CHAPTER 6

PERFORMING INNOVATION

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

—Meryl Streep

 

 

Back in 1978, a house in Sherman Oaks, California, hosted a storm of brainpower that would shape the history of film. George Lucas, who had just cobbled together a movie called Star Wars, and Stephen Spielberg, who had just done a flick called Jaws, met in a small house with the screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Over a handful of days, the three gathered plot points, character quirks, and set pieces for a romp that would become their next blockbuster: a 1930s-style escapade that would recapture the often gritty, often silly pulp yarns of their youth. What would ...

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