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Jan 28, 2023 · When it came time to discover Chance, Sellers noticed a big discrepancy between the character's physique and his own, he told Don Lane. Since Chance worked a "sedentary" job, he was relatively...
Oct 10, 2024 · Renowned actor Peter Sellers delivers an unforgettable portrayal of Chance the gardener, a simple-minded man who becomes embroiled in the world of politics. The film explores themes of innocence and perception.
Sellers considered Chance's walking and voice the character's most important attributes, and in preparing for the role worked alone with a tape recorder or with his wife, and then with Ashby, to perfect the clear enunciation and flat delivery needed to reveal "the childlike mind behind the words".
“…Peter Sellers had been interested in playing the role of Chance since the publication of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel “Being There” in 1971. As recalled by Kosinski in a 23 Dec 1979 NYTarticle, Sellers sent him a message that read, “‘Available my garden or outside it. C. Gardiner,’” and the actor would often pretend to be Chance ...
Apr 27, 2024 · In what would be most audiences’ final vision of Sellers on screen before he passed away a year later, his character Chance walks to the edge of a lake. He pauses briefly with his back to the camera before walking in a straight line away from us as we watch.
Sep 8, 2021 · A mesmerising adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s celebrated novel, Being There stars Sellers as Chance, the gardener, a naive middle-aged man who was raised by an affluent man in Washington, D.C.
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Sep 28, 2016 · Peter Sellers’ sans pareil performance – also his penultimate – as Chance, the gardener, idiot savant exemplar, is a disarmingly taciturn portrait, and the discerning centerpiece of Hal Ashby’s oft omitted masterpiece from 1979, Being There.
