Limits on your craft?

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:15am

Is there anything that you could be asked to do for a play or film that would keep you from accepting the role?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:17am

I wouldn't do a nude scene.

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:39am

See, I'd probably be fired for creating my own nude scene.

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 2:22am

no, not at all

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:36am

I wouldn't break any laws.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:39am

I don't even like seeing myself nude, why would I do that to an audience?

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 9:01am

I think film roles that require really scary stunts like dangling from a cliff thousands of feet above ground or having to be underwater for long periods of time - those things might hold me back...but then again, I might use those things as excuses to overcome some personal fears.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 9:05am

can't think of anything, unless it meant having actual intercourse with someone i wouldn't have sex with in the first place....like Tara Reid...

[CJR]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 10:51am

Probably a nude scene. I second Boobs' response -- I dont like seeing myself naked.... why would the audience? lol

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 10:57am

being naked isn't as bad as you think it is....you just have to be either very thin or in great shape to look good...the stage adds 10 lbs!

[CJR]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:02am

It's a self esteem/self image thing. Im not a big girl at all (I weigh in at 5'3"/125lbs) but I still hate looking at myself in the mirror... and that's clothed and not clothed.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:03am

supporting something politically that i find abhorrant

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:04am

Wouldn't it be a way to get past your insecurities, though? If you HAD to do it for a role?

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:05am

oh CJR, you sound like you are above average as far as looks are concerned--you know how many women would kill to be your size?

and touchme, are you saying you wouldn't play a Nazi, or a child molester, or a cannibal? Then you'd be shut out of Cabaret, Parade, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, etc...????

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:05am

oh CJR, you sound like you are above average as far as looks are concerned--you know how many women would kill to be your size?

and touchme, are you saying you wouldn't play a Nazi, or a child molester, or a cannibal? Then you'd be shut out of Cabaret, Parade, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, etc...????

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:06am

perhaps...
I'mn a freak when it comes to putting my head under water - its just so difficult for me - so when I watch The Poseidon Adventure - I get really anxious. Maybe doing a role like that would force me to take swimming lessons (god, I start to perspire just thinking about it - yikes!)

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:07am

no, lildogs. Usually, if you play a Nazi, you're in a play where the Nazi is made the bad guy. I'd be ok with that.

I wouldn't want to be involved with a play that, for instance, supported banning gay marriage, or supported 4 more years for an unelected president. That sort of thing.

It's more the message of the play than the character.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:13am

Luckily, I think you'd be hard pressed to find that kind of material.

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:16am

The only thing I've ever heard of even remotely along those lines is that horrifying presentation the evangelicals put on at Halloween - kind of a 'horror house' with scenes depicting abortions, AIDS death and so on.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:26am

i see, touchme, though i think you're speaking more of propaganda, rather than a legit work...i doubt i would have liked being in "Triumph of the Will" myself...

and the last thing i'd do is audition for the evangelical halloween/abortion extravaganza....can u imagine the musical numbers from that one?

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:28am

the opening song: "I'm a slutty woman, kill my baby"

act I finale: "AIDS is God's cure"

Act II opening: "Jesus dies for some of you"

Closing number: "Amazing Grace"

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:31am

Sondheim has found an idea for a new show at last.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:35am

touchme, your songs remind me of the ones sung by Lurlene (played by Nicole Sullivan) on MADTV....
Other Hits:

"If I Had A Hanger"

"Jesus Kills"

"T-Cell Tango" (They Had It Comin')

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:37am

t-cell tango...lmao

[CJR]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:52am

The T Cell Tango.... hahahaha *falls out of chair laughing*

That's sooo wrong, but oh so funny!