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| Tuesday, 23 October 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Close plays Patty Hewes, one of New York's top litigators, who fights to bring justice to the very powerful, yet crooked CEO, Arthur Frobisher (Danson). This show's thrill factor is intensified as Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) is taken on an eerie adventure while working under the watchful eye of Hewes. This latest television eruption is both engaging and mysterious. It brings about the very mind-game twists that make big-time drama so alluring and addictive, with Close at its core.A successful, award-winning actress in film, on stage and television, Close has definitely provided a spectrum of work for fans to admire. With so many avenues open to her, she still chose television once again, mainly because "I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be — there was actually one day when we never went to bed. "I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It’s an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you’re kind of feeding your mind. It’s a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be loose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time than it takes to film certain scenes. "...But I love the rhythm of it. And when you’re with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that’s why I really like the pace of television," reflects Close. Unlike other characters in the past, she didn't know much about this role going in. "I think she’s [Patty] remaining one of the most challenging for that very fact that I don’t know everything about her yet. So, I find that, as an actor, to be very challenging. I’ve kind of gotten used to that. "And, I kind of cling to the knowledge, really, that most of us cover up 99.9% of what’s really going on all the time. I think human beings are masters at not showing what’s really going on in their head or in their heart and sometimes showing the opposite of what’s really going on. So I think up until now, my behavior as Patty has been pretty valid. And I really look forward — I think it’s just going to get more and more emotionally complex for me and that’s a thrilling proposition," says Close. Many actors look for some connection to their characters as a starting point for their portrayals of them. This is a little more difficult when you don't have much information about your character. For Close, she had even less to choose from for Patty. "I connect to moments like — it actually is in the pilot when she’s talking about her son. Even though at the end of that scene, you’re not sure whether she’s telling the truth or not, but it happens that she is.
"I was a working single parent, and I knew, and my kind of terrible conflict was I knew that she wanted all of me all the time, but there was no way I could give it to her. I tried to, as much as I could, and I think Patty has consciously chosen not to be there for her son. "To be able to fulfill all the demands of the career that she would have had to, to be where she is when we first meet her, there’s not a lot of time to show up at every little event in school. And I think she probably was missing in action a lot. I do think she’s aware of it. I don’t know how much she allows herself to think about it. But I do think there’s a part of her somewhere that is highly regretful of that. "So that’s one aspect of how she deals with her child, or is not dealing with her child. I also think there is somewhere a — when Patty says, 'I hate bullies,' I think she’s telling the truth. We haven’t found out yet why, where that comes from. There are intimations, a very fleeting intimation that she had some difficult relationship with her father. But I do think that— Lord knows Frobisher was a terrible bully— in some aspects, we respect Patty for fighting to bring him down. So I think that part of her character is authentic and it’s a lot of what drives her," explains Close. There are so many things that influence us in our lives, our careers and the roles we play. Glenn talks about some of the things that influence her. "Good work, I mean work that moves me, that I connect with, always inspires me, no matter where I see it...whether it’s some little tiny Off-Broadway thing or some actor that does some surprising thing. So I’m always inspired by my fellow actors. And that’s kind of a constant for me. "I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And, I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even. I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection. "And then, trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good—not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I’ve tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that’s something that I think I have basically lived by," says Close. Speaking of things that change people, times are changing in our wired world, as are the venues where dramatic art displays. "I think there’s something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. "I think we’re in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, from the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods. So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods," she suggests. Work and drama aside, Close has some down time coming up after this season's finale. "I don’t think I know what down time means, really. I hopefully will spend a lot of time with my husband, and we do kind of some great — we travel to various places and kind of keep life interesting and busy. "I don’t really know. I mean I feel like I have a full schedule, but right this second, I can’t for the life of me think what it is. But I’m not going on vacation. I’m actually going out to Montana to visit with some of my siblings who I haven’t seen for a long time, and I’m really looking forward to that," she reveals. Whether working on a set, gracing a big or small screen, or just chatting with someone on the phone, Glenn Close is a star that shines brightly in the night—intelligent, classy and inspiring.
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This week marks the conclusion of season one for Glenn Close's latest project, Damages.
"The conversation that she has with Ellen...children want you...you know, children are like clients, they want all of you all the time.
My daughter actually said that to me once, and I’ve never forgotten it, because I knew exactly what she meant.
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