Tim Blake Nelson talks about Daniel Day-Lewis’ character transformation and how it helped on Lincoln
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I live in Richmond, Virginia, and am a huge DDL fan. Having lunch one day with a friend - typical neighborhood bar/joint with burgers and salads - an in walks Abraham freaking Lincoln. Jeans, sweatshirt, Doc Martens, and that beard. He sat down at the table next to me. Just him. I smiled, he smiled. When the waitress came over, he talked to her in the voice. Abe Lincoln in Doc Martens ordered a burger and a pint of lager. He's taller than I thought, and has some impressive tribal tat sleeves. Go figure.
I've loved everything single thing Tim Blake has done. What a talent!
The idea of making those sacrifices to convenience and comfort on-set to make the setting more intentional (and theatrical?) seems like a great idea. By demanding everyone on-set be involved in this setting of the stage, it creates a certain buy-in that everyone is conscious of, and so everyone would feel that shared commitment.
Love Tim's work. I have watched Old Henry at least a half dozen times.
More people and especially fans of westerns should be more aware of that flick. Well written and executed.
I think that Old Henry will, in time, be recognized as one of the all-time great Western movies. It's that good.
Such erudition. “It felt like I were…” Do you hear anyone speaking grammatically correct English anymore?
Now JOHN HAWKES is another brilliant actor like TIM BLAKE NELSON, having him as a guest would be lovely.
watching deadwood yearly like me and my wife do, we understand this notion well!
CRAB BOY ON WINGS
Hawkes wields a formidable dildo in 12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer, yet with the purest and gentlest of intentions. I see what Trixie saw in him
I PA'ed on a film with John Hawkes. SUPER nice guy.
I'm sure it's annoying as hell to work with ddl or any other method actor, but as a viewer I appreciate your service.
Pretending to be a character in a movie off set, if it's the only movie you do all year, doesn't make u a good actor. He's kinda cheating. If he did a few roles a year with different type of characters I'd be impressed. Most overrated actor ever!
And of course, it's most important to impress you. Isn't it? Aren't you special....
@@DannyDee-qc7moim sure Daniel has sleepless nights knowing he has never once impressed the inimitable DannyDee
What a performance by the entire cast
Great video - actors seem to be the only specialists who have everyone chiming in on how they think their process should work - as opposed to ppl just reacting to the result - if I hired someone for any job and he went to such enormous lengths to be thorough and do the best job possible, I'd thank my lucky stars - and then I might find someone else who does it totally differently, but still gets amazing results - either way it's great, and I wouldn't be lecturing them about their approach; just appreciating the result
God I love Tim Blake Nelson. The Grey Zone is probably one of the most harrowing yet powerful movies ive ever seen.
In an interview, Brad Pitt was talking about acting in Interview with the Vampire, and how Daniel Day-Lewis had turned down the role because "he didn't think he'd like what it would do to him." Brad had scoffed at the idea, thinking, "Christ, more actor bullshit." Then he took the role and found out very quickly that Daniel had been right - the constant night shoots and the depressive nature of the character really did affect him negatively. Yeah, always listen to the guy who knows what the fuck he's talking about.
i was with you until the last "bad ass" sentence
@@softjones3128 Ah, so you're one of those people who think they know more than someone who's among the best. Good to know.
Sure, you can read it that way if you squint, but it's very likely not what they said.
@@g.strobl4458 What who said? I was relating a story Brad told in an interview in Premiere Magazine in 1993, dude. According to him, it's exactly what he said.
Brad Pitt and DDL in the same sentence is blasphemy, Pitt can’t act he’s a terrible actor, never could.
"Special and sacred." Some people in it for the fame. Some are in it for making art.
Exactly.
It's how "Gettysburg" was treated. Especially since they filmed it AT Gettysburg. A place some cast members described as "hallowed ground".
The VAST majority of the secondary cast and background soldiers were reenactors with their own weapons, costumes, and even canons. This left the main cast and crew with a very high standard to meet. They knew they HAD to get it right. There was no IF involved at all. They knew that if they fucked it up, the thousands of reenactors/volunteers would walk off the set ... killing the production of recreating the most important battle in American history. And quite possibly killing the reputation of who knows how many in the industry as a side effect.
And I have to say ... it definitely shows on screen. They put every once of effort possible into making that movie. if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
As an added suggestion and even bonus, watch "Gods and Generals" first since it takes place before "Gettysburg". It's the build up to the Civil War and the battle at Gettysburg, so you can watch them right after the other like with "Rogue One" and "A New Hope".
The bonus part is about 90-95% of the cast returns to their original characters 10 YEARS LATER!! Only 1 character (I can think of) is played by a different actor (General Lee) while a returning actor plays someone else (for reasons I don't want to give away if you don't know your American Civil War history), but that's still pretty amazing. Dozens of actors reprising the exact same roles 10 years later has to be some kind of record, considering the massive cast originally involved.
Appreciate these top tier interviews 🔥🔥
More meaningless fucking buzzwords...🖕
Tim was phenomenal in _Old Henry_ .
Wanted to post the same thing. It's now my second favourite western behind Unforgiven.
@@anthonybrett Open Range is pretty good too.
@@RodCornholio I have no idea how but I totally missed this film. I'll be watching it over the weekend for sure. Love anything with Duvall Thankyou!
Folks if you haven't seen the movie, 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", yet, do yourselves a favor!
*Tim On Daniel: "The transformation is **_so_** comprehensive **_(molecular,_** I would say) that you don't even feel like you're with an actor. You feel like you're with the **_person."_*
The President of the United States must've been absolutely shocked by those 21sr century Panavision cameras.
Well anachronisms is my big word for the day
Mr. Rosenbaum’s interviewing skills have greatly improved. Many actors come across as kind of “act-y” socially. Almost a social uncanny valley. I see that with Michael McConnaghey when he was thinking about running for office. He got a lot better sounding more natural.
Mr. Rosenbaum sounds a lot more relaxed and genuine now.
Great interview. Hope that makes sense and it is a genuine compliment from a nobody (me). 😂
This is the first time I've heard Tim without a southern accent.
You can still hear his natural Oklahoma accent here. It’s just not as pronounced as the accents he puts on for most of his roles.
..."no paper cups.... No movie cameras???? Errr Daniel can we have a word?"
Would have loved to see him as Hasimir Fenring
Whatever works I guess. Can't magically make the tons of high tech equipment used for actually filming the thing disappear though.
Daniel's got all the Oscars so he would know way better than me, but there's the crew, cameras, mics, lights and all that. Will a paper cup really be that big of a deal?
Agreed... if you're that good a paper cup shouldn't be a problem... seems like DDLewis may not be as good of an actor as I once thought 😂
I think the idea for any actor making a movie, regardless of being method or not, is that you're already trying to just ignore that the camera is there, anyway, in a scene. In other words, once it's established where you're going to stand and be for the shot, you just put out of your head that a camera and the lights, etc., are there at all. In other words, that's already a psychological omission you're making and you're focusing only on the "scene" and the other actor(s). In addition, a good actor will have rehearsed the lines so much by that point that speaking them feels like they're coming from you - at least that's the goal. Bottom line is, whatever objective silliness there may be to the "method", if it works enough to get a performance that good and they can't do it any other way, hey, go for it. Some actors just feel like they can only give a performance they'd be happy with if they "become" the character as much as they possibly can. There are also great actors who can literally just turn it off and on between shots and don't need the Method. Just depends on the actor and what they personally need in order to get to a certain point.
The short answer: yes.
Paper cups were apparently a big deal for Game of Thrones season 8.
@JohnDoe-sr2lr yeah im pretty sure your first instinct was correct. He is a transcendental actor in every role he plays. You literally can't say that about anyone else. Yeah some people have one or two such performances but his is truly next level. You can feel the weight of the preparation I'm each performance.
I guess I can see what Isabelle Adjani saw in the DDL
So, were movie cameras allowed on set? How do you demand no anachronisms and then suspend disbelief for the crew and equipment?
If a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well😊
Daniel Day Lewis should have insisted there should be no lighting, filming equipment and cameras and so on. If you can't act with anachronistic stuff around you within the context of this situation, then perhaps you're not that good as people say you are.
You know, its hard to take you seriously when the start of your argument has a comment like a Valley Girl would make.
asinine. 100 percent. And more salty than the Dead Sea.
I was an extra in the last of the mohicans, this is all true
No anachronisms apart from the film crew and its associated paraphernalia….
Now that's how a period piece is supposed to be done
No. They should have got rid all the camera equipment then - it is a period piece after all. If an actor cannot surmount simple issues like paper cups, then he's not as good as people say he is.
It must be absolutely exhausting to act so heavily by the method like DDL, physically and mentally. No wonder he doesn't do it all that often.
I find the whole practice of method acting to be entirely too precious. I can't, of course, speak to Nelson's positive experience, but the demand for period appropriate clothing and accessories while on set even as they're surrounded and focused on by millions of dollars of digital video, audio, editing and timing equipment just beggars belief. Nelson clearly enjoyed and applauded this effort, however one can only imagine how taxing it is on other actors having to put up with this unnecessary stress and there are plenty who have complained bitterly about Day-Lewis because of it, e.g. when he insisted on being carried everywhere during the production of "My Left Foot" because his character was paralyzed.
There are a million stories about Jack Nicholson, where he is normal, jokey and laughing and then just snaps into the most intense dramatic series of performances the moment the director yells action. That's real acting. Getting focused and psyching yourself into the role just moment before the camera rolls is all fine but if a paper cup is going to throw you off, perhaps you're not as good as people say you are.
He generally gets really good results though.
You all are stereotyping actors. Different actors need different types of preparation, but I get that in reality you just want to be condescending and talk like you know more about acting and prep than Day-Lewis, so keep going, I guess.
@@eddiek8179 To your point about a paper cup throwing off an actor’s game, and the idea that they must not be a very good actor if that’s all it takes, I think Day-Lewis would agree with you. Interviewers have asked him why it’s necessary to go SO method with his roles, and he says it’s because he’s just not good at pretending, at acting, it needs to be real to him or he won’t be convincing in the role.
Knowing nothing about acting - this still sounds completely nuts.
Similar to Tarantino
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. . . No.
@@TylerD288 tell me you don't know anything without telling me.
@@AFS-ht7bg such a powerful/original comeback! Coincidentally (or not?) your comeback is as unoriginal as Tarantino's films. Do I see a connection?? 🤣
Nobody invites Day Lewis to talk in a podcast .... 😢
I’m sure people ask to interview him, but he really, really doesn’t like that promotional aspect of the business. He’s given very few interviews over the years.
like
VERY insulting to Nelson pretty much saying to him 'how was it in the room being round a 'real' 'proper' actor. How is that supposed to make Nelson feel ? - what an asshole the interviewer is.
Sir Lawrence Olivier told Martin Sheen after Apocalypse Now: Have you tried acting, my dear boy?
Not Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man?
That was Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man
Dustin should have replied...Have you tried running a Marathon you old posh git
Wow! You tried to be condescendingly smooth, but ended up being a dunce.
Demanding no anachronisms like cameras sounds just unnecessarily inconvenient to others and selfish when you are surrounded by modern lighting and camera tech to actually shoot the movie.
I’m an actor, and up to a point I’m respectful of people’s process. But a set is a workplace, and it’s not all about you, even if you’re the lead. You have coworkers and they have a right not to be told they have to accommodate your neuroses. I’ve never met a method actor whose character was such a good person that they felt they had to be kind to everybody. It’s always a way to justify making unreasonable demands of others, and sometimes being genuinely abusive. I think Day Lewis is great on screen, but something I’ve noticed is that actors I normally like give terrible performances opposite him. Joseph Gordon Levitt and Sally Field are terrible in Lincoln. I doubt it’s a coincidence that during their scenes they were working with a man who made them pretend he was literally Abraham Lincoln, much less their husband and father respectively. Great actors are great storytellers and collaborators, not soloists. A guitarist who shreds all the time may impress you with skill, but he ruins the flow of the song and messes up his band mates. Moreover, good people don’t treat others as subordinate to their own peccadillos.
or, you know... they could try acting.
Dude, Just started listening to podcast. Spoiler alert on old henry for f*ck sake!!
Why is the other guy sitting there in the room doing absolutely nothing taking notes? Bump on a log
wait... why the fuck is there just some dude writing on a pad right next to them? That must be so off putting for the guest
Sounds like Day-Lewis is looney, no way to live a life.
Probably why he didn't take many roles and retired early
There is a fine line between genius and madness.
He doesn’t live his life that way, he only performs that way.
@@redfive5856 I don't now unless you have some insight that I am not privy to. I have always liked Laurence Olivier's quote when talking to a method actor (De Niro, but I could be wrong about that) "Why not just try acting?"
@@zorkestar It was Dustin Hoffman and that quote has been taken out of context. After he said that to Hoffman he added, "I'm one to talk"
Tim is too kind here talking about Daniel Day -Lewis, and as much as I love his skills as an actor, I don't appreciate the method, you're an actor, you're supposed to do it on the fly, that's why he had to quit imo, because he commits so much and is tiring, but to impose your ways on your co-stars, that's a no no for me. You wanna talk about about impressive, look no further than Joaquin Phoenix when Linn Ramzy wanted him to work on her much underrated movie "You were never really here' Joaquin had other commitments at the time so he had to pass, but Ramzy was gonna wait for him. Meanwhile, his project fell through, so he phoned Ramzy and asked her if she can get this going by July and she did and the result was magical, now that's what someone who excels at this job can do, and that's more impressive for me than any preparation someone like Day Lewis does especially when he imposes the same on others, it's like saying do this so I can be great.
Or maybe it’s like saying “do this to help me and I believe it’ll help all of us make a great movie”.
And the thing is, if you look at his body of work, at the films he’s been in, it seems to work. That’s pretty much what Tim Blake Nelson was saying.