Weekly rehearsals with a scene partner.
I'm not doing my job as a scene partner.
Thompson says that no one had told him who his scene partner would be.
In one scene, McCarthy asked her scene partner why people weren't more genuine.
But this showdown (and props are also in order to Hunter's scene partner Shane Jacobson) had me completely on edge.
The idea is to affirm whatever your scene partner has just made up, and to build on it.
It's a trick of his, developed over years of film performances and close-ups: Let your gaze rest on your scene partner, but only with one eye.
That's one of the things she gets the most attention for, but she's highly intelligent, she's a wonderful scene partner, and she's a wonderful lady.
They know what goes into creating a sustained stage illusion, and how to make a scene partner give and then give some more.
It could be, though, that she's just doing the heavy lifting that her scene partner, Bruce Willis, has relinquished: he convincingly simulates writhing pain, but not much else.
"Instead, I'm conscious of where I am — what my scene partner is doing, or what I'm hearing, and I know that I need to respond.
