VERY FEW ACTOR GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME]]

107 TAKES

IN MY OPINION;

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

VERY FEW ACTOR GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME]]

In most professions, performing a task dozens of times before you get it right is not something to brag about. Film-making is not like most professions. For the upcoming release The Mummy, Tom Cruise insisted on filming an action sequence 64 times in a zero-gravity environment just to make it as realistic as possible.

When we typically discuss scenes or shots that require numerous takes, however, it’s usually about directors instead of actors. Stanley Kubrick was famous for it, and reportedly made Cruise walk through a door 90 times while filming Eyes Wide Shut. David Fincher has earned a similar reputation, claiming recently to have once used up to 107 takes to get a shot right. It sounds like a nightmare for the cast and crew, who are operating purely on faith in their director, but actors continue to flock to such film-makers because their methods seem to work. Kubrick famously never made a bad film, and Fincher hasn’t yet.  {{{ So for you beginners out there, don't get all  caught with "I've gotta go rehearse again??"}}} IT IS SO MUCH CHEAPER TO REHEARSE A SCENE WHILE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ARE NOT BEING SPENT....'JUST DO IT'.