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During the Academy Awards for the nominees - Page 2 - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 8th Mar, 2010 - 2:01am
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I did notice that about the Asian girl as well. At first we are introduced to her as though she is a guide but then it turns out that she too was a victim of the same killer. I get the feeling that because she was younger and more 'innocent' she did not make the same effort as the principal character. Remember the principal character had two things that was connecting her with the mortals - her love for her father and her infatuation with her new found boyfriend. Maybe the Asian girl did not have such an attachment.
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I read an interview with Stanley Tucci who played the serial killer in the movie. He had a very hard time playing the role, specially because of the research involved. He looks quite different in real life. There is a scene where you can see he had color lenses on. His real eye color is brown. His wife passed away last year.
QUOTE QUESTION: Now I know that you were initially reticent about taking on Harvey in Lovely Bones. First of all, what changed your mind and secondly, is it important for you to empathize with a character like this to play him effectively, or to be completely nonjudgmental?
STANLEY TUCCI: I think when you're in it, you have to be nonjudgmental, but as soon as you step out of him, you can judge him all you want. You you can only judge him as he would judge himself, when you are him. I know that may sound affected, but - you know what I mean. But, once you find the guy, you're in it. And it becomes simply about intention. Do you know what I mean? What is it that you need? What is your objective in each scene? And how does that fit into the arc? And that's all you do. And then when the scene's over, you drop it and you put it away.
QUESTION: Was it important for you to make sure in discussions with Peter, that you were not going to play a guy who was going to be involved in scenes that were sexually or violently explicit in any way? That the murder sequence was going to be as subtle and as non-explicit as possible?
STANLEY TUCCI: Yes, it was, because in the original - the first draft that I got, there was some stuff in there. And I said, "Do we need it? I think it would be better"-and they said, "No, we don't think we do need it. We're just playing around - you know, with the script, trying to figure out what we need and what we don't need." And so we were in complete agreement, as far as that. And I'm sure Saoirse was too, and I'm sure her parents were. I don't know to what extent they were involved, but I'm assuming and rightly so, because there's absolutely no need for them. Our imaginations are much more powerful, and it becomes much scarier. The suggestion of it. We know what happened, so, it was very crucial to me, not only that that stuff not be in there, but that no sort of mustache-twirling stuff, either throughout the film and that there be nothing gratuitous. That it be very kind of straightforward, in a way.
QUESTION: Yet physicality is very important to this character. Now, what did you guys work on to give him a particular physical look that would make him the kind of character he is, without it being necessarily obvious?
STANLEY TUCCI: It was really about making him the most innocuous person he could be. It was about the banality of evil, as described by Hannah Arendt, when referring to Eichmann, whom I also played. [LAUGHTER] - so, to find that, really what that meant - at least in America at that time, to me, was a guy who looked like this. And - in looking at the portraits and profiles of those serial killers, there were a lot of similarities in the mustaches and the glasses and the thing and I felt that he needed to be as blandly American as possible, which meant fairer skin, lighter eyes, sandy-colored hair. Nothing really stood out. Nothing stands out, really. And even in his dress, it should be as bland as possible.
QUESTION: Now, in doing research on this, apart from researching, I guess, serial killers, was it necessary or irrelevant to research the period? It was just the particular character?
STANLEY TUCCI: Well, yeah. I researched the serial killers of that time. I mean, I did research on a lot of them. But sort of then focused on the images of them during that time.The haircut, and all that.
QUESTION: Did you find doing that research disturbing?
STANLEY TUCCI: Oh, it was horrible. I could only do it for, like, an hour at a time. You know, you'd look at some of the documentary, and then you'd just turn it off, and try to go to one of the books, and you'd never read one of the books before you went to bed. I mean, you'd have to do it during the day. So, it took a while. [LAUGHTER]...
STANLEY TUCCI: I think when you're in it, you have to be nonjudgmental, but as soon as you step out of him, you can judge him all you want. You you can only judge him as he would judge himself, when you are him. I know that may sound affected, but - you know what I mean. But, once you find the guy, you're in it. And it becomes simply about intention. Do you know what I mean? What is it that you need? What is your objective in each scene? And how does that fit into the arc? And that's all you do. And then when the scene's over, you drop it and you put it away.
QUESTION: Was it important for you to make sure in discussions with Peter, that you were not going to play a guy who was going to be involved in scenes that were sexually or violently explicit in any way? That the murder sequence was going to be as subtle and as non-explicit as possible?
STANLEY TUCCI: Yes, it was, because in the original - the first draft that I got, there was some stuff in there. And I said, "Do we need it? I think it would be better"-and they said, "No, we don't think we do need it. We're just playing around - you know, with the script, trying to figure out what we need and what we don't need." And so we were in complete agreement, as far as that. And I'm sure Saoirse was too, and I'm sure her parents were. I don't know to what extent they were involved, but I'm assuming and rightly so, because there's absolutely no need for them. Our imaginations are much more powerful, and it becomes much scarier. The suggestion of it. We know what happened, so, it was very crucial to me, not only that that stuff not be in there, but that no sort of mustache-twirling stuff, either throughout the film and that there be nothing gratuitous. That it be very kind of straightforward, in a way.
QUESTION: Yet physicality is very important to this character. Now, what did you guys work on to give him a particular physical look that would make him the kind of character he is, without it being necessarily obvious?
STANLEY TUCCI: It was really about making him the most innocuous person he could be. It was about the banality of evil, as described by Hannah Arendt, when referring to Eichmann, whom I also played. [LAUGHTER] - so, to find that, really what that meant - at least in America at that time, to me, was a guy who looked like this. And - in looking at the portraits and profiles of those serial killers, there were a lot of similarities in the mustaches and the glasses and the thing and I felt that he needed to be as blandly American as possible, which meant fairer skin, lighter eyes, sandy-colored hair. Nothing really stood out. Nothing stands out, really. And even in his dress, it should be as bland as possible.
QUESTION: Now, in doing research on this, apart from researching, I guess, serial killers, was it necessary or irrelevant to research the period? It was just the particular character?
STANLEY TUCCI: Well, yeah. I researched the serial killers of that time. I mean, I did research on a lot of them. But sort of then focused on the images of them during that time.The haircut, and all that.
QUESTION: Did you find doing that research disturbing?
STANLEY TUCCI: Oh, it was horrible. I could only do it for, like, an hour at a time. You know, you'd look at some of the documentary, and then you'd just turn it off, and try to go to one of the books, and you'd never read one of the books before you went to bed. I mean, you'd have to do it during the day. So, it took a while. [LAUGHTER]...
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I know how Stanley Tucci must have felt. Just a few times since I've been a member of the community I chose to read some of the crime threads and was freaked out. On one hand I wanted to know what happens but at the same time I'm getting scared just imagining it. He did a good job with his role though I thought he was a little too agressive with the sister. I thought he would have just layed really low but from the little I read these creeps can't help it.
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During the Academy Awards for the nominees for best supporting actor they showed a clip of the Stanley Tucci character on The Lovely Bones and Stanley Tucci literally did not like watching it, he almost seemed embarrassed by it. An individual review for Stanley Tucci is here: Source 8
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