9 REAL Acting Moments Created By Deception
4. Ken Loach Located A Dead Bird To Guarantee Real Tears - Kes
Not content with merely depressing audiences with his output, veteran British helmer Ken Loach also took it upon himself to leave a literal child feeling hopeless and despondent early on in his film career.
Okay yeah fine, we all know and are willing to admit that The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake are two of the most moving and fearless films of the new millennium, and that the director’s career at large is a life-affirming testament to the power of cinema for affecting social change against all odds.
But man, can his flicks be a slog to get through.
And yes, don’t worry, Loach did tell his inexperienced young star that he was fooling him after the cameras stopped rolling. But for the closing scene of 1966’s brutal, brilliant Kes, Loach initially informed the actor that the bird playing his titular best mate was actually dead and, anticipating cynical teenage disbelief, went so far as to procure a replacement kestrel corpse from a local bird sanctuary (don't worry, the stand-in bird was already dead from natural causes before Loach got his hands on it).
Ice cold, Kenneth.