Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:34 pm by Taron
This is a funny thing to mention, but I had a small conversation with him once, when he came into my office at station x studios. It started off quite awkwardly, because of the "boss" at the time, who was a real cheese ball and he brought Morgan Freeman in to introduce us. I was quite known for my 3d eyes at that time, having done a magazine cover with one ("NewTekniques") and some people were head over heels on this. But he made it sound as if that was all I'm good for, haha, you know. Anyhow, Morgan was really sweet, though, just as gentle as you see him in films, calm and curious, which was refreshing. I explained to him what made eyes so interesting to me, nothing but a great study subject. They incorporate so many aspects that were new and challenging to 3d rendered art from all the substances involved; translucent skin with different pores and oiliness in a complex shape, the eyeballs, reflecting, refracting and complex motions beneath glossy layers as well as even a partially exposed muscle and last but not least our ability to feel something personal, to relate to the character behind the eye, transcending technical challenges. Anyhow, he understood immediately and seemed very pleased.
It was one of the first conversations I had with a Hollywood celebrity and it immediately made me see the simple humanity we all share; just some guy or gal having acting as a job, well suited and properly motivated. But the more I met, the more I sincerely began to pity them, for they were chosen into a kind of amputation of freedom and stunting of growth/maturing. If they could not wear their success, they just crumple in phobias for good reasons. He, however, knows how to wear his fame and he wears it in a pocket, really, hehehe.