'Upright's West Side Stories': TIME STANDS STILL at the Geffen

You know, it's funny, I have no recollection of taking that picture. Really

It happens so fast, it's so automatic. There's no time to imprint the memory

The camera does it for me. Sometimes I don't feel the picture before I even know what I'm seeing

I feel it on my skin almost. The little hairs on my arm get this kind of electric charge. Wow

And when I look through the viewfinder, see the world to see the world

through that little rectangle, time stops. It just all the noise around me cuts out like magic

and all I hear is the wind and all I see is the picture

The first reading I think that we did was just act one and it was

it had a lot of, what was in it is still left but Donald really

reworked a lot of it and it really exciting to be part to be originating the role and to be doing it for the first time because we are kind of making the blueprint of the play and we get to be the pioneers

I mean, it's really exciting, you know, because the play changes each day

and you feel like what you're doing is influencing that. You know, you're shaping the arc of this character

and you're coming up with their logic, and you're working with the playwrights

writing the director on that. And that's, uh, it's very exciting. And it's very exciting to be in a play

where nobody knows what's going to happen, you know, because a lot of times you'll do Shakespeare

plays or I did a stopper play and people understand the history of what happened, you know, even if they

don't know the play. And with this, it's like, you know, people don't know. You guys are the worst

poker faces ever. I think she's darling. Don't give me that. You don't think she's darling. Adorable

Oh, you guys. You know, I knew I was going to get crap for this. Well, I mean it. She is. I think it's sweet, Richard

You always wanted a little girl I don care if you are on crutches I will hurt you so bad It about a photojournalist who lives in hot spots and her love interest

She's a photojournalist and he's a journalist. But in some ways it's set against the backdrop of sort of America at Strife

But the play, not unlike Donald's great plays, are really about the relationships at the center of the play

of the play. It's about how we change inside relationships, unbeknownst to one another

And that's sort of the subject. So the subject is extremely personal and almost domestic, whereas the context is the sort

of world stage. You know, whenever I hit turbulence like that, I mean the really scary roller coaster

kind, you know what I do? I keep my eye on the stewardess. I figure as long as she's cool, the minute I detect the slightest bit of panic, the

How was this one? How did Sarah do How did Sarah do Slept through most of the rough stuff amazingly with the help of Perkissette and one or two chasers come to think of it

Getting her from the hospital onto the plane, though? Physically moving her, you mean

I had known Alicia from her films, and I knew Anna from Deadwood, but I didn't know Robin

And so, but there are not a lot of actors that I worked with

In New York, a lot of us work, you know, I've worked with a lot of them or I've seen a lot of them in plays

And so these people I'd never seen on stage and then, so to come in to have everybody be so good, so intimidatingly good, it's awesome, awesome

You are charming. No, I'm serious, actually. Maybe you'll tell me later