Jake: Ya I mean she is mother, she as a son who is twenty three and I am a father of four....Q: You beat me I have three.
Jake: You have three, there you go, you know what it is like… and Jim’s a dad, actually Kristen lives in a somewhat funny, extended family…there are other kids too, so we all came to it with the knowledge of our own lives . It is raw, but I like to say it is authentic. I strived to be as authentic as I could be to these characters, without resorting to what I see a lot… where it all gets a bit melodramatic, or gets a little bit heavy all time and you get these sort of endless scenes of these people weeping and shouting... That is a problem for me. That was a danger. That you would end up, in a self conscious gritty realism as well… you know what I mean.
Q: A fine line to walk on?
Jake: Ya, you really have to walk this fine line and authentically portray these characters and that begins and ends with casting really...the casting is really important…I had battles with casting, because there is always this pressure to cast a name and would you believe it James, Melissa and Kristen, at that time, were not names... and you’re going what the fuck are you talking about? Not a name? …There is this currency that I encountered, this whole sort of price tag on an actors head a dollar sign over their head of what they mean and what they don’t mean and I get it is economics… so I was just determine and I absolutely refused to cast someone that I did not think was right., who was gonna get the film made. I wouldn’t do it… There were times when you think, well just fuck if I just cast that person it would all get made, but I couldn’t do it. It would be disaster if I did that, so I just stuck to my guns… I am really glad I did because for me, the most the important thing, is the performances.
Q: I read that you and Kristen took a kind of field trip to some LA strip clubs for her performance and Melissa Leo has said that Kristen got so into character that when they met before filming she did not recognize her.
Jake: Melissa said that really? I think I remember hearing that.
The strip club thing in LA… I thought it would be a good idea, to go with her and see how she responded and give her a sense of what it was, so that she could start to, you know get it. Kind of get out of the intellectual, the preconceived notion of what it is and actually see it for real…because movies I think..most of the time, portray that world wrongly. They do it badly or they glamorize it…A lot of those girls are really damaged, to be doing that in LA it is one thing, on sunset strip…but when you go to New Orleans, in these back street places, that get very, very dark, very quickly… I thought to take her to the one in LA…I kind of wanted to see how he does… it was like water off of a ducks back, she was really interested actually and I actually had this girl, not because I asked for it, but this girl actually came over where we were sitting and started dancing all over me. Kristen was giggling and I was so embarrassed, it is like shit man, I don’t know that my actors should see me doing this… it was a nice way for us to kind of, to sort of bond this way as well.
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