Betts learned she had to give Foxx space for his process.
He never does the same take twice, Betts said.
He doesnt like to rehearse.
I think he only drops in five minutes before.
The results are extraordinary.
He likes to do four takes and then he wants direction at that point.
But the test for Betts came during preproduction meetings with Jones.
He spoke about his Texas ranch at length, and paying attention paid off for Betts.
The next Zoom I had, he was in Argentina, Betts said.
He was talking about this ranch he was in in Argentina.
He said something about the water table.
I said, Oh, that water tables very different from Texas, right?
He was like, What do you know about the water table in Texas?
I was like, Its six feet down, because I remembered.
He was like, Touche.
From that moment forward, I had passed the ranching test.
The Burialis based on a true story.
When meeting with Amazon, Betts wanted the chance to rewrite the script.
It was very bro-y, Betts said.
It was a relationship between two men.
Its a true story, so that was the only character that was created from the cloth.
By the 2020s, Betts felt it important to update the films racial dynamics.
This is no discredit to Doug.
It was just a script from that time period.
The point was how white people saw Black people, which wasnt necessarily negative.
It needed a more Black point of view.
The Burialis streaming on Prime Video.
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