Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
I want to play Lady Macbeth. I have a big chip on my shoulder about Lady Macbeth. People usually play her as this cold, Greek witch, but there's no evidence of that in the text! I think her intentions are pure.
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
