→ "Henry Butash On The Making Of The Atlantic City Story With Broadway Stars Mike Faist And Jessica Hecht"
“I think where Mike’s so great is just, even when he’s not delivering dialogue, he’s just giving such a strong performance with his looks. You can always feel him thinking when you look at him—you can see him thinking. Which is sort of the mark of really good film acting, at least.”
→ Naheem Garcia On Playing Tashi Duncan’s Father In Challengers Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist
“They couldn’t have asked for better actors; all three of them were amazing. You’re talking about one of them who was in West Side Story and the other from The Crown. These are top actors and they’re young people. Young but they’re at the top of the game right now – and they have a nice chemistry.”
saw the brokeback mountain play and i will never emotionally recover from it. both mike and lucas were AMAZING in it and just the sweetest at the stage door afterwards 🩵
and mike signed my #youwillbefound sign that was included in the deh production!!
Hello friends! So this is a question for anyone who has seen Brokeback Mountain in London with Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges. I'm looking for lines from the show said by Ennis that stood out to you/seemed important/were prominent. That are a bit like "I wish I knew how to quit you" is for Jack. Specifically from young Ennis! Any help would be much appreciated, it's for a little project!
It has come to my attention that the Brokeback Mountain West End play is going to be showing while I'm in London and I need someone to physically restrain me from trying to convince my two lovely friends who have already agreed to see the silly little dancing newsboys with me to also see the sad gay cowboys.
okay.. so if you were the tall bearded man who looked suspiciously like Neil Gaiman in downtown soho/London and heard me aggressively talking about Mike Faist bc he’s on the West End and also turned around and laughed when I loudly stated ‘YO THAT DUDE LOOKS LIKE NEIL”… I’m so sorry…😭💀
[Picture this]
Me and a friend walking, talking, maybe inebriated 👀🤏🧐
Me: “Its a little offensive that I’m not married to him. I’m single, he’s beautiful and talented, I don’t get it”
Friend: “Perfect Match😅👀”
Me: [Almost trips]
Me:
Me: [See’s a man with a beard and the aura of audacity - just enough to write soul crushing stories about demons and gods and scary roads]
→ “It was such a labour of love”: Jessica Hecht on The Atlantic City Story
“Mike Faist is so compelling as an actor. He’s extremely open and very meticulous in his work. But also, even when you’re watching him in a big Broadway stage, he’s so truthful and there’s something very gentle about his performance style. He’s just very delicate in what he does. I was blown away by him. There was a lot of dialogue and we would play with it in different iterations, and he was so available! I actually probably have never worked with another co-star who was quite as available and quite as easy on film. He was just magnificent.”
→ “Henry Butash On The Making Of The Atlantic City Story With Broadway Stars Mike Faist And Jessica Hecht
“I took a very loose approach to the film. I wanted there to be something spontaneous about it; something authentic and true to life. It just felt like if I forced them into one thing, it would be like the air got sucked out of the room. It would just feel stale and stilted. I didn’t want that; I wanted it to be very organic and alive.
Mike Faist and Jessica Hecht – there was a lot of room and we had a lot of takes where we had just gone through the script and talked deeply about the characters and the story. But then, once we had that foundation, we had the freedom to then wander off in a really exciting way. We did a lot of takes where Mike and Jessica knew what the purpose of the scene was narratively. But then, they weren’t tied down to a specific line of dialogue or anything like that. They just acted off of each other and worked together.
We did a lot of scenes where I would tell Mike and Jessica to just surprise me. They both consistently shocked me with the things they would think of spontaneously. That was the most exciting part! And a lot of times, it was those takes that ended up in the film. Just because they felt so organic, real and natural.”