'We were literally six weeks away from shooting and we didn't have a location secured to be able to shoot up there.' Ben Stiller (RedHourBen) on fighting to shoot EscapeAtDannemora at the real prison and why it ended up being the most valuable thing
I said, "Yes, sir, he's deader than dead." He goes, "You kill all my favorite characters." I didn't lie to him, but the next season people came back and said that I'd lied to the president. I was waiting for the IRS to come get me, but fortunately they didn't.
Many of you have worked with the same actors on multiple projects. What is it that creates strong connections with specific actors?It's when you get to a place where you barely have to say what it is that you're doing, or when you say it and they just know it right there. I have it with David Oyelowo, I have it with Storm Reid. And I have it with Jharrel Jerome, who plays Korey Wise in this, who has a whole episode just dedicated to his performance, in the prison.
I always throw improv in there to make sure that there’s some collisions and accidents. We had some classically trained actors who just looked me straight in the eyes and told me, “There is no way I’m improvising.” And sure enough, on the day, I would yell out, “Hey, try this,” and they would go, “No.” And the whole crew would get still for a second and I would just say, “We’re rollin’, you might as well.
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