(WATCH) Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman & More On How Wes Anderson Got The Best Of Their Absurdity In ‘Asteroid City’ – Cannes Studio
Similar to the absurdist scribes before him from Eugène Ionesco to Samuel Beckett, there’s a method to Wes Anderson’s comedic madness, from deadpan rhythm to the punching of words, all wrapped up in a period setting on a whole other plain.-like narrator in Anderson’s latest, which premiered at Cannes, likens the filmmaker to an orchestra conductor and the actors his “particular instruments.
Breaking down Anderson’s process with his actors, it begins with an animatronic he creates, a slideshow of sorts, which gives the actors a preview of the film. They then go away and come back with their own ideas to bring to the set.SNL, “Wes has such a great sense of irony. I think that you see that in his films.” She plays Midge Campbell, a Hollywood starlet whose arguably in a funk. She’s out in Asteroid City with her science genius daughter.
“He observes things in your performance, that are very exiting…and you’re doing it and he notices it, and the performance becomes more nuanced because he encourages certain behaviors,” Johansson adds. Jason Schwartzman, who at the onset of the video above explains how he, along with the other Coppolas, first met Anderson , says that thespians on the filmmaker’s set are “forensic detectives, like asking questions something really happened. It’s like an archeological dig: we’re trying to find the thing that’s already there, but he’s the one that identifies that’s the bone we were looking for.” Schwartzman plays a photographer widower whose car breaks down in Asteroid City.
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