ruffboijuliaburnsides:searchingwardrobes:I want to highlight that little bit about Spielberg. I
ruffboijuliaburnsides: searchingwardrobes: I want to highlight that little bit about Spielberg. I read Drew Barrymore’s auto biography - Little Girl Lost - and she talks about Spielberg a lot. He treated the kids on ET with sensitivity and respect, even joining them in a water fight once. She said that she was shocked when she made Firestarter and the director pulled stuff like not telling her and another child actor about a fake explosion so their screams would be real. Spielberg was careful about not overworking them and stopping if they seemed tired (especially Barrymore since she was only five at the time), but on the set of Firestarter she was perpetually exhausted . She also noticed while Spielberg looked her in the eye and really talked to her, the director of Firestarter completely ignored her and never made eye contact. She mentioned to another actress “I loved making ET, but I hate this.” The other actress told Barrymore “Doing a Spielberg movie ruins you for all other directors.” Spielberg became like surrogate father to Barrymore, and she spent a lot of time at his house with his family growing up. She said it was the only place she felt like she could be a kid. The set of ET was the only Hollywood experience where she was treated like a child and not a commodity. What I’m saying is, the crap pulled by the directors above is clearly unnecessary to make a fantastic movie. And if you missed the part about Spielberg, it was in the bit about Denzel Washington getting whipped, and here it is: “Now, as you can imagine, it’s quite a mindfuck to be a black actor working for a white director and daking directions on how to be whipped. I mean, anyone with a modicum of sensitivity would probably want to address this. That’s why when Steven Spielberg made Amistad, he had strict rules about how the black actors portraying slaves were to be treated. And one of those rules was that black actors could only be shackled by black personnel.” It’s almost as if treating people with respect is a better way to make art than treating them like objects, especially when you already have systemic power over them, by gender, race, age, etc. -- source link
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