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Adam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and Mastery

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The Importance of Body Language in a Movie

Gopnik spent two days exactly like this with Kate playing Lydia Tar and me in this chair and leaning forward because I had to use the same body language that you've been using. It was completely scripted people somehow got the idea that it was improvised or that I was talking as myselfIt wasn't I was playing a part I would not have said those things if it were me but what was weird is it's a part I've often played in lifeBecause I'm very often in that chair trying to get Steven Sondheim or James Taylor to to converse in a New Yorker festival of an or something so it was me playing a part that I often play in life, he says.

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