5:30 PM
Ovidia
I am so tickled that I've gotten to know John a little via email ... he's the ginchiest. I wrote a 4,000 page comment to this post of his ... but you'll have to search that out; I won't take up the space here ...
I was reading Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Blonde, about the life of Marilyn Monroe, and was stopped by a line spoken by the character known as the “The Survivor.” Norma, he said, was a natural actor because she didn’t know who she was and so was driven to try to become the character completely. That was acting, the reaching into the fictional being, to become that person totally – to fill an emptiness where most people had a strong sense of self. I’m adding my words here – but getting that thought suddenly helped me understand my own experience with acting as a depressed twenty-something. And that got me thinking about other work I’ve done because every job requires that I play a role. read more here ...
