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Capone talks drone warfare, ridiculous politicians, and the late, great Alan Rickman with EYE IN THE SKY director Gavin Hood!!!
Published at: March 19, 2016, 2:19 p.m. CST by Capone
EXCERPT #1
Capone: Let’s talk about the comedy.
GH: The farce, yes.
Capone: There are moments, and most of those moments occur in that room where Rickman is, where you just throw your hands up. “Do it or don’t.” It’s funny because after a while you realize, this may not happen. We’re so pre-disposed to assuming we get to see an explosion and the bad guys die that to get in that one moment, about halfway through, and think “This might not actually happen” was a bit startling.
GH: Great. An actor who helped so much with the comedy is actually Jeremy Northam. I think it’s easy to forget.
Capone: I haven’t seen him for a while.
GH: You haven’t seen him for a while, and again, that’s a role that could easily be thankless. He’s the dithering minister. But he and Alan play off each other brilliantly. I love the moment Jeremy takes his jacket off, and his armpits are all sweaty.
Capone: The room where I saw the film, people laughed when they saw that.
GH: That was the intention. Then it worked, because he’s trying to be all calm and he just does this and he’s clearly sweating.
Capone: Talk about the use of humor to deliver very serious messages.
EXCERPT #2
When you have actors as good as Jeremy and Alan and Iain and Helen—Helen has wonderful moments of humor where she walks away from the guy doing his calculations, and she turns back with her hands on her hips. “I’m sorry to rush you, sergeant.” So we very carefully looked for these little beats of humor, and we’re very conscious of the danger of overplaying them.
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