Aurthur Conti tells THR at the London premiere of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' what it was like to be directed by Tim Burton in such a beloved film series.
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00:00Tell us about that moment you got that call and you'd landed this role.
00:03Yeah, I screamed. It was crazy. I found out, first of all, on April Fool's Day, so I thought
00:10it was a joke. I thought it was a really mean joke for a second, but I realised it wasn't.
00:16I screamed and I called my mum, who's here, my mum and my dad, and I had to go for a run
00:25immediately because I was so much... It was an indescribable feeling. It was crazy.
00:33You're going to get asked this question a lot, I'm sure, but can you provide some sort
00:36of insight into what it's like being on a Tim Burton set and watching him at work?
00:40Watching him at work? I mean, he's a maestro. He really is. He runs such a tight ship, but
00:47he's so easygoing at the same time. He really gives you a lot of free reign as an actor,
00:53which is nice, and you feel like you can try stuff out and try different things. It's
01:00very creatively rewarding, and he's amazing. He's so efficient. Everything was very quick
01:09and efficient, and that can be scary because on the first film I'm like, oh, can I do that
01:13another 20 times? But he was right to cut it when he did.
01:18Do you have a favourite day from set?
01:21I do. I do, yes. My favourite one... I don't want to give this stuff away. If I describe
01:32what happened on my favourite day... I'm not sure I can. I'm genuinely not sure I can.
01:41I'll think of another one. The first day was pretty cool. I was just getting used to it,
01:46and my first scene on camera, I mean, I was so nervous. It was a very small scene, but
01:51it was just one or two lines, but I was just rigid. It was terrible, but I kept looking
01:58down. I kept trying so hard not to look at the camera. I was just looking at the floor
02:01the whole time. So that's not my favourite day. That's one of the days, but in a way
02:08that was the most... It will stay with me the most, the first day.