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Kevin Spacey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
774 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

can actually land um and i think just think there was some brilliant writing and we always attempted to do it in one take no matter how long something was we would try to do it in one take the direct addresses so there was never a cut when we went out on locations we started to then find ways to

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

can actually land um and i think just think there was some brilliant writing and we always attempted to do it in one take no matter how long something was we would try to do it in one take the direct addresses so there was never a cut when we went out on locations we started to then find ways to

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's the remarkable thing, is against their instincts and their better sense of what they should and should not do, they still rallied around Frank Underwood.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's the remarkable thing, is against their instincts and their better sense of what they should and should not do, they still rallied around Frank Underwood.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's the remarkable thing, is against their instincts and their better sense of what they should and should not do, they still rallied around Frank Underwood.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

Well, in that production, that's absolutely true. Also, Richard is one of the weirder, weird, I mean by weird, it was an early play of Shakespeare's. And he's basically never offstage. I mean, I remember when we did the first run-through, I had no idea what the next scene was every time I came offstage. I had no idea what was next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

Well, in that production, that's absolutely true. Also, Richard is one of the weirder, weird, I mean by weird, it was an early play of Shakespeare's. And he's basically never offstage. I mean, I remember when we did the first run-through, I had no idea what the next scene was every time I came offstage. I had no idea what was next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

Well, in that production, that's absolutely true. Also, Richard is one of the weirder, weird, I mean by weird, it was an early play of Shakespeare's. And he's basically never offstage. I mean, I remember when we did the first run-through, I had no idea what the next scene was every time I came offstage. I had no idea what was next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

They literally had to drag me from one place to another, say, now it's the scene with Hastings, now it's the scene... But I now understand these wonderful stories that you can read in old books about Shakespeare's time, that actors... grabbed Shakespeare around the cuff and punched him and threw him against the wall and said, you ever write a part like this again, I'm going to kill you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

They literally had to drag me from one place to another, say, now it's the scene with Hastings, now it's the scene... But I now understand these wonderful stories that you can read in old books about Shakespeare's time, that actors... grabbed Shakespeare around the cuff and punched him and threw him against the wall and said, you ever write a part like this again, I'm going to kill you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

They literally had to drag me from one place to another, say, now it's the scene with Hastings, now it's the scene... But I now understand these wonderful stories that you can read in old books about Shakespeare's time, that actors... grabbed Shakespeare around the cuff and punched him and threw him against the wall and said, you ever write a part like this again, I'm going to kill you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And that's why in later plays, he started to have a pageant happen and then a wedding happen. And the main character was offstage resting because the actor had said, you can't do this to us. There's no breaks. And it's true. There's very few breaks in Richard III. You're on stage most of the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And that's why in later plays, he started to have a pageant happen and then a wedding happen. And the main character was offstage resting because the actor had said, you can't do this to us. There's no breaks. And it's true. There's very few breaks in Richard III. You're on stage most of the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

And that's why in later plays, he started to have a pageant happen and then a wedding happen. And the main character was offstage resting because the actor had said, you can't do this to us. There's no breaks. And it's true. There's very few breaks in Richard III. You're on stage most of the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I certainly can't take credit for Shakespeare having written something that is funny, or Bo Willimon and his team to have written something that is funny, is fundamentally funny. It just depends on how I interpret it. That's one of the great things why we love... In a year's time, we can see five different Hamlets. We can see four Richard III's. We can see two Richard II's.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I certainly can't take credit for Shakespeare having written something that is funny, or Bo Willimon and his team to have written something that is funny, is fundamentally funny. It just depends on how I interpret it. That's one of the great things why we love... In a year's time, we can see five different Hamlets. We can see four Richard III's. We can see two Richard II's.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

I certainly can't take credit for Shakespeare having written something that is funny, or Bo Willimon and his team to have written something that is funny, is fundamentally funny. It just depends on how I interpret it. That's one of the great things why we love... In a year's time, we can see five different Hamlets. We can see four Richard III's. We can see two Richard II's.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's part of the thrill that we don't own these parts. We borrow them and we interpret them. And what Ian McKellen might do with a role could be completely different from what I might do. because of the way we perceive it. And also, very often in terms of going for humor, it's very often a director will say, why don't you say that with a bit of irony?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's part of the thrill that we don't own these parts. We borrow them and we interpret them. And what Ian McKellen might do with a role could be completely different from what I might do. because of the way we perceive it. And also, very often in terms of going for humor, it's very often a director will say, why don't you say that with a bit of irony?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#432 โ€“ Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life

That's part of the thrill that we don't own these parts. We borrow them and we interpret them. And what Ian McKellen might do with a role could be completely different from what I might do. because of the way we perceive it. And also, very often in terms of going for humor, it's very often a director will say, why don't you say that with a bit of irony?