{"id":4988,"date":"2023-05-26T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2023-05-26T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T01:50:14","slug":"west-side-story-mike-faist-reintroduces-the-tragic-riff-to-a-contemporary-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/26\/west-side-story-mike-faist-reintroduces-the-tragic-riff-to-a-contemporary-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"West Side Story: Mike Faist Reintroduces The Tragic Riff To A Contemporary Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a treadmill as an actor, where you’re making an attempt to make your way. You’re supplied a job, take a job, and simply hold going to construct up to something. So is it whenever you do one thing like this, you’re spoiled for not simply with the ability to take any job? You’ve seen what it can be like, so that you can’t go back. “It was terrible,” Mike Faist, who’s earning raves for his reinvention of Riff in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, says of watching the movie for the first time. Suffice it to say, he was feeling the strain.<\/p>\n

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Did you know the 29-year-old popular actor Mike is already taken? We were in ballet class each morning with the remainder of the company who’re very giving and cheering us on to get better and do our best and help us. And then he did this nice Harrison Ford impression I’ll always remember as a result of Steven was actually nervous about Indiana Jones killing a man. He mentioned, “I don’t know, do you think we could get away with it?” And he did this factor. And he is like, “It’s only a film.” And seeing Steven Spielberg doing an impersonation of Harrison Ford was actually superior.<\/p>\n

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It looks like one thing totally nerdy, but then you’re there and you’re getting tackled by someone and shot within the private areas by arrows. I needed them to feel like they have been part of something bigger. That means, when the cameras rolled, they just were there. Where we start with the Jets, they’re on the purpose of destruction.<\/p>\n

I think it has something to do with fiction versus non-fiction, however we do our fellow people a disservice by assuming that fiction doesn’t affect their hearts and minds in the identical way actual life does. I’ve carried fictional characters around with me my complete life. I have tattoos on me with \"SugarDaddy.com\"<\/a> quotes from fictional characters.<\/p>\n

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The film stays true to the spirit of the unique while adding a quantity of updates. The film opened in theaters on December 10 to crucial acclaim. You said you’re attempting to be somewhat more intentional about where you go from here. Tony used the phrase “stewardship.” And that’s very correct. We had a deep respect for this story and the legends that have informed it up to now. I really feel like I truly have an excellent duty here to do that right.<\/p>\n

For “West Side,” I discovered these Bruce Davidson pictures of Brooklyn gangs from the late ’50s. If you take a glance at their photographs, these guys are emaciated, they’ve tattoos, they usually look wired. Any cash they had, they would pool and purchase low cost wine and maybe they might have French fries or one thing. So I was like, “I have to lose some weight.” But my physique was totally breaking down. Then I tried to bulk up as much as potential for “Panic” — simply consuming potatoes. You do look pretty snug taking half in a horse whisperer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a treadmill as an actor, where you’re making an attempt to make your way. You’re supplied a job, take a job, and simply hold going to construct up to something. So is it whenever you do one thing like this, you’re spoiled for not simply with the ability to take any job? You’ve seen… Read More »West Side Story: Mike Faist Reintroduces The Tragic Riff To A Contemporary Audience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morganjames.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}