Nathan Fillion Saving Private Ryan Spielberg story
بواسطة Tufail: Steven Spielberg
Nathan Fillion shares how Steven Spielberg helped him get through an emotional scene in Saving Private Ryan. He said, “All I had to do was come in and cry but I was dry as a popcorn fart. I couldn't summon a glazed eye, never mind a tear trickling down my cheek. I was just so nervous.”
النص (en)
All I had to do was come in and cry. And on the soap opera, they called me Joey the Town Crier because I could cry at the drop of a hat. And here I was in London, and here it is. It's actually important. And I was dry as a popcorn fart. I could not summon a glazed eye, never mind a tear trickling down my cheek. And I was just so nervous, so nervous. And, you know, there's the incomparable Tom Hanks. There's the wonderful Ted Danson that I was raised on chairs. Raised on chairs. And I was tense. And Steven Spielberg took me aside before he did some wide shot stuff. And I was not happy with my performance. And he goes, oh, listen, there's five of us in that video booth. We all bought it. But what I hear you saying is wherever it is here, it's not coming out to here. Tell me about your homework. Tell me about when you hear this, what is your character going through? What is he thinking? And I tell him my whole big spiel that I came up with. He goes, that's great. Instead of eight and ten, what if they were four and six? And when you see them and you imagine that, those two, when you see, turn that camera around in your mind. Who is seeing them? Is it your mother? Who discovers them? Who tells your mom? It should have been you. And when you're going home, who are you going home to? She's already dead. You know that. She's already inside. And I was so emotional. That whole thing that he gave me. He looked at me and said, you look ready. How do you feel? Somebody say action. I feel ready. He goes, all right, let's start the rain. Let's put this on a 35 and rolling and everybody. And that's how loud he was too. He didn't talk very loud. Amazing. Amazing.
