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February 22, 2006
Script, Food, Whatever: On the Set with Scott Speedman
The Daily News's Rebecca Louie today goes way, way deep into the production trenches on the Manhattan set of Anamorph, director H.S. Miller's cop-thriller debut. This is especially good news for fans of star Scott Speedman, a hardcore Method legend who all but acknowledges keeping a copy of Anamorph's screenplay in his trailer's bathroom.
Not to read, of course:
"I never follow what's in the script," says Speedman, who also declined to hang with NYPD to research his role, which he landed five days before shooting. "I hate that kind of bulls---, actor-y stuff. An actor that goes and reads the lines of the script and follows it like a map, it's really boring. It's TV stuff. Anyway, writers are doing that to sell the script, not so that you go and act ‘sadistically.' I cross that stuff out. Sure, I do. You don't want it to get into your head."
Louie also provides the scoop on Speedman and co-star Willem Dafoe's eating habits, featuring perhaps newspaper history's first-ever quote from a craft services supervisor. The author also notes how "he wanders the maze of cables, monitors, cast and crew, carrying an overflowing vegetable basket with dip."
This is Wednesday's must-read news, if only because I do not think I can summon another word to write about it.
Posted by stvanairsdale at February 22, 2006 10:20 AM
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