"So I like to make films about the London I recognize." "I get film scripts about London, and somebody is always being shot, someone's being robbed, someone's taking drugs," he says. Marsan was born in the un-touristy district of Stepney, to working-class parents, and it is that side of the city that is presented in Still Life. "I thought of it as an Italian film about London.a fresh take on London." "He could have been speaking any language-Italian, German, anything," says the decidedly Cockney actor. Still Life, the second directorial effort of the Italian-born Uberto Pasolini, plays almost like a silent film, with Marsan's vulnerable and sometimes feral expressions carrying the tale. I believe the audience is with me and they enjoy it more if you're not shoving it down their throats." "You don't have to show a character you just have to be a character. The successful character actor is probably best known to American audiences for his role as Liev Schreiber's brother Terry in Showtime's Ray Donovan, or as the world's worst driving instructor in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky. "He doesn't express his thoughts, but he's still thinking," says Marsan of his character, and perhaps his method.
#EDDIE MARSAN FULL#
May brings his work home with him-keeping a scrapbook full of the photos of the deceased, writing eulogies based on what he's learned, even picking out the music (American gospel, Greek Orthodox) he imagines the departed would have liked. They informed me a lot in making the film." "When someone died they would try and find out something about the people. "I met three or four of these different funeral officers" in preparing for the role, says Marsan from his home in London. Marsan, as the enigmatic and largely silent John May, stages last rites for people whom time (and their families) has forgotten: derelicts and lonely old ladies who seem to have no next of kin and little left in the way of worldly goods to tell us what kind of lives they lived.
It's not the sort of job your high school counselor told you about. So says the unsympathetic boss in the Eddie Marsan film Still Life, about a funeral officer in London. If there's no one there, there's no one to care."
0 kommentar(er)
