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As the Academy Awards draw closer, adapted and original screenplay nominees tell The Hollywood Reporter about the on set tweaks that transformed their scripts and took their films to the next level.

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00:00So how long has this been going on? How long?

00:06As the Academy Awards draw closer, adapted and original screenplay nominees tell The

00:10Hollywood Reporter about the on-set tweaks that transformed their scripts and took

00:14their films to the next level. Spoiler alert ahead for Oscar nominees The Shape of Water,

00:19Logan and Get Out. Original screenplay nominee Jordan Peele reveals that role

00:24reversal played a huge part in elevating a pivotal scene in his critically acclaimed

00:28horror comedy Get Out. Peele explains that after the disastrous dinner with Rose's family,

00:33he had originally written the next scene, said that Daniel Kaluuya's Chris was going off on

00:37Rose, played by Alison Williams, about the fact that her relatives are racist, but Rose

00:42persuades him to stay anyway. Says Peele,

00:44The first time I saw the scene in rehearsal, though, as an audience member, I realized I was

00:48onto Rose. People would say, why is she doing that? I knew Rose had to manipulate Chris

00:54and the audience, so I rewrote the scene as though she is going through her

00:58awakening to racism and is the one popping off about leaving. Chris became the one saying,

01:04look, it's cool. The subject is, I can take this kind of racism. The writer-director credits

01:09this switch for having a profound effect on how audiences view the characters and,

01:13most importantly, master manipulator Rose.

01:16If 80 percent of the people knew at that point Rose was in on what was happening, as opposed to

01:2020 percent who maybe just figured it out, the movie fails in what it's trying to do, says Peele.

01:26That's why my feeling is you should never stop making the movie until it is out of your hands.

01:31James Mangold, Scott Frank and Michael Green are adapted screenplay nominees for Wolverine's

01:36swan song, Logan. Mangold tells THR that breakout star Daphne Keene, who plays the mostly mute Laura,

01:41was instrumental in helping the crew to really get the movie and see its potential.

01:46Says Mangold, when it came time to shoot the pickup truck scene, where she speaks for the first time

01:51and ends up chewing Logan out and beating him up, what we wrote took a leap.

01:55Daphne had been working on the movie almost every day for a long time, not saying a word and dying

02:01to express herself. We got to the scene and a torrent of words poured out. And she added a lot,

02:06at one point even saying, you never listen to me, you never look at me, you're not kind to me.

02:11In one of the takes, she even called him some four-letter words in Spanish.

02:15Mangold further explains, watching her do all this was kind of a revelation for me.

02:20I will never forget this moment standing on the street outside of the truck listening with my

02:24earpiece and realizing we did it.

02:27Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack going into Oscar night with a total of

02:3012 nominations, including for best original screenplay. But as del Toro explains, the path

02:36to this kind of recognition is not an easy one.

02:39The director confesses,

02:40The last five years of my life have been very difficult for many reasons and this is a very

02:44personal film for me. I needed to write this monologue between Sally Hawkins Eliza and

02:49Richard Jenkins Giles to say everything that I feel love is or should be. It's a monologue

02:54that heals me. There's not a time I've seen that scene and I haven't cried.

02:57When he looks at me, he doesn't know how I am incomplete. He sees me as I am.

03:06Del Toro reveals that his actors again were crucial in making the scene resonate with

03:10audiences the way it resonated with the writer-director.

03:14Richard came up with this beautiful gesture where he grabs Sally's hands as if to say,

03:18stop talking, says del Toro. I kept the gesture in the movie, but on the day we shot the scene,

03:23I did something completely different from what we had agreed upon.

03:26I asked Sally to hit Richard as he looks at his watch. She didn't tell Richard and he was taken

03:31completely off guard. It affected him even in other takes. He became vulnerable, going from

03:37pleading to angry in the space of one dialogue line. The moral of the story, according to the

03:41award-winning director, that just shows how actors make scenes come alive by omitting or

03:46shifting or doing something surprising that doesn't come from you as the writer.

03:51To read more original and adapted screenplay nominees like Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin,

03:55Kamal Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon to share stories of the adjustments that transformed their

04:00films, head to THR.com. And tell us which movies are you hoping will take home awards at the

04:05Oscars on March 4th? Let us know in the comments. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm

04:09Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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