Mary's lecture part 2
I thought I probably better write some more of what I remember this morning, before I go and see if I can go to the class/q&a Mary is giving later this afternoon. I've gotten a cold so I'm going to load up on cough syrup and pray I don't start sneezing while it is going on. :o
One of the first things she said is that she wanted not only to talk about how far we've come as women, but also that the state of things for women in the world is still pretty terrible. She mentioned the Democratic of Congo among other things.
She talked about going to the UN and coming out of her bathroom stall to find two women with different accents talking about scarves at the mirrors. LOL, she started chatting with them about lipstick (something she says she loves more than anything and "won't go out to the mailbox" without swiping some lipstick on) and scarves, and fashion. She said later on as she sat down and looked at the stage there was one of the women on the stage! They were both very important people working for the UN, these girlfriends of hers from the lady's room who were scarf-talking. ;) One was a nobel ... laureate I think? the other has done very important work abroad. Obviously, my brain focused on the "important" parts. LOL, Mary and scarves! Anyway, she said that here were these very powerful women and yet they still talked about fashion.
It makes me appreciate how difficult it can be for women in power, and how unbalanced things are. They really are expected to do it all. Even if they like fashion and clothes in the first place they've still got to put in so much more effort into how they present themselves as opposed to men. That might not have been really what Mary was talking about, but that's what it made me think of.
She talked about owing her makeup artist a lot when it came to Roslin's physicality. The makeup artist would coach her on how to sit, how to hold her head up while she was talking and fold her hands in her lap in a stately way instead of how Laura would lean forward with her arms out in the beginning of the show. I get where Mary was coming from with this considering the fact that she grew up with women getting into high powered business positions and having to act "just like" the men.
Mary thanked the men in the audience for being there, and said it was important that they were there and that she wanted to engage with them about how women are emerging these days.
She said that women struggle within themselves still, and that it is a pitfall (I think that's what she said?). I think this relates, in a way, to what she was talking about with Alma, and how that character had to recognize her doppelganger in order to be herself more fully. I want to write up what she said about her different character later on. It was really interesting to hear about her acting methods and how much she invests in each character.
The ear part to her mic came off at one point when she was flipping her hair back, lol, and she showed us the wire going down her back and the little pack in back. They need to make hair-flip proof mics!
I'll write more later. :)
One of the first things she said is that she wanted not only to talk about how far we've come as women, but also that the state of things for women in the world is still pretty terrible. She mentioned the Democratic of Congo among other things.
She talked about going to the UN and coming out of her bathroom stall to find two women with different accents talking about scarves at the mirrors. LOL, she started chatting with them about lipstick (something she says she loves more than anything and "won't go out to the mailbox" without swiping some lipstick on) and scarves, and fashion. She said later on as she sat down and looked at the stage there was one of the women on the stage! They were both very important people working for the UN, these girlfriends of hers from the lady's room who were scarf-talking. ;) One was a nobel ... laureate I think? the other has done very important work abroad. Obviously, my brain focused on the "important" parts. LOL, Mary and scarves! Anyway, she said that here were these very powerful women and yet they still talked about fashion.
It makes me appreciate how difficult it can be for women in power, and how unbalanced things are. They really are expected to do it all. Even if they like fashion and clothes in the first place they've still got to put in so much more effort into how they present themselves as opposed to men. That might not have been really what Mary was talking about, but that's what it made me think of.
She talked about owing her makeup artist a lot when it came to Roslin's physicality. The makeup artist would coach her on how to sit, how to hold her head up while she was talking and fold her hands in her lap in a stately way instead of how Laura would lean forward with her arms out in the beginning of the show. I get where Mary was coming from with this considering the fact that she grew up with women getting into high powered business positions and having to act "just like" the men.
Mary thanked the men in the audience for being there, and said it was important that they were there and that she wanted to engage with them about how women are emerging these days.
She said that women struggle within themselves still, and that it is a pitfall (I think that's what she said?). I think this relates, in a way, to what she was talking about with Alma, and how that character had to recognize her doppelganger in order to be herself more fully. I want to write up what she said about her different character later on. It was really interesting to hear about her acting methods and how much she invests in each character.
The ear part to her mic came off at one point when she was flipping her hair back, lol, and she showed us the wire going down her back and the little pack in back. They need to make hair-flip proof mics!
I'll write more later. :)