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Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/10/2006 at 1:23:58 PM ET
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Now that is really a fascinating story. Strange that Black would be so against Bernadette's approach. It's hardly unique to her. Most American actors are trained in some form of that psychological "interior" method of creating character. He obviously knows that.
The same "method" training in acting has been in practice in British acting schools for simply yonks. I doubt if that is what Don Black's problem was.
In fact, the best "method actor", IMHO (both on film and stage), is the classically trained Vanessa Redgrave. I have never experienced such electric performances on stage from any other actor other than Vanessa, both in modern plays and Shakespeare, and I say that after a lifetime of seeing so many other "greats" on the London stage. Vanessa's performances are truly something to behold. She is a total acting "God". Mind you, she can't sing for toffee! Check out "Camelot" but still even there her efforts are charming and honest and I'm so glad they didn't over-dub her voice.
She wouldn't even be able to sing one note of Song & Dance however.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Scottie
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Here's something from TheaterMania:
One night, he peeked at cast member Bernadette Peters's notebook. "Bernadette had maybe 30 lines of dialogue in the whole show, so she had written things down to help her [with her character]," he wrote. "She'd made up an entire scene where George [M. Cohan] comes into her room late one night and sits on her bed. He talks about his ambition and his love for his family. It continued, expanding her every moment in the show to help her overcome the brevity of her scenes. She'd done this on her own, and her hard work paid off. She was terrific. I knew that with her talent, brains, ambition, and her mother's help, she would become a star."
PTM
Thanks, PTM, While I was relaying that Don Black story I had an idea of something way back in my mind that I had read somewhere about how Bernadette had filled in "the blanks" in one of her previous character's history.
It just goes to show how much she puts in to her work and why it is so exceptionally brilliant.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Karen
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Didn't Bernadette go down on her knee once when presenting Vanessa Redgrave with an award?
I think I'm going to start saying "simply yonks." Not that I know what it means, but it sounds good. British slang always sounds more interesting somehow.
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 7/10/2006 at 1:58:54 PM ET
"Didn't Bernadette go down on her knee once when presenting Vanessa Redgrave with an award?"
Yes, the Drama Desk Awards, 2003. There used to be video of it on the Drama Desk awards site, but I just checked and I'm getting an error message.
| Scottie
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From the Oxford English Dictionary (is there any other Dictionary? ) "yonks" n.pl. Brit. slang a long time.
There you go, Karen, use it with my blessing and the blessing of HM The Queen.
Bernadette went down on one knee to Vanessa? I would love to know the background to that story.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
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