Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Holland was just 13 when he auditioned to play the eldest son of Watts and Ewan McGregor's characters in Juan Antonio Bayona's film.
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Read More »International growth has in recent years been a key focus for Hollywood conglomerates, but industry CEOs have reported challenges in Western Europe, particularly Southern countries, in 2012. Analysts have spoken of a growing North-South divide with advertising weakness in such countries as Spain, Italy, Greece and France, which has hit TV networks. But sluggish economies and austerity packages also were major blows to box office revenues in Southern Europe. For his first film role, Tom Holland had to swim — or sink. The young British actor spent weeks in a 35,000-gallon water tank the size of a football field in Spain, being tossed and turned by man-made waves to simulate the aftermath of a devastating tsunami. “I remember [Naomi Watts and I] were hugging this tree, but because of the current, it would blow our legs underneath, so if you look at some of the outtakes, we would be doing the scene and suddenly one of us would disappear and we would shoot across the way,” says the actor. “It was quite technically difficult, and we had a few funny moments.” Holland, 16, stars as Lucas in The Impossible, an intense, raw drama about a family trapped in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami wreaks havoc on the small nation. Holland was just 13 when he auditioned to play the eldest son of Watts and Ewan McGregor’s characters in Juan Antonio Bayona’s film. Since he was 11, Holland had been starring as the lead in Billy Elliot onstage in London’s West End, but he makes his transition to film in a major way with The Impossible, his first feature. He’s nominated for best young actor at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and already has won the best breakthrough award from the National Board of Review and the Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award. And though McGregor stars as his father in the film, Holland has been submitted as the lead actor for awards consideration. Regardless if he receives any nominations, his performance as the strong-willed and determined eldest son is garnering critical acclaim. Holland says the main challenge of transition from stage to screen was a technical one, dealing with cameras instead of playing to a live audience.
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Read More »“There was that technical change, but the similarities are that on set and onstage you create a family, and a very strong trust with everyone,” he says. Building up that trust was especially important between Holland and Watts (who already has received SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her work in the film). Their characters end up being separated from the rest of their family after the tsunami hits. Holland’s Lucas is tasked with helping his injured mother find help and then survive in a foreign country. “He starts out as the typical sort of teenager, and then when the tsunami actually happens and he sees how injured his mom is, he grows up a lot,” he says. “He literally goes from one extreme to the other. To be an actor and to have to play that diversity was very exciting. And also quite scary and challenging.” VIDEO: Director and Stars Reveal How They Made ‘The Impossible’ Possible — Without CGI The film is based on a true story of the Alvarez Belons family, who was on vacation in Thailand when the tsunami hit. Holland benefited from having the person behind his character, also named Lucas, on set for much of the filming. Additionally, they shot in some of the locations in which the family actually traveled, including the hospital in Thailand where Lucas and his mother ended up. “If you’re on set and have a question that only your character can answer, a lot of times actors can’t ask that question because their character’s fictional or not alive, and I had my character there,” he said. “And he would answer every question I had.” The son of a comedian and a photographer, Holland’s first auditioned for Billy Elliot at age 8. Now studying drama and media in London, Holland says he didn’t know he wanted to be an actor for life until his role in The Impossible. “When I was in Billy, I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing, I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts,” he says. “I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.”
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