“Once I’m there, standing there in the audience — and literally they’re right there looking — I repeat to myself, ‘Own this. Own this. Don’t let it own you. Don’t get ahead of it, don’t drag behind it. Just do it.’ And I get the chair out there — even if it’s all verklempt, it doesn’t matter, I’ve got the chair up there — and then it’s such an emotional drive for her, so different than any other Amanda, so high-pitched, both emotionally and comedically, and hurtling toward this sort of Greek ending with a violent place. ‘The Glass Menagerie? What?!’ I’m tremendously grateful that I don’t have to let down, ’cause then it’s driving me. Now, I’m in the car and we’re just going. So I’m grateful there are no scene breaks, even.”
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