When Suraj Sharma, an unknown teenage actor, landed the starring role in Ang Lee's film adaptation of Yann Martel's book, little did he know what was in store
It would be an exaggeration, says Suraj Sharma with a laugh, to describe what he did in the adaptation of Life of Pi as "acting", despite the admiration he is swiftly accumulating for his role as Piscine Patel, the boy stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days with a Bengal tiger.
The terror of clinging to a homemade raft while perilous waves threaten to swallow you? Easy to feel when you have only just learnt to swim. Pi's drastic weight loss? Sharma felt it too, eating very little but tuna; in the film you can see his ribs. The dejection and exhaustion, adrift far from home? If you're tired and ravenous and have been shooting for several hours in a vast tank...
It would be an exaggeration, says Suraj Sharma with a laugh, to describe what he did in the adaptation of Life of Pi as "acting", despite the admiration he is swiftly accumulating for his role as Piscine Patel, the boy stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days with a Bengal tiger.
The terror of clinging to a homemade raft while perilous waves threaten to swallow you? Easy to feel when you have only just learnt to swim. Pi's drastic weight loss? Sharma felt it too, eating very little but tuna; in the film you can see his ribs. The dejection and exhaustion, adrift far from home? If you're tired and ravenous and have been shooting for several hours in a vast tank...
- 12/12/2012
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
Movie star Charlize Theron prepared for her role in new comic book adaptation Aeon Flux by studying tropical lizards. Theron plays a lycra-clad superheroine in the forthcoming movie and, keen to make her movements as fluid as possible, decided to study the slithery action of the gecko. Movie stunt coordinator Charlie Croughwell says, "There's a scene where Charlize runs on all fours and her belly's only three or four inches off the ground, so we watched National Geographic videos of geckos to analyze their movements." Theron tells the New York Post, "I'm from Africa. I know all about geckos. I used to play 'Alcatraz' with them in my yard."...
- 12/5/2005
- WENN
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