![]() ![]() It would look really silly when your fingering hand is way up high when it should be down low. One is the fingering hand that's all up and down, and over and across. "First of all, there are two very different hands. "Faking a cello is not like faking a guitar," Russell explains. Working with two teachers, Russell started with simple scales and worked her way up to the film's climactic piece, the Elgar Cello Concerto. "We wanted them to feel the emotion of the music they were playing," she says. ![]() Director Kirsten Sheridan believes learning the instruments gave the actors a deeper connection to their roles and mostly eliminated the need for hand doubles. ![]() While Rhys Meyers had some prior guitar experience, Russell and Highmore had to start from scratch learning their instruments and playing along to the professional recording that audiences hear in the theater. Cast members spent over three months learning to play instruments, including Keri Russell, who portrays a concert cellist, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays a rock singer-songwriter, and Freddie Highmore, who, in the title role, plays both guitar and organ and conducts a symphony orchestra. Such questions resurface with the release of "August Rush," a new film about an orphaned 11-year-old musical prodigy who uses his gifts as a clue to finding his birth parents. And if Tom Cruise can learn Haydn in five weeks, we wonder, why can't I? Whether it's Katherine Hepburn's portrayal of the pianist Clara Schumann in "Song of Love," Tom Hulce in the title role of "Amadeus," Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in "Shine," or Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Johnny and June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line," audiences expect on-screen musicians to look, if not sound, realistic.Īt the same time, musician roles raise questions over what's real and what's fake, when and where hand doubles are used, and whether prior musical training was needed. Still, Isabelle added, "I made it through and found people that I had amazing, genuine and deep conversations with." She ends by advising any girls who go through Rush to "trust the process" and try to have genuine conversation.Hollywood is littered with tales of actors who go to painstaking lengths to learn a role, from Robert De Niro driving a cab as research for "Taxi Driver" to any number of svelte stars who gain huge amounts of weight to look like their characters.īut few feats of research seem to generate more fascination – and are so consistently rewarded come awards season – as learning a musical instrument. But I wanted to share it because that was, honestly, during Rush Week all that I could think about. "And (director) Rachel Fleit told me all I had to do was be myself and she never pressured me to say anything about my story. "I did not know how I was going to pretend to be happy and even make friends in college after being hurt so bad," she said. Isabelle opened up about her her experience with Bama Rush on TikTok this week, explaining that she wanted to "share her story and to show what it's like to be a girl in 2022." In the documentary, Isabelle opened up about being sexually assaulted two weeks before Rush, and in her social media post, she said she almost decided to drop out of the movie and Rush altogether after her assault. Isabelle stayed on with the documentary and filmed throughout Rush Week, which culminated with her getting an offer from her top choice, Alpha Delta Pi. It's been hard for me to find a sense of self-worth because I don't really know who I am." "I've always needed a thing to be a part of as part of my identity. "Being in a sorority will help me figure out who I want to be," she said in the film. High school senior Isabelle Eacrett from Rancho Cucamonga, CA, admitted in the doc that she likely wouldn't be going to the University of Alabama if "it did not blow up on TikTok." She was passionate and "nervited"-a combo of nervous and excited-about rushing throughout her senior year, even working with Rush consultant Sloan Anderson. A post shared by ISABELLE EACRETT photo posted by on ![]()
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