What Would You Ask Maria Menounos?
- Dec 17 '19
Larry King: The idea of switching roles, was that it from the start?
Cynthia Nixon: No, Laura was set to do ‘The Little Foxes,’ it hadn’t been announced yet. But she and I knew each other a bit, and she had remembered that I had always said I had wanted to do Regina, which I don’t remember saying to her, but I have always wanted to do Regina. And I think both of us also loved the smaller role of Birdie, which is a really, really delicious kind of virtuosic role. So it was completely her idea, because she wanted to do the play, but she thought-
Larry King: So when do you switch off, night after night, or matinee to night?
Cynthia Nixon: It’s a mixed bag, we often do 2 or 3 performances at once, sometimes we just do a lone one here and there, but they’ve mixed it up-
Larry King: So the audience doesn’t know who’s playing?
Cynthia Nixon: No the audience does know, because if you go on the website to buy tickets, you can look at a schedule, and her performances where she’s Regina and I’m Birdie are blue, and the opposite are green, when I’m Regina and she’s Birdie.
Larry King: Is it more difficult to do that?
Cynthia Nixon: To switch off?
Larry King: I think it’s very tricky, but I think two things. I think the hard thing about it is when you’re playing a character and you really want to inhabit that character fully, it’s like bonding with a child. You just want to completely focus on that child. This is almost like, I don’t know, being the mother of twins or something. The good part about it is it works a whole different set of muscles, so you give yourself a break, but the hard part is not being able to fully immerse yourself in that one person.
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