You know, it’s like, stuff that’s showing on WGBH Masterpiece (Theater).
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“The kind of TV I was lucky enough to make isn’t a million miles from making a film.
But obviously theater was a great background in teaching me to work with actors.”įrom there Curtis moved into a very successful career working in British television. Directors don’t tend to see other directors at work. The good thing about being an assistant director is that you get to see other directors at work. Someone like Helen, she knows what she’s doing but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want a dialogue, but she doesn’t want to be lectured between every take either. You know? I think that some directors talk all the time and that just gets in the way. And also to learn to shut your mouth sometimes as a director. And listen to actors and find the language to talk to actors. “They were theater experiences, so you’d learn to work with actors, basically. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.Ĭurtis might seem like a new kid on the block but he’s been at it for quite a while, beginning his career in the theater working with the likes of Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle and Max Stafford-Clark in British theater. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
Woman in Gold is the remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family. (L-R) HELEN MIRREN and RYAN REYNOLDS star in WOMAN IN GOLD Photo: Robert Viglasky
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