If I hadn’t been a mediocre actor, I could’ve been a terrific lights man. Always been interested in what you can achieve, by way of light, shadow and the million degrees in between, with just candles, hoods and bits of coloured parchment. Take shadow, for example. You can stretch it, bend it, layer it, cast another shadow across it. Nobody ever notices it – why would you take any notice of what is, after all, basically only an absence – but it shapes and twists the way we perceive, you can mess with people’s heads with it. As for light, don’t get me started on light. You think you can trust
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