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Benicio Del Toro

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
300 total appearances

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Benicio del Toro

He starts to look at his life in a different way

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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.

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You know, Wes is a great director, and we know him as a director, and we know his films.

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But really, he is maybe a better writer.

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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.

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They break the stereotype, let's put it that way, if they contradict themselves.

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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,

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Then, as an actor, you're doing interpretations, right?

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So now you're almost in the cockpit of the character and of the story.

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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.

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So it's a real rich character to tackle.

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I mean, he works with an incredible art director, Adam Stockhausen.

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He's worked with Wes, I think, most of his films.

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And they collaborate amazingly, and these things come to life.

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And it's like you're in fantasy land, but you're in real fantasy land.

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Yeah, Wes doesn't use CGI that much.

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I don't think so.

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I think very little, really.

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But the first thing you're trained to, if you do film, you train yourself, is to erase the camera.