Execution scenes with convicted criminals in place of actors are on record.
Meanwhile, Haynes began work on his own experiment: Superstar, a Karen Carpenter biopic that uses Barbie dolls in place of actors.
Reports said Mr Kundu had earlier distributed leaflets in which he offered to be jailed in place of the actor.
Willie Mosconi served as technical advisor on the film and shot a number of the trick shots in place of the actors, except for Gleason whose shots were his own and filmed in wide-angle to show the actor and the shot in the same frames.
The conceit is that the audience is seated in the place of the actors and others, so that the whole show is played directly to us, no fourth wall.
The Players was established as a club by the actor Edwin Booth in a Gramercy Park town house in 1888 to provide a meeting place for actors, artists of other disciplines, industrialists and patrons.
"Prison is supposed to be a place of rehabilitation," the actor said.
In South Africa, controversy has bubbled over the casting of Hudson in place of a local actor, though Roodt should be used to such opposition: this is the man, after all, under whose tutelage Whoopi Goldberg became a wisecrackin' Soweto schoolteacher in Sarafina! in 1992.
There's a moment in Chekhov's first act when all the characters, seated round the Prozorov dining table, gaze in wonder at a slowly spinning top: I'd swear that the placing of the actors, and the top's agonising deceleration, was copied direct from Stein.
The been-here/come-here divide, rather than being a definitive means for characterizing stakeholders or predicting their behavior or perspectives, serves as a heuristic for understanding the starting places of certain actors.
