David Gordon Green Cites Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT Influence On PRINCE AVALANCHE

In a new interview, versatile film director David Gordon Green discusses the influence of Samuel Beckett and the renown playwright's iconic WAITING FOR GODOT as a foremost influence on his new feature film PRINCE AVALANCHE, starring stage and screen notable Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.

Green says that as for Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and its direct influence on PRINCE AVALANCHE, "That was the idea and certainly a model. Paul Rudd and I would talk about Samuel Beckett from the origin of the project, and the original had a kind of mystical quality too, it was kind of a haunted ghost story in either way."

Furthermore, Green says that the actors' rich rapport with each other on and off set contributed mightily to the success of their onscreen pairing in the sparsely populated piece, as well.

"The relationship of Paul and Emile on set was not unlike that of the characters, so there was a great reality we could draw from, " Green relates, "Moments and notes and looks and eye rolls, a lot of the things that I find really funny, was genuinely the dynamic of Paul and Emile."

Furthermore, Green adds, "But at the same time it was an opportunity to take an actor who's most comedically known like Paul and give him some dramatic depths, or an actor who's most dramatically known like Emile and give them some comedic opportunity."

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