Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.
