:::sigh::: The things I do for you ladies.
"You'd think tht for an actor who has played a fiery AIDS activist, a Neo-impressionist painter and an acerbic drag queen, the role of Caractacus Pots, a doting father in the musical confection Chitty Chitty Bank Bang would be a peice of cake. You'd be wrong. "It's the most exhausting role I've ever done," says Esparza, whose credits include such not-untaxing projects as The Normal Heart, Sunday in the Park With George and Taboo. "Summoning up that constant innocence and wonder eight times a week can be grueling." Maybe even more so for the Cuban-American star who came to New York from Miami and conquered with a dark sensuality and brooding intensity that has made hime a go-to Sondheim interpreter. The name Caractacus is derived from an ancient Roman general and it fits a warrior like Esparza. But he marshals that talent with sensitivity. "I absolutely think you have to find the wonder and innocence in every role you play, no matter how decadent, angry or emotionally detached the character," he says. He says his favorite role is the struggling musical theater composer who's mired in a creative crisis in tick, tick...BOOM! "It's easy to succeed when everbody is telling you how great you are," says Esparza. "But how do you keep believing in yourself when everybody around you is saying you're not very good?" That's not a problem Esparza will have to address for the foreseeable future."
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator