We all know the pressures women are under in our society: to look young, thin, and beautiful forever, even more so if they're actors, especially in Hollywood. But what about the craft itself? How do older women relate to the ages of their characters? And what do they know now about the craft of acting that they didn't know when they were younger?Commit and BelieveKathleen Chalfant, a 65-year-old New York–based stage, film, and TV actor, says, "I don't have anything like as many theories about acting as I used to. If you commit to the character and believe what you're doing, audiences will believe almost anything." That goes for playing older than yourself. Last season Chalfant played a 96-year-old Armenian woman, without age makeup, in the play "Red Dog Howls" in Los Angeles. "I suppose I slightly accentuated it, but not all the time," she says of the character's age,...
- 2/5/2010
- backstage.com
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