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It Would Be Hard To Play A Character You Don't Like - For Me Anyway - Or Can't Find Something In Them To Like.

Is It Possible To Do Something That That Makes An Audience Uncomfortable, Challenges Them, Makes Them See Things They're Not Used To? Here In These Films [salome The Play And Salomaybe], I Have The Opportunity To Say Something About How I Feel About Things.

I Would Say I Am More Concerned With The Plays I'm Going To Do Than The Movies. I'm More Comfortable In A Play. In Film, There's Always A Certain Sense Of Control, Of Holding Back. The Stage Is Different ; There's More To Act. There Are More Demands Put On You, More Experiences To Go Through.

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

Women Have Always Had Equal Importance Onstage, And Working With Them Must Have Altered My Sensibilities. I've Never Felt Sensitive To The Whole Issue, Because Being Macho Has Never Been A Problem With Me.