“ There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. ”
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
~ Edward Zwick
If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
