1. “The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.” That famous Seinfeld line, of course, was delivered by George C
line, of course, was delivered by George Costanza, to his friends, Jerry, Kramer and Elaine, as he told the story of saving a beached whale’s life by removing a golf ball from its blowhole.
“We write that speech the night before, two in the morning. We show up the next day. We hand Jason, who's an effing genius, we hand Jason that speech. How long is that speech? It's a page, two pages, yes? This is TV. This is why film sucks. You walk up to a TV actor like Jason and you hand him two-and-a-half pages and I go, ‘We got to shoot this in a half hour, memorize it.’ He goes, ‘no problem.’ That’s TV. No preciousness.
“I got a nugget for you. When Jason is doing the speech, there's one cut to me with my eyes, my eyebrows, I'm watching him. You think I'm reacting to the story. I'm reacting to, I can't believe he's getting this speech word perfect. That is what I'm thinking. I'm not even in the scene. I'm not acting. I'm just watching Jason get the speech right in front of a live audience. It’s not film. In movies, you screw it up and we do it again.
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