Jacques Audiard shot an American-style western with “Les Frères Sisters”, broadcast on France 3 this Monday, October 9. And the director noted a surprising attitude of the American actors.
France 3 broadcasts the film “The Sisters Brothers” this Monday, October 9 at 9:10 p.m. This modern western is directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard. Released in 2018, this is the director’s first film to be shot entirely in English and with mainly American actors.
Thus, Michel Audiard’s son was able to identify differences between the work of American actors and French actors. In comments reported by Allociné, Jacques Audiard details that American actors “offer a sort of immediate incarnation” for the spectator, who notes that “the faces do not appear in the same way, the bodies do not have the same same size, voices same depth.”
Beyond their presence on screen, Jacques Audiard noticed, while filming “The Sisters Brothers”, that the American actors worked differently from the French actors. He remembers from the media specializing in cinematographic news that Jake Gyllenhaal approached him to ask the filmmaker how his character, who studied at the first universities on the American East Coast in the 19th century, would express himself.
“Cinema actors”
A question that disconcerted the director: “how to answer that? He went to work for a month with a linguist and he came back with a phonetic script.” Jacques Audiard says he is impressed by this American professionalism: “They come with the character’s approach, they have determined how he sits, how he behaves in society, whether or not he looks at those to whom he is speaking. “
The director was in fact able to observe on the set that the Americans have developed the profession of “film actor”: “They know where the camera is, what the lens is, how we are going to see them, if they are in the frame or not, what detail of their expression will be captured. All this was very new to me and very impressive. Electrifying, even.”
The Sisters Brothers on the TV program on France 3 this Monday, October 9 at 9:10 p.m. and streaming on france.tv