Thomas Lennon Had A Hell Of A Day On Knight Of Cups

<p>If you have even the most basic knowledge of renowned filmmaker&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0000517&sol;">Terrence Malick<&sol;a>&comma; then you have heard about the kind of person he is&period; To call him a recluse would be to put it mildly and after only having made 7 films in 43 years &lpar;two more are due later this year&comma; but even those release dates are up in the air&rpar;&comma; there isn&&num;8217&semi;t much known about his directing style&period; Thanks to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;businessinsider&period;com&sol;thomas-lennon-terrence-malick-knight-of-cups-2016-2">Business Insider<&sol;a> and the hilarious <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0502073&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;nv&lowbar;sr&lowbar;1">Thomas Lennon<&sol;a>&comma; we now have a little more insight into what it was like to be on the set of his latest film&comma; <em>Knight of Cups<&sol;em>&comma; and it sounds incredibly interesting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among the many highlights of this amazing article &lpar;which should be read in full if this interests you at all&rpar;&comma; Lennon only finds out what kind of scene he is in three days before the shoot&period; Once he arrived on set&comma; Lennon only recognized Malick from a picture he had to find on Google and Lennon goes on and says &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I could only assume it was Terrence Malick because he was the most eccentric-looking person there&&num;8230&semi;&lbrack;wearing&rsqb; this sort of straw hat&comma; slightly dirty khaki pants&comma; and a real loose&comma; floppy shirt&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From there&comma; Malick hands out pieces of paper to be used as inspiration for the scene and their characters&period; Lennon&&num;8217&semi;s paper said &OpenCurlyQuote;There’s no such thing as a fireproof wall&period;&&num;8217&semi; This exchange between Knight of Cups&&num;8217&semi; lead&comma; Christian Bale and Lennon really sums everything up&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Lennon&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Is this how it goes&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Bale&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yeah&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Lennon&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every day&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Bale&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yeah&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Lennon&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How long have you been doing this&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Bale&colon;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is&comma; like&comma; day 25&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tale goes on to tell about how a scene was abruptly stopped to add a famed plastic surgeon in the shot&comma; to Malick filming Lennon having a fight with his wife over the phone&comma; &&num;8220&semi;At first I felt it was kind of an invasion of privacy and then I was like&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;F&&num;8212&semi; it&comma; this is the realest thing that has happened all day&period;&&num;8221&semi; It&&num;8217&semi;s hard not to pretend that I wish I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Knight of Cups goes into limited release on March 4th&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;businessinsider&period;com&sol;thomas-lennon-terrence-malick-knight-of-cups-2016-2">Business Insider<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;