Monday, February 21, 2011

THE MAKING OF UNCLE LOUIE: entry 3

It became clearly and painfully evident that the man we had selected to play the villain had not done his homework learning the lines and nuances of Lester. Take after take drove the point deeper and deeper home. We wanted to like the footage. We really did. But it didn’t work. The dialogue came off wooden and unnatural. Sunday night, we made the decision to scrap the footage and start all over again with a new Lester. I broke down that night and cried my eyes out.

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