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The show opens with these luscious slow-motion shots.
Theres that amber glow.
It doesnt feel like a thriller.
Youre in Joes head.
Its a safe place to be.
David Lanzenberg summed it up best: In Hollywood sometimes, you end up with very pretty boys.
They dont have any angle or any character to their face.
But Penn has such great angles, such deep eyes.
So forYou, he leaned in the opposite direction: Its a more natural look.
Penn has such a handsome face that it would be hard to improve on that.
We just played with the level of beard tone so that he looked as approachable as possible.
Penn is a little like Johnny Depp.
His smile without teeth is devastatingly handsome.
Nothing good ever happens in the basement.
Building a sympathetic perspective
A good-looking guy in a rose-colored romantic fantasy is howYousets its stage.
The Paco scenes became vital as the show went dark.
To make him the strong figure, the big brother.
you’re free to win the audience back, he says.
Shes peeping, hes peeping, and, hey, were peeping at the peepers.
We put that bathtub in that space so that I could get that shot, Siega says.
It gives you a sense of being there with him, watching them.
The moment of levity helps release some tension, but it also makes you complicit.
Youre right there with Joe.
You hope he doesnt get caught.
That loss of perspective is just what Krieger wanted to accomplish.
Its John Cusack on the lawn with the boom box, or Rob Pattinson inTwilightsneaking through the window.
What weve tried to do is find that line.
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