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Viggo+David 4Evah
Jan. 14th, 2014 03:14 pmI've been a bit quiet lately just because it seems like I'm always either busy or tired or both! The busyness is nothing too exciting, just usual life things or taking Ros to activities. She's big on skating, so we've been going skating most days we have nothing else on. The tiredness is because of the busyness, and because I stupidly keep staying up too late to watch something or read something or write something.
But I did do one awesome thing last night that's a bit worthy of a post.
Lightbox, the film fest's year round home, has been doing conversations with David Cronenberg as part of a big retrospective and exhibition they're doing on him. (This has resulted in crazy things like this picture of Jeremy Irons and a mugwump from Naked Lunch.) Last night, they finally had Viggo Mortensen in for a talk, and then he and Cronenberg introduced a screening of A History of Violence. (The Sweetie gets major bonus points for noticing immediately when they'd scheduled this, and getting tickets for me and a couple of friends.)
It was amazing.
The two of them get along really well for a start--Cronenberg always shows up at Viggo's film fest screenings, even if it's not his film, and they usually snog on stage—which meant lots of joking around about how Cronenberg first asked Viggo to star in A History of Violence because he was cheap and available. And also malleable, they added later. Joking aside, they're also both really smart and articulate, and they're thoughtful about the work they've done. So they're not just fun, they're fascinating to listen to, and it's clear how much working together for them is a true collaboration.
One of the most telling anecdotes Cronenberg told was about talking to another director who told him that Viggo had given him notes, and said it like it was both unthinkable and horrendous that an actor would do such a thing. Cronenberg told him, to paraphrase, "Look, not every actor wants to do that or can do that, but if you have an actor with a good brain who wants to contribute that way, why wouldn't you listen to him?" It made me want to hug them both.
But I did do one awesome thing last night that's a bit worthy of a post.
Lightbox, the film fest's year round home, has been doing conversations with David Cronenberg as part of a big retrospective and exhibition they're doing on him. (This has resulted in crazy things like this picture of Jeremy Irons and a mugwump from Naked Lunch.) Last night, they finally had Viggo Mortensen in for a talk, and then he and Cronenberg introduced a screening of A History of Violence. (The Sweetie gets major bonus points for noticing immediately when they'd scheduled this, and getting tickets for me and a couple of friends.)
It was amazing.
The two of them get along really well for a start--Cronenberg always shows up at Viggo's film fest screenings, even if it's not his film, and they usually snog on stage—which meant lots of joking around about how Cronenberg first asked Viggo to star in A History of Violence because he was cheap and available. And also malleable, they added later. Joking aside, they're also both really smart and articulate, and they're thoughtful about the work they've done. So they're not just fun, they're fascinating to listen to, and it's clear how much working together for them is a true collaboration.
One of the most telling anecdotes Cronenberg told was about talking to another director who told him that Viggo had given him notes, and said it like it was both unthinkable and horrendous that an actor would do such a thing. Cronenberg told him, to paraphrase, "Look, not every actor wants to do that or can do that, but if you have an actor with a good brain who wants to contribute that way, why wouldn't you listen to him?" It made me want to hug them both.
