00:00And I'd say to the actors, okay, we're going to just leave you to it.
00:03And they'd be like, where are you going?
00:05And I'd say, I'm going to, well, you don't need me.
00:08We'll be out there.
00:09And I would leave the actors completely alone in the space with the cameras rolling and no crew at all.
00:15And actually, it was wonderful to see them respond to that.
00:20What I did do for Helen Mirren was I provided her with a slightly different working environment to anything that
00:29she's had before.
00:30Because I knew I wouldn't be able to offer her anything new.
00:33And it would have been foolish to try.
00:35I'm not going to say something to her that she's never heard before.
00:38She's heard everything.
00:39And also, I myself know as an actress, if a director comes along and they think they're going to try
00:43something clever with you,
00:44you smell it out and you shut down.
00:46And you are like, okay, not helpful.
00:48Actually, the most important thing is trust.
00:51And so giving our actors an environment that was really uncluttered in terms of actual personnel, people in the room.
00:59So my crew and I worked really closely together during pre-production to figure out, okay, how can we all
01:05do our jobs technically and yet then walk away?
01:09So we'd set positions.
01:11The actors would be happy with what they were doing in the scene.
01:14And then we would quietly roll.
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