The Wrap’s Awards
Our gallery was updated with pictures of Anton Yelchin at The Wrap’s Awards.
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Beat The Odds Awards
I updated the gallery with pictures of Anton at Beat The Odds Awards, enjoy!
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Interview
Quick Bio
Anton Yelchin has quietly put together a strong acting career with big roles in Star Trek, Termination Salvation and Fright Night. In his newest film, Yelchin and costar Felicity Jones play long-distance lovers in Drake Doremus’ intimate and upsetting drama Like Crazy.Yelchin stars as Jacob, a Los Angeles-based furniture designer who falls hard for Anna, an English student. They are always aware that they will be separated when her visa expires. But when the time finally comes, Anna decides to stay in L.A. and finds herself in deep legal trouble. Doremus shot 30-minute improvised takes with the actors — an unusual way to make a film. But according to Yelchin, it was the most authentic way this story could be told. We spoke with Yelchin in Toronto.
I understand you did 30-minute takes. That’s really unusual.
Anton Yelchin : It was amazing. It was probably the most liberating and amazing thing I’ve experienced while working. You always have to know your character better than you know yourself, and I always strive to do that, but when you have lines you always have to hit your mark. Some filmmakers are less concerned with you knowing your lines, but there is always that framework that you’re in and they’re always those beats that you have to hit. With this, you just know who this person is completely, and if you don’t, you get lost. When we got to work, there was no danger of that. We knew these people, and you opened your mouth and whatever comes out or doesn’t come out is that person and you just stay in that realm. The takes would get really long because there is always silence in a relationship. At first it was all talk, talk and talk. At the end of the rehearsal, we realized the most honest, the most truthful thing is to let those silences live and be comfortable with that.
Here we did takes where we didn’t talk at all. In a relationship when things are really great you don’t need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don’t know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don’t want to stop talking because you don’t want to lose one another. So, at dinner, Jacob and Anna are trying to get each other to say things that are optimistic, but inevitably their conversation stays half stuck and the silence creeps in. It’s amazing. It’s liberating. You can go wherever you want. You can stay seated or get up. It really is magical for an actor.
How intense did it get?
AY : It’s not personal, in the sense that I feel the character couldn’t be more different from me. But what happened is when you become this person, you completely lose yourself. Then it does become very personal. It becomes this surreal magic kind of thing where you literally forget that you have a life outside. Because we shot six days weeks, long days, we were just there all the time, I forgot there was a world outside this realm; I was just part of it all the time. You just become that person. It’s a mind f*ck, to say the least, but a beautiful one. That was a very intense time.
BAFTA Los Angeles 2011 Britannia Awards
I updated our gallery with pictures of Anton at BAFTA Los Angeles 2011 Britannia Awards (November 30th, 2011).
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16th Annual GQ “Men Of The Year” Party
On November 17th, 2011, Anton attended the 16th Annual GQ “Men Of The Year” Party. I added some pictures of the event to our gallery!
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