“I’m not a method actor. I like to stay focused on set but it’s not because I have a process that I’m imposing on everybody else. Sometimes you have to be more focused in between scenes because what’s happening is that, on something like Star Wars, it’s pure comedy in between takes. It’s stormtroopers running into walls because they can’t see through their helmets. So I don’t know where the intense thing came from.”
“Mark is the father. Adam is the serious one, but he has a great sense of humor. Oscar is the charmer, John is the fun one, Carrie is the hilarious one, Benicio the cool, and I’m the one who always sings.”
— Daisy Ridley on how the cast of The Last Jedi was like a family [Cinemanía]
Full translation of this interview will be up soon. Just doing a few more edits.
“Even if he doesn’t know it, Adam and I are friends. I freaking love Adam. I call him all the time, I stalk him……Adam is such an intense and great actor that if you’re not honest with him you’ll get exposed quick.” – John David Washington
“But my partner is a really great actor – John David Washington […]
I think we have a natural rapport between us – maybe because we both like each other a lot. That is what we were focused on.” – Adam Driver
“I was able to work with Adam Driver really directly and build the process for how his voice was going to sound in that mask. We built [it] in sound design and actually took it to Adam and got him to play with it. He could hear the process of his voice through the mask as he was doing it live, so we could use it like an instrument and play on it. So you could get these really creepy performances of him playing a very intimate recording right up on the mic. And yet it has this distorted, otherworldly feel through the mask, so it still keeps [dialog] intelligible. That mask’s sole function is to intimidate. It’s not keeping him alive like it [was for] Darth Vader; it’s just a mask of intimidation. We really wanted to work with that.
And Adam was so into working with us. At one point, we had to record when Adam was rehearsing for a play in New York. We set up across the street in a hotel across from his rehearsal space. And so he’d run over to us, and we’d work in a hotel room. We outfitted the closet in the hotel room as a makeshift recording room. So he’d come in and we’d work on it, [and] we’d send the files back to J.J. to see what he thought. That was some guerilla sound design, and Adam was really up for it. In fact now, whenever Adam has to do anything Kylo Ren, he demands me to be there, so [I’m] kind of his personal Kylo Ren recordist now. [laughs]”
– Matthew Wood, TFA supervising sound designer (interview published on Daily Dot, 2016/02/04)
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