Also like Oldman, Seyfried found Fincher’s approach to continuing to shoot, and the dedicated rehearsal time he set aside, “luxurious”, though it took some getting used to. “It can be frustrating at times, because you feel you’re finding your moments a little sooner than he’s finding what he wants,” she says. “But I think it’s also amazing that there’s no pressure to do a flawless take start to finish. You know he’s going to find his moments, taking pieces here and there. For as hard and mind-bending as it felt when I was trying to remember seven notes at a time, and steam would be coming out of my head, it was also just so fun, because it was like a puzzle to work out all the pieces and have him come back and be like, ‘Great. That was good.’” … [Read more...] about The Burning Question That Drove David Fincher’s Decades-Long Journey To Make ‘Mank’
