Word: actorly
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...always liked that. There isn't any actor who doesn't like a role in this. These are the characters that, if you caught the movie 10 years earlier in their life, they're the bad guy. Like Paul Newman in The Verdict - I'm certainly not comparing my acting, just talking about those kinds of characters - or Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven. Those characters did a lot of terrible things and now they're searching for some sort of redemption. The redemption is usually not very big. It's not like, 'oh, I'm really a great...
...norm was or was going to be. He'd say I think this guy should do this. I'd go, 'do it.' I was protective of him, so he could get away with the things he wanted to get away with. If you're going to be an actor and you're going to direct, you cannot go into movies, particularly saying, okay I'm going to direct these scenes. You have to surrender to it until you wake up one day and they're not doing their job. Tony never had that. There was never a second of that...
...writers picket, "we're stayin' home," says one publicist of a nominated actor, a view echoed by most others. Early in the day some publicists were optimistic that a deal could be worked out that would allow their clients to attend. Kelly Bush, CEO of ID Public Relations, a firm that represents a long list of nominees including Ellen Page, Casey Affleck, Tim Burton, America Ferrera, Mary-Louise Parker and Kyra Sedgwick, said, "I will certainly encourage our nominees to attend and hope other? publicists do the same." The announcement of the press conference format changed Bush's plans...
...don’t dare decide what the audience will take,” the actor replied...
After star-struck students and faculty alike approached the actor, Washington exited, stage left. —Staff writer Charlie J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...