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Eastern Promises: Cronenberg Gets Naked
It was David Cronenberg who realized how to play the infamous steambath fight scene in Eastern Promises. As written by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), the script basically said, "they fight with knives."
Cronenberg never uses storyboards, he told us at a Focus Features press party Thursday in Beverly Hills. That limits the actors, to just execute the moves you lay out for them. The director prefers to block the scene on set with input from the actors, then tell the camera crew what they've decided to do. He gave the actors carpet knives, figuring their characters could carry them in their pockets and tell the police they used them to cut carpets.
I was surprised to hear that the steambath fight scene--which features Viggo Mortensen fighting two vicious attackers in the nude--only took two days. It was really rough on Mortensen, Cronenberg said, because he had no protection, no padding, and got very bruised.
Cronenberg is not happy about the planned remake of The Brood and hopes it never happens. That's because it's one of those personal movies that was created by him. It's hard to imagine someone else remaking it. But he does not own the rights and there's nothing he can do. And yes, he remade The Fly. But he doesn't think that's the same thing. A remake of Scanners is also in development.
Here's NPR's Mortensen interview. And here's Movieweb's Cronenberg interview:
And Variety's New York screening series video.
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