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Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson
Director Paul Thomas Anderson setting up a camera angle with Leonardo DiCaprio
that. I've never worked with someone who was
quite so on top of it like that and he obviously
had a great relationship with Paul, almost as
if he could read his mind.
RL: What sticks out about working with
Jose?
RS: I remember when we were shooting in
Sacramento, doing a lot of car stunts. We
could have just sat back taking it easy. Jose
was like, "No, we're going to put mics on every
single car," to get the engine sounds and the
crashes. We placed two mics on the car, one
in the back, one in the front, in every single
stunt vehicle.
That to me is Jose in a nutshell. He's not
going to sit there because there's no dialog.
He will find something to do, and it's never
superfluous. It always ends up being very
important adding a whole new element to the car-chase scenes.
I'm very proud of that; we had to crawl under so many cars and
it was not easy, but the results were fantastic!
