"Smart. Nervous. Not entirely trusting of herself or others, at first. Leary. Giggling. And then: Coiled. Focused. A serpent on the prowl for truth and the soft underbelly. Piercing the skin of the character, opening its gut, and out comes ...details, biography, features. She can alter the tone of a character's skin by the reading of a line. She can dramatically alter the temperature in a room, on a stage, perhaps in a city by the look on her face. She is all characters, all women, I think. And then--gone. Silent. Blank. Home."
Tenn's notes on Geraldine Page, found on a piece of legal paper/New Orleans. (Photo of Page and Paul Newman in "Sweet Bird of Youth.")
Via: Elizabeth de Lacanne
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