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Annette Bening on Starting Her Career Relatively Late

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Annette Bening

When asked “Do you think now you’re more confident as an actor than you were in the past?” Bening responds:

That’s so sweet. I love that question. I don’t know if it’s like this in your business, but with different projects you learn something new. In my business it’s absolutely the case. It’s like you go into another little universe each time, because it’s a different group of people, the subject matter is different, the time you’re working in, the themes you’re working on. It’s always a little microcosm of a world that you’re entering into.

When I started films, I had already worked in the theater a lot. I was almost 30. It took me a long time to feel comfortable working in movies. I felt kind of like I was a stage actress pretending I was a movie actress. Now I don’t feel that way. I really relish it. I went to acting school — like community college, state college, conservatory — and I needed to do all of that. But it takes a long time to forget everything that you’ve learned.

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Margot Robbie On Acting

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Margot Robbie

Robbie says that the type of acting that she finds most difficult is when she is doing a scene on her own. She explains, “I get nervous any time I have to act on my own. I need to be with other actors, then my focus is on what they’re doing and all I need to do is react to it. I’m too in my head if I’m on my own.”

On the other hand, one of the aspects of acting that Robbie most enjoys is learning new skills and preparing her character. She says,”I get excited when there’s a skill set you get to learn, and we’re so lucky and spoiled that they get someone really good to teach you. Like when I did [2015’s] Focus, I had a real-life pickpocket teach me how to pickpocket. I was like, ‘This is exciting’… Beyond that, I am kind of a crazy person when I prep. I do timelines and backstories, I work with a dialect coach, a movement coach and an acting coach. I do a lot before so I can throw it out the window when I get on set. But if I hadn’t done the work before, I’d be too scared.”

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Gary Oldman on Playing Winston Churchill in ‘Darkest Hour’

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Gary Oldman

Oldman reveals that one way in which he developed Oldman’s voice is by treating it like learning music. He explains:

“Churchill had a very distinctive cadence, more so when he spoke publicly. His range is a little lower and fuller than my own. I worked with a man, a singing teacher, and an opera singer, Michael Dean. We had a few sessions on the piano and we worked out the range of Churchill on the keyboard. With exercises and working with him and the recordings, you find what lower notes I needed to hit. Churchill would work until three or four in the morning and he wrote to his wife in 1924, he said ‘I like champagne at every meal and plenty of claret and soda, in between.’ You would hear these recordings and you could always tell if he had had a few brandies because you could hear it. That was challenging, getting that whiskey cigar sound. You are playing arguably the greatest Briton that ever lived for starters. But you are also playing an iconic character whose silhouette, the shape he makes, his face is very iconic. What we think we remember, he doesn’t really sound like that.”

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Tamlyn Tomita on Learning From Mistakes

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Tamlyn Tomita

What’s been the worst audition you’ve ever been on? Where you’re like, “Oh man, what just happened in there?”

Tamlyn Tomita: I think that’s what usually happens. As an actor, what I try to do is I try to completely transform myself internally. This is an old school lesson I learned from my mentors way back when: try to walk into the room as the character. Because a lot of these writers, directors, and producers don’t have a lot of time to get to know you as the actor, as the person, and then see you turn on the character. They’d just rather see you turn on the character and walk in. It’s a little bit more efficient for me.

But sometimes I made such a bad mistake, I totally dressed up glamorously when they wanted a housewifey-looking girl. I came in with high heels and full on make-up. I go, “Oh my god, what did I do?” Because I didn’t think it out. But my mother happened to be very well kept together, so that was in my mind, what a housewife would be or a stay-at-home mom or a homemaker would be. It’s not delineated out sometimes in scripts, you know, “She’s a housewife”. But then what housewives look like a well together put person? And I go, “But that’s what my mom’s like”. It really changes the picture for some of them.

But then I go in as committed as possible and then when I leave the room after I see the reaction that’s when I go, “Oh, I think they wanted a really stereotypical person”.

I’ve made some harsh mistakes, but it’s all learning, and they’re funny stories to tell after I come home and crash into the couch with my little pint of ice cream and say, “Oh, I should’ve done this”. But then it’s a lesson learned, it’s a lesson learned.

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Daveed Diggs on the Advice He Would Give His Younger Self

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Daveed Diggs

“The advice I would give my younger self is to stop stressing so much about the timeline. Whatever this thing is that’s happened to me in the last few years—if that happened any time before that, I don’t think I would’ve been ready for it. It’s been very challenging in a lot of ways.

I think I’m getting to be selective about the things I’m working on because I’m pretty confident in who I am. I don’t get nervous about people telling me I should do things because I’m not afraid to be broke. The money is not the thing; it’s about having the life and getting to do what you love for a living. I think success is a thing you need to define carefully for yourself.

I felt relatively successful pre-Hamilton in that at least I was still making art all the time. I was on tour with my band, I was working on projects, writing scripts and teaching. I had very little money, but I felt pretty successful.”

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