![]() ![]() What was the trick? She asked West to imagine he was wearing a very heavy crown, mentally and physically embodying the phrase 'heavy is the head that wears the crown'. The physiology of King Charles is where she started with West, creating a particular conceit for him that helped him capture the monarch's unique tilt of his head with his slow pace of speaking. "I try and take something we see and turn it into something practical for an actor, avoiding impressions, trying to find out why body is the way it is." "When I’m working to transform people into people who already exist, it is kind of a dissertation, a deep dive or a private investigator job trying to understand how they act and what that reveals about their psychologies," she tells BBC Culture. To begin working on any actor's metamorphosis, Bennett starts with hours of painstaking research. ![]() As for upcoming projects, both Kingsley Ben-Adir and Timothée Chalamet have been instructed by her about playing Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, respectively, in big new Hollywood biopics. Movement coaches are increasingly a key element of any biopic or real-life dramatisation.īennett has not only helped transform all The Crown's lead actors into royals from season three onwards, but her other high-profile gigs include helping Rami Malek to an Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody honing Austin Butler's lip-curling and pelvic thrusting in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and advising Naomi Ackie on how to become Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance with Somebody. ![]()
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