If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.
I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'
Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.
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