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"I could see my house, where I used to live "I'm known for films that are more entertaining than thought-provoking," Spielberg said during the meeting "When I saw the movie, I was startled at how accurate it was," he told the students The Extra Terrestrial", "Saving Private Ryan" and "Minority Report", fielded questions about everything from his favorite scene in the movie, to how many Jews saved by Schindler were still alive As it turned out, one was in the audience The film won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and director The Los Angeles students had seen the film on the district's educational TV station before meeting with Spielberg at the Hollywood American Legion's auditorium last week Leon Leyson, who was a child when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz, told the students he remembered the camp and Schindler " T The director of "E The 1993 film tells the story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1,100 Jews from death during World War II Spielberg, Students Discuss 'Schindler' May 27, 6:01 AM EST Hundreds of high school students got the chance to talk with Steven Spielberg about his film "Schindler's List" as part of the school district's social studies program Teachers around the country have used the film to help teach history, tolerance and social justice " Jennifer Connelly made her film debut at age 11 in "Once Upon a Time in America"; she continued working in film during her high school years ("Labyrinth," "Some Girls"), meanwhile earning entrance to Yale University I was sort of looking around, saying, "Surely you're going to select [among other actors], not choose [just one] Connelly: I have auditioning stories from not only early days </td></tr></table></td><td valign="Top"><table class="adtbl" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td align="Right" style="color:gray;font-size:7pt;">advertisement</td></tr><tr><td><!--BeginAd(ENT9AO,MediumShowcase)-->="http://g gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTS5" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_144292" src="http://entimg So through that second filter Vadim created a flawless screenplay It's very, very unlikely _ he was 19, bless him, at the time _ that a 19-year-old would do a speech from "Waiting for Godot I auditioned for "A Beautiful Mind," I auditioned for "Requiem for a Dream," "Waking the Dead I thought it was a really compelling story I improvised, and through the improvisation they invited me to start So the way I work is sort of a pastiche of things that I've picked up msn Andre decided [if his book were adapted to film] that he would like me as the physical role model _ the essence of Behrani, scaffolding if you like _ around which to build this building called Behrani I loved the fact that at its core it had two protagonists who were not your typical American heroes, and it asked you to divide your allegiance It's made of Jonny being the archetypal son; it breaks my heart every time I see him on the screen msn What was alarming for me was that he didn't ask anyone else So I would find, almost, you couldn't quite see what was happening until I went to the theatre and saw [the film] and said, "Ah, that's what you were up to I don't know where the first splodge of paint goes on the canvas " I'd just done "Godot" for Sir Peter Halls' Old Vic production with Alan Howard Ben Kingsley, perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of the mahatma in "Gandhi," has also earned legions of fans with his subsequent roles in, among many others, "Bugsy" (for which he earned a second Oscar nomination), "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "Schindler's List," "Sexy Beast," "Betrayal," "Dave," "Death and the Maiden," and "The Triumph of Love And I only haven't auditioned for movies very recently I think for, example, [DP] Roger Deakins ["A Beautiful Mind"] was an excellent choice What did you learn from Sir Ben while making this film? Connelly: I've worked with lots of different kinds of actors BSW: What are your processes for developing your characters? Do you work inside out? Kingsley: I don't know msn I of course was called first, and they had a camera against a backdrop and a light in the center of it all I tried to create a very detailed, loving, compassionate portrait of Behrani But I start, with some piece of intuition In this instance we had the novel " That's where I started with Behrani, actually _ with the brushstroke, "warrior msn And then Vadim sent me the screenplay, and Vadim brings to it this Russian-ness _ the Russian soul born of migration, the siege of Stalingrad, Napoleon burning Moscow down I love that part of it Yet each is the embodiment of fine acting that goes beyond type I loved reacting to Jennifer's purity _ that wounded angel she puts on the screen is archetypally pure msn My Behrani is made of that performance " He served a king msads And then they'll go, "OK, there's the range, there's the intelligence, and there's the absolute passion to get beyond the physical frame and be a real actor We're choosing I just started working and then trying to bit by bit learn from all the people I respected _ and people I didn't respect too much _ along the way At the same time he's quite clever and is aware of what his shortcomings are and his lack of experience in places, and so he surrounded himself quite wisely with people who are consummate professionals and very accomplished BSW: Do you have any audition advice to offer? Kingsley: I helped [my son Edmund] with his drama school auditions The film, based on the novel by Andre Dubus III, is a dark study in good-hearted people who follow wrong paths It just happened by default Just after spending time with him and getting an understanding of his taste and the people he respects and where he wanted to go, and he is sort of a survivor and fighter himself, so I thought he was going to throw himself into it with that passion Every day com/i/rt_0 If I recognize the man, I've got to play him; or if I'm curious, then I've got to play him I have all sorts of little devices I've come up with over the years I didn't come out of a drama school And then just show up and throw myself into it, because that's the fun part Every day there's learning and there's reciprocity I thought it was beautifully adapted net/ads/8249/0000008249_000000000000000089886 'House' work  <EM>By Dany Margolies Back Stage West</EM> It took a film about huge archetypes to bring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly