It’s got to happen.”īlake Nelson: “We need to get going on it.”Įveryone wants to work with the Coens. Now that you both play guitar, presumably you’ll soon start working on a folk album together. Nelson: “Is it not fun? Do you not do puppet shows in the bedroom for your girlfriend?” Unless you find yourself at a children’s party when the entertainment has cancelled. Melling: “I learned puppetry (for the play ‘Hand to God’), which was great but in daily life is not really very useful.” What’s the most useful thing you’ve ever had to learn as an actor?īlake Nelson: “Playing the guitar is pretty great.” In fact, I’m going to cast you as a violinist in something.” Harry is young enough that he could learn anything. Your brain is set in its ways, so you don’t have the physical abilities anymore, but you’re more cross about failing, which is a horrible combination. You were very good at playing a guitar while riding a horse.īlake Nelson: “At 53 – I’m 54 now – picking up an instrument for the first time, that’s not so easy. This time was no exception and I arrived and Joel said, “I’ve added a dance number.” It was about three hours training per day, for half a year, learning all those things and to make it seem completely easy.” When I do a movie now I usually arrive about two weeks early, to sort everything out in terms of the look. I needed to learn to play the guitar, do pistol tricks, sing the songs. Being still became as expressive as moving.”īlake Nelson: “For me, it was about five or six months of preparing. Not having that allowed different forms of expression. We both laughed about it, but it was strange. There was one thing I said and my hand automatically shot out. Melling: “Absolutely! I remember in the audition, which was the first time I met Joel and Ethan, obviously I couldn’t use my hands because of who I was playing. I was going to be in strange positions for a long time, so I thought my core had better be as good as it possibly can be!”Īs someone who has all their limbs, it must be odd to act without being able to gesticulate. Playing a guy with no arms and no legs, in terms of physicality should be quite simple. Tim, you’re doing gun fights, singing and dancing Harry, you’re playing a man with no limbs. In very different ways, both your roles are very physical. Tim Blake Nelson is Buster Scruggs in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a film by Joel and Ethan Coen. That film introduced a whole new generation to folk, so it was more than a film to me.” I watched it relentlessly and strummed along to the guitar. Melling: “ O Brother, Where Art Thou?. I’m not just saying it because Tim was in it. Tim, is it right that you were given the script for this years ago? Their story does not have a happy ending. In The Gal Who Got Rattled, Zoe Kazan is a young woman travelling across the country in the hope of new life, who meets and falls for a cowboy (Bill Heck). In Meal Ticket, Harry Melling ( Harry Potter) is an actor with no limbs who performs in a travelling theatre and lives at the mercy of the theatre’s owner (Liam Neeson). Tim Blake Nelson ( O Brother, Where Art Thou?) stars in the titular story as Buster Scruggs, a singing cowboy whose speed with a gun is as sweet as his voice. We sat down with some of the cast to talk about the enigmatic directors, cowboys and puppetry. They all have one thing in common: death. Their first Netflix project, the directors of Fargo, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? have devised an anthology movie, made up of six stories set in the wild west. For their latest movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers are doing things a little differently.
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