Last Tuesday, while we were making a little film about the Van den Berghe sets, João Luís Paixão dropped in to see what we were doing. Fortuitously, the set we were working on at that moment showed a country church at sunset, with light pouring from the windows, which inspired João Luís to an impromptu performance of Gilbert Austin’s annotated version of Gray’s Elegy. The footlights were on, and he threw himself into it with gusto. What I love about this performance is that, while he is performing Austin’s gestures, they are fully integrated into the affect he has chosen for each stanza…this is what turns gesturing into acting: