Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“The performances are so good. I remember when we rehearsed it, Chris didn’t really act it fully, and we were all wondering what he was going to bring, until we started rolling. But, you know, he never really did that. In blocking or rehearsing, he would just walk through it, and he would always save the performance for the first take. In the screen test of Hayley Atwell, we shot this scene, and she had the crew in tears, and this was a screen test! And some extra was reading Steve’s lines off-camera. It was really amazing what she did with it. All I had to tell her was, “Do exactly what you did in screen test.” There’s a sense of inevitability about it, but there’s also the desire that it not be that way. She’s playing so much, it’s really spectacular.”
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