January 2012
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Sivell on Cumberbatch →
Beautiful description of working with Benedict Cumberbatch by producer/writer of Third star Vaughan Sivell.
“He is immediately intelligent. He’s on his front foot and yet asking questions. One instantly gets the impression there is no depth to any conversation he is not willing to plumb.”
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“You shouldn’t have worn that tie on television. It bleeds.”
– Donnas first ever line to Josh. Married since 1999.
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“I’ve cast myself as Scarlett O’Hara.”
– Vivien Leigh after reading Margaret Mitchells Gone with the wind and recommending herself for the part to director David O. Selznick.
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Barack meets Bartlet →
Aaron Sorkin let his fictional President Bartlet be sassy with then Senator Obama. Gold.
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Interviewer: It was kind of shocking to hear Jesse Eisenberg doing Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue, because you suddenly realize this is what he was born to do.
David Fincher: We looked and looked and looked. We read every young actor in Hollywood. And it had been rumored on blogs and stuff that we were talking to Jesse Eisenberg. And you know, I hate to be told what to do by blogs, so I was like, "Yeah, we should probably see him but I don’t know if this is his thing … " And he put himself on tape reading the first scene, and I remember getting this thing on my computer and opening this little QuickTime, and here’s this kid doing Sorkin: the first person that we’d heard who could do Sorkin better than Sorkin.