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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon. Welcome the Culture News. My
name is David serb Row, and I have the pleasure
to have to the on Lheart Radio, the Culture News
and many of the platform. Okay, this is very big,
this is very serious. We don't play around anymore. You know,
all my life I've been playing around. But now this
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is serious. Okay, we have royalty today, you hear me,
we have royalty. There is the Queen of England and
there is the Queen of Hollywood. She is nothing under
the term royalty. Her name, of course, is the legendary,
the iconic Rebecca the Mornay. And for once, my French
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background allowed me to pronounce well a last name, Rebecca
the Moreny. The Morney, of course is spelled de e
then m r Nay. Go to check her out right away.
She has Instagram. Rebecca had the money go to follow
this lovely ladies, So how can I introduce her. She's
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started so many iconic movies. You can start from nineteen
eighty three Risky Business, from recently in this great series
Jessica Jones ncis er. I mean you name it. This is,
as I said, an incredible lady. She was in one
of my favorite film, which is Waiting Crashers. But she
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was also in The Three Musketeers. I mean, we could
spend the whole day talking about her. But today she's
with us. She's with us to talk about a one
night only benefit reading in support of the Lee Strasburg
Creative Center. It takes place on November eighteen. This is
in New York City. This is where you have to go.
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This is a great night with Alec Badwin, Eric Bettoncore,
Rebecca and of course a lot of G eight actors
which we're going to talk about right now over the phone,
The one and Only Rebecca, the Morning Rebeca. How are
you today?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Hi, David, what an incredible introduction. Thank you so much.
I'm doing very well. I'm in Los Angeles, packing up,
getting ready to get on a plane soon to come.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
To New York to rehearse and.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Act in a beautiful one act play that's never been
performed before by the legendary John Patrick Shanley, one of
my favorite playwrights ever. I get to do this one
act with Alec Baldwin, who I adore, and it's a
beautiful piece and it's in support of the Lee Strasburg
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Creative Center, which is at the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute
in New York on Fifteenth Street. And for me, it's
really full circle because when I started acting more than
forty years ago, my beginning training was at the Lee
Strosford Theater Institute. I started in Los Angeles, but now
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I am going to be on stage in support of
the least Strosford Theater Institute, acting opposite Alec Baldwin in
a John Patrick Shanley play. I'm just so excited. So
that's my long winded answer to how are you?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And I love that, you know, it's so nice to
have you. And of course it's so wonderful to hear
about this one night only benefit reading, and this is
so wonderful when we hear that kind of events. You know,
this is this is a one night only, but this
is also one opportunity only. This is also how people
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should know that this is a one night opportunity to
watch these incredible actors into something that would only do
once and also in support of a very very important institution.
I mean, god knows how many great actors have came
out from the Lee Strasburg Institute. So you are an
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alumni right from the Lee Strasburg.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, I studied there at the very beginning of my career,
and it was after getting a foundation in the method
acting that really prepared me for my first role, which, unbelievably,
with incredible luck, my very first role professionally was Risky
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Business opposite Tom Cruise, and you know, it was pretty
intense to be the lead female in a movie with
zero experience, But the Strasbourg method and training really prepared me.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So I'm thrilled.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I just want to also say about this night that
to buy tickets for outcast this one night only November
eighteenth in New York, you go to the website give
Butter dot com Slash Forward Slash Outcasts that give like
give Butter like what you put on toast dot com
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Forward Slash Outcasts, because that's the name of the evening
that John Patrick Shanley has named. These five different one
act plays. They're all centered on have not been performed
before and center on misunderstood marginal characters in life that
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maybe don't normally get get little plays written about them.
So I really hope that people will come. It's not
just me and Alec Baldwin, but it's also Deborah Messing
is in and the incredible comedy team of Jeff Garland
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and Susie Esmond who play on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
For anyone who's.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Watched that show, they play Larry David's manager and his wife.
They're absolutely hysterical playing a married couple on Kurby Your
Enthusiasm and they actually get to play a different married
couple on November eighteenth with us, so you'll see that, David.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's very very funny.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Wow. And of course I will be there and I
hope everybody will go there. And if in case you
cannot attend, you know, you can always buy tickets and
give them to some friends who also would be happy.
As Rebecca said, it's give better that com slash outcast.
And there is the wonderful, wonderful cast that is for sure,
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with wonderful play. Great way to re support this wonderful
Lee Strasbourg Creative Center. How do you like to do
these kind of events? Because we saw you in all
these great TV and films, iconic films and iconic performances.
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How do you like to do that? How you know
to go back to these one night events?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, you know I it's to be on stage. It's
going to be at the TBN Theater on Fifteenth Street.
I haven't been on stage very much in my career. However,
when I have been on stage, it's been some of
the highlights of my career. The first play I did
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was Born Yesterday, which I did the lead role of
Billy Dawn, which was hilarious. I got amazing reviews for it.
