Dev Patel recently opened up about the production process of his upcoming action movie Monkey Man, calling it the hardest thing he's done.
on the site’s Movies subreddit, Patel was asked how stressful it was to direct, write, and act in the film, to which Patel said it was “the most demanding thing” he’s ever done. He then opened up about many of the hardships he faced in getting the film made.
“It was the most demanding thing I’ve ever done in my life,” said Patel. “Every day, we faced absolute catastrophe. I begged our financier not to shut us down a few weeks before principal photography. We were meant to shoot in India then hit. I lost my initial production designer and DOP and the film was basically dead.
“All of the locations we prepped for months at — we lost day of – -so we had to adapt last minute – the borders closed also, I couldn’t bring in lots of supporting characters, so I ended up having to put every tailor, lighting guy, accountant, etc. in front of the camera. Speaking of cameras, most of our equipment broke, and we couldn’t fly in new stuff, so we literally shot stuff on my mobile phone, GoPros.
“Speaking of tables, we only had three or four breakaway tables, so once I would perform a huge bulk of stunts, I would scream “Cut!” and then immediately all of us would get on our hands and knees looking for all of the broken pieces of wood to glue the tables back together for the next shot… in a very long nutshell every obstacle provided us with a new opportunity to innovate. Boom!”Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade.
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