"During breaks on The Amazing Spider Man 2, Andrew Garfield would go around the NYC neighborhood in full costume and play basketball with the local kids."
Andrew Garfield doing stuff like this makes it why he’s such a perfect Spider-Man.
I am in agony, I can't lie, I am in absolute agony. Please, I need you to watch this video, and at the 1:31 mark tell me who he's talking about. Because the fact that he mentions Tobey, and Jay, and then continues- I am fighting myself. Molina says Tobey and Jay are around the same age, and yeah they actually are the same. But Jay’s an April baby and Tobey is in June.
Because I think it's Jay. It just- it has to be him. But I can't tell from this mere splice. Why my brain is screaming at me that it's Jay he's talking about, is cuz of outside research I did. I believe in these same special features of The Sorcerer's Apprentice DVD, there's a solo interview with Jay where he says how he greatly appreciated that the director allowed him to improvise. Thankful for having been given that freedom.
Then in my hours-long google search back in October, I found an interview article with Alfred Molina. He was asked a question about Jay, and this was his response:
I don’t have the link anymore to this article, lost it when my laptop broke, but I screenshotted this quote. (Lacking the spoons to go looking for it all over again) He and Jay were the only ones to talk about improvisation. Not Nic, Tobey, or Teresa included anything of the like in their interviews.
But that's where the issue lies. The behind-the-scenes isn't extensive enough where we know what was improvised. I haven't seen an interview where any of the cast members say, oh yeah this scene was improvised.
And the fact that Molina says that is what he admired most about Jay, meaning parts of their scenes may have been improvised, or Molina was around to witness Jay doing so. Because I also found another article where it was said that even after Molina finished his scenes he didn’t go to his trailer, he stuck around to have conversation with others.
I want to know more you guys. Just how peculiar that it aligned.
Watch one of my plush grow from uncut fabric to final photos.
Video description: stop-motion animation of a fox plush being made. Faux fur pieces in black, silver and bright ginger orange get cut, move into a fox shape, attach bit by bit, get turned inside-out for final sewing, turn right-side out and get stuffed, eyes, shaved ears, painted, closed up, and then set up in front of a white board, finished. Music: Lifestream. Musician: Dream Machine. URL: https://icons8.com/music/
101 pieces from 19 different fabrics (17 faux furs and 2 vinyl) went until this fox. It took me twenty-some hours to complete over a month's time, possibly longer to account for all the camera angle fiddling.
This was my first stop-motion video so I definitely learned some things! This is my usual order of assembly for plush, though not every step was captured, in part because I wasn't sure how to do so or it would have been awkward. For example you can see I redid the neck, but didn't show the replacement of the piece between the shoulders. But I hope to try this again and get even more of the process!