Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a wierd and distinctive cinematic expertise in some ways, however one of many true standouts is that authentic screenings concerned a particular live-action element. Throughout these screenings, the theater lights would come on in the course of the film and an actor would seemingly host an impromptu Q&A session with Adam Driver’s Caesar Catalina (on the display). It was a wild factor that I personally bought to witness after I noticed the movie this previous fall previous to its theatrical launch, and it was one thing that Driver himself actually cherished when he first bought to expertise the finished work.
As captured within the video above, I had the prospect to interview Adam Driver throughout Megalopolis’ pre-release junket in Toronto in September, and along with discussing the way in which he watches his personal work and his collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola, we additionally particularly talked in regards to the film’s live-action element. He defined that it was a part of the presentation when the characteristic premiered in the summertime on the Cannes Movie Pageant, and he advised me that the unique thought was for that half to be even “greater.” Stated Driver,
Nicely, after I first noticed it… I did not see it till Cannes, truly. I would seen the film a bunch of occasions earlier than then as a result of he introduced me into the enhancing room and confirmed it to me early phases. However I hadn’t seen it with all the correct sound combine and every thing. I knew once we had been taking pictures it, his thought for it was greater. After which it bought paired down for many completely different causes, nevertheless it was type of out and in, that scene.
It’s a a lot completely different manner of breaking the fourth wall than audiences are used to seeing (a la Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool speaking to the display), and Adam Driver sees the particular Megalopolis scene as a mirrored image of the author/director’s background in theater. The actor moreover noticed the second as a illustration of how Francis Ford Coppola works behind the scenes, and he was emotionally shocked witnessing it, despite the fact that he was watching himself on display:
Simply understanding that Francis got here from theater and directs his films like that, the place it appears like experimental theater, to be there at Canes with him and his historical past with that pageant, to have somebody come out and work together with the display for me was like a very stunning transferring, transferring second. I simply hadn’t seen the movie with the entire parts type of taking part in as they need to. The way in which it was lit was actually nice. I imply, I personally cherished it, despite the fact that I used to be within the scene. In order that’s like kinda laughing at your individual joke not directly.
Clearly having an actor at Megalopolis screenings was a novel facet of the movie’s theatrical launch, however if you happen to’re interested by watching the film sans-in-person Q&A, the film is presently out there for digital rental.