7500 - New film out today on @PrimeVideo. First movie I've come out in since 2016! Took some time off when I had kids, and for my first acting job back, I really wanted to find a unique creative challenge.
The director, Patrick Vollrath's shooting style is different than anything I’d done before, highly geared towards the actors being able to fully immerse themselves in the story.
We wouldn't stick to script, wouldn't stick to marks, would just leave the camera rolling and stay in character for these long stretches of time. It was extremely challenging, but deeply rewarding.
Seeing a lot of this: “police kill more white people than black people”.
I’m no statistician, but of course total number of killings will be higher for white ppl because white ppl (76%) make up 5x more of the country’s population than black ppl (13%).
What about FREQUENCY? 👉
How frequently are black ppl killed by police vs how frequently are white ppl killed?
It’s a ratio of killings to population.
And yes, black ppl get killed way more often.
It’s very sad, and everyone has the right to feel very mad.
(2 things I just read w more info) 👉
This is a great resource compiled by @radleybalko in the @washingtonpost with a lot of different studies with tons of data about racial bias in our criminal justice system:
Here's a snippet from my @TEDTalks: "Getting attention is addictive. I’ve been lucky in my life to get a lot more than my fair share of attention, and I’m grateful for that, because it’s a powerful feeling. ted.com/talks/joseph_g… [1/10]
But there’s another powerful feeling that I’ve also been lucky to experience a lot as an actor. And it’s funny, it’s sort of the opposite feeling because it doesn’t come from getting attention. It comes from paying attention. [2/10]
When I’m acting I get so focused that I’m only paying attention to one thing. Like when I’m on set and we’re about to shoot and the first AD calls out, Rolling, and then I hear: Speed, Marker, Set, and then the director calls Action. [3/10]