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the mirror and virtually not recognize myself to begin suspending disbelief. I take great joy and mischief in not being recognizable from role to role. Physicality is paramount in my process. . . . De ciding a character’s gestures and idiosyncrasies is good fun. . . . I love details. I love them! The Internet plays a huge part in research. I don’t know what actors used to do before the Web. I rely a lot on Internet forums, on testimonies of people whom I am trying to portray. I look to their stories for revelation and sympathy and empathy or under standing. I use the script as a springboard and try to layer as many weaknesses as strengths, as many virtues as faults. . . . That is the objective. I look to my director for guidance. I rely on him or her to challenge me, guide me, keep me from the actor's limited bag of tricks, keep me honest and free. My favorite roles have always come as a result of an inspired collaboration with the director. Which role/roles did you find most challenging and from which you gained the most satisfaction? Why? I would have to say that the most pivotal films thus far in my career were Down to the Bone , The Departed, and Never Forever. Down to the Bone gave me the responsibility of a playing the pro tagonist of a film. It was my first chance at carrying a film, the first chance at exploring a character in such a broad scope. It was a simple portrait of sobriety, a complicated story about a mother caught in the rural world of drug addiction, trying to survive. It was full of paradoxes and untidy re solutions. There was such moral ambiguity to my character; she was fully dimensional, probably the first time I felt a character leap off the written page. I was inspired by the real life model the film was based on and felt obligated and was eager to get her story right. I feel so blessed at the chance [to be] inspired and mentored by Debra Granik, the director. Debra is the most inquisitive, unselfish, loving, iconoclast director I have ever met. . . . I learned from her that God is in the details. She is a real keen observer of life and finds great secrets and revelations in mundane details. This is how, as a filmmaker, she is able to turn ordinary mortals into extraordinary subjects. The Departed was a chance to work intimately with one of the world's greatest living directors, Martin Scorsese. Watching his heart and mind at work is awe-inspiring. En thusiasm begets enthusiasm and his enthusiasm, his zeal for filmmaking, is inexhaustible and infectious. He is a walking encyclopedia of film history. Mr. Scorsese gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I can only hope that through the visibility in The Departed, smaller films I feel passionate about will get a chance. Never Forever is a co-Korean film I have completed. It is a grueling love story about an American woman who enters into a dangerous relationship with a Korean immigrant in order to save her marriage. It is an In-Competition film at this year's upcoming Sundance Film Festival. It was akin to Down to the Bone for me in terms of inspiration and the collaborative process with Gina Kim, the director/writer. Why have you chosen not to make Los Angeles/Hollywood your home base? I choose not to make Los Angeles my home base, because it is not necessary. Whether that statement is true or not, I have convinced myself it is and have made it work for me. I have very romantic as sociations with upstate New York, my home base. My summers as a child were spent canonballing off the high-dive at Soyuzivka and pirouetting across the stage at Verkhovyna. I love the smell of fresh mown hay, honeysuckle, and decomposing pine needles. In my spare time, I love to obsess over hydrangeas and earthworms, the quality of soil and Nubian goats. I love to pretend that I’m not an actress. And it’s easier to do that when you are not in LA. Veraу where would you like to go from here? I dream of continuing on this same career path. I feel very lucky and blessed to have these opportu nities. . . . I dream of having children, many children. Lately, this is what occupies my mind and my heart. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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