On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.
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Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.
When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.
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.