My favorite things....and Lesley Manville
Being handed a bouquet of yellow roses on opening night has me thinking about all of my favorite things. Cashmere sweaters in cerulean blue. My husband, who is like a part of me. Luxury accommodations on a cruise to anywhere. Mallomars (yum). And British actress Lesley Manville. The woman whose incredibly sensitive face is an inspiration for all that I do, both on stage and on film. Lesley Manville in Another Year One wonderful thing about not being a principal in the play J.B. is that the pressure is off to carry the production. I can relax and concentrate on making the most of a small role; one of the most important being to let the tension go out of my face and body so that I can react truthfully to what is going on around me and inside me. The role I play in J.B. is purely reactive - part of an ensemble of women whose purpose is to comment on the events transpiring center stage. Some actors would take a purely mechanical approach to that, cueing ...