From Movie Maker magazine ~
Excerpted from "The Dangerous Life of Director Peter Care"
~Interview with Peter Care, director of "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys"
MM: As a first-timer, was it intimidating to direct the likes of Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio?
PC: It was for a few minutes, yeah I'll admit that. (laughs) But I think because I had spent a fair amount of time with Jodie talking about the script, and I changed the idea for the character-Sister Assumpta was written as a kind of Roald Dahl, big beefy ugly woman and I was saying that 'I don't want this. I think we should get someone who is really kind of younger and stronger and more three-dimensional than this cartoon character.' I think that was her signal that I was really into someone like her being in the role. So the ice was broken months ahead of when we were actually shooting. The thing is we had to do so much in the first two or three days with Jodie that I didn't have time to get nervous; I just had to get my shots. (laughs)
And Vincent was a joy. We had a little time to just talk about the part. Obviously, I had a huge respect for him and it just came together kind of organically. There was no disagreement about any aspect of the two adult characters with my actors. It came together very smoothly.
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posted by thereel @ 1:10 PM
5 Comments:
Thank you for the article-it's a shame that independent films are seen by so few people.
I really liked that movie. I never saw the end coming.
I just wish Vincent had been in it longer - but then, I would wouldn't I ;-)
I enjoyed that movie too. As Diane suggested, I enjoy any movie with Vincent in it.
There's only a couple of his movies I haven't seen - not yet released in Australia - and that sucks.
Vincent reminded me SO much of my childhood parish priest in this film that I felt propelled backward in time for days. A substantially built man, largely imperturable, chain-smoking, and with an air of being buried deep in thought - whether he was contemplating religious mysteries or his morning tee-time, no one seemed to know.
Like Father Casey, you never heard him raise his voice unless it was at the CYO hoops game (tho the sport changed in the film's case), and he was prone to quick absolutions of the 'one Our Father and three Hail Marys' variety. But active disciplining and religious instruction were always up to the nuns, so Vincent's performance rang true on all accounts.
It's amazing, the power film has to bring so much back to you.
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