What was the hardest part of playing Helen in Fat Pig?
ER: Wow. Everything? One of the true beauties of Neil LaBute is that he writes in a way that’s completely conducive to making everyone in a room feel guilty, elated and empathetic at the same time. Actors, audience, crew, I mean, everyone. He tells a true story. What happened to Helen has happened to me before. I’ve been hidden, I’ve been lied to and yes, even my stoic band-aid covered heart has been broken (although I would never admit it! Wait I just did!) But the play and its characters are really truth tellers. That’s a hard thing for people to watch. We rely so much on covering up what we really feel in this open-ended PC world, and that makes it almost alien to see something, or act something, that has happened to us in a suspended reality. The hardest part though was the ending of the play. Sure. That sounds clich, but in reality, I would have NEVER let that happen to me. I would have gotten the hell out of Dodge before the first bullet, or in this case, lie, flew. During the pr
