Paul Dano & Zoe Kazan - Actors, Writers, Director

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

Tv & Film, Filmlighting, Deakins, Movies, Filmmaking, Production, Film, Cinematography, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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EPISODE 41 - PAUL DANO & ZOE KAZAN -Actors, writers & director

Team Deakins has the pleasure of speaking with another couple in the film business. Both are actors and writers and Paul has also directed. We talk a lot about the experience of being an actor and they articulately discuss the difference between acting for the stage and for film. We talk about the experience of being a couple in the same business and working together. Zoe shares how her writing allows her acting to be more personal and how hard it is to write a project and then let it go once it is picked up to be made. We had the opportunity to ask Paul many questions on his wonderful debut film as a director, “WILDLIFE”. We also touched on actors and their awareness of the camera, actors and continuity, their pet peeves about actors and how they choose their projects. Zoe speaks about working with the Coen Brothers and Paul speaks about working with Denis Villeneuve. We cover a lot of ground in this episode!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James Deacons, often joined in the conversation by a guest.
0:17.0	It's very informal and we never know where it will go.
0:21.0	We're connecting through Zoom, so bear that in mind when you hear the
0:24.8	audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic please do so by emailing pod
0:31.6	POD at Roger Deacons.com.
0:35.0	This episode of the Team Deacons Podcast supported by Company 3,
0:42.0	the world's leading post-production group dedicated to
0:45.2	collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:48.8	Today we have something special. We're joined by two actors, both of whom we've had the
0:56.2	pleasure of working with. There are also a couple in this business, something that
1:00.3	Roger and I can relate to.
1:02.6	There are many credits include Revolutionary Road, Meek's Cut-Off, Ruby Sparks, the Big Sick
1:09.5	Prisoners, Little Miss Sunshine, there will be blood in 12 years a slave.
1:15.0	We're really happy to welcome Zoe Kizan and Paul Dano today.
1:19.0	Zoe and Paul thank you for doing this.
1:22.0	Thank you for doing this. Thank you for having us.
1:24.0	We normally start with how did you get to where you are now?
1:29.0	Is it something you always wanted to do?
1:31.0	Is it something you discovered later tell us yeah sure so I
1:37.2	Started acting at a very young age actually I I might have started through singing in school which kind of led to doing acting and
1:48.0	and I we moved from Manhattan to Connecticut when I was in third grade and I think by by fourth or fifth
1:54.5	grade I was doing a lot of plays at the community theater which I think was another
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