Musings from SAG screenings (Pt 1): The Farewell, The Irishman, Marriage Story
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 1:00PM Special Secret Guest Post!
This New-York-based performer (and Emmy-nominated writer) has been a SAG member for 19 years, though this is his first time on the SAG Awards Nominating Committee. He works primarily in television -- most famously, playing a role on a series that has been seen in over 100 countries. We've invited him to share impressions from SAG Nominating Committee screenings which are happening left and right of late. Here we go...
THE FAREWELL: For what it’s worth, this is the only screening I’ve been to where the movie itself—not the panelist, but the movie itself—got a standing ovation. I, frankly, wasn’t bowled over by it (I thought, for such a dramatic subject, the emotions were curiously muted—I didn’t feel much during the movie, but maybe that’s me)…But anyway, the crowd loved it. When Awkwafina came out for the Q&A, the comments were positively effusive. One guy called it a “perfect” movie. Everything was perfect, he said: the acting, the writing, the directing, the editing. (The editing?) With a celebrity in the room, it’s hard to know when people are really being honest with themselves. But Awkwafina seemed super cool.
Side note: SAG members ask the dumbest questions. One person asked Awkwafina how she got her start in the business—which is fine, but I’m thinking, really? You’re in a room full of peers, you’ve just spent two hours watching something that’s ripe for discussion, and this is what you ask? Look it up online. At least it gave her an entree to talk about her youtube video “My Vag,” which, amusingly, caught a few people off-guard.
The Irishman and Marriage Story after the jump...
