Would i wear this? = would a lumberjack wear this? Would a New England fisherman wear this? Would a cowboy wear this? Would an acid tripping hippie from 1969 wear this? Would my father wear this? Would a trucker wear this?
I never normally work with sets. I like to get the feeling that you’re in the real place. That always makes me feel much more comfortable as well. But there was quite a lot of set work in “Ratcatcher,” mainly because the canals are so polluted that there was no way we could go near them. The kind of canals we could use were far too pretty and didn’t look like the canals in inner cities. We decided for better or worse to build a canal on a very low budget. It was quite a nightmare, really, but luckily I’ve got a great set designer. We started digging and we wanted to go deep but there was toxic waste underground so it cost 10,000 pounds to remove that. The whole thing became a bit of a large-scale event. It gave us loads of freedom in the end, though!
“At the time I was casting, there were several high-profile decisions taken to cast white actors in roles of Asian people, and I thought, well, time to do it the other way around. In this film I cast Asian actors for historically white characters, black actors for historically white characters…. trans people playing cisgender people, lesbians playing straight people… Let actors be actors but invite everybody to the party.” – Wash Westmoreland on casting for Colette (2018)
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