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Acclaimed Director Ed Zwick Says in Order to Earn an Actor's Trust, You’ve Gotta Do This · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Acclaim director Ed Zwick has worked with two actors who
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  Speaker 2: have gone on to win Academy Awards from their collaborations,
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  Speaker 2: Denzel Washington, who took home Best Supporting Actor in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty nine's Glory, and Leo DiCaprio's Best Actor went for
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  Speaker 2: six's Blood Diamond. And that's just a sample size of
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  Speaker 2: the acclaimed performances he's elicited from his stars. And in
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  Speaker 2: a new video promoting his new autobiography Hits, Flops and
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  Speaker 2: Other Illusions, and discussed how important it is for directors
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  Speaker 2: to understand how deep actors have to dig inside themselves
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  Speaker 2: to be at their best, saying that put themselves way
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  Speaker 2: out there, like a tether on a spacewalk in space
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  Speaker 2: while the director's back at mission control just drinking a coffee.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be aware of the level of their vulnerability.
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  Speaker 2: They're ripping their hearts out and offering them to you.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that really helps is to make yourself vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: to them as well, and by the end of a movie,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hardly have to talk at all. Some kind of
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  Speaker 2: alchemy happens. The words of Ed Zwick, whose new memoir
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  Speaker 2: hits flops in other illusions. My forty something Years in
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.