As a model, I know that when we do a shoot, we have to do what the photographer says to do. I am sure that when he smokes in a scene, that he is only doing what the director is telling him to do, for the character. An actor does what the directors tell them, so if some of his movies have smoking in it, then it was written in the script that way. I actually liked the smoking scene in the film Matchstick Men, it went so well with the character.
scorpiolady wrote: granted you can't fake cigarettes and the smoking scenes, unless they are herbal ones
I've just realised what you meant by herbal cigarettes Scorpiolady! At first i thought you meant the old wacky backy! Do the herbal ones look like real cigarettes then? If so, maybe they already do use them and we'd never know! maybe they should switch to roll ups, then they could be smoking anything and we'd never know! Lol
-- Edited by lula at 14:24, 2008-01-21
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Yea, I've thought about this before. I don't know if it's me, or if Nic did it on porpouse, but for those of us who saw Next it seemed to me like he was making a face when he smoked. He kind of seemed to not inhale a lot of the smoke, and he did his eyebrow move while he did it...
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Well it's a whole area of debate isn't it really. One that I'm sure has been debated many times The vast majority of Nic's films do not contain smoking. And only when it is part of the character. I cannot imagine Roy from 'Matchstick Men' not smoking. To my mind, it is never a superfluous act. Nic has always had such integrity when it comes to his roles and such dedication to the character, right down to every minute detail of physicality... smoking is necessarily part of that. It is a far larger debate when it comes to the responsibility the film industry plays in influencing behaviour. As far as I'm aware Nic has not played a smoking character in a children orientated film? One of my favourite films is Wild at Heart..Lula and Sailor certainly know how to make a pack of marlborough reds look sexy. But can you seriously imagine them or the film without?!? And David Lynch never patronises his audience, he always assumes we're going to make our own choices, as well as our own interpretation of the film.
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To be honest i've never really looked it that way, granted, you can't fake cigarettes and the smoking scenes, unless they are herbal ones, then you could, as they wouldn't be so damaging as the real thing so that would be an advantage to Nic doing smoking scenes
Yeah, I know it's a fact of life that people smoke but it's starting to get a little bit annoying to see him smoke in almost every movie that he's in. Sometimes it seems to be just randomly put in to some of the scenes. It's like do you really have to be smoking in that scene?
It's also the fact that you can't fake cigarettes that pisses me off. He's played a drunk but he wasn't drinking for real. Most of that was just water. However with smoking you can't really fake it so you have to just do it for real. It does look pretty cool in certain scenes but you shouldn't over do it.
maybe they should switch to roll ups, then they could be smoking anything and we'd never know! Lol 
, granted, you can't fake cigarettes and the smoking scenes, unless they are herbal ones, then you could, as they wouldn't be so damaging as the real thing so that would be an advantage to Nic doing smoking scenes
