An exclusive get for Grantland features an interview with DiCaprio on the performance. He’s currently getting ready to film the final sequences (Inarritu likes to shoot in sequence).
About the character of Glass, Inarritu says:
“He was attacked by a bear, he was abandoned, and he had to go 300 miles to get revenge — this was what is known about him,” explains the 51-year-old Iñárritu, sipping something warm in the Santa Monica offices where he’s begun editing the movie. For him, the raw facts of Glass’s life were just the beginning, an opportunity to see Glass “as an example of the relentless possibilities of the human spirit against so many challenges: racial, physical, spiritual, social. I took that opportunity to create my own Hugh Glass: my interpretation of who he could have been.”
And DiCaprio:
That interpretation drew DiCaprio to the project. “I tried to capture — or emulate on film — a different type of American that I haven’t seen on film very often,” DiCaprio says. “This [was] an unregulated, sort of lawless territory. It hadn’t been forged into the America that we know yet. It was still sort of up for grabs.”
Inarritu went after the authentic experience, putting the actors through rigorous real life challenges:
“There was something very positive about shooting in those conditions, to understand what those guys [from the 1820s] went through,” Iñárritu says. “We don’t have adventures anymore. Now people say, ‘I went to India … it’s an adventure.’ No: We have GPS, a phone, nobody gets lost. Those guys really were in a huge physical, emotional adventure in the unknown territory. After you see what these guys went through, you understand what pussies we are: Our apartment is not at the right temperature, there is no ham in the fridge, and the water is a little cold … When did that happen?
“Actors were not in sets with green screens and laughing,” Iñárritu says. “They were miserable! And they really feel the fucking cold in their ass! They were not acting at all!”
Read the full interview at Grantland.
Glad to see that the director is a little comedic in his interviews. Can’t wait for this movie. The fact that they used all natural lighting makes me so incredibly stoked.
After you see what these guys went through, you understand what pussies we are: Our apartment is not at the right temperature, there is no ham in the fridge, and the water is a little cold …
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…sad, self-obsessed middle-aged straight white American men can’t get leading roles in big-budget Hollywood productions. When did that happen?
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Inarritu went after the authentic experience, putting the actors through rigorous real life challenges:
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL bitch plz
“I tried to capture — or emulate on film — a different type of American that I haven’t seen on film very often,” DiCaprio says. “This [was] an unregulated, sort of lawless territory. It hadn’t been forged into the America that we know yet. It was still sort of up for grabs.”
How is that a “different type of American” than one that we’ve devoted countless Westerns to?
My reaction to reading this is that it just makes me even more excited to see it. I love this kind of stuff. I like hearing about the conditions on set, and what it’s like for them. I’m hoping it will give them all so really authentic performances, and that it will enhance the viewing experience knowing that partly, they’re not acting. It’s like the same difference as watching Mad Max: Fury Road and knowing that 90 % of the stunts were real, and not just CGI.
“They were not acting at all!”
There goes that campaign. Pffft.
*deep sigh*
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or in the meantime you could be watching Dirk Bogarde movies…
The most interesting thing to us award predictors is what Inarritu told Imagen/Hollywood Elsewhere. The film still isn’t finished yet, they’re shooting the final sequences later this month. Its gonna be in editing/full post-production well until December.
That means you(I, or anyone else for that matter) won’t be seeing The Revenant at any of those all-important Fall Festivals. Recent history shows you gotta debut there, and that the Best Picture winner will have been seen by critics by October 1st.
BUT we all had the whole “No Editing Nomination = No BP win” thing just totally broken by Birdman, so its not impossible for it to swoop any frontrunners out of the way once the guilds have their say. Still, its gonna be a major piece of the Oscar puzzle that nobody will actually have a real opinion on until late December, early January for most folks.