Friday, June 24, 2005

"The Foreigner" Pics

Larry Shue's "The Foreigner" is about Charlie Baker, an English science fiction magazine proofreader who finds himself on a forced holiday with his friend Froggy LeSeur in the backwater community of Tilman County, Georgia. In the show, I played Ellard Simms, Catherine's half-wit brother and heir to the Simms Prepared Meats fortune.
I don't claim to be much of an actor, but I never would have thought it would be so difficult to play less intelligent character. If I heard it from our director once, I heard it a hundred time, "You look too smart up there."

In regards to the picture, they say the camera adds 10-15 pounds. When you're my size, another 10-15 pounds doesn't make much difference, but the size 64-37 overalls we bought (because they were the closest we could find to my actual waist size) don't really do my girlish figure justice.

1 Comments:

At Fri Jun 24, 10:36:00 PM EDT, Blogger BKFreshBoy said...

Ted finds it tough to play dumb? Never would have guessed... just kidding.

Nice stage pic. I miss acting. Not that I was any good, mind you. But I enjoy being on stage being someone I'm not so that people I've never met will always remember me that way.

I miss exploring a character. Thinking about what motivates him, makes him sad, excites him, irritates him, etc. Going through my day paying attention to my own reactions and interactions to and with the events and people I come across... and thinking about how that character would react.

At least I can live vicariously through Ted...

 

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