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Video: Jessica Hecht Opens Up About Her Intimate Stagetime with Laura Linney
May 17, 2024
In this video, watch as Tony nominee Jessica Hecht chats more about being back at MTC in Summer, 1976, the joy of working alongside Laura Linney, and so much more.
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I am so happy to have you sitting here in our room at Broadway World
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What is today like for you? Well, I'm mostly happy to see you, honestly
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because you calmed me down. Even though usually people get nervous for these
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it's just lovely to see a lot of these younger people who have come to that point where I'm just so proud of them
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and so happy for them. And it's very moving to see the journey in the theater
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you know, when we were closed down for so many years. And you see these kids that were just starting out
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five, six years ago, and now they're really blossomed, and it's very moving
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You know, I adored this play and your performances. You know the night I was there. Yes
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What's made this so special for you with working on this? Laura
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Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura. She's a great actor in a way that was part of the tradition
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that I aspired to be part of. And we're the same age
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but I identify her as the kind of icon I had at that point in time
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When you look at Geraldine Page and Colleen Dewhurst and Pamela Payton Wright and all of these women
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who were exquisite stage actors and did television as well and film
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And you forget that she has this incredible bulk of stuff behind her
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including Academy Award nominations and all that, because she's the most hardworking
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deeply, deeply present stage actress. So she has made the process life-changing
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And then Dan Sullivan gave me my first job doing as an understudy in the Heidi Chronicles
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So the fact that I would come back, you know, I've worked with him four times
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and the other plays were Shakespeare in the middle. I did King Lear and also I did Julius Caesar with Denzel
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So we had these very rich, but big experiences. This has been so intimate
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And I love this play. I think Dave Auburn crafted something so meticulous
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and so, for me and for Laura, endlessly fascinating how to weave our way through it
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Take me back to Young, Young Jessica, like that first play you ever did, like in kindergarten or before
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And what would older Jessica tell younger Jessica? Oh, well, I did You Can't Take It With You
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at the community center in my small Connecticut town. I think I would tell myself
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that it's a very, very rewarding career to be part of the community
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And it's interesting that the first play I did was at a community center. There's something about the civic nature
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of just having a family, like seeing you, you know, and seeing these people that you really feel
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believe in this art form, that's the most rewarding thing. And that I could come into a community
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where there's so many different artists that are finding some success or some home here
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is the deepest thing to me
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