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| Tremblay as 'Yvette' |
Recently one of my productions was stopped. We lost the momentum, some of the problems we were dealing with were too great and there were simply a number of other things going on that made me know that to continue would have been a mistake. So, I choose to stop the project, but I didn't stop working.
I had met a very talented performer in January and we spoke a few times and I had written a treatment for a script with her in the lead role. This week, we shot the first scenes. As a writer and director, it is incumbent upon on me to show up prepared and ready to work but it is so refreshing to arrive and find that the talent is ready as well. Ready, excited and prepared. Wow, a trifecta.
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| No Ego, No Baggage, just talent and beauty |
When we write, we hear the words as we believe they should be spoken. It is very difficult to hear your words mangled, interpreted out of context or delivered without emotion or real intent; but when someone is ready to perform and to speak your words perfectly and beautifully; it makes all the difference in the world.
This week, because I didn't stop writing, because I didn't quit, I was treated to the most incredible experience of truly hearing my own words -which I had read over and over myself- spoken for the first time. The performer had no ego, no baggage, no pre-conceived notions, just a desire to work and to bring life to the character.
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| Tremblay preparing and taking direction |
A lot of people tell me that after a project goes south that they lose their desire to create or interest in their work. I suggest that they change their tact and use those times to reinvest in their work, in their words and in the chance that the next time will be the best time.
Filmmakers First.
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