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Ruth Wilson on Creating a Character

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Ruth Wilson

 

Developing the emotion complexities of a character:

I start from the character and motivation, and the inner workings and thoughts of a character, and this usually draws you close to a voice and a mannerism or a physicality. For example with Alison in The Affair, I get to play both sides of that character – my version from her point of view, she was someone suffocated by grief and self-loathing, so she appeared more shy, shoulders hunched, eyes averted, quiet. In Noah’s point of view, she came across as predatory vixen, so my body language was entirely different. She came across as much more confident, and in charge of her own choices.

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Jeff Bridges On Working With The Character

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Bridges explains, “The different parts I play, start with yourself and see what kind of lines up with the character. You might magnify those aspects of yourself that work with the character, or keep those parts of you that don’t match to the curve. With [Hell or High Water] a couple of things come to mind. One, my grandfather, Fred Simpson, on my mom’s side, was from Liverpool. He was a terrible teaser. I think my brother [the actor Beau Bridges] inherited that gene, too, because Beau was a great teaser, still is. And that was part of my character. I remember when my brother would tease me and get me crying, and my mother would say, ‘It’s just because he loves you so much,’ you know? That helped me with the stuff I had with Gil Birmingham [his co-star in the film, who plays] my partner who I enjoy working with so much.”

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How Does Mahershala Ali Get Into Character?

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As Ali has spoken out before, one way he gets into character — especially while working on multiple projects at once — is that he makes music playlists for each individual character. He points out that he makes lists based on “Music that he would respond to, music that reflects the world he’s living in, things he would have listened to growing up or whatnot. They help focus me very quickly, almost like a meditation. It especially helps if you’re working on a couple of things.”

In addition to making playlists, Ali also focused on getting to know his Moonlight character on a deeper level in order to make the most of the character’s limited screentime. He explains, “I found myself thinking of him as a spirit first, strange as that might sound, and engaging in conversations with him. Finding out what it was I needed to know about, what he needed to say… Alone in my office, walking around just talking with him, and even going for walks. I haven’t approached it in that way before, and I wasn’t sure if it was OK to do that! But then at the end of the day, I never know what I’m doing.”

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Felicity Jones on How She Finds Inspiration For Her Characters

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For all her characters, Jones creates scrapbooks. “Pictures that I see that remind me of the person I’m playing, little bits of writing,” she describes of its contents. “As much as possible, I’m trying to understand who the characters are and why they’re making the decisions that they’re making.”

For Jyn, she also did something a little different, knowing that, coming from another galaxy, Jyn is a different character to most. As THR describes, “Before the six-month shoot outside London began in August 2015, she spent hours watching music videos, particularly those of Florence + the Machine.” “It became a very important part of finding her. She walks almost a bit like a caged animal. Her fight sequences become like dances,” Jones says.

Casey Affleck on Finding a Character

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“Matt was going to direct that movie and then he decided not to. That happened long before we started the movie. And I can’t really talk — I don’t know how you guys feel, but talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It’s such an internal and complicated and still mysterious process. It’s almost all inside. And it was hard [emotionally]. Three times a week I’d show up and have to stand over someone who’s your dead relative and try to be authentically in that place. It broke me into a place where it became much easier to do all of it.”

Affleck also said that he doesn’t do much rehearsing, though he did on Manchester By the Sea and found the process more helpful since it was a low-budget movie. He explains, “On this movie — because Kenny [Lonergan, the writer-director] came out of a theater background — he wanted to rehearse a lot and talk about it. The fun part for me is endlessly talking about why does he do this, or why does he do that, or why doesn’t he? I really get into that. [But] on movies that are small like that, with a low budget, you don’t feel like you have enough time. So sometimes we would only have time to shoot half the scene, or the whole scene just played on one person. So you spend a week working on that scene and [are told], ‘We’re not going to shoot that half of it.’ That’s OK. It still holds together, which is a testament to Kenny knowing which sacrifices to make and which not to make, and knowing which limbs to cut off and the thing could still live.”

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Jeff Bridges on Creating a Character

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Bridges has made a career out of playing cowboy-like characters despite his Los Angeles roots. He gives credit to his father, actor Lloyd Bridges, for getting him interested in westerns. He explains:

Well, the first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid I loved to dress up like a cowboy—put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns and my Dad loved to ride. We’ve had a ranch for almost 40 years now in Montana, so I’m around a lot of western guys. And also another thing is my stand-in, Loyd Catlett, we’ve done close to 70 movies together and we met onThe Last Picture Show back in 1970. Since we’ve been working together, we’ve become friends all these years, and he’s from Texas and was hired not only as an actor on that film but also to teach us California kids what it’s like to be a kid from Texas. I owe a lot to him when I do my western characters, especially.

But for me, as I guy who loves to go to movies, I find a movie like ours orStarred Up, that was made for a couple hundred thousand bucks, or Once, which was made for nothing, as far as being entertained, those surpassed many superhero movies that I’ve seen. So I think the fact that we do have these big, multimillion dollar films—there’s a backlash to it, and you also have very inexpensive movies that are pushing the envelope in a different direction. I just saw a movie called Tangerine, a whole movie shot on iPhones. The state of Hollywood is in an interesting place.

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