Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoniois an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of West Side Story, and went on to appear in the 1983 film Scarface as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film The Color of Money, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include The Abyss, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and The Perfect Storm. In 2003,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth17 November 1958
CountryUnited States of America
Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.
You're always going to think, Should I have done every single thing I was offered? Should I maybe have taken more familiar kinds of roles?
I almost went home this summer to do Stephen Sondheim's Sunday In the Park. But for personal reasons, I needed to plant myself here.
Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.
I don't need much when I work. I don't need friends, I don't need a lover. I don't need a lot of strokes. I just need to know what's going on.
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.