What’s it like to work with David Fincher? Well, he’s reportedly a challenging director that demands a lot of takes, right? We’re talking sometimes 60 or more. During “Zodiac,” Robert Downey Jr. described the set as “a gulag,” and in protest of the grueling number of takes the director put the cast through he left urine-filled mason jars around the set. Jake Gyllenhaal has also discussed the filmmaker’s exhausting approach, venting his frustrations in a 2007 New York Times article. Have times changed? Has Fincher mellowed and found a new approach, or did the “Gone Girl” cast simply know what they were getting into?
During the New York Film Festival press conference—"Gone Girl" had its world premiere there this weekend—the cast mostly just raved about their director. Here’s some highlights:
Ben Affleck: "I'm at this point in my career where I've decided it's all about the director. So when David called me… I would have done the phone book with David, so...
