Limits on your craft?- Page 2

[CJR]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 11:56am

Oh and lildogs - I'm sure there are plenty of women who would kill to be my size... but have you ever heard the phrase "we're our own worst critic" ??

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 12:00pm

That's one of my favorite MadTV sketches! I'm also a huge Nicole Sullivan fan.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 12:01pm

i'm the same way girl, obsessing over a blemish, an extra pound, a vestigial tail...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 1:43pm

I did the nude thing. If it's not superfluous to the show, then it's really not a big deal. I had a really horrifying experience doing one of those murder-mystery improv dinners. It was the biggest disaster of my career (partly my fault for taking the job, but mostly due to the heavily medicated production manager/actress who felt there was no need for a single rehearsal, though I told her I'd never done it before) and I promised myself I would never put myself in that situation again. I also will not work on a verbal agreement. If there is pay, but no contract, forget it. Live and learn.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:08pm

"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."

Oh yeah--there's one in Colorado every year. Hell House, they call it. I don't know if it started here, but I do know that the guy behind it has disbanded the original Hell House for a few years because he's on the road helping other churches spread the hate--er, I mean, "message of love." If I remember correctly, they've done scenes depicting drunken teens dying in car crashes, gay men dying of AIDS, aborted children appearing as adults and shaming their mothers for killing them ("Look what I could have accomplished if you hand't KILLED ME!!"), one year they even had Bill and Monica (played by a married couple, of course..."Heaven forbid I kiss a man who's not my husband!")...

But back to the subject at hand, another thing that would keep me from doing a role would be anything involving heights. I am terrified of heights.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:20pm

My answer is no regarding normal issues--I could do nudity and stuff like that.

But if someone offered me a GWB04 commercial--I would say no.

If I thought the intention was anti-gay or racist or what have you--I would say no. And that includes playing a campy queen in a B movie--I so can't go there.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:22pm

jrb,

i could SO play a campy queen in a b movie. but, besides that, i agree with you, 100%.

I'd do it naked...if someoe wants to see me naked...more power to em. I'm not sure me naked is gonna attract an audience...well, maybe a circus audience.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:22pm

Touching a naked woman. Disgusting.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 5:29pm

well, let me clarify--campy in that way that is anti-gay ultimately. I have no prob going huge--but there has to be an honesty to it.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 7:11pm

Gee, you think those religious fundamentalists would ban all theater just like Elizabethan Puritans. Since it involves pretending to be someone you're not and all that. *yawn* But I guess Biblical literalism only goes so far, huh?

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:06pm

I'd do anything. I be a wildcat.

Posted: 9/17/04 at 8:25pm

On a physical level, if I EVER quit smoking, I won't do it for a role.

On a philosophical level, I couldn't do anything that celebrated or glorified violence.