Why did kubrick demand so many takes?
whatever it took to “get it right” as he always called it. What he meant by that I couldn’t say, nor could hundreds of people who have worked for him, but none of us doubted that he knew what he meant. Michael Herr One of the most perceptive explanations for Kubrick demanding so many takes came from a recent interview with Nicole Kidman. She explained : “He believed that what it does to you, as an actor, was that you would lose control of your sense of self, of the part of you that was internally watching your own performance. Eventually, he felt, you would stop censoring yourself.” Notes (1) Michael Herr quote comes from his book “Kubrick” (2) Nicole Kidman quote come from an interview at nytimes.
