#acting-craft

#acting-craft

“They're less about me than about the character,” Swann Arlaud told IndieWire, smiling about the fancams and edits that turned the Parisian character actor into an unlikely sex symbol for the Letterboxd set. “I think people responded to a different kind of masculinity, someone in service to a woman, a kind of devoted lover. So I don't really feel responsible for what it triggered.”

There's a moment in the 1975 Sydney Pollack thriller Three Days of the Condor that captures what made Robert Redford one of the great movie stars. Redford's Joe Turner is a bookish CIA analyst who leaves the office for lunch one day and returns to find that all of his colleagues have been murdered. He then goes on the run, forcing a photographer, Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway), to let him use her basement apartment as a safe house.