June Squibb

And in a week, I had an audition for Woody Allen.

And I got that.

And the same casting people were doing Martin Bress' Scent of a Woman.

And so they brought me in for that, and I got that.

And the same casting people were doing Scorsese's Age of Innocence.

And I went in, and I got that.

And all at once, I had done three films, one right after the other.

And the Martin Bress film, the role was sort of noticed.

The other two were very small, but the Martin Bress film

The role was larger.

And people just started saying, my God, you're a film actress now.

And in truth, from that time, that's when it shifted.

In film, there's so many wires to the lights and everything, and it was just sort of like, wow, that's a lot of wires down there.

And I remember the Woody Allen film, the crew, they knew I'd never been on a film set before, and they would have carried me over these wires if they could have.

I just would stand and stare at all the wires because it wasn't like that in the theater.

Right.

But I do feel, you know, that when you're working in the theater, you're trying to reach a larger audience.

So it's a bigger performance.

Not bigger, but you're making that thing of being a little more open, a little more to that whole big audience out there.

And with film, you're really the camera.