The Rolling Stone Interviews by S. Wenner Jann & Levy Joe

Author:S. Wenner, Jann & Levy, Joe [Levy, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biographies
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2007-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Is that when you realized that being introverted could be an asset for an actor? That you could play on it?

I don’t know if I played on it consciously. I know that for many years before I became known for the way I act now, I played characters that were not terribly talkative. Economical characters. Some books—even Stanislavsky’s people—discuss the fact that sometimes less can be best. Sometimes you can tell more with economy than you can with excess gyration.

The Rawhide series was a great training ground. All of a sudden, everything you ever studied about being an actor you could put into play every day. It’s one thing to work for a week in a Francis the Talking Mule picture—which was how it had been going for me—and another thing to be doing it all day for eight years.

It’s like the story of the great classical trumpet player they found one day playing in a baseball orchestra at Wrigley Field. Somebody recognized him and said, “My God, Maestro, what is the greatest classical trumpet player in the world doing playing in a baseball band?” He said, “You must play every day.”

In Rawhide, I got to play every day. It taught me how to pick up and run, how to make things up, wing things in there.

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