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Sally Field on Performing on Broadway

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Sally Field

“Once I’m there, standing there in the audience — and literally they’re right there looking — I repeat to myself, ‘Own this. Own this. Don’t let it own you. Don’t get ahead of it, don’t drag behind it. Just do it.’ And I get the chair out there — even if it’s all verklempt, it doesn’t matter, I’ve got the chair up there — and then it’s such an emotional drive for her, so different than any other Amanda, so high-pitched, both emotionally and comedically, and hurtling toward this sort of Greek ending with a violent place. ‘The Glass Menagerie? What?!’ I’m tremendously grateful that I don’t have to let down, ’cause then it’s driving me. Now, I’m in the car and we’re just going. So I’m grateful there are no scene breaks, even.”

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Time Makes the Theater Different From any other Art Form

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Laura Linney

It’s the thing that makes the theater different from any other art form: it’s time. That ingredient is something you can’t force, you can’t generate. It’s just the benefit of earning the time of doing it over and over and over and over again. If you see a show for opening night and then you see it a month later and a month after that and a month after that, you’re gonna have completely different experiences.

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Kimberly Hardin on Casting ‘Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland’

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Michael Jackson

Navi had prepared for his role not just through his impersonations, but also through actually working as a body double for Jackson while he was still alive. Hardin explains how that helped him in his audition, saying, “It’s what every actor does for every role. The actor either has to learn how to develop their interpretation of who their character is, or study someone who is of that nature already. I’ve seen actors playing crack addicts that will go and hang out at a crack house. I have heard of actors doing it all to dive in and make it as real as possible. But if you’re portraying someone you don’t know, where do you go as an actor? I think that was the biggest challenge for a lot of the actors who came in to audition.”

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Josh McDermitt on His Career Path

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Josh McDermitt

One of the reasons that McDermitt believes kept him on his path is that he started pursing his career later than most actors. He explains, “I moved to LA a little later in my life than when most people move and I feel like I’m better for it. If I moved out at 18, I probably would have given up by now, but I guess it’s working out. It could all come crashing down at any moment and that’s something that I’m very aware of because that just happens. People stop working for whatever reason, and if I stop working I may continue plugging away or I’ll go do something else. I don’t care. (Laughs)… As long as you keep doing what you love, you’ll be happy. Right now, I still love acting, so I hope I don’t quit.”

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Johnny Depp Landed Life Changing Role By Accident

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Johnny Depp

Although Depp is now one of the best-known and most respected actors currently on the movie scene, he originally had no intention of pursuing a career in acting. He wanted to make money with music and moved to LA follow his dreams. However, his career path took a turn when he accompanied a friend to the auditions for ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’. The director’s daughter took a shine to him, describing him as ‘dreamy’, and persuaded her father to cast young Depp in the movie. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Geoffrey Rush on his Role in Genius

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Geoffrey Rush

The show, Genius, airs on National Geographic, and Rush tells NYT that he’s always been drawn to playing what he calls ‘outsiders:’

“I suppose I’m drawn to — I’d call them all outsider figures. In my theatrical repertoire, I rarely played the central character. I was not the young heroic model for “Hamlet.” I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.”

And what made him think that he could play Einstein in particular? Well, the answer is certainly amusing:

“I got a classic photo of the older Einstein. And I got a friend to take a photo of me and morph 15 percent of Einstein into my photograph to give me an indication [of how] to create a credible likeness. Then I got out a [marker] and put in the eyebrows, and some Wite-Out, and I drew in the halo of the hair. So that was my own audition for myself. I sent it to Ron [Howard, director] and said, “I think we can do this.””

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