{"id":140767,"date":"2014-03-16T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=140767"},"modified":"2014-03-16T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T17:26:15","slug":"sxsw-2014-interview-frank-director-lenny-abrahamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/03\/16\/sxsw-2014-interview-frank-director-lenny-abrahamson\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW 2014 Interview: Frank Director Lenny Abrahamson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frank\"It\u2019s tough enough directing an actor and capturing his or her performance in a traditional sense, but in \u201cFrank<\/strong>,\u201d director Lenny Abrahamson<\/strong> had the challenge of conveying the thoughts and emotions of a character that covers his face with a giant, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 head from beginning to end. <\/p>\n

Domhnall Gleeson leads \u201cFrank\u201d as Jon, a guy who\u2019s stuck in a cubicle on a daily basis, but pursues his dream of becoming a musician every free second he gets. When Jon crosses paths with the Soronprfbs and gets the chance to join the band, he jumps at the opportunity, hops in their van and cozies up next to their lead singer, Frank (Michael Fassbender), a guy who prefers to wear a papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 head on stage, in the shower and even to bed.<\/p>\n

Shortly after making its world premiere at Sundance, \u201cFrank\u201d went down to Austin, Texas for a run at SXSW. Abrahamson was in town for the event and took the time to sit down and run through the challenges of making a movie involving a main character donning a fake head. It\u2019s nowhere near as simple as plopping the thing on Fassbender\u2019s head and letting him take it from there. Abrahamson had to find the appropriate design dimensions to best suit his frames, pinpoint just one especially telling facial expression and develop a Frank-specific shot selection, and that\u2019s all before he even hit the set. Hear about all of that, the challenge of accessing the character, ensuring the rest of his cast could connect to Frank and loads more straight from Abrahamson in the video interview below.<\/p>\n