“We think so often of movie star excess, and wild misbehavior on movie sets,” said Harris, speaking on the new episode of Stagecraft,‘s theater podcast. “But the most lurid stories that I heard were all about theater, especially if you go back to the ’60s and ’70s — the really astonishing stories of misbehavior or eccentric behavior were all about the plays that Mike worked on. … The juiciest stories? In a theater-versus-movies context, theater wins that one.
Many films don’t incorporate any significant rehearsal period, but according to Harris, “Mike did, in a couple of cases, not only rehearsals, but actual workshops. He got the four people in ‘Closer’ [Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Jude Law and Natalie Portman] together in New York many months before they were ready to shoot, just as a way of turning them into an ensemble and opening them up.”
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