for moments of sheer joy

Posted: October 5th, 2023 | Tags: | Comments Off on for moments of sheer joy
Mr. Gambon in 1987, the year he won an Olivier Award for his performance in Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge.”Credit…John Stoddart/Popperfoto, via Getty Images. Courtesy of The NY Times.

from the ny times obituary of actor michael gambon:

Though he was no Method actor, Mr. Gambon did use memories when strong emotions were needed. He found it easy to cry onstage, he said, sometimes by thinking of the famous photograph of a naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Acting, he said, was a compulsion, “a hard slog, heartache, misery — for moments of sheer joy.”

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