Kevin Spacey: evaluation

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…I guess what you’re saying is, it’s extremely difficult to get to the bottom of a little less, because the power, if we just stick even on Se7en, of your performances, in the tiniest of subtleties, like when you say, “Oh, you didn’t know,” and you turn your head a little bit, and a little bit, maybe a glimmer of a smile appears in your face. That’s subtlety, that’s less, that’s hard to get to, I suppose. Yeah, and also because I so well remember, I think the work that Brad did, and also Morgan did in that scene, but the work that Brad had to do where he had to go … I remember rehearsing with him as we were all staying at this little hotel nearby that location, and we rehearsed the night before we started shooting that sequence, and it was just incredible to see the levels of emotions he had to go through, and then the decision of, “What do I do, because if I do what he wants me to do, then he wins. But if I don’t do it, then what kind of a man, husband am I?” I just thought he did really incredible work. So it was also not easy to not react to the power of what he was throwing at me. I just thought it was a really extraordinary scene. So what’s it like being in that scene? So it’s you, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Brad Pitt is going over the top, just having a mental breakdown, and is weighing these extremely difficult moral choices, as you’re saying. But he’s screaming, and in pain, and tormented, while you’re very subtly smiling.…

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