Tom Cruise on acting opposite Jack Nicholson: the lesson every actor needs to understand about the lens
“He is off camera the whole time, just feeding, feeding me. And he'd be like, 'That was a good take. Good, good. Good Tommy, nice Tommy.'”
“I could just see also as I'm doing it, when you're acting, you're in the performance, but it's very much kind of... I'm filling the space.”
“A lot of artists are not, it's not taught in film school to understand what the lens is and what to do and why the eye movements, the eyebrows or the breath. And recognise what effect that has.”
“You could feel his voice start to relax and his face start to relax and you could feel the energy that he was going. And it just, he just centred it. And just throwing, like, just lasers as the film went on.”