Larry David’s hit HBO comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is returning after a six-year hiatus, and Art Streiber had the distinct pleasure of shooting the marketing campaign and directing David in a teaser for the premiere. The concept: David as Julius Caesar. A very long time ago, Caesar famously declared: “Veni. Vidi. Vici,” or “I came. I saw. I conquered.” David’s version is slightly less ambitious: “I left. I did nothing. I returned.”
“It only took 1,970 years for Caesar’s phrase to be properly updated,” quips Art, who shot PR stills, key-art stills for two concepts, motion, BTS, time lapse, and 3D render.
Given the amount and variety of assets Art needed to produce in the shoot, he met with David in his trailer a few hours before the star was due on set to lay out how their time together would unfold. “I explained how we were going to take him for a spin on a 2-foot turntable and that the camera would start at the hem of his garment and travel slowly north until we landed on his distinctive visage,” Art recalls. “And once there…IMPROV! ‘I got it, I got it,’ David replied. ‘I’ll come up with something.’ And he did. Over and over and round and round he went.”
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Photo by Art Streiber for HBO.
