Christopher Nolan Recalls The Perfect Response Al Pacino Once Gave Him To An Acting Note
13.07.2023 - 16:57
/ etcanada.com
Al Pacino knows his business.
In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, director Christopher Nolan recalled the response he once got from the legendary actor to an acting note he’d given.
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Discussing working with Cillian Murphy on his new film “Oppenheimer”, he compared the actor to his experience working with Pacino on 2002’s “Insomnia”.
“The performance became all-enveloping when I realized Cillian had so much more going on than [what] I saw on set,” Nolan said.
“I had gone up to Pacino after a series of takes and given him a note on what I wanted,” the director recalled. “He told me, ‘I’ve already done that. You can’t see it to the eye, but I’ve done it on the dailies.’ I looked for it and I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’ because there it was. Great film actors can do that, and that’s what I had with Cillian.”
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In “Insomnia”, a remake of 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller of the same name, Pacino co-starred alongside Hilary Swank and Robin Williams.
Continuing to praise Murphy, who Nolan has worked with on several prior films, the director said, “I’ve never seen an actor with such a commitment to the truth. But I’d never had him as the lead, so it was a thrill to be able to call him and say, ‘This is the one.’”
“Oppenheimer” opens in theatres July 21.