The Grammy winner explains how he used a secret weapon to teach the actor to conduct like Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming biopic.
The Grammy winner used a secret weapon to teach the actor to conduct like Leonard BernsteinYannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, greets audience members during opening night at the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 6, 2021.
Montreal star conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin says he employed a secret weapon in teaching Bradley Cooper how to conduct like Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming biopicThe Grammy winner, who is currently music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain , the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, says he occasionally had the A-lister don the device so he could guide Cooper through arm and hand movements that would be believable for music-savvy viewers as well as those...
"I can imagine how it is if there's a movie about tennis and the [actors] hold the racket badly," Nézet-Séguin says during a recent interview about another film he consulted on,composer moved his body, but that mimicry only captured part of who the man was, says Nézet-Séguin. When it came to Bernstein's technical prowess, that was trickier to master.
"I was there to actually try and frame it [and say], 'Yeah, but the beat needs to be believable,'" explains Nézet-Séguin. "Because you know, there is a code there. The first beat has to be down, the upbeat has to be up and [to] the side. And this I had to do and help him, guide him on this.""He also is very physical and every part of his body is expressing and so I always loved that," he says.
"So you can't just decide, 'Oh, I'm the traffic cop and it works.' You have to connect to a deeper level," he says. "And therefore you have to accept your own vulnerability as a conductor because you're first and foremost an artist."MaestroRelated Stories
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