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 “They explained as much as they could,” Christina says, “You were certainly willing and able to go and find out as much as you wanted to or you could know as little as you wanted to. I think that there’s no real way of knowing exactly what it’s going to be like because it’s very much in their heads. Larry and Andy, it’s their personality, it’s their ideas and vision that’s stamped all over the movie. But the thing is with directors like them, is that you get such a great feeling of the fact that they know exactly what they are going to be doing.” “They have this world worked out completely,” she continues, “You could ask any minute question about minutia in the world and they’d know, of course, they’d answer. So when people are like that, it tends to inspire a lot of confidence and a lot of trust. And also, this idea like if I argue with them, I have no ground to stand on, because I have no idea what’s in their heads, so it’s not like you can say ‘I don’t think this would go with what’s happening in the background, because you don’t know what the hell is happening in the background.’ So you’re really in a place where I’m going to do what they tell me and if I don’t do what they tell me, I probably will not fit with the rest of the film.” We asked Ricci whether working in a more action-driven environment made acting easier or harder for her. “The spectacle is not there when we’re acting,” she replies, “We’re just acting and then, they put in the spectacle later, so it doesn’t really change your acting. It’s not there to get in the way. If it was, then maybe you’d get a little overwhelmed, I don’t know.” “It really wasn’t something we had to put too much thought to,” Christina continues, “These directors are so detail-oriented, they production design everything right down to the performance that it takes a huge amount of pressure off of you because you’re going to do exactly what they tell you to. Because they take so much pressure off of you, you’re then able to really play and they’ll tell you if it’s right or wrong. It’s much easier.” She says the hardest experience for her on the film came up not with an action sequence, but through a rather bizarre incident with the real-life chimpanzee who plays the family pet Chim-Chim. “The chimp jumped over and grabbed my left breast and hung off of me in the middle of the first take I was in the first day of shooting,” Ricci recalls, “And they all turned around towards the door, so they did not get the chimp any crazier and tried to stay cool. I just sort of said, (in soft voice) ‘Help! Help! Ow! Ow!’ And John [Goodman] ... |
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