![]() There is a scene toward the end of “Spoiler Alert” where things look very bad, but both Ausiello and Cowan start to laugh and kid around, and it is easy to imagine how effective this sort of reversal of expectations might have been if only Showalter could have found a smoother and more lifelike balance for the movie as a whole and gotten Parsons to connect to Aldridge as a scene partner on a deeper level. Aldridge will look at Parsons with convincingly growing love in close-up, and then Parsons will stare back as if he isn’t actually looking at his leading man but at someone or something else. ![]() In the scenes where they kiss, Parsons’s character is supposed to be feeling awkward because of his own personal issues, but this just reads as awkwardness between the actors, as though they had never been introduced and were made to plunge into a big love scene right away.Īs “Spoiler Alert” goes on, the real drama comes from the feeling that Aldridge keeps trying to reach Parsons as an actor to create a relationship between their characters, but Parsons keeps twisting himself away from it on a physical and emotional level. The first third of “Spoiler Alert” is very uneasy because everything depends on the chemistry between the two lead actors, and nothing seems to be happening between them but squirming and discomfort. How Director Michael Showalter Went Behind the Mask of Elizabeth Holmes - and Tammy Faye Bakker ![]()
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