I did Marat Sad, a very crazy, wonderful play by
Peter Weisse in Williamstown. And I did Closer, written by
the controversial Patrick marber Uh and I did that here
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in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum. But I
that's about it in terms of the plays I've done.
I did one other staged reading at Lincoln Center actually
of a a Dennis Potter script called The White Hotel,
which I got to do with Brian Cox, actually of
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Succession Fame Now, and that was It's a wonderful experience
to work on a play and and perform it in
a stage reading. In other words, you know, you know
the play, you know the words, but you're not actually
in a full blown performance. You still have the pages
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in front of you and to just you know, present
plays to an audience for one night. It was very
satisfying when I did that, and so I'm very happy
to be invited to do this and to get to
taste what it's like to do a John Patrick Shanley
play on stage, which I hope might lead to other
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stage work of his.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh yeah, for sure, and we hope you'll be in them,
you know. Also a beautiful combination of his work in
new acting. It we have wonderful, wonderful artist actors performing again.
This is November eighteen at seven pm at the TBN
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Theater on one to eleven East fifteenth Street, the Lee
Strasbourg Way, it is called that way, and this is
again in the support of the Lee Strasburg Creative Center
one night only benefit reading. I really want to pay
a tribute about your magnificent performance in The Three Musketeers
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as Milady. It was one, first of all, one of
the best film ever. You know, let's stop by that.
And also your performance in that was amazing. Do you
know that most men in the world they are afraid
of French women because of you? You know that that's
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good to know. Can you tell us a little bit
about how did you prepare for that role, that role.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
How did I prepare for that role?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That was?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That was a while ago. You know, I think with
with that role.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Sometimes you have to do uh, let the wardrobe and
the costume, the hair do a lot of the heavy
lifting for you. I think the incredible costume design and
I had extravagant hair long pieces, uh to create the
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look and create the the reality of living in a
different era was very important to that character in terms
of the the actual arc of the character. What moved
me about her as much as she was a villain,
she had a deep love for one of the musketeers.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That was uh.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That was a very sad, heartbreaking love story that that
affected her. Even though she was, you know, a villainous,
she still had a heart and was uh was able
to you know, be heartbroken by what happened, and that
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that interested me as well as her final scene. The
pride that she had that when she was going to
be executed, when she was captured and was going to
be put to death for her crimes, that she made
the decision to leap from the cliff to take her
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own life rather than to be executed. That was a
big highlight for me. About her character.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, well, you know, yeah, that's very interesting because she's
I like what you said that she's a villain, you know,
but you made her fascinating, You made you know, you
made her with you gave a lot of grace to
that character. You know. It's like you know Darth Vader
in Star Wars that you you're like this that guy,
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but you just love him, you know. But absolute magnificent
in that role. And this is definitely one of the
best performances on the screen ever in a film. So
uh and and you know it hasn't it hasn't aged
for a bit. This was in nineteen ninety three. Can
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you believe how time goes fast?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
All the great actors that we had in there, my goodness,
you know, Chrys o'donald l if your plaid give her
Sutherland and many more, and Tim Curry as Ri Sual
He I mean, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, oh my god, I love him so much.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That was really delp Oh yeah, yeah, I mean only
the best. Let me tell you your performance was like.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Oh that was I mean, you know, thank you so much, David.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Of course, you know, I'm sure all the students in
liz Strasburg they saw your performance. They were like, Okay,
there's gonna be a lot of work for us to
get casts somewhere, but this is a great event. Thank
you so much for being with us. This is the
one Thank you, and.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I hope that sometimes it's hard to figure out where
to buy the tickets, but again give butter dot com
forward slash out asks plural please come. The tickets aren't
incredibly cheap, but it is for the It is a
fundraiser for you know, the future acting students.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Absolutely give Burler dot com slash outcasts. The ladies and gentlemen.
My name is David Serviro. I had the pleasure to
have the wonderful Rebecca the Morning. Rebecca. This is your show. Okay,
you have the keys, you own the radio station. It's
all yours. You own it, it's yours. Whatever whatever you need,
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we hear you know. That's it. We'll be there, of course,
we will be there on November eighteenth to applaud the
one and only Rebecca the Morney who is starring with
Alec Baldwin, Eric bettoncour Ivett du mens Man, Jeff Garland,
Jimmy Hector, Ivan Ernandez, Alessandra Messa, debrah Messing, Sydney Williams.
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It is directed by Ivett Dumeg and Lori key On
at the TBN Theater on Fifteenth Street, the Lee Strasburg Way. Again,
get your tickets on give butter dot com, give butter
dot com, slash at Cast. We want to thank also
Jonathan Martyr and Eve for putting us in touch one
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night only benefit reading in support of the Lee Strasburg
Creative Center. My name is David Severo and I had
the pleasure to have the amazing Rebecca de Morney right now.
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