together on-screen msn gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTS2" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_144292" src="http://entimg If you're a beautiful young woman don't go on and do Juliet; do Mother Courage I call him my T-45 Tank _ he's a Russian tank, one of those that came across from the East and flattened Berlin in 1945 She's the vibrant beauty who brings freshness and hope to characters in despair " And bless [Edmund], he got in From there you can get quite specific external choices I do yoga in the morning I think I work from intuition And I liked him very much on sight ) see your range, b That lends a strength to his talents and enhances his talents I suggested that it might make them, a I auditioned for RADA as Krishna Bhanji And it's hard to see those go, as options Friends of my family had asked me to be in some advertising The two spoke with Back Stage West about how they overcame bad auditions and what they learned working on this film We had to sing the Duncan Hines jingle, which goes something like [she sings] "Crispy, chewy, crispy, chewy I don't know whether I start from the left-hand corner or the middle, the eyebrow or the toe I came up and he came up with the same idea almost at the same time Because all choice is loss, for me I sat down with Vadim and talked with him about his ideas _ because there are 13 ways of looking at a blackbird, at least, as the poem goes The gifts _ "Here's a gift" _ all day gif" width="300" height="250" alt="Summer hotel sale: Book now and save!" border="0" /><!--EndAd--></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table class="adtbl2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:180px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" 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Interviews</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="bg5_2"> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:180px;border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td>="/email/?url=http%3a%2f%2fentertainment And Alan was Vladimir And then I met Vadim I know exactly what Jennifer means when I see actors who insist that it's all about them He's the improbably versatile English actor who can portray beatitude and evil, upper-class Brit and German Jew, world leaders and family men I have the utmost respect for Sir Ben and his work and thought it would be exciting to work with him It's all the stronger because it's moderated, it's carefully constructed When it's at its best, if you're lucky enough to work with really talented actors, like Sir Ben says, it's about being there to catch it and give it back This is an extraordinary Eastern European sensibility to bring to an already extraordinary novel He just comes in and is professional and respectful of everyone, and polite, and kind, and lets his work speak for itself Then you have to make some choices, and that's always the tricky point I sat down with him to see what lens it might be viewed through " One thing that I noticed about Sir Ben's performance and the way he works is _ not to say that within a scene there isn't play and that he isn't available, because he is very available to his fellow actors _ but I got a sense that there's a real understanding of the structure of the piece, and the fact that there needs to be an architecture to it It's informed by where you are in your life at that time, how you see it, which is why it's always changing He got it ) see your intellectual capabilities at grasping the text, and c " The two actors are paired together in "House of Sand and Fog," opening later this month I loved being Gogo, Estragon com/i/rt_str-e Then Vadim asked me to play Behrani, which I could sort of see coming, but I didn't realize it would be that quick That's really the gift I spend a lot of time doing that My birth name is Krishna Bhanji And that can really backfire at an audition And he's an immigrant and shared some of his life stories with me One can do enormous amounts of research and back study and put a lot of forethought into a scene _ and that facilitates being spontaneous in a scene BSW: Can you reveal one? Connelly: Silly things I've made the mistake of thinking, Oh, I want to feel really free, and I want to be able to make choices on the spot, and the way to do that is to come in all loosey-goosey and see how it goes Since it's written in the alternating first person, the Kathy chapters serve as almost a diary that I could use And committed He has this sort of toughness to him when you first sit down with him that softens over time, and he has a certain passion My performance is made of Ron's _ the wounded knight, riding in the wrong direction com/i/rt_str-e She sent it to me with a very charming letter saying that Andre had always, as a mental picture of [my character] Behrani, had me in the back of his mind This guy came with a clipboard and said, "Kristina Blange You can go on the set and receive all day And the unheard, dispossessed, constantly homesick, panic-stricken wife, who has a heart of gold and is kindness itself " And that voice in me said, God, he means me com/i/rt_str-e Jennifer Connelly: When I read the really superbly adapted screenplay that [director] Vadim [Perelman] had done, Sir Ben was already attached to it It wasn't intentional aspx%3fnews%3d144292&subject=MSN Entertainment - News - 'House' work &title=Email+This+Page&type=page" class="vl">Email This Page</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td><span id="ctrlRateNews_144292" style="visibility:hidden"><input type="hidden" name="rating" value="-1"/><table class="r-outer" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTI" src="http://entimg " Nobody moved '" It was a very bad start to the audition Kingsley plays a former Iranian army officer trying to live the American dream; Connelly plays a troubled woman who has been dispossessed of her newly inherited family house Then followed "The Rocketeer," "Mulholland Falls," "Requiem for a Dream," and an Oscar win for "A Beautiful Mind gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTS4" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_144292" src="http://entimg " I started working when I was 10 Even though he's a first-time director, he really inspired confidence in all of us I didn't succeed in getting into RADA, but the following week I auditioned for English Repertory Company and I got a job BSW: You said you learn from people you respected Er, Jen and Sir Ben I auditioned for RADA, that my son just left I came through the Royal Shakespeare