He is not a cinema fan, so the New York musician, Larry SaltzmanThe Oscars.This year, however, it has an interest of rooting.
Saltzman taught actor Timothée Chalamet how to play the guitar for the role of Bob Dylan in“A complete stranger.”In turn, Chalamet obtained a nomination for the best actor and the film is also prepared for the best film at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
A guitarist who has acted with Simon & Garfunkel, Bette Midler and David Johansen, as well as in the Broadway Productions “Hairspray” and “Ain’t Toer Orly To Beg” In addition to Chalamet, recent students have includedADAM driverandSadie Minder of “Stranger Things”.
On the recommendation of a partner musician, Saltzman received a call from a film studio approximately a decade ago. It admits to be in a bad mood as the discussions extended. “I almost do my best to convince them to hire,” he said.
Not until the fifth phone call identified the study to the client: Meryl Streep.
He needed to learn the electric guitar for his leading role in the 2015 film.“Ricki and the flash”Where he portrayed a rocker who ages trying to maintain his career and his life together following a series of disappointments.
Working with Streep is a bit like the first client of a political consultant who is elected president. If you like and move the word, other students will follow it. The teaching actors now represent about 40% of their business, said the 69 -year -old man.
“My time I spent was excellent,” he said about Streep. “She is intelligent. She knows how to learn things. There was constant progress for three or four months. She did very well. “
Failure will not be used for serious actors and film directors. It is like lip synchronization: the public will not distinguish the difference and the characters will be less credible. That was especially true with Chalamet, who needed to sing and play at the same time for a character whose art is the central piece of the film.
“When the actors come to you, they are a bit vulnerable,” said Saltzman. “They want to do a great job.”
Saltzman had more than 50 sessions with Calamet, starting in person and withdrawing to approach during the pandemic. It was not easy. Chalamet had to learn about 25 songs in the script.
“At some point in 2018 I had my first lesson with this great guitar professor named Larry Saltzman, who at some point became a teacher and more in a Co-Astage artist through Covid,” Chalamet recalled.During a recent interviewWith Associated Press. “I think we were healthy. We would zagar three, four times a week and making songs that never came to the movie. “
He helped Saltzman is a Buff Dylan. Focusing on giving “The Guitar Playing of ‘Pre-electric bob'”, taught his position so well that Chalamet was a musical guest and hostIn “Saturday Night Live”Realization of dark Dylan cuts last month. Saltzman says that, in the course of his sessions, the chame “made an additional effort” and unearthed by Dylan songs “very early and dark” that were not even in the script.
Saltzman usually likes to teach actors more than common people, partly because there is a specific objective: they need to learn certain songs to inhabit a particular character. When it is open, someone just wants to learn the guitar, it can be more a challenge, he said. Saltzman also believes that it is an advantage not to be a regular teacher, someone who can approach customers with a more rigid style.
Actor Johnny Cannizzaro said he appreciated Saltzman’s soothing “and felt welcome in an apartment full of guitars. Cannizzaro has the role of the member of the band of Street and “Little Steven” van Zandt in thenext biographical film by Bruce Springsteen“Deliver me from nothing.”
“There was never really a time when he expressed some kind of frustration or impatience with me during a session,” said Cannizzaro, who has a history playing keyboards but not guitar. “In any case, he would express some emotion when you understand something he was teaching. That reassured me. “
Saltzman also studied Van Zandt’s films, so he not only taught Cannizzaro guitar, he was showing details about how to play Van Zandt, said the actor.
Beyond teaching, Saltzman’s time is divided between the study work, which is reproduced in New York clubs that accompany different artists and Broadway, it is just aboutTo start “Smash”.
It is a revealing experience for him to see his students later on the screen. That was particularly the case when he saw “a complete stranger” and marveled at Chalamet’s ability as an actor.
More reasons to see the Oscars and take pride in their own work.
“In my humble way, I am a small team in that machinery,” he said. “What is rewarding is to know that I am somehow contributing to make a better film.”
—David Bauder, AP entertainment writer
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