Famously, Spielberg movies feature what’s come to be known as “the Spielberg face.” Are you familiar?
Domingo: I didn’t know what that was. We look into the light, right?
Blunt: Remember that amazing bit in Jurassic Park where Laura Dern is looking through stuff, and the hand comes down and turns her head, and she looks up [at the dinosaurs]?
O’Connor: Oh, I love that.
It’s when he zooms in close on your face during a moment of awe. I think you all had to do it in this movie. Does he give specific direction for that?
Domingo: To say, “Come on, give me Spielberg face”?
O’Connor: No, mostly the way he and [cinematographer] Janusz [Kaminski] light a scene, you just sort of fall into it. Spielberg films are all in our subconscious, so I think you know if there’s a big beam of light shooting down, look into it.
Colman, you worked with Spielberg on Lincoln, which was released in 2012. How has he changed as a director since then?
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