How To Give the Performance of a Lifetime

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Judith Light’s Marie Lombardi in “Lombardi” isn’t just a character in Eric Simonson’s play. “When you play someone who is a real person, even though deceased as Marie Lombardi is, there’s a real respect that’s needed,” says the actress.

Light avoided listening to tapes of Marie, choosing instead to work with dialect coach Steven Gavin “on lowering my own voice, because she drank a lot and smoked a lot. Then one day in rehearsal I started walking differently. I wasn’t sure where that was coming from. I asked the director ‘Is it bizarre?’ and he said, ‘No, keep going.’ On opening night Susan Lombardi came and said, ‘You are my mother.’ I’m pleased the family felt I’ve given life to the person they knew.”

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118038124?refCatId=15

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10 years ago on June 09, 2011 at 05:10pm
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