Actors' chemistry

You just feel the camera jib up a little bit and create pressure. The rest of the scene is relying really on them. And it's just, it's feeling their chemistry. And so much of what we're doing here in these compositions and cuts, the bouncing back and forth, it's all meant to create the energy of what the characters are feeling. That's not Shea Whigham. He was not available to us that day. And that is Shea Whigham.

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to go up here right before, we'd start an hour early and shoot these scenes at magic hour. And over the course of two nights, we found the scene, we found the behavior, we found the dialogue. And we really, we really decided. I love the simplicity of it. That's what it is. It's their relationship is about their chemistry and their behavior and not about their dialogue. Here's another one. I mean, I remember seeing this and just...

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Nia DaCosta

The jokey way to look at the scene is that Kelson is just, like, suggesting euthanasia to everyone he meets. He meets someone, he likes them, he's like, "Have you thought about dying?" But I think what is actually happening is there's a mercy that he understands. Oh, here it comes. Moon. My jaw dropped when I read that in the script. I was like, "Alex Garland, he did it again." Samson... you spoke. Yeah, I love this scene so much and the way it's performed and the way they... the connection between these two, the chemistry. Moon.

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