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Anne Hathaway discusses the challenges and joys of filming emotionally intricate scenes for 'The Odyssey,' particularly the moments of silence when the crew had to reload the IMAX cameras. She credits the entire crew's professionalism for helping her stay present.
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00:00Anne, I thought your scenes where you were just like one-on-one with Matt or Tom or Rob were
00:04some of the most powerful in the movie.
00:06And then I read that you're holding these moments while they're reloading the IMAX cameras.
00:12Yes.
00:12Can you like walk me through that? What is that like? I can't even fathom how you like stay present.
00:17Thank you, by the way. Those are, that's an amazing thing to hear.
00:21I don't know how to, it's this crew.
00:24Like it's so nice of you to say like how do I hold it, but it was everybody.
00:27You know, everybody stayed so, I don't know, on point with what they were doing.
00:33This crew was so pro that everybody knew how to kind of get onto a wavelength.
00:37And I remember turning to you at one point, maybe I have it on my mind,
00:41but I remember we were doing a really emotionally intricate scene.
00:45And I remember, and we were kind of getting more and more open with every take.
00:49And I remember thinking, gosh, these rooms can, when you're acting in them,
00:53they can often feel like a birthing suite, like, you know, like just a room where something is being born.
00:58And so you don't want to speak too loudly.
01:01And where else would you ever want to be? It's a joy to be present in that.
01:05It's not going to last forever. You know, the day will end.
01:07So, so yeah, so I just kind of went with it and tried not to,
01:12and fought, suppressed every instinct I had to crack a joke.
01:15I was going to say, how do you not break just in the silence?
01:18Chris, Chris is a good reason not to break.
01:20If he does, if he breaks, you can break, but not before him.

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