The New York Times magazine does a nice film interview with actors (Sandra Bullock, Colin Firth, Woody Harrelson, Jeff Bridges, Zoe Saldana, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Morgan Freeman, Christoph Waltz, Sam Worthington, Vera Farmiga, and George Clooney) discussing who they felt gave the most affecting performance in the past decade. Good stuff. Get it here.
What about you? What's the most affecting performance you've seen in the past ten years. If you want you can do one for film and one for theater.
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Estelle Parsons as Violet in August: Osage County on Broadway. No other performance- in theatre or film- even comes close to blowing my mind the way she did. It was life-changing to witness that kind of acting prowess in person.
Estelle Parsons has always disturbed me. The first time I saw her was in Bonnie and Clyde (I must have been 12 or 13) and her performance disturbed me more than the violence (it was the most violent movie I'd ever seen at that point). I was glad I got to see her in August: Osage County when it was in San Francisco back in October. What a great performance.
Oh. The most affecting performance I've seen in the past 10 years - Robert Wilson. Next would be Yves Jacques in The Anderson Project, and Will Bond in Death and the Ploughman
Of the people I've directed: Gillian Chadsey in ElectrOphelia (as a solo show), Susannah Martin in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and This World is Not My Home, and Jeff Taub in This World is Not My Home. I have to admit I'm partial to the last three.
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