Kevin Spacey: belief

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…And I guess actors like the dramatic pauses, and the indulge in the dramatic- He didn’t always like the dramatic pauses. Look, you go back, any student of acting, you go back to the ’30s and the ’40s, ’50s, the speed at which actors spoke, not just in the comedies, which, of course, you look at any Preston Sturges’ movie, and it’s incredible how fast people are talking, and how funny things are when they happen that fast. But then acting styles changed. We got into a different thing in the late ’50s and ’60s, and a lot of actors are feeling it, which I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, it’s just that if you want to keep an audience engaged, as Fincher does, and I believe successfully does in all of his work, pace, timing, movement, clarity, speed, are admirable to achieve. In all of that, he wants the actor to be as natural as possible, to strip away all the bullshit of acting-…

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