by Iain Blair

I got some real insight into Sean Penn’s filmmaking methods from his longtime editor, Jay Cassidy. Jay, who’s nominated for his editing on Into the Wild, worked on last year’s Oscar winner, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and has cut all of Sean Penn’s films. “He’s a great person to work with and he approaches all his films almost like a songwriter,” Jay says. “Sean is often more concerned with the poetry, and the feeling and emotion than the logical storytelling. So he comes to a film with the grammar of music very much in mind. Songs are so crucial to him, and all that work with Eddie Vedder came about in post. We had some temp tracks we’d worked with, but once Eddie got involved, the film took this whole step up and flew.” Jay is now busy cutting Jim Sheridan’s new film Brothers  starring Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman.

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