On the other hand, his apartment was very unusual. He didn’t think it was unusual for someone to be picking up films at this hour. The apartment door was opened by a guy with crooked glasses. He made some phone calls, and soon I was running across town to a sixth floor walk-up on St. We saw ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘Help!,’ and ‘My Darling Clementine.’ Around 2:00 A.M., we ran out of movies and things began to look desperate. Instead of closing the floor at 9:00 P.M., the entire student body showed up for an all-night session of movies and whatever college kids did at all-night sessions in the Psychedelic Era. We liberated the eighth floor from the iron fist of the Serbo-Croatians. Faced with this sorry state of affairs, we did what any good radical student of the late Sixties would do: we went on strike and staged a sit-in. “We wanted a course strictly devoted to contemporary American movies to be taught by a young professor named Martin Scorsese. " Memories of Professor Scorsese: 'I Remember Film School'": Leonard Maltin reposts a priceless essay from Allan Arkush at his blog. I think ‘Supernova’ is a great example of functional nudity.’” I knew what she wanted to make and I completely stood, and still stand, behind this story. But she explained to me everything I wanted to know. We talked about the nudity and how I dislike being nude on screen (duh). I understood what she wanted to make and she gave me the freedom of developing Meis in all the ways I wanted, even though-of course-it was her script. She still is.’ ‘What was your collaboration with Tamar like in terms of developing the character of Meis? Was the comfort you developed with Tamar crucial in preparing you for the scenes requiring nudity?’ ‘Tamar and I became really close. Whilst shooting it, I became Meis and Meis became part of me. I think it’s a beautiful coming of age story that is so close to reality. I know the boredom and the willingness of something to happen as a teenager so well. Tamar wanted a younger girl at that point, but we both had grown into the thought of me playing it, and so she decided to make the character a little bit older, which I think worked out better for the story. The script appealed to me because I know Meis. The film had some problems getting financed and it took another three years before we could actually make the movie. I had fallen in love with the script and with Tamar immediately. “ ‘I loved your performance in ‘Supernova.’ How did you become involved in the film?’ ‘I auditioned for the script when I was about 17.
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