Steve McQueen, the British filmmaker whose most recent project is documentary series “Uprising” after the anthology series “Small Axe,” talked to Variety about the memories …
“Oh, my God, Michael,” McQueen said. “I remember we were doing re-shoots, so we were very tired and we’d been shooting for a long time. Michael came on set, and he lifted. Because you’re shooting and tired and things are lagging, but when Michael came on set, he was so focused, so concentrated, that he gave energy to everybody. I’m not just saying it because he just passed. I remember that. His focus — we had to get tostandard. Like, ‘Let’s stop lying around.
I remember he had a friend [on set], and he was smoking between takes. His friend would light him a cigarette, and he would kill a scene, just kill it,” McQueen continued. “The thing about Michael: [in] every take, he gave everything. He didn’t leave anything behind. Un-fucking-believable. Unbelievable. That scene when the three of them [Robert, Solomon Northup and Clemens Ray] are talking about a mutiny would not have been that scene if he hadn’t been in it.
“I’m sorry that I didn’t get a chance to work with him again, to be honest with you. He was amazing. Incredible.”
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