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Casey Affleck on Gone Baby Gone
By Fred Topel | Image property of Miramax Films.
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone is a hometown Boston movie. The Affleck boys got together to tell another tale of the Boston streets, where they don't pronounce the letter R. Casey Affleck stars in Ben Affleck's directorial debut as a Boston PI on the case of a missing girl.
Casey is Gone Baby Gone
"The neighborhood I grew up in was no entirely unlike the neighborhood that is seen in the movie where the little girl lives," said Affleck. "It’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, it’s just one of the neighborhoods across the railroad from Boston proper. It’s since become kind of gentrified because of MIT expanding their real-estate, domain, whatever. But my memories of Cambridge and my life in Boston look a lot like what this movie looks like. That was actually great to go back there and shoot in the neighborhoods that we shot in because it was a lot like my childhood. It was all very familiar to me, every part of it, the surface, the way people dressed and the accents, as deeps as you can go. What people’s attitudes were like, and where they come from, and how they relate to there neighbors and what jobs they do."
The film was a family affair, not just because the brothers were making a movie in their hometown. "It was great because you get to go home and my mother lives in Boston, I got these friends. Now you end up working. My mom, I think she would have liked it to have been like, work three days and come sit around the house for four days, but Mom liked to graze the craft services, and be watching behind the camera. Mom had to be excused from the set a few times, but she did some babysitting. She’s very good at that, and that’s definitely helpful. Sometimes I have to enlist mom to come out to Cleveland to see me on set or to babysit or hand out or do something or help. So it was great to have her there in Boston, and to have all our friends, it was awesome."
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone
Gone Baby Gone tracks the PI through the darkest sections of child abusers, so it was not all fun on the set. One scene in which Affleck's character discovers a child molester and takes action prompted intense feelings. "That was shot in sequence, so we went through the whole thing, which makes it a lot easier to arrive at that final scene where I have to shoot this child murderer, child molester. So going through all that, we did the scene were I go into the bathroom and I see this blood, and I see this very realistic prosthetic child. It’s pretty horrible, even though you know those things aren’t real. So that made it about disgust and anger and sadness."
With his acclaim for this film and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Casey Affleck has come into his own. "It’s definitely been a very good year. I’ve had a lot of years were people didn’t like the movies I did, or didn’t even pay attention to them. So I’d say it feels nice. On the other hand you spend so much time telling yourself, 'Listen, they’re not as bad as you say,' that you have to be fair. When you get good response, good reviews, you kind of have to say, 'They’re probably not as good as you say.' So, I sort of try to deal with it with that attitude. I’ve heard other people get their like 'This is it, everything is going to change for you' pep-rally, and nothing happens. So I don’t really believe it. I think it’s kind of mysterious the way that people suddenly become like everyone wants to work with them, they’re popular, they become famous, and other people don’t. I know people who have been super successful, very good actors, and they’ve never sort of popped in that kind of pop-media, pop-culture kind of a way. And then there are people that are just, have done a few things and they get mobbed. So I don’t understand it, and I would never claim that I could sort of control it or prepare for it."
Gone Baby Gone opens to theaters on October 19th.
For the trailer, poster, interviews and more movie info, go to the Gone Baby Gone Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Miramax Films.
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