![]() ![]() It feels so it's honest, because it comes from Sam's heart, and Sam, he's had a struggle since he was a kid. Give them their humanity as well, and to understand the sickness of it. He wants the truth in it, the true experience of what it means to be an addict and to humanize the addict and to not villainize or demonize an addict, but give them grace. I think that's the whole part of it being as authentic as possible, that Sam is fighting for. ![]() And so, I find that you can manage his scripts if you're just honest and you go on the ride. But Sam's words, I mean, the way he phrases things, it's not hard to memorize, because everything has an action and they help build on the other thought. And so, then he dropped that on us, and then we had two days to learn it. He'd feel the energy of the actors, watching me and Z work together and rehearse, and then he knew that there was something else missing. He will watch and observe and see exactly what's happened. But I feel like he needed to drop in a bit more. Because he realized he didn't want to let Rue or Ali off the hook in a way. We got those pages maybe two days before we were going to shoot it. I asked him just to be sure I was clear about where he was going with the intentionality of a scene, but I remember he added that very last bit of the scene, where she says, "I don't want to be here any more." He added that late. I really had no questions about any of it. But the thing is, Sam is always saying, "What do you think, Colman? What do you think about this?" And this one I thought was written so elegantly. I think any actor worth his salt needs to let it sink in for a moment to get into a psychology of why things are phrased the way they are. The most beautiful thing about Sam, and his writing, is that he's so detailed. ![]()
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