Does each medium demand a different type of acting?
Yes and no. In all forms you have to simultaneously, and absolutely, forget you are being watched, and delve deep into the moment and the other person(s) you are performing with. And yet, on some level, you must be aware of the audience or the camera, and being seen or heard, which alters greatly depending on the medium. Someone told me once that Lawrence Olivier likened it to a kind of switchboard in your brain. What has been your favorite role to date? That’s a tough one. One of my first real jobs was a one-woman biographical piece about Virginia Woolf at the Edinburgh Festival. That was an amazing challenge and role, I got a lot of kudos for it. It was an incredible experience. But I think I would have to say that my absolute favorite role to date was a character named ‘Lil’ in a play I did called Tucumcari. It was just me and two men. What could be bad abut that? What would be your dream role? There are so many. I think for today it’s to play Lil in the movie of Tucumcari. I loved
