Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehlis an American theater, television, and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King and a Tony Award for her performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth28 February 1948
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
character voice gestures
I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me.
spoils
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
In this business, you never say no to anything.
accents facility
I've always had facility with the German accent.
couple fall play
I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.
tendencies
We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
awards comfortable
I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
character hard-work dwelling
In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.
views identity difficult-times
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
mother children news
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
people choices brain
I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
roles foundation building
Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.
names firsts deals
You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
book two gone
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.