10 Minute Film School - actors?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Robert Rodriguez
johnny_burnaway — 10 years ago(August 17, 2015 08:54 AM)
I just got finished reading "Rebel Without a Crew" and found it very interesting. The appendix was his "10 Minute Film School" which seems to have some good advice on doing things yourself as cheaply as possible. It mostly talks about how to get around technical limitations. What he doesn't talk about, though, is how to get actors to be in a zero-budget movie. If you're going super cheap, you're obviously not paying your actors, so how do you get them to commit time and energy to your movie?
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mrrockey — 10 years ago(August 19, 2015 12:11 AM)
Rodriguez doesn't care about actors. All he cares about is doing things cheap, visual effects, cheap marketing gimmicks, stunt casting, making unnecessary sequels etc etc etc. Because who needs actors when you can have those?
In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever seen him talk about actors at all in any sort of interview or DVD commentary. -
volcomstone0627-366-673686 — 10 years ago(August 20, 2015 08:59 AM)
He was friends with the lead actor, he met Moco while raising the money. And he has explain that he would cast people but never let them read the script and only shot them on a couple of days over the course of the shoot. Just gave them the pages for the day and only borrowed them for a few hours so they would feel like they weren't doing a beep ton.
The other people he would just simply ask. Such as with the guards at the jail, the people who owned/worked the bar were the ones drinking at the bar and getting shot. He shot short films in that town previously so he had at least a small relationship with the town and some of the people.
Utilized what and who you know in short.