Vanillaphant
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Hello, hello.
I guess you could call this a three-pronged thread. lol
Prong 1: Anybody seen/heard about/interested in the documentary named in the thread title? For anybody who doesn’t know, it’s a documentary about Jim Carrey’s performance in Man on the Moon (biopic of American comedian Andy Kaufman). I have seen interviews over the years in which Carrey talks about having given himself up completely to the part… And I wasn’t really sure what that meant. Apparently it meant staying in character(s) on set and causing a small amount of mayhem lol. I understand it was released on Netflix the other day - I don’t have a Netflix account.
Prong 2: Anybody else a fan of Man on the Moon? Loved that film as a teenager. The character of Tony Clifton is frickin’ hilarious!
Prong 3: Any opinions on this idea of an actor staying in character on set, even when the cameras aren’t rolling? To me it just seems unnecessary and self-indulgent. I mean, there’s method acting and then there’s being a pretentious nitwit lol. But then, I don’t know anything about acting, so maybe it’s a case of each to their own…?
Cheeyers!
I guess you could call this a three-pronged thread. lol
Prong 1: Anybody seen/heard about/interested in the documentary named in the thread title? For anybody who doesn’t know, it’s a documentary about Jim Carrey’s performance in Man on the Moon (biopic of American comedian Andy Kaufman). I have seen interviews over the years in which Carrey talks about having given himself up completely to the part… And I wasn’t really sure what that meant. Apparently it meant staying in character(s) on set and causing a small amount of mayhem lol. I understand it was released on Netflix the other day - I don’t have a Netflix account.
Prong 2: Anybody else a fan of Man on the Moon? Loved that film as a teenager. The character of Tony Clifton is frickin’ hilarious!
Prong 3: Any opinions on this idea of an actor staying in character on set, even when the cameras aren’t rolling? To me it just seems unnecessary and self-indulgent. I mean, there’s method acting and then there’s being a pretentious nitwit lol. But then, I don’t know anything about acting, so maybe it’s a case of each to their own…?
Cheeyers!