The stars of the five-part HBO limited series, along with its writer-director Hagai Levi, explained how their history, as well as COVID protocols and a month of rehearsal, shaped their performances during a moderated panel held Sunday night.
Chastain shared that the script came to her during quarantine, and while she loved the material, she typically spends time researching a character. However, that wasn’t possible for, as she started rehearsals just three days after meeting with Levi. So Chastain leaned into her existing relationship with Isaac to imagine how the job would play out.
The show’s COVID protocols, then, acted like super fuel for their organic chemistry. According to Chastain, the duo worked in “a pod,” which meant creating or having space for themselves “wasn’t possible on this job.” Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain on the carpet for the finale screening of HBO’s “Scenes From a Marriage” at Museum of Modern Art on Oct. 10.“You feel like you don’t have to push any emotion or make any plans because you’re working with someone who there’s just immediate trust [with]. You’re 100 percent there, listening to each other. Very present,” she said. “There’s no ego involved when we’re acting together. We’re not trying to one-up the other.
For Isaac, the close-quartered, pared-down experience that filming during a pandemic resulted in didn’t impact his rehearsal or on-set experience because the show was already so intimate. Still, he said, “it was a strange thing,” underscored by a sweet moment among the cast and crew at the end of filming.
In addition to the COVID protocols, Levi confirmed they had a month of rehearsals ahead of filming, with an additional day of rehearsal for each episode before filming began. This is where Chastain said both stars had a chance to act out their character’s emotional impulses and, according to Isaac, have a scene “go through all the things it’s not.”
“That’s true. We got to look at the footage, but I just thought that was just for nudity reasons. Do my balls show in this one?” Isaac responded, earning a round of audience laughs.
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