Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.
I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.
It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.
The most difficult thing about shooting guns instantly on film is to not pull a silly face while the gun is going off, because it's always a bit of a shock. So you find yourself sticking your tongue out or blinking or whatever. So the hardest thing is to keep a straight face while you're shooting a gun.
I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.
You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
