Craft Interview:
Robert Alsopp on making a pair of Ventriloquist’s dummies for TWIX.
JACK: I know as well, speaking to your girlfriend before, she hadn’t seen it either. You’ve been keeping this big secret. How are you feeling?
JESSE: I enjoy people experiencing stuff when it’s finished and I guess we can relate to. You see stuff half finished and you kind of get that. So key people. I try and keep it within reason, but no, just. I mean, just super grateful that an idea that we sort of cobbled together and went through quite a few iterations and ways of making it possible to actually shoot. We’ve ended up actually making something with you guys here. It just means the world, Sean, you know, just such a pleasure to work with someone like you, like an actor. You just threw yourself into probably quite a bad couple of days of shooting with not much kind of prep and all that stuff.
SHAUN: We did, we prepped for that. For me to be able to go onto a set for two days and to be able to feel so free within a character. That’s down to your ability of directing and your empathy towards me as an actor. And I must say that I wouldn’t have been able to perform if we didn’t, you know, make a connection and we didn’t understand each other. And, yeah, after watching that for the first time, I was a bit emotional, actually, myself. And, yeah, I just think watching it back and the passion that went into it and everyone who chipped in and worked really hard, Rosie, John, Noah, Emily, and, yeah, my mind’s blown from what we created. I just thought it was very moving and you’ve done a great job man, very very good job.
JACK: I’ll start with actually, the conception of the idea, not the generic how do you come up with your ideas question, but why this idea? Like what? Everyone knows that with anything that you’re going to create, you’re going to spend a lot of time doing it. You have to
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JACK: I know as well, speaking to your girlfriend before, she hadn’t seen it either. You’ve been keeping this big secret. How are you feeling?
JESSE: I enjoy people experiencing stuff when it’s finished and I guess we can relate to. You see stuff half finished and you kind of get that. So key people. I try and keep it within reason, but no, just. I mean, just super grateful that an idea that we sort of cobbled together and went through quite a few iterations and ways of making it possible to actually shoot. We’ve ended up actually making something with you guys here. It just means the world, Sean, you know, just such a pleasure to work with someone like you, like an actor. You just threw yourself into probably quite a bad couple of days of shooting with not much kind of prep and all that stuff.
SHAUN: We did, we prepped for that. For me to be able to go onto a set for two days and to be able to feel so free within a character. That’s down to your ability of directing and your empathy towards me as an actor. And I must say that I wouldn’t have been able to perform if we didn’t, you know, make a connection and we didn’t understand each other. And, yeah, after watching that for the first time, I was a bit emotional, actually, myself. And, yeah, I just think watching it back and the passion that went into it and everyone who chipped in and worked really hard, Rosie, John, Noah, Emily, and, yeah, my mind’s blown from what we created. I just thought it was very moving and you’ve done a great job man, very very good job.
JACK: I’ll start with actually, the conception of the idea, not the generic how do you come up with your ideas question, but why this idea? Like what? Everyone knows that with anything that you’re going to create, you’re going to spend a lot of time doing it. You have to