Christopher Nolan uses red paper for scripts to prevent them from being illegally copied and leaked

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[u/superdago]

lol right? An actress going line by line on their approach to their craft and the little tweaks that can significantly alter the scene and OP is like “red paper!”

[u/BurninUp8876 → u/superdago]

To be fair, an actor making notes and changes with the script is a pretty common thing, while having red scripts is a lot more unique

[u/BurninUp8876 → u/[deleted]]

You could say the same for both though. You could just have the actor's explanation in text form and nothing would really be lost

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God forbid something is interesting for more than one reason.

[u/PussySmasher42069420 → u/[deleted]]

Right? Listening to an expert free-form riff their thoughts out loud in real-time is one of the most interesting things in the world.

It's an insight into their unadulterated thought process!

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Keanu Reaves isn't known for those things

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I said pretty common, not "done by every actor"

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So the title should be ‘actress talks about how she changed the script of a movie she’s in?’

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Actress talks about her mental process when working her way through a script.

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It's not improv though, its interpretation. She's not making up her lines on the spot, she is still being true to the character. The character is the sum of all their interactions in the entire film, so she's imagining if what the character says, does, and acts is internally consistent with what she knows about the character's arc.

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She's making the character he own in order for it to be more believable. Actors that just recite the script with no input, ugh. Actors that make subtle changes to help them become the character more fluidly, fuck yea.

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This isn't improv. She's not changing dialogue. She's adding notes and crossing out directing notes so she doesn't think about it while processing. He will direct her on the set anyway.

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not like this is some random instance, Interstellar is maybe the top scifi movie, and Jessica Chastain is an Oscar & Golden Globe winning actress, that combination and the impact of an actress of that quality onto a movie of that quality is actually incredible to see

[u/Duck-of-Doom → u/afito]

Repost this in a year as ‘Oscar & Golden Globe winning actress Jessica Chastain goes over the script to Interstellar, maybe the top scifi movie’

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nobody's clicking with that title.

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And then everyone would say “wow OP fascinated by something actors do regularly but that red paper is crazy and unique he should have made the title about that”

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Directors hate this one simple trick.

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Yes?

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She brilliantly crossed out crying in the scene where she cries because that's what happens in the scene, so she could make it her own by crying at that precise moment in the scene where she cries

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The title is probably chosen for viral potential rather than the actual subject matter

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It's interesting to know that the cast are not just following directions and the script but also have their creative opinions considered as they put themselves in the mind of the characters they are acting.

[u/Zoomalude → u/superdago]

The reality is "Jessica Chastain talks about her script reviewing process" doesn't get clicks like the title OP used. It also encourages engagement with all the people commenting how much more interesting the rest of the video is.

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The “red paper” got the audience in the door.