- Delight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
- Forty Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020