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Stories in the 286-page book tell of arranging bedroom partners for actresses like Rita Hayworth and Katharine Hepburn, who he claims he set up with 'over 150 different women', reports the New York Times. His own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh and Cary Grant, he says.
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The road is littered with people who have been lucky enough to play characters that the public identifies with them for many, many years ... The best example I think is Vivien Leigh… you can’t really give a performance much better than Blanche DuBois, yet she’s still Scarlett O’Hara. That’s a tricky thi...
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She is a phenomenal actress in that her performances are all marked with stunning psychological complexities.
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What have I gotten myself into?
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Not only did I do all the things I said I did in the book, I did even more.
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Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn
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It’s probably about the best role for an actress
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As an actor you are trying to be as if you are that person on stage so you have to inhabit them fully
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As an actor I’ve got to try and identify with all the core elements of the character I’m playing and really amplify all the sensations, mirror things that I can find in myself.
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I can certainly identify with Blanche’s sense of insecurity about herself, her own identity, and how fragile that has become because of society and family pressures and her emotional traumas
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