![]() ![]() ![]() It certainly was the scenes that I remembered. I just loved the sort of detailed economics of their lives, but that went way straight over my head the first time through. I didn’t remember the fact that they were tenant farmers and how defining that was and who these two men were. I remembered it being just packed with detail, the tangible, tactile details of living and working on farms. I mean, it’s very hard to sustain the energy over a couple of days usually. I’ve done a lot of radio and radio drama and the audio books, they’re hard. You’re not creating a suspension of disbelief in front of people. It is technical in the fact that you’re actually reading from a page, you haven’t learned your lines and you’re not pretending to be another person. You’re channeling the writing or the filmmaking of somebody else, but it’s an extraordinary emotional exercise. I don’t think I’ve ever been asked about what it’s like to perform an audio book. I’m frequently asked about the difference between stage and film, between tragedy and drama and horror and different genres. All acting work is more similar than different. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |