I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.
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With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.
On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance.
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'
In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.