TOD:
Glen Garry Glen Ross
About Last Night
The Graduate
Wag the Dog
Runaway Jury
When I was in college I was required to take an acting class for my major, and one of our assignments was to do a scene from the David Mamet play, "About Last Night". The movie was only very loosely based on the play. The movie was made to be much sweeter and lighter than the play. Anyway, the scene that was chosen for me and a partner was a bed scene. We had to pretend to be naked in bed, during after-play and having pillow talk. I put on a tube top and tights and pulled a sheet up to my armpits. We had a weird dialog where I admitted I'd had lesbian experiences. Afterwards, the teacher only gave constructive criticism to my partner and said nothing about my performance. I never know if that means I was so good, he couldn't improve anything or if I was so terrible, I wasn't worth the effort to try to improve. I hate that.