When Patricia Arquette decided to make her feature film directing debut with “Gonzo Girl,” she made a promise to her cast. “I told them that I would always edit everything for the…
“I told them that I would always edit everything for the acting — even if the camera work wasn’t the best in that take or some thing didn’t match from a continuity perspective,” she says a week before the movie’s big premiere at the. “I don’t think someone has ever edited my performance directly for the acting, so I wanted to do this greedy, delicious thing for my ensemble. I wanted to create a space for great acting.
And though the hallucinogenic-enhanced, gun-toting, sunglasses-wearing, always-intoxicated writer that Dafoe plays has more than a passing resemblance to Thompson, he’s been rechristened Walter Reade for the purposes of “Gonzo Girl.” Arquette and Dafoe were also careful to provide some distinctive shadings .
“I see it even with myself,” she says. “There are so many people who love ‘True Romance.’ That was a very pivotal movie in their world. Had I not gone on to do all these other different things, people would just be talking to me about that.”
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