You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
Good dialogue is very important.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.
I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.
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