![]() MONDELLO: Arguably the greatest movie ever made - "Citizen Kane." PARKS: Bob, is there a movie in your mind that really makes the case for the repertory cast? ROBERT BRUSTEIN: A company, a group of actors that work together like a ball team works together knows each other's plays and, therefore, can feed each other in a way that strange pick-up companies can't. And he explained to me what it is that a repertory company is. Back when I was doing a series about regional theaters, I talked to Robert Brustein, who is a critic who also founded the Yale Rep in New Haven and the American Repertory Theater. If you see his plays, you can - and you see them in close succession - you can imagine the same actor playing Falstaff, the comic character in some of the histories, and playing Hamlet's uncle in "Hamlet." So you get the same kind of actor doing the same kind of part. This goes back to probably the Greeks, but for most of us, we think of it with Shakespeare's - Shakespeare had a company of actors he was writing for. Do you trace someone like Wes Anderson's style back to the idea of repertory theater? So I studied theater in school, where this idea of using the same cast over and over again is not uncommon. One of the film's stars, Jason Schwartzman, has worked with Anderson more than half a dozen times, which made us want to reach out to NPR's resident movie expert Bob Mondello.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Hi. Anderson's new movie, "Asteroid City," does it again. ![]() Wes Anderson movies all have a certain feel - the vibrant colors, goofy writing, but maybe most important, the cast, specifically, the same cast over and over.
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