Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks and Chris Cooper
Directed by Gary Ross
For some reason I thought that this was going to be a sad movie. Actually, it is a very uplifting story about broken men and a broken horse overcoming adversity and giving a downtrodden country something to cheer about. This was a great movie.
Jeff Bridges talks about working from the outside in, which is how I feel that I work best sometimes. Not to say that the internal work is neglected. Just that outside influences are allowed to work their magic on the internal aspects of acting. JB went as far as to get the actual wallet of the real Charles Howard, the man he portrays in Seabiscuit, and have it in his pocket during the whole shoot. He also talks about how important getting into wardrobe and makeup in the morning is to him for getting into the character. And research. Because he was playing a real person, he tried to gain as much information as he could about his character from photographs and news reels. From body language to facial expressions. All of that adds up to a finely detailed amazing performance.
Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Gary Ross and Gary Stevens talk about Seabiscuit with Charlie Rose:
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