Posted by Neil at 209.245.186.84 on June 27, 2001 at 14:11:12:
In Reply to: Mis-understood! posted by DamoniteUK on June 27, 2001 at 08:14:30:
: Don't get me wrong I think that Matt and Ben are two of the best actors around today. I just wondered why Kev doesn't experiment with other actors. He dont have to forget Matt and Ben just rotate alittle.
I think at issue here is the fact that Kevin's dialogue is goddamn hard to do right. Ben is like a motherfucking Kevin reading machine. No one else can do it as well, by a mile. Lee and Mewes have grown in their ability and show quite a bit of prowess in CHASING AMY and DOGMA. I can completely understand why Kevin would feel more comfortable working with people he can trust to do it right, and frankly outside the one film - DOGMA - Matt's in maybe four minutes of Smith film.
But then you don't see people hanging around Ingmar Bergman's webboard asking him why he kept using Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman all the time.