Maria Friedman

What are you doing?

What are you thinking?

And then he would fill you with,

or make you fill up yourself with your ideas.

It's what we're talking about, the pauses, the bits in between, the connective tissue that allow you to just be full with that part.

That was one thing.

The other thing is I played her incredibly wild the first scene where she's drunk and I was like screaming and throwing things and falling on the floor and everything.

It was really fierce and always different.

So I would every single day do something different so that the cast would jump out of their skin.

I'd go up to somebody else and whatever.

He said to me, I'm really worried about you.

This comes too easily to you.

And over the years, I was so happy because I thought, oh my God, maybe this is like a premonition.

I'm going to be one of these crazy, angry banshees, alcoholic, whatever.

But because he said that, I promise you, I kept an eye on myself.

Yeah.

Because it was easy for me to be that wild.

I didn't have that kind of safety valve that I see a lot of actors have.

It was...

All out.