Rehearsal

up to that point. He was, you know, just a little rain man. He knew the script by heart. Literally on our first day of rehearsal, you know, Josh and Carrie, you know, years have been acting since they were his age. And they were laughing when, you know, I would say, let's work on this particular scene. And Caden would already say the first line and they would flip through their scripts going, what scene is that? I don't even know my lines yet for this. And there is our six-year-old who already knows all of his lines by heart. But it was really important not to make him

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like he was, you know, how he rehearsed the lines with his parents and how to make it sound more natural. And so what we discovered really early on, and David Boyd helped a lot with this as well, was just we just, whenever we had a scene with Caden in it, we would aim all the cameras at him first. And we would do all of his, because his level of his focus, which you can see even at the beginning of

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definitive that what she was rehearsing or researching was actually what was really happening and that she thought, our children are in great jeopardy now. You would expect her, you wouldn't buy that Daniel comes home with some surprising news and that she decides to let it go and have a night of amour with him. And so we felt like it's really important that it

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Tom Hooper

Interestingly, our original idea from rehearsal was that as she died, she would see Javert coming down, and so she would have a kind of tragic death where she died, realizing that her daughter was perhaps not safe. And I remember Cameron Mackintosh in the edit saying something very interesting about how we should allow her to have a peaceful death, a beautiful death. And I realized there was an echo between the death of Valjean and the death of Fantine, that this idea that

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Tom Hooper

This was, I think, an idea that came out of rehearsal. We had a wonderful nine-week rehearsal, which is very unusual in a movie. In King's Speech, we had three weeks, and that was considered long. But this moment of, I suppose, the hesitation about whether they should give up, it's the little kid Gavroche who recommits them to the cause of the People's Song.

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Len Wiseman

the director's cut aspect of it and what's there, but also just the production of it as well. This was Kate's first day. She had just come off of Underworld, kind of just put her on a plane and flew over. She had about two days in between the two and threw these guys in together. We did this scene and then right after this scene started the fight scene within the same set, which was quite a tall order to come right in from another production, just no rehearsal, no practice. Luckily, she'd been doing a lot of training on Underworld as it is.

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Len Wiseman

Brian and Colin didn't have much time to rehearse their fights either, and Brian came into it, and we had a stuntman set up to do it, just in case, and he was just so into it. I was very impressed with him. He did the majority of that. So that right there, you'll see that when that... That's the first time we see the watch.

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Jeff Goldblum

Ah. - [Anderson] And I said, "Well, why?" You said, "Because I don't know this fact, and it was actually proven that this is correct..." And it was a logic thing. I was like, "Oh, yes, you're right. Yes, that would be the proper thing." So we added an "ostensibly." [laughs] - [Goldblum] Oh, thanks. Hey, thanks. And remember-- I don't think everybody did this, but remember how we rehearsed. Remember? I kind of cornered you that day at the hotel, months before, as you were preparing. I was coming through town for something else.

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Wes Anderson

Yeah. Oh, yes. I remember it very well. In fact, that hotel where we filmed it, it's the Hotel Börse in the middle of Görlitz, and it was the center of everything for us. When we first scouted the place, I saw this location where we made the hotel and thought, "Well, that could work. What can we build around here?" And the first thing we did after that was we walked through the town and went to all the hotels, and we found this place, Börse. I said, "You know, this could be a makeup area. And this is big enough for us to have our dinner each night here." And there's this many rooms, but they have some other rooms across the street. And a lot of things like that happened in that hotel. That's where we had our first rehearsal with Deputy Vilmos Kovacs.

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I liked the rehearsal. Let's do it for real.

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It always happened with Ethan in a room or Benji in a room saying, here's what we're going to do. And it tells you that it's safe. It tells you that it's not really happening. Look at this shot. Look at your whole design. We rehearsed this at a track out in France. And your whole idea was this. And you'll remember that when we were in Paris and we were being very sensitive to Paris with our presence there, there were paparazzi across the river

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Francis Lawrence

One of the things that Trish and I worked on, Trish Summerville, the costume designer, and I was, the different kinds of looks for Jennifer. Because when you think about a character like this, right, she's actually playing two completely different people, right. You've got Jennifer the dancer in the beginning, right. And so dancers have their own culture and sense of style and how they dress when they're not at work and how they dress in rehearsals or how they dress on stage and things like that. But that's the real Dominika. And then you've got the Sparrow, right, in the uniform, and that's a bit utilitarian. And then you've got the young woman who's sent to Budapest that's playing a part, right. And so she's not supposed to be a dancer, she's actually supposed to be somebody else. So, the decision of how do you dress and how do you present yourself to the world when you're supposed to be a young woman from Moscow who's a translator at the Hungarian embassy. It's really interesting to dive in to doing different kinds of things. And also thinking about the seasons, because, you know, we Started in just before the dead of winter and then Sparrow School! took us through the dead of winter and then we decided that Budapest, it was the end of winter, and into spring. We never really wanted to see leaves on the trees at all, but we wanted to sort of get in at a slightly nicer, I would say maybe sort of damp weather, as opposed to icy weather as the story progressed. He told me about what happened at the park after I established trust. Hmm.

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