So this was already a luxury and well-needed. Traditionally, or at least my personal experience, I get about six to eight weeks of prep. How much time did you end up needing for both the weight loss and the research part of preparation?
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We had full support from the Shoah Foundation and they opened up their library and much of the work was just walking-I just walked and I'd listened to testimony after testimony, just trying to fill my mind with the voices of those that survived. I spoke with experts-a Yiddish expert that helped dial in the specific accent that Harry had in Belchatow Poland, without having to turn the performance into an impression, which felt wrong. I just started eating less and training, and that became more extensive as the weeks went by. And thank goodness the team was supportive of that. It's just that I intuited that we had the time and that having the opportunity to lose the weight, if we could do that first schedule-wise, it was going to inform the rest of the film. And I think I barked out, "If that's how we're going to do it, you have the wrong actor!" which was perhaps a bit more gruff than I intended.
Vanity Fair: Once you had signed on to The Survivor, what was your plan when it came to preparation?īen Foster: We had a group meeting with the financiers and producers, and it was suggested that they could use digital technology to at least solve one of the problems, which was the weight gain, weight loss, and age. In our conversation he digs deep into his process and his comfort in “getting lost” in a character, and how his wife, actress Laura Prepon, keeps him grounded when he is on the verge of drifting away. Foster is in the midst of yet another transformation-he’s currently in Massachusetts filming Finestkind, for which he embedded on a commercial fishing boat for six days in order to play a scalloper.
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