The standup comedian, podcaster and actor, Marc Maron, is current filming his first movie as the lead actor. Obviously, he is semi-terrified of the challenge and responsibility.
The movie is called ‘In Memoriam’.
Maron plays an actor with great ambition who never really had the ability to make the big time. Later in his career, he was in a reasonably successful TV sitcom. That is all anybody remembers him for. He finds out he is terminally ill and becomes obsessed with trying to be featured in the “In Memoriam" segment at the Oscars.
It’s a kind of sad comedy.
Anyway, he has a scene where he has to break down and sob. Maron is convinced he can’t do this. Never in his life has he been able to voluntarily cry. He is in a panic.
He tells this to his scene partner, Sharon Stone. She reassures him. I’ll be right with you. We’ll get to that place together etc. The scene starts. Maron breaks down and sobs. In fact, he and Stone break down and sob thru multiple retakes.
Even weeks later, Maron feels like a changed person who has had a breakthrough as an actor and a person. All because of the scene partner who coaxed it out of him. Because, he says, Sharon Stone is a great actor.
I haven't seen Nobody, will toss it on the to be watched pile. In the Sleeping Assassin subgenre my personal favourite was 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight. Conscious of the fact that any book, film, TV series, music, at a certain point in one's life has to be by definition the best of that genre ever. More as a reflection on you as a person than any inherent quality in that piece of media.
I adore The Long Kiss Goodnight. I was a grown woman & mother exiting my marriage. I guess watching female empowerment in such a visceral (if unrealistic) fashion was just what I needed!
i was sure i saw this . . . . . but looking at the trailer it doesn't ring any bells. I may have to watch it again because covid may have destroyed more brain cells than i thought.
In Sharon Stone news.
The standup comedian, podcaster and actor, Marc Maron, is current filming his first movie as the lead actor. Obviously, he is semi-terrified of the challenge and responsibility.
The movie is called ‘In Memoriam’.
Maron plays an actor with great ambition who never really had the ability to make the big time. Later in his career, he was in a reasonably successful TV sitcom. That is all anybody remembers him for. He finds out he is terminally ill and becomes obsessed with trying to be featured in the “In Memoriam" segment at the Oscars.
It’s a kind of sad comedy.
Anyway, he has a scene where he has to break down and sob. Maron is convinced he can’t do this. Never in his life has he been able to voluntarily cry. He is in a panic.
He tells this to his scene partner, Sharon Stone. She reassures him. I’ll be right with you. We’ll get to that place together etc. The scene starts. Maron breaks down and sobs. In fact, he and Stone break down and sob thru multiple retakes.
Even weeks later, Maron feels like a changed person who has had a breakthrough as an actor and a person. All because of the scene partner who coaxed it out of him. Because, he says, Sharon Stone is a great actor.
I haven't seen Nobody, will toss it on the to be watched pile. In the Sleeping Assassin subgenre my personal favourite was 1996 film The Long Kiss Goodnight. Conscious of the fact that any book, film, TV series, music, at a certain point in one's life has to be by definition the best of that genre ever. More as a reflection on you as a person than any inherent quality in that piece of media.
I rewatch that recently it is a very very 1980s film
I finished High School in the 1980s so I think that supports my above argument.
I adore The Long Kiss Goodnight. I was a grown woman & mother exiting my marriage. I guess watching female empowerment in such a visceral (if unrealistic) fashion was just what I needed!
i was sure i saw this . . . . . but looking at the trailer it doesn't ring any bells. I may have to watch it again because covid may have destroyed more brain cells than i thought.
"What can I say? I give good wife."
Great line!