Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
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The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.
There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
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