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The scene in which Stansfield talks about his appreciation of Ludwig van Beethoven to Mathilda's father was completely improvised.
The scene was filmed several times, with Gary Oldman giving a different improvised story on each take. During the scene when Stansfield 'interrogates' Mathilda's father, he smells the father, and gets extremely physically close to him.
According to Michael Badalucco , he had no idea that Gary Oldman was going to smell him, nor that he was going to get as close as he did. Badalucco says that in the film, his look of discomfort during the scene is completely genuine, as he felt decidedly intimidated by Oldman, and the physical proximity between the two made him very nervous. This is Natalie Portman 's motion picture debut.
She was 11 when she was cast. In a Playboy interview, Gary Oldman said his screaming of the now iconic line 'Bring me everyone! But then I cued the sound guy to slip off his headphones, and I shouted as loud as I could. However, the audience became extremely uncomfortable and began to laugh nervously, completely destroying the tone of the film.
