With their shared expertise of being singers who’ve stepped into the appearing world, Thapthimthong and Manobal famous that one of many challenges they confronted was sustaining the mindset of their characters all through a shoot.
“I really feel like there’s a diploma of appearing after I sing…However it’s nonetheless totally different from ‘appearing appearing’ as a result of in ‘appearing appearing’, you are leaping within the sneakers of another person at some point of that complete shoot, as a substitute of a three-minute track,” mentioned Thapthimthong.
“You need to preserve the identical character. So there are undoubtedly challenges in that. However there are methods [of overcoming them] like reminding oneself ‘Who’re you?’, ‘What’s occurred on this scene?’ or ‘What’s occurred earlier than this scene?’ with the intention to make the power and story steady by way of your character.”
Manobal then chimed in, sharing her expertise: “For me, the problem was [thinking] if Mook was on this scenario, how is she gonna react or [what is she going to] say to Gaitok – and never simply [thinking about what] Lisa [would] often say.”
“However we had our Thai director who helped us form [the characters],” she added.
Based on Manobal and Thapthimthong, this director would additionally be sure that Mook and Gaitok communicated utilizing the suitable type of speech.
Quoting the director, Manobal recalled: “‘Mook is admittedly near Gaitok, so do not say ‘ka’ (a sentence-ending particle to point politeness in Thai). Please take it out.’ And I’m like ‘Oh yeah, I forgot.’”
She added: “Often, I speak to [Thapthimthong] the well mannered manner. So I all the time say ‘ka’ to him. However on set, I typically forgot that I am Mook and he is Gaitok.”
