Read More ]"/> Bright Star director Jane Campion believes in throwing her actors in at the deep end.
Abbie Cornish had not met her co-star Ben Whishaw before they worked together on rehearsals for the story of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.Campion explained she had learned a thing or two about on-set chemistry:”I had a situation on The Piano where when I told Holly [Hunter] that [Harvey Keitel] was going to be playing Baines; she just howled down the phone. She’d heard things – that he’s very difficult, that he was rude to women. If I’d applied that rule of ‘Let’s get them together and see if they like each other’, it would have been a disaster. They grew to adore each other and they really love each other now, but what they’d heard, or what they imagined, was unfavourable.”She added:”You just have to cast the character, who you think is going to be best, and then it’s in everybody’s interests to make it work.”Of Cornish, she said: “Australian actors – young women particularly – just have this inner spirit. They seem to not grow up with the same cultural need to serve or be subservient. They’re encouraged to be themselves and that says something good about Australian men, I guess.”source: Splash News
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