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10. Daniel Craig's Impressive Memorising Alters The Shoot - Knives Out

Despite spending much of their formative years mastering the art of committing pages of dialogue to memory when honing their craft on the stage, a great many of the thespians transitioning from stage-to-screen aren't often required to memorise much more than a scene or a few pages at a time due to the stop-start nature of filmmaking as a whole.

But that still didn't stop former 007 himself Daniel Craig from going the extra mile during the making of Rian Johnson's 2019 smash-hit whodunnit Knives Out when it came to the all-important final section of that thriller.

As the director himself would reveal, the British sensation opted to learn the entire 30-page gripping conclusion which mostly consisted of Benoit Blanc monologuing on how he came to landing on the film's murder suspect. This insistence on being able to perform the scene like he would a soliloquy on stage resulted in Johnson being able to lean into longer takes and less cuts when producing said final stages of his ensemble epic, with the director claiming that Craig's work got better and better as each take grew in length.

You can keep your movie magic. All this actor needs is a License to Remember...