Is that because you don’t think of acting - as many people do - as this process of pulling from one’s innermost experiences and emotions? Or maybe is it because you have an aversion to talking about your internal self with journalists? If it comes off as resistance, I think it’s because you’ve been doing a deep dive on me. When I asked you about parallels between yourself and Martha Mitchell, you said you could “appreciate her more than lend yourself to her.” It occurs to me that when I went back to old interviews you have done, you often seemed resistant to making links between yourself and your characters. It can’t be, “Nice to meet you I have an idea!”
Only a pal could be that crazy off the bat. He’s got his hands on my hips, and he’s going “ Rawr rawr rawr rawr” into the back of my dress as we come into the room. Trust me on this.” So we go outside the door, Matt says “action” and Sean gets on his knees behind me. Mitchell, I need to speak with you” or something. We’re all dressed up and we walk into this room and we realize that the Secret Service guy is there. The first day that Sean filmed, our characters are coming into a hotel from an event. What kind of actor are you? If I had just met someone and we’d had a week of rehearsal and then started these scenes - I’d be curious to see how that performance would have ended up. Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in the new mini-series ‘‘Gaslit.’’ Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Starz I’m not a method actor, but someone hitting you is someone hitting you. Especially when you start hitting each other.
The John and Martha scenes, when we first read them, Sean and Matt Ross came over to my house, and I made lunch, and I said to Sean, “I don’t know - the kind of actor I am - that I could perform these scenes with someone that I didn’t know very well.” Because it’s tricky stuff. Sam Esmail, he’s a great collaborator because he brings in such a strong team, and goodness knows I have waited my adult life to work with my friend Sean Penn.
Even when I am for sure not the smartest or most powerful person in the room, if I feel confident being in that room then I feel good saying, “I’m sorry, what are we doing?” That becomes collaboration, which is my favorite thing. OK, what is my experience of power? Well, it’s always going to be the person, man or woman, who doesn’t know what they’re doing or doesn’t have confidence in what they’re doing that’s going to be the pain in the ass. But you skipped the part of the question that alluded to your experience of power. The thing about your answer - My rambling? I feel like ultimately I could appreciate her more than lend myself to her. I don’t know if that answers your question. She had problems with her nerves and anxiety and being in front of people, which I can completely appreciate - you have to conceal all that. But it wasn’t without an enormous amount of cajoling. So she was pushed to go out and represent Nixon, and I think she started to dig it. What’s interesting is that her undoing, in my thought process in portraying her, was that she didn’t want to go out and beat the drum for Nixon, but people responded to her.
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Did you bring any of that to Martha? I guess I could find commonality with Martha in that on the surface she’s a woman who’s sure of herself and comfortable around all the gents and cigars and knows how to work a room. You’re someone who has experienced having power in your world. The story of Martha Mitchell is largely about power and influence and how men react to a woman trying to exert it. I was surprised how quickly the years seemed to go by.” “It wasn’t by design,” Roberts, who is 54, says about her recent low profile, “so much as not finding something that I was interested in. Then as the story slides into grimmer territory, she draws on the darker, more fine-grained character work that has defined the later years of her career. Martha’s brighter moments give Roberts the chance to exude the charisma and sass that lit up her earlier, lighter movies.
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Mitchell, played in the series by Sean Penn - a character that affords her the opportunity to deliver the full Julia experience. As if making up for lost time, Roberts has found in the part of Mitchell - wife of the former attorney general and Nixon confidante John N. So it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that her role as the Watergate whistleblower Martha Mitchell in the new Starz mini-series “Gaslit,” which premieres April 24, is her first acting work in four long years. Julia Roberts is one of those few actors who have achieved a stardom that never really fades: She’s always up there in the pop-culture firmament, flashing that famous smile.
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