“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” – Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
Tag: star studies
First images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet (Gate Theater Dublin, 27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)
“Negga is a princely Hamlet, full of gracious entitlement, capricious
and deeply wounded. This is a gruelling performance; three-and-a-half
hours, with Hamlet on stage most of the time, other than a brief respite
in Act Four.Negga combines vulnerability and ruthlessness, her tiny frame
asserting its dominance of the action throughout by theatrical force of
will. She brings a freshness to these oh-so-familiar speeches. “ (x)
That’s my own dialect. At least if I look at my work, the hiccups that I see is when I could have been more subtle.
In Conversation With Mahershala Ali (TIFF 2018)
“Hopefully [my writing] will continue to develop as I grow older, because, as we know, Hollywood is extremely prejudiced against age. I have every intention of ageing, so I recognize it won’t be long before work isn’t readily available.” She does not, I observe, sound too heartbroken at this prospect. “Well, let’s just say” she laughs, “writing was never a back-up plan. Writing was Plan A. Acting was Plan B.”
“Being a Latino kid from Miami, where the best you could hope for is going out for Spanish commercials and, like, Gangster Number Three, which is crazy. And then to have Ridley Scott be like, ‘Yeah, you can be king of the whites.’ It was amazing.”
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