Alex Wolff has done his fair share of emotionally-daunting films, coming off movies like "Hereditary" and "Pig." But working with director M. Night Shyamalan on his laterst film "Old," the actor says he learned something new from the man he calls his "hero."
"I feel like a big thing I learned from him is to not bring your process into a movie necessarily, and instead to adapt to his process," Wolff told TheWrap. "I felt my best performances in the movie, my best scenes, were when I completely committed to what he was looking to do. When he says do this, this, this, your first instinct as an actor is go, 'Ok, well, I want to understand why am I doing this?' And sometimes if you just go, 'Ok, I'm going to do that without asking questions,' usually your questions get more easily answered."
Wolff said Shyamalan is...
"I feel like a big thing I learned from him is to not bring your process into a movie necessarily, and instead to adapt to his process," Wolff told TheWrap. "I felt my best performances in the movie, my best scenes, were when I completely committed to what he was looking to do. When he says do this, this, this, your first instinct as an actor is go, 'Ok, well, I want to understand why am I doing this?' And sometimes if you just go, 'Ok, I'm going to do that without asking questions,' usually your questions get more easily answered."
Wolff said Shyamalan is...
- 7/23/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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