Stellan Skarsgård
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And he got aggression in some takes and sort of niceness in some takes.
And he could cut those takes into any kind possible.
When he was editing, he could take the film where he wanted.
No, and I'm not good at improvising.
Once I was in Toronto at the film festival and Mike Figgis come up to me and he says, Stellan, I'd like to do a movie with you.
And it will be improvised in one take.
And that is my worst nightmare.
And it's called Time Code.
It's a very interesting film.
You should see it if you can.
And it's improvised.
It's one hour and a half.
And we did five takes, I think.
And we choose one because you couldn't cut between them.
But what I did was that I made sure that I had lines enough, maybe 100 lines probably, that I made up that this person could say in those situations.
So I could go in and I could improvise those lines if I wanted to, if I couldn't come up with anything better.
And I could also improvise silence.