a doc on kubrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnge8MJeGB4 - if you go to 1:05 the interviewer asks her about Kubrick doing so many takes. I guess it was Kubrick's way of getting what he wanted. I don't know how frankly a film director would rehearse with actors in a traditional sense without knowing their (actors) language. If you don't have that background - you probably have a good bullshit detector and figure out how to get there one way or another. Scorsese apparently says very little to actors . He says he never took acting classes. But then again - he can tell someone like Paul Newman "Try not to be funny," when Newman was having a hard time with a scene.
 
Just saw this -
Nicole Kidman said of her experience on "Eyes Wide Shut" that Kubrick would shoot her page-long monologue over and over, and just when she found herself mentally and emotionally exhausted, they would continue shooting, and that was when she began surprising herself and her director.

Kubrick wasn't very hands-on in terms of directing his actors, but he had a tendency for shooting many takes, as a means of getting his cast beyond their most obvious choices and discovering more dissonant and interesting ways to portray any given scene.
 
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