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10.7.06 Mis-tah (pause) Pin-tah

Been shooting for the past two days. Brain completely gone. If you see it wandering about, please attempt to capture it (it's partial to chocolate hobnobs and Jean Cocteau films) and post it back to me. 2nd class mail will do.

But we got some amazing footage (I'll post pictures in a week or two once we start the edit), so I pronounce the exhaustion-induced lobotomy: Worthwhile.

In other matters, been reading Pinter in the Theatre, a series of interviews with the man himself plus actors and directors who have worked with him, on the process of staging his plays. It's worth it just for Peter Hall's interview alone. However I also have a lot of time for the actor Douglas Hodge:

"I suppose what you try to do as an actor is to make it soo that the only words you can possibly utter within a certain situation are the ones you are given. If you've done enough homework and enough thought and you're in the right place emotionally and physically, when somebody asks you that question onstage it's impossible to answer with any words but the ones you have in the script.

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"One of the big problems I have playing roles I'm given as an actor is that when in real life someone gives you bad information, does something that makes you angry or upsets you, I personally don't react there and then. I tend to react about a week later or in the car on the way home - then I have a massive argument with the person. And I think that's what most people do.

"And I also think that five years later, faultlines can occur just through her doing something one day that you cannot forgive, though it only really becomes a faultline five years later. Sometimes relationships can be irreperably damaged by things that only cause them to break much, much later.

"And the one thing that's always thwarted me as an actor is that onstage you immediately respond to the situations that you're in. Because all dramatists have to make you get angry or upset at the news that you receive there and then. And that has forever felt false to me."

Lastly: been re-reading this? It's wonderful! ...and very sick. I can't believe I haven't looked at it in so long. You people: must acquire it.

( 11:48 AM )

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