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148 | Jodie Foster on Building Truthful Characters

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Evolution of an Actor: From Technicality to Character Building

Liked listening to direction and following instructions as a young actor./nWas initially fascinated by the technical aspects of filmmaking like camera angles and lenses./nReceived the direction to be natural and be oneself as a child actor./nRealized at a young age that just being natural was not enough for acting./nLearned the importance of rehearsing and improvisation from Robert De Niro during the filming of Taxi Driver./nHad a revelation that building a character required more than just being natural.

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