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Why David Harbour’s Character Doesn’t Talk In 'We Have A Ghost'
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23/08/2024
Interview with David Harbour
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Short film
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Love David Harper, love that he played this role, which is so different from him.
00:04
I was wondering if you could talk about the decision not to have him really like have
00:09
lines in it and like speaking to David Harper and really working with him during the shooting
00:13
on that because that's like super unique.
00:15
Yeah.
00:16
I mean, look, as a character, as a character thing, I wanted Ernest to be silent because
00:19
I felt like I wanted his relationship with Kevin to be very emotional and and that they
00:26
don't have the advantage of conversation that they are really sort of reading each
00:30
other's energy and sort of each other's feelings and much in the way that like if you travel
00:35
to another country and you meet someone like you just have to figure that relationship
00:41
out without the advantage of language.
00:45
And and that was really important to me because I think it allowed for them to have more of
00:49
an immediate bond, you know, and and in terms of working with David on it, like, you know,
00:56
David and I had conversations about about the character, about, you know, who he was,
01:00
where he came from.
01:01
And then ultimately, his character's goal in the movie, which is to just sort of be
01:05
able to sort of remember who he is and what happened to him and why he's in this house
01:09
and how did he die?
01:12
But directing him wasn't that different, honestly, from directing any other actor with dialogue,
01:18
just because what my job is as a director is to always make sure that the actor understands
01:23
where they are in the film, understands the emotionality of the scene.
01:27
And that's kind of it.
01:28
Like once the camera's on them, it's it's up to them.
01:31
And David is is a is a performer who just has immediate access to his emotions.
01:37
He really understands the scene work and is just a really honest performer, you know,
01:44
and that reads like this.
01:46
This is the kind of movie that would have been so easy to get very broad and slapsticky.
01:53
And that's not David.
01:54
And that's what I wanted, because I needed Ernest to be a human being and I needed him
01:57
to have real stakes.
02:00
And that's something that David's very good at.
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