Craig Brewer
š¤ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You kind of want to just capture something really real and provide an environment where they can be that real.
And so we were keeping Hugh in one isolation booth and Kate in another isolation booth.
And it just really wasn't working.
So Scott and I, we put a couch out and we just put two microphones in front of the couch and we just sat them right next to each other on the couch.
And it's so funny because it's so perfect because sometimes people have asked me like, hey, if I'm having like relationship trouble, what should I do?
And I go, I know this sounds odd, but go out to dinner, but just sit at the bar.
I go, there's something about facing each other.
That is this confrontational act to some extent.
But if you're side by side, you can kind of just ā two people kind of dealing with their own things.
But there's a closeness that happens that is different than facing each other at dinner.
And I think the same thing happened with you and Kate.
We didn't do any rehearsals.
We had one read-through.
And then we sat them down and threw them right into the mix of having to figure out their harmonies and like when they're going to come in.
And by the end of the day ā and you got to remember, these are two actors that really didn't know each other and met on this day.
We had done some phone calls and a Zoom call at one point.
But no, no.
Oh, it's a fear.
It doesn't matter how charismatic your actors are.
There's still that