Benny Safdie aura farming Agamemnon Odyssey

    작성: Capucine · old hollywood: Benny Safdie

    Benny Safdie talks about his approach to “aura farming” as King Agamemnon in THE ODYSSEY. “He can’t be floppy. If he turns around, he’s gonna turn with his whole body. There’s a certain level of confidence you just need to accept.”

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    I don't know if you're familiar with the phrase aura farming? I am aware of that, yes. Well, I feel like Agamemnon does a fair amount of it in this movie. Aura farming. It's kind of like, yeah, taking ownership of a room. Yes! With just your presence. Wow. Aura farming. But I mean, as an actor, that's an interesting challenge, right? Because he doesn't say much. It's mostly just about physical presence. Yeah, I had not done anything like this, where the physicality of that was so important. So I had to kind of adapt to the way that this stuff moved. And as you're kind of walking, you can feel things clanking and your helmet's kind of moving around. And it's like Agamemnon can't be like floppy and stuff. And especially it's like if he's going to turn around, he's going to turn with his whole body. And so thinking about all those things because you want everything to be stationary and strong. And so if somebody talks to you and you turn like this, it's a pretty aggressive move. But at the same time, it's just like, hey, you asked a question, give me the answer. It's like, and you kind of, there's a certain level of confidence that you just need to accept. Or calming. And the world was formed. Yeah, it was cultivating.