Post by nenya on Oct 11, 2017 20:17:11 GMT
Exploring The Themes of Sexual Abuse Drama ‘Una’ With Its Creative Team
Una: Director Benedict Andrews moves from stage to screen
Rooney Mara on her delicate portrayal of a victim of pedophilia and sexual abuse
I saw the stage play—I think it was 2006 or 2007 with Alison Pill and Jeff Daniels, and I had wanted to do it ever since then. I did do prep but didn’t do much research. A lot of it was stuff I already knew or I had people that I knew that I could look to. I didn’t talk to experts or anything like that. A lot of it to me felt pretty straightforward or common sense. It all really [intuitively] made sense to me.
We had a week before we started shooting where we’d sit down and read through stuff. And we read through a lot of dialogue just to get that down but we didn’t rehearse per se until on the day. [Then at that point] we got to rehearse a lot. By rehearse, I don’t mean go through it numerous amounts of times, but just figuring out what feels right. The blocking, talking about what the scene is, etc. We had a lot of time to be able to do that, we never felt like you’ve got to just rush it and get it on film. Like we always took the time to make sure we were feeling [it].
[When my character says, “am I too old?”], that was a really hard moment and scene and day to shoot. It took us a lot longer to figure out how to sort of not block or stage that than some of the other stuff. We struggled with that a lot, more so than I thought. It seemed very straightforward to me [first]. And then we did it and we couldn’t really find what felt right. It’s gut-wrenching.
[Ruby Stokes and I didn’t get to spend a lot of time together beforehand]. We didn’t have that much time, but she was there a few days in the rehearsal process. I had a lot of video of her that I could watch. And she recorded all my lines for me because I was trying to match her dialect. So even though I didn’t really spend much time with her, her voice was in my head every day.
I saw the stage play—I think it was 2006 or 2007 with Alison Pill and Jeff Daniels, and I had wanted to do it ever since then. I did do prep but didn’t do much research. A lot of it was stuff I already knew or I had people that I knew that I could look to. I didn’t talk to experts or anything like that. A lot of it to me felt pretty straightforward or common sense. It all really [intuitively] made sense to me.
We had a week before we started shooting where we’d sit down and read through stuff. And we read through a lot of dialogue just to get that down but we didn’t rehearse per se until on the day. [Then at that point] we got to rehearse a lot. By rehearse, I don’t mean go through it numerous amounts of times, but just figuring out what feels right. The blocking, talking about what the scene is, etc. We had a lot of time to be able to do that, we never felt like you’ve got to just rush it and get it on film. Like we always took the time to make sure we were feeling [it].
[When my character says, “am I too old?”], that was a really hard moment and scene and day to shoot. It took us a lot longer to figure out how to sort of not block or stage that than some of the other stuff. We struggled with that a lot, more so than I thought. It seemed very straightforward to me [first]. And then we did it and we couldn’t really find what felt right. It’s gut-wrenching.
[Ruby Stokes and I didn’t get to spend a lot of time together beforehand]. We didn’t have that much time, but she was there a few days in the rehearsal process. I had a lot of video of her that I could watch. And she recorded all my lines for me because I was trying to match her dialect. So even though I didn’t really spend much time with her, her voice was in my head every day.
How long was the shoot?
“It was shot in 26 days.”
I would imagine things were shot out of sequence?
“Yeah. All Ben and Rooney's stuff was grouped together, and it began with Rooney's memory stuff with her mother - the scenes when she's at her mother's house. And then her and Ben’s stuff was grouped together, and we tried to do a lot of that chronologically. The party came at the end. It's about two people seeing each other again after 15 years and each step of that is important. So most of their encounter was show chronologically. The stuff in the past with the girl and Ben was not shot chronologically.”
“It was shot in 26 days.”
I would imagine things were shot out of sequence?
“Yeah. All Ben and Rooney's stuff was grouped together, and it began with Rooney's memory stuff with her mother - the scenes when she's at her mother's house. And then her and Ben’s stuff was grouped together, and we tried to do a lot of that chronologically. The party came at the end. It's about two people seeing each other again after 15 years and each step of that is important. So most of their encounter was show chronologically. The stuff in the past with the girl and Ben was not shot chronologically.”
, any video from the complete last Q&As from NY?
, any video from the complete last Q&As from NY?
plus Annu the caretaker is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of role. and MM is screwed up by Weinstein. really nothing to be excited about and to look forward to in 2018. it feels like the worse case scenario comes true right now.
plus Annu the caretaker is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of role. and MM is screwed up by Weinstein. really nothing to be excited about and to look forward to in 2018. it feels like the worse case scenario comes true right now.
