He also worked multiple times with Scotts brother Tony, Alejandro G. Inarritu and James Mangold.
JaneandKingdom of Heaven; and AndersonsThere Will Be Blood,Inherent ViceandThe Master.
Somner also worked on TV series includingThe Hunger, The Governor, SpenderandThe Wanderer.
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He worked as AD, and producer and he performed both of those tasks with equal measures of devotion.
He loved making movies.
He loved being on the set.
It was his gridiron.
He made everyone who joined the crew feel like they were part of the family.
Going back to work without Adam will never be the same.
Somnersaidduring an AFI Conservatory Q&A in 2020.
I think your job as good AD is to be a barometer to the set.
If its tense, you try and make it less tense.
It was all in the preparation, hetoldDGA Quarterly.
Somner choreographed the scene carefully, pairing off actors to create controlled scenes so everyone felt comfortable.
We were working in a secure environment that was preset, Somner said.
So when we wanted them to go nuts, they could go nuts.
Everyone was working in set boundaries.
Adam Somner embodied and practiced all of it.
He passed away far too early, and I will miss him terribly.
He loved making pictures, as he put it.
It was food and drink to him.
He made everyone who worked with him feel safe, said Anderson.
He moved mountains and trucks and people like he was moving a salt shaker across a table.
It was glorious to watch him work.
He knew how to make a film better than anyone else.
His intuition and talent was second only to how deeply funny and loving he was.
Most of all and above everything, he was generous.
I would rank him in the Kobe Bryant, Mick Jagger, Winston Churchill category of Legends.
And that would be under-selling it.
A DGA scholarship in Somners name will be established with donation details forthcoming.
