Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNeil Patrick Harris spent some of the pandemic filming “The Matrix 4” in Berlin.
He tells me that he was surprised that writer-director Lana Wachowski’s shoot was so “intimate.”“It didn’t feel large because it felt like she was in her sweet spot, which was filming on the fly, filming using natural light,” the Emmy- and Tony-winner says on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “Sometimes you’d sit around for an hour waiting for the clouds to clear, and then you’d quickly film.
You’d film pages at a time in 30 minutes and then be done.” He adds, “You would think that a giant movie would be 100% storyboarded, animatics, and we’d be checking off shots.
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