Twilightish, Twilight Moms, Team Twilight, Twilight Lexicon, Twilight Examiner, Twilight Series Theories and Twilighters Anonymous had a chance to chat with Chris Weitz yesterday. Check out what he had to say!
Q: How were you able to get such amazing emotions out of the actors, especially [Jose Julian] – I just
read on his page that he’s never done anything like this before. The movie’s so powerful; how did you
get the actors to portray that on-screen?
Chris Weitz: Well, I mean Demian Bichir is a big actor in Mexico. He’s been in many movies; he’s
incredibly technically accomplished and a brilliant actor so that was never in doubt for me. Of course,
when you’re starting with a newcomer, you don’t really know what you’re going to get, but I think the
thing that we managed to do was to schedule it so that the scenes which he was being a difficult teen
and kind of a pain in the butt were early on, which is kind of easier for a sixteen-year-old actor to go
to, and then the more emotional scenes, by the time we got around to shooting that, he had lived in
our little circus for you know a couple of months. He had learned from Demian; he had learned how to
focus; he had been through all this thinking about things, and so that helped him. And of course acting
with Demian when he’s delivering that sort of final speech in the detention center, I would find it hard
not to convey a hell of a lot of emotion myself.
Read the whole article over at twilightish.com
~Robstenfan
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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