Michael Angarano and Sunny Mabrey Talk About One Last Thing
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
One Last Thing Hits Theaters on May 5th and DVD on May 23rd
One Last Thing - The Story:Michael Angarano stars as Dylan Jameison, a 16-year-old Pennsylvania kid who has terminal cancer. When a charitable organization offers him one last wish, Dylan decides to pass up on fishing with his football hero in order to go on a date with a supermodel (Sunny Mabrey).The Research Process: Angarano said he got ready by "talking with Alex [Steyermark, the director] a whole bunch of times. I’d played a cancer patient at one time for another film and I told Alex that I wanted to do something similar. I just wanted to talk with a doctor. The guy who is the medical consultant on the film, Dr. Michael Brescia and Alex, myself and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the guy who plays Dylan’s doctor in the film, we went to a hospice in the Bronx called Calvary Hospital that is specifically for cancer patients in the advance stages. We went there, walked around and talked for about five hours.
It was a great experience because this guy is a really hard-nosed, Brooklyn, street tough guy. He was looking through the script and he’s one of the leading oncologists in the country. He was reading it and he goes, ‘I love the script. It’s great but you have him on Coumadin here and that’s bulls**t. He can’t have that.’ He showed us what was medically accurate and told us about patients that he’s worked with that were having experiences similar to Dylan’s, seeing an afterlife and loved ones. It made me realize it wasn’t something fake. We’d be portraying real people in real situations and that’s where a lot of the stuff for me came together.”
Working with a Tight Shooting Schedule and a Limited Budget: “We had a twenty-five day shooting schedule,” said Angarano. “The schedule each day was four to six scenes. It was pretty hectic but Alex, as the ringleader, set the vibe and the tone was very relaxed and cheerful - almost.”
Mabrey enjoys working on films with short shooting schedules. “Sometimes I think that’s the best environment for gelling with the cast and getting on the same page because we don’t have our trailers to run off to and do our own thing. We have to be with each other, and during our breaks we’re hanging out. It was good. It was like effortless chemistry.”(more)
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