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 Matthew Lawrence
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo Click Here For Our VIDEO Interview with Matthew Lawrence!!! Matthew Lawrence appears to be a classic middle child: reserved and laidback, willing to let others be the center of attention. His profession, however, is decidedly very “un-middle-child.” Acting in the new outrageous comedy The Comebacks, Lawrence gets a chance to let loose and take the spotlight. He credits acting as being his release, in a way. It’s something that has been a part of his life from a young age, often acting alongside older brother Joseph and younger brother Andrew in projects like the television series Brotherly Love. This time Lawrence is branching out on his own. In The Comebacks, a send-up of serious sports movies, Lawrence spoofs the traditional “hot jock” character commonly seen in movies like Friday Night Lights. It was a role that required him to check his ego at the door. “The reason why I really wanted to do it was because of the director, Tom Brady,” he says. “I worked with him on a movie called The Hot Chick and when I saw that he was a part of this movie that’s what really made me want to be a part of it because I know that he’s a very good director and he’s great with actors and I would not be afraid to go as far as I need to go. When you hang yourself out there as an actor, it’s up to a committee what your performance turns out to be, after it goes through the editing, the studio, the director, all those different elements that are part of a movie. So when you do something like this where you have to step out and wear woman’s underwear and dance around, the big thing is the director and that’s really why I didn’t worry.” Although his character ends up in some pretty ridiculous situations, Lawrence never aimed at being over the top. “Any kind of acting has got to be grounded somehow to something real, to you at least,” he explains. “If you’re just trying to be funny it never really works. You have to be still in the moment. You just have to keep in the back of your mind that that moment is not about great acting, it’s about selling the jokes. It’s two different styles, very different, but it’s the same thing underneath. It’s about the stakes and in drama the stakes have to be high and in comedy the stakes have to be off the charts.” So was there a lot of improvising on set? “There was, but my character specifically kind of sets up the jokes,” Lawrence says. “He kind of feeds off the action that’s going on, so with me I’d be more specific with what I had to set up so it was a little bit less of that going on with my character. When it came to the big jokes and stuff, there was a freedom there ... |
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