What's the Number One Thing You Look for in an Actor?

I decided very early on that the staging in the space would be very theatrical and and not real, not representational. I wanted to change your sense of where you were with light, color and very, very minimal props. What the actors had to do to work in that space a was different than what i would have asked them to do if we were shooting on films. Certainly but they were very skilled at at making that recalebration.