If you meet Sam Rockwell coming out of his trailer for the film A Single Shot, he’s a pleasant, genial guy, happy to sign autographs and pose for photos with fans. But as he crosses the street to set he turns into his surly character John Moon, a hunter who’s being tracked by hardened backwater crooks after stumbling into a deep woods campground filled with drugs, cash and the body of a young woman that Moon just killed by accident with a single fatal shot.
Outside Dot’s Diner turned Puffy’s Diner in old town Langley, Sam Rockwell walked head down around and around in a circle before going in the diner door and brushing past a Devon County Sheriff (West Virginia) for the scene. Later Rockwell kicked a garbage can again and again before doing a take of entering the diner. And even later, Rockwell picked up an umbrella and started whacking plastic cartons to get into character. I’d never seen someone method acting like this on location before. It was fascinating to watch.
Here he is coming out of the diner after a take. Is that the hint of a smile? It was one of the few times I caughthim out of character.
A Single Shot is scheduled to be released in theatres on September 20th, 2014.
That’s great, that’s really great to know about Sam Rockwell method-acting in Langley. Whatever picture and whatever allocation you did here seems to me pretty marvelous. Thanks dude. 🙂
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I read the novel when I found out Ted Levine was cast in the movie as Cecil Nobie. About Sam Rockwell: PERFECT casting as John Moon!