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[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I haven't even read the entry yet, but this was just too cute. Lucky girls!

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[sophinisba]

How cool is it that we have first-hand accounts of this from both the director and the fans? :D The text that goes with that pic translates something like this:

Elijah managed, I don't know how, to get the Australian Blonde, the girl standing next to him (the smiling woman from costumes) to do a cartwheel on the set, and he took some pictures. Things that go on.

I wouldn't have recognized the word for cartwheel without these other comments. Also, from the end of the entry (not about Elijah but interesting!):

Apart from that, leaving aside the damn inserts, everything went marvelously well. I finished the lecture sequence with a ton of shots, really rich, and Mr. Hurt comes out as superb as ever. It's surprising, because he was feeling uncomfortable with the extras gone. As I mentioned, yesterday we had four hundred people, but today we had fifty. John needed the people. It wasn't the same, acting in front of a room packed with audience members, as with a bunch of empty chairs. Still, the fact that PRECISELY for that reason today's takes are better is remarkable, they're dryer, harder. The mysterious, extremely complex and absorbing world of acting.

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that translation! The babelfish version about Elijah and the camera made absolutely no sense! (And how funny is that, that he was able to charm her into showing off for his camera, and on the set, no less!)

I got that bit about John Hurt, though. Man, I would have loved to be in that room to hear and see him act! I've been a fan of his for a frighteningly long time.

[janinelearner.livejournal.com]

John definitely had a problem with there not being a big crowd yesterday. He really interacted with the 'students' on Tuesday while giving his speech. Yesterday he was much stiffer and he seemed fairly stressed. The speech was still wonderful but not as flowing as the day before. He's still a consumate professional though and kept going till he was happy.