Fascinating The ACT FOR CHANGE Project interview with Tim Bevan. - TopicsExpress



          

Fascinating The ACT FOR CHANGE Project interview with Tim Bevan. He makes a rather brilliant point early on about the way people in the industry tend to mystify the process of making films and TV because that actually keeps people out. I had a meeting with some TV executives fairly recently about a certain upcoming TV project and the whole thing was swathed in this kind of elevated nadaville- Me:You say certain people werent seen because fluent Mandarin was required but you saw all sorts of people who couldnt speak Mandarin Them: Well, castings a fluid, open-ended sort of process, you start here, you end up there, you go back to here Me: Ive cast things myself actually Them: The whole thing is about someone who suddenly finds themselves in a foreign country so what was required for that sense of strangeness was... Me: People who looked as generically Chinese as possible Them: Well, its not a documentary, we dont have footnotes Me: So you wanted people to look as clichedly Chinese as its possible to be Them: Well....yes https://t.co/4vaS7gS5RH
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:42:59 +0000

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