See EW’s exclusive screenplay excerpt of the first scene Field shot for the movie.
“Honestly, I’ve got this binder that’s got a big coffee stain on the outside.
CIRCLE 1: Field color-coded his four camera operators for the day’s shoot.
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“Well, except for Benjamin he refused to wear the red cap.”
ForTAR, he and cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister manufactured a new set of lenses never used before.
CIRCLE 3: Why does Blanchett’s Lydia Tar switch languages?
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“That was really important to Cate and I,” Field says.
“It’s an act of respect.
“It’s a death march, a funeral march,” he says.
“It’s something she’s trying to push away from her, the sound of that call.”
A hint of what’s to come?
“Very much so.”
TARis now in theaters.
