Gordon-Levitt: Acting's true challenge is maintaining imagination amid on-set logistical chaos
Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired · Feb 22, 2022 · at 44:32
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses the practical craft of acting on green screen and physical sets during an interview about playing Travis Kalanick in Super Pumped.
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“The challenge of acting isn't, for me, is not making things up or playing pretend. It's actually having to do that while straddling a hornet's nest of logistical nightmares all day long, because a movie set is just a mess. Even the most well-run sets, and this was a well-run set, But even the most well run, by nature, there's a million things all going on all at once. It's noisy. It's cluttered. There's someone close to you. The hard part is kind of keeping your focus and your concentration and maintaining that more childlike spirit of imagination while having to contend with all this morass of logistical crap. That's the hard part.”
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