Actors' chemistry

You're kind of chubby. And like Polly would say, don't eat any donuts. She would drive me crazy. I also remember two things that I figured out. Can I just say, that is an example of the chemistry with you and Lili Taylor. You guys are speaking in fragments of words. Not looking at each other. And understanding everything completely.

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But better yet, you're acting it so great. I felt like I was a fly on the wall a little bit. Well, I remember it's, you know, I think so much of film is casting chemistry and script. And of course, that's the most obvious thing anyone's ever said. But I don't think if I was making the movie with someone other than Ione, we would have been as good as it was. I mean, at least from my end.

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We just have that chemistry. And also that scene was so beautifully written. Thanks, brother. Thank you, brother. Well, that happened to me. I shivered. Oh, yeah. I shivered. And I think when you're really doing a scene that's great, it's just sort of like a jazz music. You can, you know, you know where the...

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Yeah, although looking back, don't you feel like people go, oh, how come you didn't use Nicolas Cage as the lead? I mean, he was right there. And we kind of were playing with that for a long time. Yeah. So sometimes it's just like how chemistry mixes rather than who you think is the best or the worst or whatever, you know? I'm not sure that Nic Cage, as a guy, was ready to go out there. Maybe from the experience of being on this movie, he went and did Valley Girl, but...

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He was just so young and earnest. Wow. And then when I saw Valley Girl, I thought, oh my God, see, he is a leading guy. Yeah. I screwed up. I don't know, man. I just think the chemistry worked. And Judge, you know. Judge also needed to have that feel that he was the older brother to all these other kids. So in a way, he had to be older.

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that you guys really had such a great chemistry and you hung well together. Yeah. When you were there, you made sure that you had that relationship. Tony done a couple of movies and had a lot of confidence. I remember coming in, but he hadn't he he hadn't done your your body of work. And yet you folded him in and and, you know, you got the best. He was 21. Well, I remember I convinced him to get his haircut and the boy haircut. Yeah. And because he's more blonde.

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sort of like-minded people. I mean, a bunch of us could have been real assholes. Yeah. You know? Or there could have been just no real chemistry, you know, working. Right, right. And it still could have been... It turned out to have been a great movie. But it was everything working together. And everything worked together. And... And a lot of luck, man. It's always a matter... I mean, I think it's... Look, if you could actually make a movie gel, then people...

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Tim Lucas

As their chemistry threatens to disrupt the taping, Rena turns to

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Jim Piddock

Movie sweat, of course, not the real thing, especially gathered from the flanks of Palomino horses. Can't claim to know the chemistry of the matter, but apparently it reacts better with the light. No, it's not pleasant for the actor, nor cheap, but you see how much it contributes to the mise-en-scene. You could have this scene without the sweat, certainly. You could have it without the fly, for that matter, but if they're not going to do the thing right, well... Well, these are not filmmakers who do things by half measures. Well, here the...

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And it was always better than what we had planned. So that was good. Did you do any like test screens with, like a test screening with him and Robert Sean Leonard at all to see how they played off each other? Or did you just? No, no, we just had to make it work. Yeah, just cross your fingers and hope the chemistry's there. Yeah, yeah. And this was, it was Bobby's first movie, but not his,

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