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We got back there.
Got the costumes, the whole thing.
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We're standing around.
I looked at him. He looked at me.
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And I said, "Let's do it."
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We play the scene again.
We do the little pick-the-lint-off thing.
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Hitch never put it together, you know.
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It got in the film, and it's
my favourite beat in the movie.
:58:18
(Man) I'm talking too much. Perhaps
it's because you're not talking at all.
:58:23
(Black) The scene in the kitchen
was very difficult
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to do for an actor because
it was a scene in which
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you started the scene and 30 or 40
seconds into the scene, you wept.
:58:32
That's hard to do because usually
you're prepared, and then they shoot.
:58:36
Then you can cry rather easily.
So this was very difficult.
:58:40
(Woman) Keep both diamonds all
to yourself, if you'll just end it.
:58:44
(Black) They shot it twice,
and the second time, it was very good.
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I cried just when I should have,
and I thought it was wonderful.
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But he printed only the first one,
and I went to find him.
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He was sitting sort of near the kitchen
turned away from the camera.
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And I said, "Mr Hitchcock, please, I was
so much better in the second take."
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"I really wept when I should, and I -"
:59:05
And he said, "Alright. Print the
second one as well. Yeah, that's fine."
:59:09
And then when I saw the movie,
of course, you never see the scene.
:59:12
(Chuckles) You only hear the scene.
:59:14
It's Bruce Dern listening
to the people in the kitchen.
:59:17
You never see it. So, that explained it.
:59:21
He loved the risqué,
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and that's why he liked me
in Family Plot,
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because I threw caution to the wind,
so to speak, and was unpredictable.
:59:30
He did never know
what I was going to do next,
:59:32
but he knew it was going
to be in his frame.
:59:35
If I'm sitting here and talk to you,
and I want to talk to you like this.
:59:38
You're out of the shot, half out of
the shot, because his frame ends here.
:59:42
So, if you put your hand here,
it's going off screen.
:59:44
And he let's you know that
right at the beginning.
:59:46
He says,
"You have no room for movement."
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"But within the room
you have, change dialogue,
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do whatever you want to do,
just make it interesting."
:59:55
He laughed out loud
in the hamburger-eating scene,
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where she and I are talking on
the phone - talking to the bad guy.