Benicio Del Toro
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He starts to look at his life in a different way
And because of the help of his daughter, like you said earlier, his daughter helps him put him in track and perhaps awaken his consciousness.
You know, Wes is a great director, and we know him as a director, and we know his films.
And what I meant by that is, like, I think actors look for characters that are layered, and by that I mean may contradict themselves.
They break the stereotype, let's put it that way, if they contradict themselves.
And then, you know, when you get a character that has an arc like Zsa Zsa in the Phoenician scheme has a hell of an arc,
Then, as an actor, you're doing interpretations, right?
So now you're almost in the cockpit of the character and of the story.
You're part of this, of what's happening, and you're looking at the arc, and you're making sure that it's believable where the character is going to end up.
I mean, he works with an incredible art director, Adam Stockhausen.
He's worked with Wes, I think, most of his films.
And they collaborate amazingly, and these things come to life.
And it's like you're in fantasy land, but you're in real fantasy land.
But the first thing you're trained to, if you do film, you train yourself, is to erase the camera.