Acting is in the blood
Tom did a play back in 2003 called Blood (by Swedish playwright Lars Norén!) which is a bleak retelling of the Oidipus tale. Tom played Luca who is gay.
And when he met a fan after a show he said this:
Leah asked what specifically he found challenging about this role, and he sort of took a breath and said matter-of-factly: “Well, kissin’ a dude!” He went on to talk about how it had taken a while to get comfortable with it,and that it still wasn’t completely natural, and complained about how he wished his castmate would “have a shave”, since beards are rather chafing to the face.
And in a guestbook entry (on a now defunct fansite)Tom also had this to say about Blood:
I’ve finished BLOOD and my goodness that was a wallop. Took it out of us a bit actually, so much that all I wanted to do was sleep by the end of it, funny how some pieces drain you in the strangest of ways, I would get invigorated and then as soon as I’d get in the wings to go on it was as if the nrg simply left my body and espescially in my legs really weird, by scene five I was back up and then onstage thru to the end for like four scenes back to back each scene changes the character quite considerably with a different problem emphasis on problem finally a propulsion into the final scene which is an epilogue. All of these scenes terrified the crap out of me when I first read the play, because I was frightnened of getting naked, kissing men and having sex with my mother on stage, nor did I think I could convincingly play a homosexual, somebody who has contracted HIV nor someone who could find a way to justify the murder of his parents as in a mercy killing, just didn’t think I could do it. I was wrong.
I find his thoughts on this so interesting. He puts so much thought into his characters, it must drain him completely. And he's never satisfied with just getting half way there, either. This is why he's such a brilliant actor.
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And when he met a fan after a show he said this:
Leah asked what specifically he found challenging about this role, and he sort of took a breath and said matter-of-factly: “Well, kissin’ a dude!” He went on to talk about how it had taken a while to get comfortable with it,and that it still wasn’t completely natural, and complained about how he wished his castmate would “have a shave”, since beards are rather chafing to the face.
And in a guestbook entry (on a now defunct fansite)Tom also had this to say about Blood:
I’ve finished BLOOD and my goodness that was a wallop. Took it out of us a bit actually, so much that all I wanted to do was sleep by the end of it, funny how some pieces drain you in the strangest of ways, I would get invigorated and then as soon as I’d get in the wings to go on it was as if the nrg simply left my body and espescially in my legs really weird, by scene five I was back up and then onstage thru to the end for like four scenes back to back each scene changes the character quite considerably with a different problem emphasis on problem finally a propulsion into the final scene which is an epilogue. All of these scenes terrified the crap out of me when I first read the play, because I was frightnened of getting naked, kissing men and having sex with my mother on stage, nor did I think I could convincingly play a homosexual, somebody who has contracted HIV nor someone who could find a way to justify the murder of his parents as in a mercy killing, just didn’t think I could do it. I was wrong.
I find his thoughts on this so interesting. He puts so much thought into his characters, it must drain him completely. And he's never satisfied with just getting half way there, either. This is why he's such a brilliant actor.
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