David Gordon Green on Working With Ben Stiller in 'Nutcrackers' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

David Gordon Green and Ben Stiller sit down at the Variety Studio at TIFF.

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00:00When you're working with somebody like Ben, who is also a very accomplished director,

00:04does it change things at all, or do you find that people who have experience doing what

00:09you do approach acting in a different way, or are you able to have conversations differently?

00:14With a project like this, we can always speak to the chaos, because that's kind of what

00:18makes the movie feel special and unique, but I don't think you can approach chaos in its

00:25most chaotic and capture it unless you have a sophisticated navigator of the sequences.

00:32Rather than having to rehearse the movie to death, by putting a pro like Ben that gets

00:37the comedy, gets the emotion, gets the drama of what we're trying to achieve, and most

00:41importantly can keep the scene on track, because it would be very easy to derail if we let

00:46all hell break loose, as it often did, but that's what's so great, is to be able to take

00:51that skill, and not only his skill as an actor, but he's a masterful director, and so having

00:56those conversations of technically what we need to achieve to be able to give this film

01:02a sense of architecture that, for my hopes, was to take what we love about the bubble

01:08gum blockbuster comedies of the 80s and 70s, and then add our own eccentric signatures

01:14of artsy fartsy films that inspire us.