, and so much nuance that were just kind of already there, and then, just blended them into this tapestry of art and the characters.

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How Does Michael B. Jordan Choose His Next Role?

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Jordan says that it’s important for actors to follow their gut — even if their agents have other ideas. He says, “You can’t do everything. And obviously you have agents who have their own agenda, everybody’s trying to push you and navigate you toward saying or taking a job that you may not feel 100 percent comfortable with. Everything on paper may look good, but you have to go with your instincts. When I was younger, I started off still living at home and I didn’t have any real responsibilities, I didn’t have a mortgage to worry about or bills to pay, so you’re taking what’s in front of you. But once you get older and a little more successful, the choices you make really define the way the industry looks at you and how you move forward with your career. Those are the times that you’ve got to be a little bit more selective with the kind of projects that you do.”

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How Josh Brolin Prepares For A Role

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“Every preparation is the same, in that I deal with it in the same way. Can I do this? Can I pull it off? What do I need to learn? What should I look at? How much should I use my imagination? How much do I have to stick to the comic book? That kind of stuff.

That kind of fear, and you gather all of the information and look at it all, and panic, and then you start to slowly build this character. The hairdo is very different in this, can we do that, well it looks better on my head. We know that there’s going to be a certain amount of people who won’t like it, but then again, if they like the character and we create a character they’re able to invest in, they’re not really going to care about the hair. There’s that trust. You start to build something.

And then when you get into it, working out, not eating sugar, dieting, having eleven weeks to get into shape, to not use steroids, to do all that kind of stuff. I like all that kind of challenge. That’s as much a physical challenge as it is a psychic or emotional challenge. Then, doing something like No Country, where I broke my clavicle right before I did it. Two weeks before, I snapped it in a motorcycle accident. That lent whatever it lent to the character.”

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Jodie Foster On Acting

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Reflecting on her own performance in Hotel Artemis, Foster says, “I’m happy with my performance in the film because I feel like it’s a combination of grounded and emotional, and there’s that kind of Barbara Stanwyck, wisecracky feeling to it as well. That’s really what I was looking for: the opportunity to have more of a transformation, to play a character role but still to inhabit the character with emotion.”

One aspect that drew Foster to the character was the challenge of altering her appearance for the role — though she reveals that made producers question wary of casting someone as famous as her in the first place. She explains, “That’s really the reason I wanted to do the movie, and I had to fight for it. I’ve been looking for a transformation character for five years. I think the producers were a little scared. They were like: ‘Wait a minute. You’re not going to look bad, are you?’ [laughs]It’s like: ‘If you’re not the same Jodie Foster everybody’s used to seeing, then do we want that?’ But it was important. That was the character. She’s a 70-year-old woman who hasn’t left that room for 25 years and lives on tacos and hasn’t had any vitamin D.”

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