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🗓️ 25 November 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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How do you make a sequel to one of the most talked-about romances of all time? If you're Chris Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, The Golden Compass) making New Moon, you stick to the text.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
0:13.8 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear this show at KCRW.com. |
0:18.6 | In the 10 years since American Pie and the last time Chris White's was here, |
0:22.6 | he's directed several of the movies, including About a Boy and Golden Compass, and even |
0:26.4 | acted in a couple, including Chuck and Buck and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. His new film is director |
0:31.1 | is the second of the Twilight Saga, New Moon. Chris, it's good to have you back. It's good to be |
0:36.5 | here. The question becomes, how do you fit Chris White's into this? I mean, because anybody who knows your work knows you work on subversion. |
0:44.4 | I was like the surrendered wife on this one. You know, I had to, I was, it was my job to, it was my job to really deliver to the fans as faithful version of the book as possible. |
0:55.8 | But in a lot of ways, you haven't. |
0:59.9 | I mean, a lot of ways you really, very specifically in terms of the melod drama, |
1:02.7 | that's a little much subtler here. |
1:04.4 | You've made it your own. |
1:05.7 | Well, thank you. |
1:09.2 | I think that the audience supplies a lot of the emotion. |
1:21.3 | And I had some young actors who were really able to sort of portray these emotions and bizarre situations quite realistically, especially Kristen, who has to carry the entire film with shooting every day. |
1:24.2 | And I think is just a force of nature. |
1:25.6 | I think she's absolutely extraordinary. |
1:31.1 | I think she's one of the best actors living, to be honest. Well, you make her move a lot more on this. I mean, it really becomes a physical performance for her, doesn't it? The book required her to run and jump off |
1:35.6 | of cliffs and all kinds of stuff like that. So, yes, it is a physical performance, but also, |
1:41.9 | you know, in the more kind of intimate moments, the way that she |
1:45.9 | portrays emotions is extraordinary. I don't think I've ever met an actor who had a better |
1:51.1 | BS meter on themselves, even takes that I thought were wonderful. She would say, no, no, no, no, |
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