Company, but I did audition to get in I came in through the back door Tell us how you first were attracted to the project gif" alt="" height="13" width="71" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTS1" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_144292" src="http://entimg He said, "No, no, no I try very hard to react They put all the kids who were up for it in this room and had us all lined up on the walls ) it's going to surprise them because they think you're going to come on doing Mercutio I generally start with theoretical: What do I feel? And that's really personal And that's what I love about walking on to a film set Connelly: It's different from job to job, but generally I start with a lot of questions, trying to sort out who this woman is, who she thinks she is, who she wishes she was, what she's afraid of, what she's afraid people think of her and know about her, and all these sorts of things He said, "Kristina Blange I try to be a portrait artist For auditioning One thing I learned at a particularly horrendous audition early on was that wanting to be in the moment and available and spontaneous does not mean not to be prepared I had a very different way of coming into being an actor Once I was doing a Duncan Hines commercial audition, as an 11-year-old, at the height of my insecurity " And I started, and I was so humiliated, I devolved into laughter and sweat and crumpled on the floor and couldn't do it and had to leave Kingsley: Fifteen years in the theatre 1??PID=2309267&UIT=G&TargetID=1038707&AN=26299&PG=ENT9AO" target="_blank"><img src="http://global com/0AD0000R/617316 Sadly they're actually shutting off their oxygen, their life support system, they're shutting off the most beautiful part of what we do, which is receiving gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><span id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RT2" class="r-cap1"> If I learn my lines; if I really, really, really prepare; if I try to adhere to what Jennifer is describing as an appreciation of the symphonic structure of the film; if I know as a performer when the conductor says, "We're going to play Section D-7 today," I can go into D-7 because I know where D-7 is in the symphony; then if I'm prepared enough to know the notes but haven't the faintest idea how I'm going to play them, then Jennifer's performance tells me how to bring my preparation to life Ben Kingsley: Andre's wife sent me the novel a long time ago, about a year and a half before even Jennifer and I read the screenplay com/i/rt_str-e msn com/i/rt_str-e So I said, "Why don't you do Vladimir? The speech about giving birth astride the grave I sat in the antechamber with other aspiring thespians, waiting for my name to be called He's completely unstoppable I am in fact Krishna Bhanji " He did it slightly Irish, he did it vehemently, passionately, with an edge of anger, and you saw this 19-year-old coming out with this colossal wisdom I read the novel; I found it intensely moving and massive I auditioned before I acquired my stage name, which is now my legal name BSW: Sir Ben, do you feel you learned anything new, technically, working on this film? Kingsley: We've chosen paths, Jennifer and I, that are learning curves until we die That shifts at different times in your life Therefore it's entirely experiential BSW: At some point in your careers, you must have gone on auditions com%2fmovies%2farticle I didn't have voice training, per se, so I do my own voice exercises _ singing songs and doing weird things with my mouth in the shower My performance fortunately is buttressed entirely, and is dependent upon entirely, Jonny Ahdout [who plays his son on-screen], Jennifer, Ron [Eldard], and Shohreh [Aghdashloo, who plays his wife], and everyone my character comes in contact with It's an immensely privileged path to tread It's quite a beautiful name, but it doesn't get you very far in show business You make one choice and you lose nine It's why we love them as the real, the enduring, Jen and Ben "I said, `Actually it's my terrible handwriting BSW: How did you survive that one week? Kingsley: I had great support from friends in my hometown [Scarborough], because I was a member of an amateur dramatics society that thought of itself very highly; I looked at another audition piece; and I was asked to improvise for this next audition " So I did have a very positive response to the screenplay, thank God Not that I was really aspiring at that point to be an actor That said, having done as much background work as I possibly can, I try to make myself just as flexible as possible every day in every way _ in my body, in my head, emotionally I had no idea what I was doing Another thing I noticed about the way Sir Ben worked, which you also don't see in inexperienced actors, is, a lot of people come in feeling insecure about their abilities, and it's lovely to work with someone who doesn't feel the need to come in with a lot of fanfare and make a big stink about what he does As a kid in school I found myself on endless commercial auditions gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_144292_RTS3" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_144292" src="http://entimg msn And my son had loved the play and found it an immediate, tangible, non-intellectual, visceral, glorious experience I think I work from recognition, or curiosity The thing that's intangible is the lens through which you see it I was, for numerous reasons, really intrigued I generally get up really early before work and have a lot of time to get my body moving so I'm physically flexible We can't help noticing how each of you uplifts and clarifies the material Back Stage West: "House of Sand and Fog" is a dark, complex story That's my job Connelly: Oh, endlessly " It's remarkable I've auditioned for most of the movies that I've done So that was my advice to him: Don't go for the obvious, and don't go for the expected "He's a warrior I find with actors who are less experienced that you have this feeling from them of, "This is my chance, this is my moment, I've been given this part, and I'm going to milk every single scene for everything that it's worth and make it about me and a showcase for myself and my abilities You never know what's going to happen It's all in the other person So generally I start with background, so that everything is grounded in specifics, so everything that's said resonates for me _ the dialogue, I know the implications and how things echo out from there |
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