I was going to test her instinct. I
already knew how she reacted to the whip.
One doesn't have to pretend to feel pain
when the pain is real. The pain for Jane
was real. I tested the whip on myself
and the stinging pain of the leather tip
of the bullwhip was truly hard. No need
to pretend.
I wasn't going to tell her how to respond
to the whip, how to move her body. The
whip was going to dictate her every move.
In RFPIX I didn't think there was a need
for directing the actrecess as I would
in a normal film. The obvious is the obvious.
A victim is under torture, under duress,
under stress, pain is all there is, there's
not way one can go wrong in performing
the body in pain when one feels the pain.
When I mentioned Camille that she can
use the subtext of some intense pain she
had in her life, I was talking about the
mainstream film we made where her character
is killed by a psycho. But in Red Feline
on the Cross I didn't have to say anything
about subtexts. She was going to go through
hours of whipping and she knew it was
going to be painful.
Jane knew it was going to be painful.
She had being under the whip for many
weeks already, almost daily, and there
were no questions in her mind. But I felt
that she was hoping I would instruct her
on what to do.
The whip did all the instructing. |
