Leo Woodall spent months studying to play the piano for Tuner position

Leo Woodall spent months mastering the piano for his position in Tuner.

The 29-year-old actor stars in Daniel Roher’s crime thriller as Niki White, a once-gifted piano participant who makes use of his heightened listening to to grow to be a thief after being left unable to carry out as a consequence of listening to dysfunction hyperacusis, and revealed the in depth course of that he and co-star Havana Rose Liu went by way of to discover ways to play the instrument.

Leo instructed IndieWire: “Each Havana and I had months of coaching hours daily. Niki is a once-in-a-generation expertise and, on the very starting, I type of naively obtained excited that I’d study this expertise and I’d grow to be this virtuoso they usually stated, ‘It’s going to take a bit of bit quite a lot of months of piano coaching.’

“Particularly as a result of I didn’t play piano beforehand, however I’ve all the time been drawn towards that instrument specifically. I’m not massively musical. I like music and I can’t think about my life with out it, however creating music and enjoying music has by no means been one thing I’ve finished, however piano all the time had a type of, I don’t know, all the time tweaked my curiosity greater than different devices.”

Woodall – whose alter ego can be a piano tuner – defined that he was stunned at how advanced the method was.

The One Day actor stated: “It’s a lot extra sophisticated than I assumed, as a result of I used to be additionally studying the best way to tune pianos, so that you’d raise up the highest and it’s sight that you simply don’t count on. There’s three strings to each key and if one string is in any method misplaced, you need to tune all three completely, and each goes to be fully completely different.

“Each single piano goes to be completely different in the way in which you faucet the secret’s going to have an effect on each single string in that instrument. There’s a lot extra to it than I had initially thought.”

Leo seems in Tuner alongside Dustin Hoffman – who portrays Niki’s mentor Harry Horowitz – and expressed his admiration for the Rain Man actor.

The Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy star stated: “He makes appearing loads simpler, simply his presence within the second and in a scene and with you is so second to none in my expertise. I already type of liked him, so it was more durable for me to play all of the moments of being fed up with him, when Niki has these eye roll moments.

“His physique of labor has simply affected me at so many various factors in my life, as a child with Hook after which as a younger actor hoping to do one thing and study one thing with All of the President’s Males, his physique of labor is so various and so extraordinary.

“Even with out assembly him, he’s touched you and he’s affected you. It was straightforward to really feel that type of degree of affection and that gratitude and that closeness with him earlier than we’d even met. It makes me sound like a freaking psycho.”

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