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rhythmaningYesterday evening, on a walk in the country, my partner asked who I thought should play her in a film of her life.
She didn't like the answer I gave [locked post, sorry].
I thought my answer - Audrey Hepburn - was rather fitting, albeit with only a microsecond's thought.
I should have considered more deeply. This was clearly an occasion when I should have been shouting IT'S A TRAP! [locked comment...]. It is one of those questions that couldn't possibly be answered to the questioner's satisfaction: no answer could possibly be sufficient.
Of course, Audrey Hepburn was simply the first actress I thought of, and reckoning that gut instinct is pretty good in hypothetical questions like this, went with it.
Incidentally, it is irrelevent whether an actor looks like their subject for them to portray the subject, as far as I am concerned. That is what acting is about - it is isn't immitation, it is bringing something more, the essence.
And now I shall stop diging!
She didn't like the answer I gave [locked post, sorry].
I thought my answer - Audrey Hepburn - was rather fitting, albeit with only a microsecond's thought.
I should have considered more deeply. This was clearly an occasion when I should have been shouting IT'S A TRAP! [locked comment...]. It is one of those questions that couldn't possibly be answered to the questioner's satisfaction: no answer could possibly be sufficient.
Of course, Audrey Hepburn was simply the first actress I thought of, and reckoning that gut instinct is pretty good in hypothetical questions like this, went with it.
Incidentally, it is irrelevent whether an actor looks like their subject for them to portray the subject, as far as I am concerned. That is what acting is about - it is isn't immitation, it is bringing something more, the essence.
And now I shall stop diging!