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selenakDepartment of Failing At Actor Recognition: I always thought "Broadchurch" was the first thing I've seen Jodie Whittaker in. Yesterday, listening to her conversation with David Tennant, they bring up Peter O'Toole (with whom they both worked as young, unknown actors) and only then it finally dawns on me: a young Jodie W. played Jessie in Venus. And I loved that film! (rozk reviews it here beautifully. It was a great cinematic swan song for Peter O'Toole, as it turned out.) In my defense, Beth in Broadchurch is so very different from Jessie in Venus (besides the difference in age of actress, I mean) in character and circumstance. But the umistakable voice should have tipped me off.
Anyway, in the podcast, Jodie Whittaker shares some stories both amusing (one of the first things she, being born in 1982, said to him was "You were in King Ralph!", to which a disbelieving Peter O'Toole repeated "King Ralph?!?") and touching: as a young actress whose first movie this was, she was fascinated that he had handwritten notes all over his script pages about his character, what his beats and physical moves were in each scene, because she'd imagined for older actors it would get easier and they'd do all of this instinctively, and instead he showed her that this kind of work never ends and on the contrary more likely than not gets more intensely with age if you want to keep it fresh and don't want to replicate mannerisms etc. She says O'Toole had this deep professionalism while also being as larger than life as you'd want him to be, and that she couldn't have asked for a better introduction to what it means to be an actor. So, in honour of that, here's the trailer for Venus as well as the scene where Maurice (Peter O'Toole's character, an old actor) takes Jessie with him to a shooting set where he has a bit part. (The limo he takes her in is a bluff, he pulled some strings to impress her.)
rozk reviews it here beautifully. It was a great cinematic swan song for Peter O'Toole, as it turned out.) In my defense, Beth in Broadchurch is so very different from Jessie in Venus (besides the difference in age of actress, I mean) in character and circumstance. But the umistakable voice should have tipped me off. Anyway, in the podcast, Jodie Whittaker shares some stories both amusing (one of the first things she, being born in 1982, said to him was "You were in King Ralph!", to which a disbelieving Peter O'Toole repeated "King Ralph?!?") and touching: as a young actress whose first movie this was, she was fascinated that he had handwritten notes all over his script pages about his character, what his beats and physical moves were in each scene, because she'd imagined for older actors it would get easier and they'd do all of this instinctively, and instead he showed her that this kind of work never ends and on the contrary more likely than not gets more intensely with age if you want to keep it fresh and don't want to replicate mannerisms etc. She says O'Toole had this deep professionalism while also being as larger than life as you'd want him to be, and that she couldn't have asked for a better introduction to what it means to be an actor. So, in honour of that, here's the trailer for Venus as well as the scene where Maurice (Peter O'Toole's character, an old actor) takes Jessie with him to a shooting set where he has a bit part. (The limo he takes her in is a bluff, he pulled some strings to impress her.)
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Date: 2019-06-10 01:35 pm (UTC)Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the movie and sharing
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