Tag: tww

donnajosh:

Janel Moloney: Those walk-and-talks, all that stuff is so much fun, and really challenging. You can’t act, because you’re just trying to not run into the cameraman, and not run into each other.

Richard Schiff: It’s also known as the “Walk-and-Trip” that was named after me, I believe. Walk-and-talks were tough in the early days, because we hadn’t mastered the art of learning every syllable word for word.

Allison Janney: I fucking loved it! I loved walk-and-talks. There was a fluidity and a continuity to the scenes. You were in a relay race and if you had to come in on the third hallway pass and you fucked up, it was like, “Oh my god!” It was this really exhilarating game and the perfect way to keep a show about politics active, exciting and fast-paced.

Richard Schiff: Plus you had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you’re doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk, the exhilaration of going on stage would be a part of it.

Rob Lowe: Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging at the same time you’re doing intricate dialogue – it’s like patting your head and rubbing your stomach.

Dulé Hill: I can’t remember during which season we started doing the foul game. If we were rehearsing, or even filming a scene, we would be so close to each other, if you bumped into the person next to you, that was a foul. You had five fouls each day, and if you fouled out, you were out of the game. We would always do that. It just got out of hand, like during the takes, we would just try to be a little too close. Tommy Schlamme was finally like, “Enough! No more of the foul game!” It was a lot of fun.

michonnegrimes:

Lin-Manuel Miranda: A good amount of the West Wing references in Hamilton are subconscious; like “mind at work” which seems so deliberate. The references keep showing up. The other one that was totally subconscious because the song wrote so quickly is in That Would Be Enough. That song has no historical precedent. There’s no textbook I got that from. It was just a very real moment of

“I love you no matter what.”

Then I later see Bartlet saying it to Ellie! And I was like, “Aw, shit! I took that too!” It’s a testament to how many times I’ve seen all these episodes. The only real deliberate one is something called The Redcoat Transition. It’s not on the album, but it’s the transition between You’ll Be Back and Right Hand Man. The drum fill is the “Previously on The West Wing” drum fill. Every time I was backstage during it I’d go, “Previously on The West Wing.” I’d whisper that to Chris Jackson who is also a huge West Wing fan.


Hrishi Hirway: When I hear The Room Where It Happens I think about when Sam is talking about wanting to get back to staffing the President. Sam says, “Until you sit in the room all day, you can’t comprehend the chaos of the Oval Office.” And then, “I gotta get back in there. That’s where it’s happening.”


Lin-Manuel Miranda: Oh, wow. That’s really interesting.


Tommy Kail: In One Last Time there’s a moment where Hamilton does the Richard Schiff heart moment. That’s not prescribed in all the companies. That was for Lin and Chris. That’s a steal from The West Wing.