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Originally posted by: ricarleite
About the whole thing of actors hating blue screens, and actors hating working on Star Wars, I think that's ridiculous. They're movie actors, they get a WHOLE lot of money! I don't CARE if they are bored, or if they think star wars sucks, or if they can't act against blue screen! That's the job they chose to do, to ACT no matter how insanely ridiculous the situation might be, that's what they're getting their money from, so stop complaining and just do the job properly. Peter O'Toole refuse to act in Tron when he found out he would have to act against bluescreens and greenscreens and whatever, that's a ridiculous primadonna behaviour I hate about those kind of actors. Sir Alec Guiness bad-mouthed Star Wars on every ocasion he mentioned it, just as Marlon Brando did with Superman... ok so WHY did they agree on acting on those movies?
I would have to disagree with you on that. Actors may not necessarily know what they are getting into when they sign for a movie. I really don't think it is right have to act against a bluescreen. Their job is not to only to act in any situtation, it is also the directors job to create a workable environment. If you're acting against a bluescreen you have nothing to drive your performance and your fire is lost.
Oh, and Marlon Brando is just like that. He pisses of every director. He referred to the director of the Score (Frank Oz) as "Miss Piggy" and refused to work with him. De Niro directed all of his scenes. He also refused to wear pants, thus all his scenes were shot from the waist up.