There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.
I worked for seven years doing computer graphics to pay my way through graduate school - I have no romance with computer work. There's no amount of phony graphics and things making sound effects on the screen that can change that.
What people don't realise is that it is the script which plays the most important factor in making or breaking a chemistry.
As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.