Robin Williams spent most of 'Good Will Hunting' reading his lines in different celebrities' voices
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It was his attitude that often contributed to the film veering off script during rehearsals and production.
"He was constantly improvising," co-star Stellan Skarsgard said during a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, "And I liked that because if you prepare properly, it is trashed totally by somebody else improvising. And that's really good, because you usually get a little stiff, too skillful, and too elegant if your performance doesn't get f---ed by someone."
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"Every time, the first take, I came in and it wasn't him ... Jack Nicholson was standing there. He'd behave like Jack Nicholson," Skarsgard said.
"Then we had to do it again and he was James Cagney. I think it was five or six takes with a different person every time," he continued. "And then gradually he did something more and more like the character."
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At one point, Van Sant asked Damon, "Isn't this fun?" To which Damon responded, "No! It's exhausting!"
Williams' performance in "Good Will Hunting" earned him his first and only Oscar. His acting method sounds atypical, especially when compared to how other Oscar winners typically prepare. It doesn't sound like Robert De Niro, for instance, who gained a record amount of weight for his Oscar-winning performance as boxer Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull."
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And the final line in the film, which was his idea:
Unfortunately, these great moments were not captured on camera. But Robin Williams was always somebody who just wanted to make people laugh, whether or not the cameras were rolling.
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