Actors use a wide range of strategies to get into character, from analysis, creating backstories for his or her characters, adopting one thing resembling technique appearing, and extra. Limbo star Simon Baker isn’t any completely different, using his personal strategies to bolster his efficiency. Throughout this yr’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, Baker stopped by Collider’s TIFF media studio at MARBL to debate the movie, together with how he obtained into the headspace of his character.
When talking with Collider Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub, Baker delved a bit into his course of throughout filming, which was a extra hands-on method over doing deep dives into analysis like different actors could do. Nonetheless, he shared that the method is “completely different each time” for him. For Limbo, entering into character concerned driving “three and a half thousand kilometers out to the place we have been taking pictures from Sydney. I’ve obtained an outdated VW Transporter. That was my trailer, and I drove that out and camped on the best way.” Whereas analysis wasn’t essentially part of Baker’s technique, he used the time in his trailer to suppose on the character and the way it had continued from the pre-production phases.
Because the interview continued, Baker praised Ivan Sen‘s work for the movie as a cinematographer (amongst many different roles for the movie). He shared that after the digicam went up, “one thing simply occurred, and the entire bodily nature of the character clicked in. After which, it’s nearly hanging onto that and trusting that and clicking that in.” Even with the best way Baker was in a position to latch onto his character, he by no means introduced his work house with him — aside from one key half.
Watch Baker and Weintraub’s full dialog under: