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The way I look at Alan’s performance — he might think differently — Alan is not portraying the real man, certainly physically. What he’s portraying is Brandon — if the Brandon that I knew grew up. It’s what Brandon Lee would’ve looked like had he been a real person.
On the Alan shoot days, it was just super-intense. It’s not like I’m this technical wiz or anything — the reference point for me was a film by Clio Barnard called The Arbor [which also incorporates lip-synced performances], so I watched that and was like, “How the hell would she have done that?” [Cumming gave] this reverse-ADR performance. And talk about going back in time: The movie back in the 1990s that Alan was meant to star in playing Brandon, Alan was also meant to direct. Because the process of the lip sync was so intense — it was just repetition, repetition, repetition — I very much leaned back and Alan kind of directed himself. There would only be a few occasions when I’d be like, “I think perhaps Brandon is thinking something else at this point,” but Alan got to direct himself as Brandon Lee.
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